Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.

FINNISH FOLK-METAL HUMMINGBIRD!

Last sentence is how i do my hair tbf

I disagree, sword-billed hummingbirds are lovely.

aldi chicken soup, please cure me 🥲

Mr Bingley from 1995 P&P is now an English teacher and deputy head at a state school in North London. Who knew?

This needs to go into graph crimes. 1. Absolute values or rates? 2. Nit but penalty fares issued should be the bottom segment of each bar for stylistic reasons

meanwhile the old country is leaning into full Nazi-style Sippenhaft…

I mean if you’re systematically underpaying doctors, people will not grow up wanting to be doctors, and then you’ll have to have immigrant doctors, and then…

When you really need to listen to Indigenous peoples: “We can’t eat money… We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.” An exemplar of #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs.

I love this description and I’m leaning into it so much

our comparisons were made with the pre-2010 BBC in mind. As someone who grew up with BBC Worldservice (on shortwave), the fall since has been steep. Just making news in recent times.

Yeah, both of them are being annoying, but I’m afraid I’m siding a little bit with Dave on this one. If you’re staying somewhere away from your main home for 6 months of the year you’re basically an immigrant to that other country! It’s okay to have a mishmash!

As a foreigner the only thing I have to say about the BBC is that we used to hold it up to our country’s institutions as the benchmark for objectivity, good journalism etc. if you heard something vaguely weird on Indian news or RT / Fox you’d be sure to check it against what the BBC was saying.

reminded of this for no reason (or maybe for sickness reasons): दुनिया जिसे पुकारे सिकंदर के नाम से वह भी दर- ए - हुज़ूर का मंगता नज़र आया

There are thousands of things like this in tech. Why is search bad in Gmail. Why does Bluetooth suck. Why are most streaming apps bad. Why is file transfer still annoying. Every day it feels like I've got random issues with tech stuff while these companies sink billions into AI

Sahana Bajpaie’s post about her colleague being racially abused and spat at in London reminded me of how I am gravitating towards wearing relatively expensive jackets/formals to work - as if hoping that the visible signals of affiliation to a professional class will protect me.

This piece is well with your time. Read. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Am going to use this excuse when everyone asks me why I’m not a partner at MBB or a VP at a FAANG yet. Sir it’s not that I am a dork, it’s the lack of binge drinking in my youth* *any drinking, tbf

In something slightly more uplifting than the horrors, I have discovered that one of the famous Instagram rescue cats might have the same condition as Bella cat’s mystery issue and hopefully we will be able to figure something out for her based on how Instagram cat’s diagnosis and treatment goes.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at the Royal College of Music for an experienced marketing professional #musicjobs #artsjobs https://workculture.uk/jobs/royal-college-of-music-marketing-manager-events-maternity-cover/

20 odd years later, I think about her* often *The phrase "þæt wæs gōd cyning".

Haunted and hunted

হায় রে অংশুমান, এতো পড়াশোনা করে এই হলো!

Not “necessary”?! Has he tried working through menstrual cramps without Meftal Spas? Wtf is this weird Protestant (?) attitude to women’s pain

This is such a HORRIBLE idea omg, why would you even consider this 😭

Tom, no ! *I* say “flabbergasted” 😢

Except if you are a girl. If you are a boy and "good at math but don't have social emotional growth" you are Elon Musk (miserable ugly shell of a human, but rich) If you are a girl and "good at math but don't have social emotional growth" you're shunned for life 🙄

I have two engineer parents and they gave me similar advice. That did not turn out well (understatement)

Apparently people my age in developed countries learnt reading using systems *laughs uproariously*

Many South Asian women* in their 50s could have had hip replacements. Didn’t realize that mean they had to be celibate going forward. * yeah I don’t know why this is a thing; I barely know any middle-aged Indian woman without hip and knee problems

Today is Armistice Day. The First World War did not officially end until 28 June 1919, but it was at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month #OTD 11 November 1918 that the guns fell silent. Siegfried Sassoon remembered that moment in his poem 'Everyone Sang':

Every six months or so I have to explain to someone that tuberculosis is still with us. Timer reset to zero today. Immunocompromised folks (or folks on chemotherapy) have to deal with this reality more. (And some of the meds for TB can make you psychotic*). [*so can TB]

Wow the sour grapes

Some of the early attempts at sorting this out seem a little strange to modern readers. I like the very-sensible-sounding Sale of Arsenic Act 1851 which had an explicit exception for medicine containing arsenic!

I once found this very touching inscription in a book: “This book belongs to Gillian Love, aged 7 8 10 12 60”

How lovely are these linoprint cut-outs by my mum, Jo? I'm sending these out to the next 7 people from Bluesky who subscribe to www.tom-cox.com at the annual Villager or Help The Witch rates. (Which, along with the Yokel one, gives you full access to my writing.) Let me know below if you do!

Indeed, the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company would like a word!

Immediately marry a man who is suffering from this condition

I can’t stop reading Gary Lineker’s surname as that of a Marathi uncle 🥲 cc: @smugdekar.bsky.social

“[N]ever be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.” (Saki, 'Reginald at the Theatre')

Make me DG you cowards! Homes Under the Hammer replaced with The Hair Bear Bunch Traitors with more bears Basically it's the Bear Broadcasting Corporation

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.

I appreciate the sentiment but this reminds me of Gandhi in the 1930s saying Europeans should practice non-violence against Hitler.

This is completely understandable - a lot of 2nd gen Indian immigrants think they are white.

He was 26 in 1918. TWENTY-SIX.