I don’t mean to be that guy, but it really was one of the most beautiful machines ever built wasn’t it? 🥲

The discourse this BAFTAs Tourette's incident has generated is horrible horrible horrible

"So true, bestie!" I cry, biting down hard on the cyanide pill embedded in my ceramic molar

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

“Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated - and suggestions otherwise are fake news.” - White House, June 25, 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

…does Mumble still exist? Asking for a friend

Here's how I read that Greenland thing: Greenland: Oh, hey! We had to rescue an American from that submarine you've got lurking 7 nautical miles offshore, who faced an urgent medical crisis. Trump, caught patrolling an ally: EMergency! I'll send a sick boat that's in the sick bay.

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

side note but £1700pcm for a one bedroom flat in Colliers Wood, a not especially glamorous neighbourhood in quite deep zone 3, is fucking bananas, London renting has just gone fully insane

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

Think if you give a Liz Truss venture half a million, it's not even a case that you need to be taxed more, but you should be made a ward of the state and your assets seized for your own safety.

Me reading ur tweets on Kenneth Williams’ centenary

I don’t think we’re out of the woods with this crisis. The generals may have distracted him with whatever they’re planning in Iran, but once that’s over, I’d put money on him going right back to bullying Denmark and Greenland.

83 years ago, Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed by the Nazis for their acts of resistance against Hitler, together with their friend Christoph Probst. Sophie was 22 years old.

i love people we just be doin shit sometimes, wonderful

Currently have one of those bugs that is like “Here’s a horrible headache every second you’re awake. Paracetamol? You worm, I laugh in the face of paracetamol! A-ha-ha-ha!”

me and my buddies would've killed tuvix with a hammer i'll tell you that much

Always assumed Altman was a guy who is simply high on his own supply, but maybe he is actually just as misanthropic as the likes of Thiel after all…

It feels like piece by piece we are responding to the legacy of Covid by making it absolutely impossible for society to successfully respond to a future pandemic - which could well be worse than Covid was…

Someone's told him that writing In single lines Like this Is authoritative But if you do it all the time It's incredibly annoying And comes across like a racist haiku

Do they though

I am sadly just resigned to not going to the US for some considerable time…

While the mass informant network of the Stasi is rightfully seen as a product of the coercive pressures of a dictatorship, every society has a core people who are happy to sell out their neighbours without being under threat from the state or even offered financial benefits to do so.

Again, it feels insane how little attention is being paid to this. The build up to Iraq was months long, in the open, full public debate. This stuff is currently below Toy Story 5 on the BBC website.

This is democracy manifest……

Republicans never stop thinking of new ways to harm our brains and our vocabulary, and neither do we.

i'm just glad i don't owe rummy any royalties on "unknown unknowns"

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

The funny thing is that Tolkien specifically obviously has a ton of stuff which does code as right wing and is in very many ways small-c conservative and uh…. he would absolutely despise these people

As an increasingly geriatric millennial, it’s kinda interesting how many phrases I have adopted from George W. Bush and now Trump. I don’t find myself knowingly using phrases from any Democratic presidents 🤔

“I’m allowed to destroy the country,” says the actual president of the United States in an actual press conference because nothing matters anymore

The Supreme Court:

These have always been the terms of the conservative elites' bargain with Trump. Do all the fascism you want, but do NOT fuck with the money.

It’s really frustrating when you get everything ticked off and then she really screws up a Kyrgyz mutton beshbarmak one evening and you have to dump her as she doesn’t know all cuisines. Heartbreaking.

I look forward to the days when the United States will be restored to at least a George III level of constitutional government

The penguins have their revenge.

18 hours later

the video game industry is a mess

He is genuinely worse than Blatter and I’m not sure how that’s even possible

Spectacular

I am once again making the case that Eric Pickles is an easy Top 5 entrant for "worst cabinet minister of the 21st century so far", given how thoroughly bad his legacy is.

“I never thought my children would see the leopards eating people’s faces 😥”

massively self-serving of course, but better for the body politic as a whole to make the ritual obeisance to virtue and the rule of law rather than naked cynicism, say.

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Ancient Egyptians inventing writing: