Counterpoint: not a single extra bullet until child poverty is abolished www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Daily Star once again the only newspaper worth reading

If TPAO work hard here to remove Asia's dependency on Russian oil then they could well have China in their hand

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

*Yorkshire accent* “NOW then:”

All they have is the oil, the land above it, the waterway down which it must float, a country full of people who hate the U.S. for all the times we have done exactly what we're doing now, and an opponent who is among the dumbest people ever to walk the earth.

In what universe did this take place www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Woke up and chose violence www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/goo...

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

Following Artemis has been great, but let’s not forget that even this mission of peace, science and understanding cannot be untouched by the horrible policies of the US right.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Child and niblings, aged 7-9, coming up the garden having obviously done something bad/wrong… 9yo in a stage whisper: “Let’s talk to Uncle Nick first, he’s not a proper grown-up”

The smoke alarm battery has literally never decided it needs replacing other than at 4am 😤

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

the really telling thing about all these Pixar postmortems is that place used to be like Fort Knox and now people are so manifestly unhappy with leadership that the building leaks like a sieve

I like how wikipedia uses the infobox for cars here

Blimey m8, you got Marc Guehi for tuppence ha’penny ten weeks ago

The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening (2018, dir. Blaire, starring Moira Rose) www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

“Am I in time for the Synod?”

Come to the sea and having a very old skool all-day breakfast. Stewed plum tomatoes and, even worse, fried bread. I thought we’d all agreed to stop doing that…

JENNY AGUTTER IN SPACE 🥰

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

Another cracking listen from Juliet and Ed @chartlifepod.bsky.social, anyone with the slightest interest in pop should have this bookmarked ☺️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

The correct Hitchhiker’s list is: 1. Radio series 1 and 2 <gap> 2. First three books 3. Television <long gap> 4. Film 5. All subsequent books by DA / others 6. Posthumous radio series

Thinking of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Fit the First, TX 8 March 1978.

Look, we had a two-time Oscar winning actor go into politics and she rose to the dizzying heights of being Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport for just over two years.

This is one of the best things anyone has ever said about my personal style

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

I don’t mind heights but this is a huge NO. Shouldn’t have done it at all, definitely shouldn’t have done it in flares.

My shower in Malaysia has an option I don't really want to try

Dreamed of Mandalay again last night, I did

Like someone from Southern England who had speech therapy as a child, then swallowed a thesaurus

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Southampton to beat Leeds in the final. It’s 1973 again baybeeee!

What a superb selection of memories 🥰

It’s the most wonderful cartoon of the year…

If you’ve annoyed Big Bird you must be astonishingly annoying.

Add a food to a movie name M*A*S*H Potato

Enzo Fernandez has received harsher punishment for saying he’d hypothetically like to live in Madrid one day than he did for singing a racist song that prompted several of his teammates to publicly condemn him

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

When I reach the theatre bar after my friend’s improv show.

NASA Worried Moon Won’t Remember Them https://theonion.com/nasa-worried-moon-won-t-remember-them-1849492372/

“Fires in the underground are really unlikely if you extract Kings Cross from the statistics, so no need to ban smoking on the Tube.” “Collapsing slag heaps are really rare if you exclude Aberfan, so absolutely no need to monitor or clear them.”

British politics please be vaugely serious about what's happening challenge

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

A portrait of every being who has ever been alive, their bones and ashes, and their distant, alien descendants who still populate the world The timing of this launch couldn't be better to remind us of how small and precious this planet is

I still wear a pair of trousers which my ex rescued 30 years ago after Stephen Daldry had thrown them in a bin.