"Prince Andrew barred from the Royal aircraft, and forced to take a Gulfstream like a commoner."

"Royal Family present Andrew with the Platinum Crown of Shame and The Emerald Coronet of Penitence."

When will pickelhaubes come back into fashion?

I'm now starting to think that the orange isn't makeup.

If you built a non-floating amphibious vehicle (i.e. something that could be driven from the seabed up onto a beach), and taught dolphins to somehow operate it, do you reckon they'd use it to explore land?

"Gender critical" men never fail to creep me out. They write about women's privacy in a manner like they're planning where to place a hidden camera.

I’m honestly wondering how many suicides have already happened because of this stuff. People do not appreciate how utterly terrified a lot of trans people, especially women, are right now.

If it happens, will an enduring media image be footage of bare shelves in Champagne sections, accompanied by finger-wagging commentary about how it's wrong to celebrate that kind of thing?

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Why aren't we calling "Alligator Alcatraz" the Trump Hotel?

The kids will ask ChatGPT, and get this:

It's too fucking hot.

Trans people told you they would come for cis LGB people next…

I'm sick of "there's no hope left" defeatism. Yes, things are grim right now, but the bastards haven't won yet. (Furthermore, when defeatism comes from anonymous accounts, it makes me suspect they're far-right sock puppets.) I understand the need to vent, but defeatism helps nobody but the fascists.

If the US fully degenerates into a fascist dictatorship, its national newspapers have the choice between becoming government propaganda mouthpieces, or fleeing the country and becoming publications in exile. Would any take the latter route?

The "How do you do fellow kids?" meme, popularly attributed to Steve Buscemi's character in the TV show 30 Rock, is in fact taken from research by The Democratic National Convention into attracting the youth vote.

Question about US constitutional law: Is there any possible case that can be put before SCOTUS that won't result in a completely deranged ruling being passed by a 6 to 3 majority?

"SCOTUS rules 6 to 3 that pi is exactly 3."

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

It’s pretty cool that Dani Filth just so happens to be the vocalist for the band Cradle of Filth. What are the odds?

I doubt there's any actual policy goal difference between Trump and Helen Lewis. She just wants it to be quicker, quieter and "more polite"

A railway snowplough lays in wait...

How would SCOTUS rule on an executive order sentencing Musk to death for treason? The usual 6 to 3?

Well it took a bit longer than I thought it would, but oh boy it's happening.

Mary-Ann Stephenson was very active in feminist politics in Coventry during the 2010s. I can confirm she is extremely transphobic, although she always kept her nastiest comments behind closed doors. This proposed appointment should be resisted in the strongest possible terms.

I'm not sure why someone has painted "Six for-all perpendicular" in this parking space. What does it mean?

"Supreme Commander Dench, eternal president of the Democratic People's Republic of Yorkshire has vowed to take back South Yorkshire from the less-than-scum puppet regime of the vile Yankee bastards."

Is it just me, or are those extra loud exhaust pipes making a comeback?

Convinced Musk is so far gone at this point that if he did sober up, he'd have no recollection of the last 3 years and be shocked to discover that he owns Twitter

The silliest thing about most vampire stories is the presence of characters who (at least at first) don't know that vampires exist. If vampires really existed, it would inevitability be common knowledge. Not knowing it would be like not knowing that tigers existed.

The botanical bukkake is dreadful at the moment. I'm not sure which specific pollen (or pollens) I'm allergic to, but it seems to be peaking right now.

2040 Labour Party Conference: Kier Starmer's speech on how losing his seat to the Green Party focused his mind on the need to win back Reform voters gets interrupted by the landlady telling him that CAMRA have the room in five minutes time.

That's not how the bees tell it.

A savvy political move on Starmer's part would be punching Farage in the face at PMQs. It would end Starmer's political career, thus allowing Labour a new start under a more popular leader, without accusations of backsliding. Plus, seeing Farage getting punched in the face would be fucking awesome.

I'm currently making use of modified Bessel functions of the second kind, and my principal thought is "these functions really need a better name".

Is anyone one starting to suspect that Morgan McSweeney isn't just useless, but a deliberate saboteur?

It seems that something like this has now actually happened. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I wish the Tories were still in power. At least there'd still be hope for something better.

I wanted to get this train, but I had to get some boring class 220 instead.

If Britain is becoming overpopulated, can't we just cull the racists?

There are currently three railway snowploughs to the north of Taunton station. Either this is where they're stored over the summer, or Network Rail are expecting something.

Why aren't we referring to those immigration concentration camps in El Salvador and Guantanamo as Trump Hotels?

“You trans people need to vote Labour to stop what we’re doing to you being done to me” is not quite the sales pitch those making it seem to think.

"Starmer pledges to ban black children from playground swings in bid to bring back Reform voters."

Can you buy dresses with anti-manspreading spurs?

It's unambiguously just "we want to ban all trans people from public because we find them disgusting" and yet everyone is still acting as if it's anything else. They've got obviously contradictory justifications for their actions and they're left unexamined by most people

The only way I'm using the men's toilet (besides the various mundane situations in which any woman might use the men's) is as an act of malicious compliance done with the full intention of causing chaos.

An excellent article on current AI systems. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-... In my opinion, the current crop of (much hyped) AI systems are precisely 0% of the way to becoming true AGI (artificial general intelligence).

The most accurate cinematic depiction of a Papal Conclave is the iconic scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Ken Russell's Women in Love.