Bumerang 🪃 War einmal ein Bumerang; War ein weniges zu lang. Bumerang flog ein Stück, Aber kam nicht mehr zurück. Publikum – noch stundenlang – Wartete auf Bumerang. Joachim Ringelnatz (1883 - 1934), banned by the Nazis as a "degenerate artist"

Always amazes me how sticky tradition can be for smaller vessels. An Indian Ocean sailer of the 1500’s, having hitchhiked with Dr Who, would most likely find these moored fishing dhows reassuringly familiar. Till they start moving without sails or oars of course.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Of course Robert Ozempic doesn’t have a monopoly on dim-wittery.

its black comedy! "3 weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and you cannot exaggerate something that is already operating at maximum absurdity"

Straße von Hormus zu: Öltanker weichen auf Fahrradweg von Hormus aus www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/fahr...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

I've just had an amazing idea

Fresh off the press, my latest YouTube extravaganza, sponsored by the Wendover tourist board

Latest analysis article: No ships in the Strait of Hormuz – brace for global economic shock? www.navylookout.com/no-ships-in-...

Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free. 1/

simonoxfphys on insta Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

This made my day! The joy of these guys from the Australian Reptile Park saving the little creature’s life is something to behold.

I find this implausible high. Is this a case of “well, it didn’t happen to me but someone I know and not exactly in the last year but it *COULD* have”? 14% of theft from vehicles - people lock their cars usually so that’s a lot of broken windows I simply must not have noticed.

What is the legal basis for marking/enforcing spelling, grammar, punctuation in UK schools/unis? I know Dr Johnson did his dictionary with help from Lord Blackadder the 3rd, but is there for instance a act of parliament? Did the department or minister responsible for education send out a memo?

As the mainstream media skirts around this like a skittish cat, can someone/anyone explain the logic of charging Maduro with violating US gun laws by having some machine guns in Little Venice? Asking for a concerned friend who has some haggis in the fridge …

It is so utterly depressing how many wonderful things get turned into slop by AI #enslopification

Even linkedin gets it

Flying to Malpensa planning to drive a hire car 1000 miles to Sambuca di Sicilia (and presumably back) for 1 week house hunting but giving up after up after being exhausted after queuing 2.5 hours due to teething problems with the new border control systems … feels like fate had a very merciful day

But gin the auld fowks’ tales are richt An’ ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht, O freend o’ freends! what wad I gie To feel ye rax yer hand to me Atween the dark an’ caun’le-licht? —Violet Jacob, “Hallowe’en” (COUNTRY LIFE, 1920) Jacob’s son, Harry, was killed at the Somme in 1916 #Halloween #poem

Remember that clocks go back 1 hour tonight in the UK. Also remember, don’t be an ignorant twat. (credits to Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu )