I'm totally behind all of this with the minor exception that 3.8 litres of petrol for £1.50 is FRANKLY HILARIOUS

We have noticed this is the same font they use for "That's all folks" ... right?

Read the final instruction as "Pull casually to shore" and thought, classy

Watch to the end

I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am

He's taking credit for that now? Bold

I love how touch screens work with cat paws but it does also introduce an element of danger to the working day

Overheard in the street: "So the best we could do was, we befriended the demon" and I thought, fair

"I want you to be very sure about those things you just said, before you repeat them"

Watching one of those films made a while ago where if stuff crashed and blew up they had to actually crash stuff and make it blow up and thing is, it does look way better Anyway The Fugitive is a good film

How would this not just be amazing news for real estate and rental prices? And a handy way to get rid of all the worst people

If you're blaming the crimes of a Black British person on "uncontrolled immigration" then you're saying that Black people can't be British, and you are a heinous racist with no historical understanding

Definitely better than offering to be sounding bored

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

This is ... this is when they built those railway lines from Germany into Poland

This reminds me of going through Dulles airport years ago, when it was all building works and covered in billboards reading (somewhat darkly) "Planning as though the future matters"

I had real problems parsing the verbs in this headline

"The Personal Rule (also known as the Eleven Years' Tyranny) was a period in the history of England from the dissolution of parliament in 1629 to the summoning of the Short Parliament in 1640, during which the King ruled as an autocratic absolute monarch without recourse to Parliament." Just saying.

Oxford canal

The worst thing about missing my dead friend is that I can't tell him

Overhearing three men in a pub who are clearly close friends who've loved each other for years and they are just being incredibly mean to each other about every single thing and er is this how men communicate love?

I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”

I thought "but I only just showered" and then realised it was the scent of frying onions from the burger van

I cannot begin to express the degree to which Boris Johnson can get in the sea. What a self-serving incompetent morally vacuous dishonest clown. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Whoop congratulations @noreenmasud.bsky.social

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

I FEEL MUCH BETTER FOR READING THIS

So ... on Saturday the government is going to order attacks on peaceful protesters and then declare martial law/civil war? They seem, dunno, to be trailing this quite explicitly

Coming across this book, Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (New York, 1995), I initially misread the title as 'Not A Sausage: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory', which I think would have been great

I love the idea of inviting someone back to yours after a blind date, this is your living room, and you say nothing at all

Perfect afternoon run

Cats against fascism. With their little faces and massive eyes

PERFECTION from the sweet Strictly contestant: "You just have to completely let go and fully embrace it"

I wish this had a picture of Jilly Cooper. Missed opportunity there

I had to do a whole online course about ergonomic workplace health and I can tell you this is one of the pictures that's "wrong" (because of the height of the chair, curvature of the spine, and the relative position of eyes and laptop)

Epic; no notes

Excellent new graffiti in Jericho boatyard

Christ Church meadow this morning

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

I was once hungover at Heathrow, after an unplanned night of excess that included inexplicably watching the World Darts Championship. In the horrible pub in departures at 7am was the guy who came second, chain-downing pints of lager. I wanted to sympathize but I know nothing at all about darts so

In memoriam...

Could someone explain to all male authors that if a woman has her arms crossed there really is no, repeat no, need to specify that this is "under her breasts"

This is a very beautiful thread. The feeling of other minds.

Merrill: "This is comfy" Wyatt: "... help?"

Phrases you didn't expect to need to use before owning a cat, no. 8537: "Why are you standing on the toaster?"

Fun in Malaga

The view you ideally want from your conference drinks reception

Malaga was keeping it classy this morning

Arrived in Madrid airport and have already witnessed my first potato-omelette-baguette of the visit. You have to admire it. I guess the Scots would deep-fry it but still