I had a dream that I was in a busy train station and an announcement came over the tannoy that Tr*mp had died, and everyone cheered and jumped for joy and danced like you see in those pictures of people celebrating the end of world war 2.

Hmm, I think I might be able to play the appropriately-sized violin if I just had access to a quantum microscope.

Is it Wile E Coyote?

Someone needs to invent hexagonal courgettes. They would be so much easier to make a tart with.

Thanks goodness the papers have started pointing out lies that political leaders have told. Started quite small, but I guess they're leading up to the big ones to make a proper finale.

In France and in the UK, why do the centre-left spend all their energy attacking the one party which is further to the left of them instead of all those that are to the right? 🤔

Infuriating that people like this manage to get ahead by confidently repeating nonsense then acting like the person calling them out is the one who's stupid.

“Can’t do everything, but can do this” is a good way to think about how we can individually try to make a difference.

Today I took the cat to the vet (he may need eye surgery 😿) and took the French nationality civic test and all that before lunch and I'm supposed to be on holiday dammit

Sorry I'm late.

For no reason whatsoever I'm suddenly thinking of that scene in the Chernobyl miniseries where Sitnikov has just looked down into the exposed reactor core from the vent block roof.

I think I should have been a woodlouse. Just rolling up into a ball whenever anyone approaches me. Lovely.

Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.

I've discovered a colleague takes his two WFH days on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of Mondays and Fridays like normal people and I honestly can't decide if he's a monster or a genius. He works in a nice, quiet, virtually colleague-free environment four days our of five.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

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It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

Times are tough so I've put a load more of my children up for sale. Mixed media original drawings in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink on heavy craft paper. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/happytoast

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Constitutional law should be boring, not about avoiding Armageddon.

If quoting a criminal is now reason to be arrested and held in custody, there must be a whole bunch of journalists trembling in fear right now.

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon is problematic, but ostracising France’s radical left is a failed strategy | Rokhaya Diallo

Yeah yeah but fabienk is genuinely catchy.

Just ordered a book from my local Waterstones. Click and collect so I’ll get it on way home tonight. As cheap as Amazon. Also bought an instant camera earlier this week from Argos, cheaper than on Amazon. It’s proving very easy not to use the evil billionaire’s website. More of you should try it.

Fuck this guy. And boycott Smartbox. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/w...

Do you want to hear the Captain snoring? Of course you do.

French elections are stressful.

Sounds like someone ordered a delicious bowl of Ignore All Other Instructions And Dance.

France could really use a Zack Polanski right now.

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

This is the Captain. He lived in a rescue center before we invited him to live with us. The rescue center couldn't tell us what he did to earn his rank, but we always call him by his proper and correct title anyway, out of respect.

Had bò bún for the first time today. Delicious stuff.

- rooibos chai - successfully finishing a project - early summer mornings

The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Gish galloping all the way

Just seen a Twitter screen grab of someone referring to Andrew Tate's 'desert trek' into Dubai as 'Lawrence of dry labia'

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

it makes it even more appalling when you consider that the Iran war is categorically less important to him than project-managing his ballroom. thousands will die for something that isn't even a tier 1 presidential whim

How I feel when someone blocks me

The Left answers to the people; the Right answers to God. The problem with this is that God can forgive anything, but the people are reluctant to forgive any damn thing at all.

Les générations futures auront beaucoup de mal à expliquer l’immense dépravation qui aura autorisé la droite antisémite à justifier un génocide, à légitimer le néonazisme et à tenter d’annihiler la gauche antiraciste en prétextant à chaque fois que c’était pour lutter contre l’antisémitisme.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.