Going into the last round of games 5 of the top 8 and 6 of the top 12 teams in the Champions League are from the Premier league.

"Hey, Reform is simply a rebranding exercise for the Conservative Party."

I feel like I need to say tat Trump's comments today were incoherent ramblings that bore little relevance to reality, that's not new, but it also can't become normal.

He fell asleep resting his head on the wires for the heatlamp. 🐢😍

Smol plant update, plant is less smol. 🌱

The idea that defecting from the Conservatives to reform is 'putting country ahead of party' is such a wild bastardisation of that idiom even if you support Reform, it's just got nothing whatsoever to do with the idea that maxim is meant to communicate.

Greet the day like a tortoise who thinks his lunch is here. 🐢🙌 (It was almost here)

Off to work but if I remember this evening I'm going to find the bit in Terry Pratchett's Jingo where Ankh-Morpork turn up to a war and demand debt repayment instead.

Tortle chomping.

Without passing a moral judgement on if it was right or wrong* I do think it's important to think in a historical context that shit like this is why what happened to the Romanovs happened to the Romanovs and if people like this keep behaving like this it'll keep happening.

goobys freedom soup

Just spitballing here but maybe it was a mistake for the Nobel Peace prize committee to give the prize to a woman who then tried to pass it on to the man who killed 40 people in order to abduct the leader of her country. Whole situation just doesn't sound all that peaceful to me.

Katseye's Gabriela is a Jolene cover and nothing anyone says will change my mind.

Tortoise dinner time. 😋🐢

I have more picture of my adorable pet to share. 🐢😊

When even some time on your favourite rope swing can't save you from the ennui.

He really does just make the most adorable cronch noise when he's eating. 🐢😊😋🥦

The food dish was empty (it is no longer empty) 🐢😅

I finished a set of 3D printed turtles this week! These fellas are off to teach the general public about local turtle populations. 🐢 #SciArt

Wow, who could possibly have seen this coming? History's dumbest fucks are running the show now. Trump's not even paying attention anymore, he's moved on to orchestrating the next catastrophe.

If the speech in question is child p*rn and digital upskirting then fucking rights it should. Rights are not immutable they often conflict and when they do I expect my gov't to prevent harm rather than to enable it.

Tortoise wink. 🐢😉

We live in the better world because generations of perfectly ordinary working class people who went before us worked collectively and refused to let it be otherwise. This shit can be beaten. It takes time and no small effort but it's been beaten before and it'll be beaten again.

Feel like I should really write a letter to my MP about these hunger strikers.

Tortoise update. He's woken up from his nap grumpy. 😅🐢🙂

Someone should get this lad a job in construction, 'cos that's another lunch successfully demolished. 🐢😋🙌

Chomp chomp chomp (he's eating his camouflage) 🐢😋🥦😅

Me (on the stairs): Dad did you tell mam to take the Christmas decorations down? Dad (from upstairs): I wouldn't dream of telling your mam to do anything. *seconds later without hearing him* Mam (from downstairs): Yer da' doesn't tell me to do nuffin'

I think there's a perfectly reasonable argument to be made that this Maduro show-trial is worse than anything Stalin ever pulled.

Western nation does something firmly in the traditions of a Western Nation - What are we: A bunch of Asiatics? Really does never misses.

Tort! 🐢

Leagle Eagle better be working on a video already. I need minutiae translated into an easily digestible form.

We have light to moderate snow! 🌧❄

If I were highly controversial US President Donald Trump who had already survived one assassination attempt I would maybe not be doing anything that legitimised the exercise of extrajudicial justice against highly controversial presidents. 🤷‍♂️

I'm not sure that Venezuelans will respond positively to having had their president abducted. 🤷‍♂️

In the wake of that Swiss fire disaster I am once again beating the drum marked "Health and Safety saves lives". Anyone angry when they're told they're not allowed a sparkler inside or whatever is putting everyone's material safety at risk.

I'm not sure if I would die on this hill but I feel like modern atheists and agnostic movements owe a underappreciated intellectual debt to religious reformation movements like those of Wat Tyler, Martin Luther and Ibn Rushd.

New year, same old doofus. 🙌🐢😊

He's ravenous. 🐢🙌😋🥦

The long tail of 2010 austerity politics:

I see Israel is taking a strong stance against those terrorists at *checks notes* Doctors without Boarders.

Against Knighthoods in general but pleased Idris Elba got one. Beyond being a talented actor he seems to be a genuinely charitable and thoughtful individual.

Tortoise has had cucumber (the cucumber is now gone) 😋🐢🥒

Made a non-verbal noise of disappointment so loud and obvious whilst playing a TG in voice chat with someone yesterday that I felt the need to specifically apologise for it today. (we still won that game)

I don't hate Bluesky's discover page, it's fine. But sometimes the page will decide I need to see every tweet of someone entirely mundane and harmless who I don't follow to the point I need to mute them through no fault of their own. (This is bad)

Until about the mid 1800s more people died in cities every year than were born there. I feel like people should know this.

Here's one guy who loves a brussel sprout. 🐢😋🥦🎅

Obligatory Merry Fishmas .gif

Tort! 🐢