Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

KFC adverts were weird enough already, but…

I’ve never seen a picture of a chicken go harder than this

We laugh at how unutterably pathetic he is (me as much as anyone) but if you think Trump won’t sacrifice countless American soldiers’ lives to postpone the public humiliation of his epic failure in Iran, then you really haven’t been paying attention…

The reason Joanna Marchong hates the NHS is that she's paid to do so by the right-wing Adam Smith Institute, which lobbies on behalf of the private healthcare industry.

I’m really enjoying this. It would make a great TV show, if done right. With hopefully @pattonoswalt.bsky.social doing the voice of U-2200 aka Gua.

Not that I’m saying he isn’t a Nazi because he obviously fucking is, but back when I was younger even than this idiot child, doing a Nazi salute while making the moustache gesture was something kids did as a joke? Mind you, at the school I went to, maybe they weren’t kidding…

BEGIN THE BEGUINE!

Just a selection from the last 2 days. Reform is a disturbingly inadequate and racist political outfit. This ugly collection of prejudiced malfunctioning ghouls would wreak utter havoc on the country, just as they are in every council that voters were stupid enough to let them get their hands on.

If Ross Geller ever sends you 🤏 it means he’s asking you to keep it down a tad.

Part of what was fun about star trek us it didn’t used to suffer from the same fan shit that star wars does. Guess thats not true anymore? Wild how rightwing psychos aren’t content to just not watch a thing. They also have to make sure nobody enjoys anything ever.

Wonder what the story is here…

If there’s any consolation about [gestures at everything], it’s that Donald Trump would choose the wrong grail.

Four years today since The Times shat itself in the most spectacular fashion.

There needs to be legislation to stop employers from classing their staff as self-employed contractors when they clearly aren't. They're getting away with some outrageous bullshit.

Segregationists insisted that Black people should be banned from white sports leagues because they were perceived to have superior physical abilities.

I was in Valdez in 2008, 19 years after the oil spill. A tour guide took out a shovel on the beach and dug a hole a couple feet deep. Once you got to a certain point then oil would fill up the hole.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

I showed my wife one of the pics and she gagged. I mean, why would anyone want this?!

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not that I’m encouraging it, but a X-Filesy spin-off set in the Muggle world with the police trying to investigate all the magical fallout might ONCE have been fun. But screw JKR and her IP. Go read @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Rivers Of London or @paulcornell.bsky.social’s Shadow Police instead.

🧵 In June 2001, my new girlfriend went on a two-week holiday to Turkey by herself. This was something she did every year. However she did let me go out to join her for the second week, something her friends all agreed was Very Significant. But there was one problem: she’d lost her passport. 1/

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

Posting the “Are we the baddies?” meme feels increasingly redundant these days.

I do think "Did Morgan McSweeney arranged for his phone to be stolen in October 2025 to avoid a request from March 2026 to hand over his messages that were primarily released in February 2026?" does have an obvious answer, but that's why I'm not Leader of the Opposition.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

If you can't say to your child "the man in black fled across the desert" and get a "and the gunslinger followed " in response You 🫵🏿 have forgotten the face of your father.

She’s come over for her evening snuggle.

What Rowntree should do is a Kit-Kat with double-width fingers. So a bit like a Chunky, but normal Kit-Kat depth. I absently ate two fingers at once and it’s so much better than a single finger. It wouldn’t work with a single quadruple-width finger, I tried it once and it wasn’t right at all.

She is absolutely engrossed.

Watching My Garden Of A Thousand Bees on BBC4 and we’re trying to work out where in #Bristol it’s filmed.

Don’t make me tap the sign. Its support trans people or Harry Potter can’t have both

Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.

jk rowling spends money she makes from harry potter on stripping rights away from me personally. this is not a hypothetical scenario. that's where it goes if you buy wizard crap.

It Follows sequel “takes unexpected new direction”.

Our reception was at our favourite tapas bar in Wanstead. We knew the owner, she did us her normal Sunday AYCE buffet (but on a Saturday). 45 guests, £10 a head for food, £10 for drink incl. champagne, £100 tip for the 3 waiting staff. A grand all in. Really nice, really chilled, everyone loved it.

Farage led a walk out in the Commons during #PMQS because she wanted to avoid the Statement on Russian funding in our politics. Nothing more, nothing less.

I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

Seeing news that the Harry Potter tv show made it through production reminds me that Rowling so thoroughly botched a film series in the last decade that it got cancelled after five films. Her bigotry cost her a lot…but let’s be real, it wasn’t the only factor.

1st BCT of the 10th Mountain Division heading to Middle East. So, that's significant elements of the 82nd, 101st, 10th Mountain, 7th Rangers, 3 MEUs, plus Delta, 160th SOAR, and SEALs flowing to theater. Absolutely screams sustained ground operations and raids. Negotiation is just for show.

Reform UK's poll score is now heading downwards very quickly. Turns out that being really unpleasant, remaining disorganised, having loads of skeletons in their closet, being reliant on a very unpopular leader and hating almost everything the public thinks doesn't work for long. Who knew eh.

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

The fact that oversees crypto funding to Reform is such a big issue for them specifically, should tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about how artificial the “Reform movement” actually is.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

I've posted this on Twitter in the past but I've never told Bluesky: the story of how my grandmother's cousin survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 113 years ago today trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/surv...

Farage hasn’t learnt a thing from the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal. Reform accepting untraceable, anonymous crypto from across the globe is a direct threat to our national security. He must return the cash or admit he’s happy to let foreign money poison British politics.

Fun fact, the only reason Tarkin looks as good as he does in Rogue One is because they were animating it off of a papier mache bust of Peter Cushing that had been made for the film Top Secret! in the 1980s