A man reads a book, with kissing in it, to his sick grandson.

Here's this bad role model

Thank F for 24/7 grocery deliveries, never tried Voltarol before, but took the plunge at about 4am (along with a bag of Doritos, some Red Leicester and a loaf of gluten free bread, to make the minimum order), blessed relief, I guess that's going into my EDC.

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

Making matters worse, the guy was a total rookie. ICE hired him in 2026. He's a veteran who had been bouncing around a series of jobs for short periods of time, often just 1-2 years. In 2025 he was fired from a job as a volunteer firefighter for getting into shouting fights with leadership.

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

When the pain in my ankle keeps me up at night, I get the overwhelming urge to hit it with a rubber mallet, just in case it fixes whatever is wrong with it. Fortunately I only own a wooden mallet.

See Also: the men's #RedRoses rugby squad.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Look, refugee accounts, I get it, but I'm poor, disabled, and receive help from charities myself. Try some rich people instead.

Every time that I open a new packet of rice vermicelli noodles, I have to resist the growing urge to dump a pint of milk over them, and eat them like shredded wheat (which I can't eat anymore, and very much miss). #GlutenFreeProblems

We made Geoffrey Swivel more canonically NB in Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch. They also penned the essay entry ‘On Sheds.’

Me looking at every notification of somebody following me, without interacting with any of my skeets.

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Everybody complaining about today's #Wordle made it really easy. It's rare a week goes by when I don't use it.

All moral metrics aside, if you're out of the house before 8am to do a murder, that's not idle. Arguably, that's busy.

Ancient art of brushing your cat

Breaking News: Professional juggling otter is top of his game.

Come get yo clock and yo parade,!! people.com/see-everythi...

Sam Neill 1947-2026

"You come up with a slogan for the ice cream shop?" "Sure did boss, real fuckin haunting just like you asked." "what"

Oh, bless you Betty. You couldn’t help being endowed with a pair so magnificent we’ve decided to cover them up. And there’s a Glasgow playground taunt of “Yer dug’s got tits”, so Betty’s fame will live forever. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

Great job 👏

Erling Halaand returns to Norway with a stuffed raccoon.

If it fully immersed itself, it would be a Sub Woofer.

Is the sun real or fake? This is your daily reminder to check! @skylerhigley.bsky.social

I'm asking the important questions.

mandatory reading

Farewell to the extraordinary Sam Neill. Among his brilliant highlights, we'll remember him for his wonderful social media updates about his farm and his many brilliantly-named animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaK...

Well, we paid for all the roadsigns signs, we might as well use them.

For no apparent reason, here's a reminder that, in the UK, jurors have an “absolute right” to acquit a defendant on grounds of conscience.

Using my big multitool to dismantle and clean my pocket multitool, brings me equal satisfaction as using my handheld vacuum to clean my big vacuum. But it feels like the edge of a dangerous precipice, where I'll end up buying infinitely smaller, and larger, versions to continue the cleaning chain.

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Japanese baby product manufacturers are turning their attention to the pet market amid collapsing birthrate.

MFW when my elderly, working class, Tory/Brexit voting, parents ask what social media I use, these days, so they can follow me.

Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell

I also spoke to Lindsey Graham for 20 minutes.

My cat Bella keeping an eye on the woods. She’s going to let me know if we should hide.

This is my heatwave soundtrack, another sizeable blip in my listener algorithm. Easily worth a tenner of anybody's money (it's my one luxury purchase this month).

I spoke to Ann Widdecombe for 20 minutes, this morning. #UKPolitics #USPolitics

Every single time I go past this pizza takeaway I get irrationally angry that the pizza slice on their sign is upside down. WHAT KIND OF SOCIOPATH WOULD DO THIS IT READS PIZZ BOX FFS

I was asked in an interview, recently, what had radicalised me, my reply was that I'd just held the same political views for three decades of adulthood, I started out as a 20 year old left of centrist, & by holding, basically, the same moral standpoint, I'm now a 50 year old left wing radical.

Sorry, gotta go. My ride is here.

Here's this Hot Fuzz piece I made

I used to spend every waking hour learning everything I could about rocks and minerals, I love that I can glance at a rockface and know which way a river was flowing, or that a cold and windy hillside was once under a tropical lagoon … but mostly I love it for schist like the pictured comments.

"Nice Otter!" "Thanks, it has pockets!"

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.