So glad we’re stuck with Southern Water. Our water bill is higher than our combined gas and electricity bill. Well done The Conservatives for turning an essential service into a series of privatised monopolies! Glad your buddies all made millions from stagging.

Imagine being one of the credulous fools who took conservative complaints about cancel culture seriously. Imagine being the sort of rube who assumed they acted in good faith. Imagine being the kind of sanctimonious git that ignores the hypocrisy because you are embarrassed by your complicity.

Studies my arse, fucker probably read it in a LinkedIn post.

This is a natural consequence of the American article of faith that anyone who is extremely rich must also be extremely smart. Europeans, with our more established aristocracies are acutely aware that it’s possible to be both extremely rich and extremely stupid, it’s almost a given really.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Gonna write a thread on recycling in the office for my WoBlinskiney followers.

Gotta help the community of millionaire farmers.

Hahahahaa… wait… have you all been posting as your adult selves this whole time? Nobody told me this was supposed be to be a grownup time app. What is this? Woke LinkedIn? WoLinken? BlinkInsky? WoBlinkskiney?!?

Unrelated: the last season of Slow Horses was mid, except the one bit where Whelan says “but Muslims don’t worship on a Sunday” then turns to the brown guy next to him and asks “I’m right about that, aren’t I?” And the guy replies “well, I’m Sikh.” And Taverner rolls her eyes. That bit was genius.

Muslim families over-the-top Christmas Decoration competitiveness is the country I voted for.

Restrictive immigration policy and Brexit: two things the populist right advocate for that have the literal opposite effect to that which they claim. It’s almost like the populist right doesn’t know what it’s doing and the mainstream media should be pointing this out.

Take it from someone who’s been delivering post this Christmas: you can tell wherever they’re going is owned by a posh twat because there’s no sign on the gate informing you of the stupid name they’ve decided to give the place as that might be too helpful for anyone having to deliver to that address

*blinks in ADHD*

“After Mary had just found out she was carrying the Son of God,” says Tom McKinney, making the Annunciation sound like Mary got some unexpected news at her 20 week scan.

“The GOP is violently arresting people who look like me, just for looking like me, then shipping them to random countries without any due process, but I won’t switch my vote from them to the opposition until the opposition says nice things about Big Oil.” THB, I think MY is just a fucking idiot.

I have to say: if I were the show runner for 2025 I’d be telling the writers that ending the season with a social media influencer getting beaten to a bloody pulp by a professional who knows what they’re doing is just a little too on the nose.

The Tokugawa Shogunate in 1854:

I bet this is what the final Brexit negotiations looked like.

Wait… billionaires, millionaires and businessmen have interests that conflict with national interests such that they are unsuitable to take on roles in government?! Woah, perhaps we should stop and think about our policy of putting loads of mega-rich businessmen in government!

Looks like Bondi had the identities of perpetrators redacted so now our only recourse is to... *checks notes* ...listen to the actual victims?

*me, staggering* “Running head first into that wall is still a good idea, I just fluffed the execution is all.”

Fun Fact: cat’s can control rubbish trucks with their minds - see below.

Smart move from a government that is really owning the news agenda right now. No reason why they should be concerned about getting their message out there when they are riding so high in the polls.

For those of you who don’t know @jonnelledge.bsky.social was the little boy who sang “walking in the air” for the classic 1982 film “The Snowman.” He was recently on Times Radio to promote a book and was convinced to sing it again. See below for a photo of this very special seasonal performance.

A beautiful tale for Christmas.

Robin Hood, Prince of thieves, followed by Terminator 2, then Silence of the Lambs. Things are not looking good.

Robin Hood, Prince of thieves, followed by Terminator 2, then Silence of the Lambs. Things are not looking good.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/ www.edge.org/event/the-ed...

I thought I’d go look and see what people were arguing with him about, but then couldn’t find him on here. Then remembered I blocked the guy because his opinions are all inane. So: good call past me.

So… the UK embassy in Berlin was built and managed under a truly terrible PFI contract that has costs the government £millions more than is reasonable (they tried, and failed, to exit the contract via the courts).

I will never apologize for a post

This is all too scary and depressing. So I’m going to go read that horror script my friend asked me to comment on…

The Islamic call to prayer, but make it Christian and techy.

Any excuse to point out that if you climb over the mountains by Salzburg, as they do in the finale of Sound of Music, you end up in .. Germany

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Big “Chris in season 2 of Peacemaker” energy going on there. youtu.be/U9IyhFcI9bc?...

Watched Gogglebox last night and a woman burst into tears at the Sound of Music opening credits because it recalled a lost time when the ordinary person was nice. A film the context of which is the rise of the Nazis.

While I’m sure the failure of Starmer’s Reform-but-Red strategy is to blame for much of this, I can’t help the feeling this is likely to largely be a Welsh politics thing… and yet nearly everyone commenting is only seeing it through the Westminster lens.

Does anyone remember if anything else significant happen between 2019 and 2024 that might explain the change in Labour’s fortunes? Or was it really all just the genius of McSweeny’s “Reform but red” strategy?

Induction hob: Grab a fridge magnet (or any magnet) if it sticks to the bottom of the pan it’ll work on the induction hob.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

Liz Truss is a traitor.

The $5bn lawsuit aside, what this does is reveal the danger the BBC and other “mainstream” media outlets have placed themselves in when they decided to sanitise Trump’s speeches, editing them so they sound coherent, “normal”, and make sense - as opposed to reporting them verbatim.

This Laura Loomer? I sense a double standard.

A cheese counter for everything! *starts to chant, rhythmically slamming fists on the table* A cheese counter for everything, a cheese counter for everything, a cheese counter for everything. **the crowd joins in** A CHEESE COUNTER FOR EVERYTHING, A CHEESE COUNTER FOR EVERYTHING, A CHEESE COUN…”

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.