Sunday morning, 11am, I’ll be at Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green talking about that time I went to a bunch of countries to find out how people cope with mortality (way more dancing corpses than you might think). I will be joined by a live band and poet! www.tickettailor.com/events/sunda...

I won a Creative Climate Action Award for a poem called There Are Still American Flags on the Moon. www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...

The Spanish PM: "The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket" In other news Starmer is in the Middle East today.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

If you ever feel like you’re generally not good at things, think of this picture: my failed attempt to crack an egg. You’re doing great, sweetie.

Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

🎶 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU… 🎶 *knock knock* Now who could that be? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Reform thinks not being allowed to invite themselves to speak at a university is an attack on free speech (it’s not), and they responded by threatening an actual attack on free speech.

Trump is mentioned in the files WAY more than Harry is mentioned in all the Harry Potter books. And all of the Harry Potter books have come out.

“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”

“What horseback sport featured at five summer Olympic Games?” “Jousting.” Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.

Yesterday London posed very nicely for me from the window of the OXO Tower.

Can’t stop seeing it.

Trump administration demands lists of Jews “as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses” Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you won't bring severe consequences for these relentless crimes against humanity, if you won't even consider it, if you won't even try then what is the point of you? Not just as a politician; as a human being.

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

More appalling news from dystopia central www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

I am so tired of the narration. It’s a pedophile protection ring, kidnapping and murdering their own citizens and trying to start WWIII - we have the info we need, a thousand times over. No more narration needed. DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.

We in Britain are proud to emulate the Democrats’ tough line against lawbreaking, corruption and bare-arsed evil: we won’t do anything, or even really suggest anyone should, but so help me god, we will narrate it.

The lack of courage in the “home of the brave” is desperately embarrassing. They’re being dragged into an openly corrupt illegal war by a murderous pedophile to a Democrat chorus of “oh hey, come on now!”, and the only thing that will ever take him down is his own rancid, failing carcass.

Well, it’s not as if Trump went THAT beyond the pale. It’s not like he [trigger warning: terrorism] spray-painted a plane.

"Ho ho ho remember when we thought Bush was as bad as it got hehehe" narrative always ALWAYS ignores the fact: it's because they were as bad as it was allowed to get THEN. That's how bad they could be at that point and they paved the way for it to be the way it is now. Same as in the UK.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

If one more person shares this with a joke about Stephen Miller being on the end to hide the fact that he has no reflection, so help me GOD I will laugh again

Corporate wants you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.

Two things I cannot get past in the new Stranger Things: The kids are somehow now older than the parents ‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Sometimes my dog barks at me from the other room because he wants food or a walk. Sometimes it’s because he’s on the sofa, and feels very strongly that I should be too.

“A few bad apples” is such a weird way to try to dismiss something as not serious. The saying is “a few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH”, not “it’s just a few bad apples so the bunch is definitely totally fine, eat it”

Is anyone else thinking of contingency plans for if it happens?

In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.

“Malicious communications…the act of sending an indecent, grossly offensive, or threatening message, or false information, with the intent to cause the recipient distress or anxiety” So the victim of this presumably is Trump?!

Listen lads - Trump, Vance, Hegseth - at the risk of repeating myself: YOU don’t need to pray. You have the power to change the gun laws.

What in the cartoon-nineteen-fifties-housewife is he on about now? www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/09...

I seem to have pulled my left bicep. Apparently to heal it needs something called “rest”. So my question is: do I now just stop lifting weights, or should I continue on my right side? Will I be Popeye on the right and Olive Oil on the left? Ok I’ve thought about it and that’s now my aim.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

So it’s not urgent, but does anyone know… when Elvis sang “well you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine”, was he just stating two unrelated facts or did he have a very weird selection process for friends? No worries if not. x

My dog and I went to an off-grid cabin in a forest in Norfolk. The meteor shower was a bonus.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /

"It's not just sex, it's resistance" (by @roxanegay.bsky.social @ericabuist.bsky.social and Gabrielle Gallimberti) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Oh good, more thoughts and prayers. So much cheaper than funding the agency that monitors and gives early warnings on natural disasters. Not as effective - dozens died - but cheaper.

This is an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism - and an absolutely extraordinary story

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I’m not saying it was worth the budget for an entire season of a sitcom, but it is VERY FUNNY

Awwww he threw himself a birthday party and SO MANY people came, love that for him ❤️

Thunder and lightning! FINALLY Friday 13th has a sense of bloody occasion