I really should get round to reading this, I bet it's amazing.

I know an alien birthing pod when I see one.

That's a bit old isn't it? How are they-- oh. OH.

So... the Prime Minister didn't have clearance to see Mandelson's vetting? Yeah, that sounds legit, I have no problem with that, makes sense, carry on.

None of it's well written (save "Epirus Fury") but I'm genuinely annoyed by the last paragraph here. "Pyrrhic" and "Donald" should be nowhere near this text. Zero trust in the reader's ability to see the blindingly obvious. You could have no idea who Pyrrhus was & get this in the second sentence.

Fey he seemed, or the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire within his veins, and he was borne upon Snowmane like a god of old. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shown like an image of the sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed.

Smugly saying "Paul is the bad guy actually" about Dune is the same level of insight as a sixth former saying "Communism would work if they did it properly." Congratulations. You scaled mount stupid. There's a valley on the other side.

Told you.

Told you.

you have conjured one of my favorite tweets

It is of vital importance that I find out exactly how tall Scott Arthur is immediately. Here's a picture of him with three gal pals.

Fuck it, if we're doing this I'm buying a Celtic shirt.

A stop-the-car moment to photograph this greeting to Nigel Farage on his rather unspectacular visit to Shetland today. Apologies to any frogs offended. 🐸

A priest once told me of another priest, famously not lacking in self regard, who began a sermon with 'As Jesus said - and, I think, correctly ...'

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

I don't think anything more usefully summarises the UK than seeing the "left wing" government kick the fuck out of one of the few genuinely successful export sectors of the last ten years because racist pensioners who will never vote for them don't like foreigners.

JD Vance didn't have a catholic grandmother and it shows.

Every now and again when I see progressives gushing about The Expanse, I wonder why none of them seem to take issue with the writers portraying universal basic income as a fast track to global destitution. Maybe distracted by all that 'hard' sci-fi because a ship turned round to decelerate.

JD Vance didn't have a catholic grandmother and it shows.

Okay so a meta joke doesn't work without the originals, but still.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

'So much for the tolerant left'

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18. 'member when we made movies in colour?

McSweeney's nails absolutely everything I hate about journalists writing current affairs books.

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

If it turns out that I sip my café con leche out a giant yeti mug can I still be Prime Minister or am I too mind-bogglingly rich?

I always liked the one where Tony Blair got a Ford Galaxy and the Mail had a double page spread on the indulgent luxury.

Twice upon a time someone thought "should change that beloved iconic design for the new movie"

Used the phrase "cunt wellies" today about these and I like it that much I'm now going to use it to describe all chelsea boots. Including my own.

Older acquaintance has a gay Hungarian friend who came to the UK with her partner because of Orban. Which provoked this searing insight. "Must be terrible when you think about it. You fall in love with a woman and then you're an outlaw in your own country. Horrible." One mind at a time, I guess.

Pour one out for Moana Pasifika. And their awesome recycled shirts.

Updated a draft document this morning. Some judicious edits, some phraseology swaps, all in all an excellent update and probably done before publishing. Except after doing that and saving it, I checked another site then hit backspace to go back... At which point it loaded and saved the cache.

For those of you outwith Scottish politics, Duncan's entire brand is 'the labour guy' and has been for over a decade.

If I see one more person present ADHD as a cute lil' personality quirk I will write a 10,000 word thesis on why they are a fucking cretin.

*takes a big swig of I Was Right And Everyone Else Was Wrong*

This isn't something you expect to see in Glasgow! Obviously not a new council initiative, but a rather amusing bit of street art by Venomouse on Clyde Street. #glasgow #keepglasgowweird #streetart #clydestreet #humour

I know passionate supporters of LGBTQ+ equality in Labour who have felt increasingly marginalised in the party and unable to support the leadership's view. But to see the manifesto include anti-trans policies rejected by their own party conference must surely be the last straw for many.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

I hate the people I agree with so much... It's not that this guy is wrong to point out that immigrants are more than job roles; it's that he'd rather be seen to do that than use an argument which is true & effective, because it's not quite morally pure enough. Better to be spotless than victorious.

"The problem is that we don't have enough immigration to meet the needs of this country." Pour that child a ribena and give him some ice cream because just saying that when there's a camera in the room is apparently a Herculean feat.

❤️Glasgow.

Check out the fourth featured template on grok's imagegen.

You know at some point in the 2000s someone changed something in Windows that meant you could turn off your computer by actually pressing the off button, and nothing bad happened. They deserve more credit.

Not just the leg apparently.

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" Laris & Zhaban sitcom where they run a restaurant and hide from a French cop who doesn't believe they're Vulcans. She hates the dog. Also an unarmed civvy transport drama just outside Fed space. No Starfleet.

Anyone else noticed in Chrome that it takes an absurdly long time of late for typos to be flagged? It was over ten seconds before I got a red squiggly on this.

86 minutes. What ye playing at, women? #WALvSCO

If you can step back from the immediacy it is kind of funny that Glasgow's losses seem to often come from teams who absolutely should not be competition for them given the giants they slay for the day job. Fair play to Toulon. They earned that one. #GLAvRCT