Somehow I always knew being an adult would involve stuff like the ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT that is spending £80 on an ironing board that's high enough it (hopefully) won't give me backache.

Lads, I'm going in.

'I've got some fucking Jaffa cakes in my COAT POCKET!'

don't use AI as a factchecker because *it makes shit up*. this phrase does not occur in Downbelow Station: I just searched the e-book. (h/t @fatalist.bsky.social)

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

This. If it feels like there are massive forces actively trying to make things worse… I’m afraid yes. I think rationalist people can really underestimate the power of religion as a driver of world events. They think anyone who believes in this stuff must be stupid and therefore unimportant.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Both host and guest here will have an “Allegations” section in their wiki page. In the case of the host, it was another one everyone appears to have known about, that was kept very quiet until it was reported in America. (It was also kept quiet afterwards but there was at least some action taken).

My window cleaner is a lovely older Cornish bloke who calls me 'Cap'n', which is the BEST THING. Not seen him for ages and feared the worst, but just bumped into him in the supermarket and he's been recovering from an operation and is much better now.

This 'list your ten fave sitcoms' thing is making me feel a bit sad, as a few years ago I was developing a half hour comedy with BBC Kids and Family that the most fun I've ever had with *anything*...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

A lot of American elites in business, media, politics, etc. use their Twitter feeds to gauge what the public thinks. Yes, still. It's all-too plausible that execs at Disney and some other companies really did believe The People loved Charlie Kirk and demand censorship of anyone saying otherwise.

Pedro Pascal is a load bearing part of multiple franchises, so Bob Iger better get his act together before his choices manage to torpedo Marvel and Star Wars plans

The second part of the Leveson Inquiry was cancelled after intense lobbying and shitehousing *by the free press*

Worth a read, by @chadbourn.bsky.social chadbourn.substack.com/p/fire-in-th...

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Enjoying the two guys on this year's Bake Off who look like they could be rival chieftains in Iron Age Gaul

Samuel Pepys is back in the newest mystery by @jackjewers.bsky.social, author of Sunday Times historical fiction pick of the year The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, and we can now reveal the fantastic cover!

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

At a pizza place and the woman on the next table just said sadly,'I think of him every time I see dough balls.'

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

...and this is how you get past the pop-up to delete your account.

Deleted my Academia account last night.

UK scriptwriters refreshing the ALCS site like

Ugh I am in London AGANE

Private Eye

They should really ask Keir Starmer how the tactic of suppressing your base while trying to become a lite version of the opposition has worked out.

huge thanks to everyone who's preordering - you're making this possible. get yr deck here you lovely weirdos shop.frankduffy.co.uk/franks-slow-... #tarot

When it comes to social/societal issues, two of the most insightful/thoughtful people I've found to follow on here are Musa, and @athenakugblenu.bsky.social

Just saw a vascular surgeon about a thing and not only did I get a clear bill of health, he says I'm astonishingly healthy and it's likely I will *never* die.

The whole thing is an important read. But the second paragraph (in particular) is a tiny masterclass in constructing a line of argument.

Sorting out a bus pass so my daughter could attend her new sixth form college, which *sounds* straightforward, but here's how it's going. 1/327

Gentle reminder to everyone that it's not October yet, it's only September, and by everyone I mean me, because I've been thinking it was October for at least a week now.

Farage must be getting slightly more gritted teeth with every Tory that joins Reform, which is a cheering thought in a dark time.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Interesting and very quietly positive. It's a start, anyway. #rewilding www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Just chased the cat out for bringing in a dead bird, realised there was a dead rat in the spare waste bin outside which was filled with water, dealt with that and the cat returned with a live mouse.

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Exactly. Makes me think of this excellent comic by @cardboard-crack.bsky.social

In a bookshop the other day and near me were an older couple with their thirties-ish daughter. MUM: Ooh look dear, Enid Blyton! You used to love Enid Blyton. DAUGHTER: Well I don't now, what with her being RACIST AND SEXIST. MUM: (sadly) Yes, I suppose it's all that woke.

Always this. 'Unlike other people, *I* don't have politics, I have simple common sense, which is obviously a completely different thing'.

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative