Public servants work for the people, not for the president. This administration has distorted that mission.

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

“prioritise values of provincial Britain over party’s metropolitan mindset”

saw this post years ago and will never ever forget it. sometimes you need to tend to the place from which you create, before you can create again

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Feels like I may as well post this long-read again just to remind the incoming government that their support base, and indeed the population, are that most horrible and cringe of things - middle class. Actually, even worse, the Professional Managerial Class. benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...

As I stated in a previous post: Domestic abuse incidents rise around major football tournaments, increasing by 38% when England lose. My heart goes out to all those that were waiting for the final whistle and are now scared, waiting for the front door to open.

Bums, I see we lost the footie. Always makes me think about the number of women who will be beaten and killed because of the performance of a sports team. We really should sort men out.

Right: off to watch How to Marry a Millionaire. Enjoy the football, I’ll enjoy a classic comedy.

It's unfair messi got the autism where he's a football savant and i got the autism where i just collect sylvanian families

I love Lola's yarns!

After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"

It’s such a lovely day. Why am I stuck at work?

This summer there have been mass pogroms in NI, fascists rioting in England and Scotland, politicians demanding mass deportations of millions of non-white Brits, and a planned terrorist attack against a major Muslim event www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-poli...

I got it in five, but honestly Wordle, that’s not a word.

I am very much enjoying AC Black Flag. I really needed a murderhobo game.

if the terfs are calling my favourite default charity a joke i feel like i'm on the right side here but god i hope they handle this properly because it REALLY matters

fully admit amnesty is the most regular charity i support and the future of that kinda hinges on how they handle the report they pulled because... well. because of this shit

Ok, women of a certain age: for real, how do you handle bursting by into tears at work on your boss due to you getting your second period in a year and the hormones are too much for you to take a mild criticism? Do you go ‘sorry, it’s the menopause’ or do you ignore it?

Have started watching Widow’s Bay. Feel that clowns should come with a trigger warning, thank you.

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"

Don’t speculate about the Widdecombe murder, says Farage, immediately after speculating about the Widdecombe murder.

God, just like buses, isn’t it?

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

“We need to get past this Gay Jesus! Instead focus on how Jesus was just so beefy. Strong and rugged. Those developed muscles, glistening with sweat in the sunlight. His flowing hair…those eyes… He was a lion! One who could pounce and mount! Those 12 men he constantly traveled with knew the score.”

We were the first sixth form in our history to be able to do war trousers in 1997. Our argument hinged on the fact Cherie Blair did and she was our First Lady.

Honestly, nothing better: a midday showing of Gentleman Prefer Blondes, then lunch at the Southbank food market with a cold pint of cider. Bliss.

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

Hey, Guardian: I’ll acknowledge Tilly is an existence (not human, but a corporate asset) when YOU acknowledge transwomen are women. I think we’ll both be waiting for the heat death of the universe, because you are more bigoted about transfolk than I am about ai. And that’s why I don’t give you $$.

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

So I’ve laughed a lot at the latest D20 season, but I do wish they’d taken it a little more seriously and it had been a normal 20 episode season. It needed stakes and honestly a little more railroading.

my dumb stickers turned out great 🦭

It’s a testament to how much I don’t take to Sinner that I’m rooting for Djokovic. I miss Alcaraz.

Quite good to define the establishment as the movement which has been losing ground for ten years straight

This basically sums up my feelings about Widdecombe. She did immense harm, deliberately and with relish, and doesn't deserve mourning. Separate from that, nobody deserves to be bludgeoned to death. Though she would have disagreed.

Every time I see Benedict Cumberbatch at Wimbledon, I always wonder if those weirdos who believe he’s being blackmailed into his marriage and faked three children are still around and unhinged on the internet.

men will really go on the public internet and show more sympathy for a guy who got exposed for being a rapist and domestic abuser than for literally any of his victims

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

Becoming the most toxic of social media companies is a feat, considering… but that melon head is intent of holding the title. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Love hearing my cousin @paulfoxcroft.bsky.social get a shout out on Button Boys! As @pierrenovellie.bsky.social said, he is a DM of great renown and also writes for games! If you need either, go contact him.

I mean this explains quite a lot about experiencing social media in the 2020's www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Seconding this, one of my favourite ever books. Actually, might be time for a re-read...

every day i see authors having to deal with these fucking emails and just... what are we doing!!! as a species! what the shit! also read The Gone-Away World if you haven't already, it's tremendous, and also came out in 2008 lmao

Ruth Ellis given a posthumous conditional pardon ... wonder how the Telegraph is taking it