No, that is not extraordinary. What is extraordinary: - Fascist insurrectionist in power for a second term, who is - siphoning tax money into private projects, and - same court previously declared said fascist to be above the law. There should be strikes and riots. This is self-soothing at best.

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

It's usually good when the news makes me queue up Warren Zevon www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH...

Listen to her podcast for more combinations of words never before seen in the history of English or any other language.

2026 basically

Timeo techbros et dona ferentes

The Da Vinci Code. No contest. It is so fractally stupid.

Nothing is surer to generate goodwill around the world than the US curating its very own state-sponsored 4chan board

Gung hei fat choy, it's the year of the Red Fire Horse, mofos. Higher res on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/149577...

Have successfully fed the Brit I'm keeping in my spare room pancakes. Pancake day is now over and we're ready to move on to Lunar New Year.

Artists! Have you had experience with a good (or bad) desktop inkjet printer? My trusty 11y.o. Canon is biting the dust and it's hard to know what replacement suits my needs (HQ printing on matte cardstock, not £££). Windows 11, considering Epson EcoTank ET-2980, but open to hot tips!

Come for the headline, stay for Kim Kleist-Eriksen's amazing carvings: www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Me, teaching the 19th century

Tagging myself as probably a woodpidgeon.

Hate to add to the national stereotype, but this is not just an Edeka thing. Better butchers make roses out of salami and black forest ham. This is amateur hour. 😁

That's not how American work leave works, my friend.

I love waking up in my timezone. "Look at Big Thing" -> "Oh it's that dude nvm" is pretty much the amount of time I wish to expend on this, and it's all done by the time I get to my desk.

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Post a banger that's not in English youtu.be/C6_Uk_2rkQg

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

Did anyone see the big game? I didn’t. Just a bunch of people running around. If they’re not going to release big game onto the field, they shouldn’t call it that.

Die US-Regierung baut Konzentrationslager (für 50 Milliarden), erschiesst ihre eigenen Bürger und der Möchtegerndiktator postet Obama als Affen. Oder wie Caren Miosga in der ARD fragen würde: „Ist Trump ein Vorbild für Deutschland, Herr Chrupalla?“

Fabulous thread of affectionate highly-skilled parody of British book cover design through the ages.

Brave New World is a more currently-relevant dystopia than 1984.

you know it's bad when they would rather us think that a rando staffer has unfettered access to the social media accounts of the President of the United States, where we also now know that world leaders direct message him

"Beste Hauptdarstellerin": Infantino zeichnet Melania Trump mit FIFA-Oscar aus www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/fifa...

GLS, last week: "Your parcel is out for delivery!" [5 min after delivery window] "Delivery of your parcel is delayed." [More fuckery omitted] GLS, today: "Your parcel has reached Germany." Really, I thought Evri/Hermes were the kings of bad parcel delivery, but ghost deliveries are a new low.

Müllermilch-Gründer greift @campact.de an. Theo Müller geht gegen Kampagne vor. Man soll nicht mehr sagen, dass er die rechtsextreme AfD unterstützt. 🤝 Teile diesen Beitrag, damit noch mehr Leute über die AfD-Unterstützung des #Müllermilch Gründers Bescheid wissen. www.campact.de/blog/2025/09...

FYI it's not Catherine O'Hara either.

There's a death I am at a minimum not sorry for and I've been wanting to post this ever since it happened. I'll make a compromise between open glee and risk of dangerous overpressurization by not explicitly naming the person in the post with the GIF. (Don't get your hopes up it's not that one)

THIS RIGHT HERE 👇👇👇👇

I feel seen and/or attacked.

Why do you need to train people for AI? I thought the very clever AI could just do anything I asked it in natural language? Are you telling me it's a flawed tool?

The reactions to this seem neatly divided between those who don’t know John Finnemore’s work and those who do.

via reddit:

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Holy fucking wow.

But I DO want a Canada Goose in my house. I will refrain from trying for an opposing limerick though, because I could not resist the word "Canuck".

Dear fellow freaker-outers, I know the media is sanewashing Trump. We all agree on that. But when you immediately pivot to demanding fact-checking in real time, PLEASE have a proposal ready for how that should be done. And please familiarize yourself with: (my proposal: zero live coverage.)

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

Just taking this opportunity to point out not even the obvious examples of why this incel is wrong – but that quite a few certified mass-knicker-shifting men really aren't conventionally attractive! Have you LOOKED at, say, Benedict Cumberbatch or Daniel Craig?

NO

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Fellow friends of audio drama! This is an awesome initiative aimed at encouraging people to consider financially supporting their favourite audio stories and storytellers. There are some all-time greats in this lineup and, frankly, getting their work this cheap is a damn good deal. Spread the word!

Second time (imho) that German satirical site/paper Der Postillion has surpassed The Onion: "Vienna Academy of Arts offers place to Donald Trump" www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/wien...

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

If the Greenland Tariffs go ahead, I will stop shipping items from my shop to the US from 1 Feb. It's hard enough keeping up with Royal Mail's own changes; the tariff and handling surcharges for US-bound mail are too much. ko-fi.com/tealin/shop if you want to scoop something before then.