Part of me would like to sit these people down in front of the episode of Blackadder the Third that satirises the concept of the satirical candidate and ask how this can be a malaise of modern Britain when it was commonplace enough to be the butt of mainstream popular comedy nearly four decades ago.

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

🇺🇸President Trump, looks like this one’s for you.😅😁 🇧🇪 Belgian PM Bart De Wever: “We’re providing €70 billion in military support to Ukraine. That’s a strong red card for Putin—and you can’t take a red card back.”

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

Not often you can say that there's too much good news

Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.

to summarise my thread: 1) Balogun can't serve a suspension if FIFA say he isn't suspended 2) Belgium (or ANY future oppo) can, and likely will, appeal to CAS if he plays any games 3) That would likely cause the US to forfeit ANY game he plays in from now. Even retroactively. 4) LOL. Possibly LMAO.

“President Infantino, we’ve got the King of Belgium on line 1, the Prime Minister of Belgium on line 2, the Minister-Presidents of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region on lines 3, 4, and 5 respectively, and the Minister-President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium on line 6.”

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

"They did it for free. It was a passion project."

Come with me and you'll be / in a world of abject exploitation

Good.

@theonion.com remaining the paper of record

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t @greatdismal.bsky.social

I love that episstolary story about a haunted port-o-potty, The Diarrhea House.

💥 Glorious oil storage tank explosion at the Moscow Refinery.

All but point 5 are reasonable. Its obviously better to use your real name online, but there's many good reasons why people would rather not & we should respect that I'd add phone/computer OS developer adds global usage management tools & requirement to occassionally watch public service broadcasts

Alternatively, the Beeb has a plausible Doctor Who monster from the 90s who never featured on the show (because he debuted between cancellation and New Who): MISTER BLOBBY. "Invasion of the Blobbies" is an obvious Doctor Who shout-out, along with a supporting horde of heavily-armed Teletubbies.

Can this be the mandatory indicator for anyone wearing smart glasses?

Looks like a normal history museum at first, but has some dumb divergence point in the first room like “Photograph of first contact with the plushie aliens of Glorbax 5” then extrapolates an alternative history from there. All fake photos and props. The weird divergence point changes every season.

Blue Sky moderation is weird as hell at times with what they label

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

It's time to nationalise the search engines.

the script, in which Steve Guttenberg returns but only to play his own corpse, motionless in the background as life continues around him, is still online

My 1999 self would weep at how totally broken the internet has become. AI slop, social media walled gardens that rot the brain, surveillance pricing and advertising, every single goddamn website has an endless cloudflare captcha loop before you get to read anything. Burn it all down.

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

What is wrong with the UK? I mean, most Irish people with any sense of history will know that abuse of justice in UK courts is not exactly new, but for this kind of thing to be kept from a jury in 2026 is outrageous.

Day4 M11 Ura 1-2 (L) M12 Shishi 1-2 (R) The double duck under #natsubasho2026

Koji Suzuki—the intensely talented and influential author of RING, SPIRAL, DARK WATER, and many other novels and short stories—has passed way at the age of 68. Too young. An enormous loss. The reverberations of his fiction will continue to be felt for years to come.

It's very, very hard to read something like this and not conclude that the Department of Justice are deliberately mismanaging this in order to make the process as miserable and disruptive for everyone

In the end, making Putin threaten, moan and beg to hold his pissy little 45 minute parade, from which he ran away like a frightened schoolboy, revealed more about the real state of the war than anyone could have expected.

It's 9th May. When I first posted this over on "the other place" in 2020, I was vilified and castigated by trolls, vatniks, genuine Russophiles and actual Russians in pretty much universally the same terms. It was fascinating to watch the reaction change over time each year I reposted it.

18/ I suppose if we do want to rebuild a sense of connection with Russia then sending Yanis to show them we have elites just as stupid, vanal, and easily duped by Russian propoganda as they do is a good opening gambit. Credit where credits due, more that unites than divides, etc.

The one certainty of this war is that too many investors on global financial markets are easily suckered hucksters.

Stop callinge them "AI data centers" and starte callinge them hellmouths

“But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment - one body that he could thrust between himself and the rats. And he was shouting frantically, over and over. 'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia!“”

Who wore it better?

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

Marc C. Green, “Wait! We have treats!” #CaturdayEve

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

The greatest achievement of my entire epistolary career was the day I got two letters printed on the same page. A good deed and a crush, telling a single, increasingly horrifying, story from two unconnected people.

Frankly, there are very few movies that wouldn’t be vastly improved by adding Godzilla

I obviously spend too much time on here as I watched the Coyote vs. Acme trailer and thought "wait, is Foghorn Leghorn in the Epstein Files?"

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

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Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something