The advantage of budget airlines: they give NO fucks about the customer always being right. Try this on Ryanair and you will be swiftly incapacitated by a camply-smiling twink who has a gym routine that marines would baulk at.

GO GO GO lil turtle friends!

Serious PSA: if this is happening to you a lot, try eliminating wheat.

This year I celebrated my twentieth wedding anniversary with a man I met on social media.

Tonight's vegetable: 🥬Cut cavolo nero into bite-sized pieces; blanch and drain 🥬Finely chop 1 large onion; fry in olive oil with chilli flakes (optional: anchovies) 🥬Add 2 cubed tomatoes; fry until liquid is released; add cavolo nero 🥬Add a little Italian vegetable paste and some white wine

Goedenavond! Vanochtend verscheen ze weer in de tuin! 🐿❤️😄🤸‍♀️ Fijne avond!🙋‍♀️ #tuinpost #eekhoorntje #squirrel #natuur

"...and things don't go according to plan for George" said the continuity announcer. #TheArchers

That happens to all of us with age, don't embarrass it

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

am in a bike / sustainable travel workshop in a room full of sewing machines, it’s like the inside of my head went big.

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

roman burrito, if you haven't thought about the roman empire yet today

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

There's always a baked in assumption that they'll get to be the served, not the servant.

"Cars stolen after being left for more than 2 hours will not be investigated," said no police force, ever.

I thought this was a wonderful bronze sculpture, but it's a real life pelican.

Some grave guardians are open to being stroked. Some will growl if your hand reaches towards them. It is wise to know which are which before one goes poking at tombs. – #CLNolan

in clearing the house out my dad found what we'd spent years assuming was some spare wooden steering wheel for one of his classic car projects but turns out it's from a Vickers bomber from pre-WW2

Sing along everybody! 🎵Any time you're Handsworth way Any evening, any day You'll find us all Doin' the Jenrick walk. Ev'ry little Racist gal With her little Nazi pal You'll find 'em all Doin' the Jenrick walk. Oi!🎵 The old songs are the best! 😊

It can't be the same one, but we used to have an elderly neighbour called Alf with a lovely garden, and my mum would help him when the digging and bending got too much. He loved chocolate gingers and was chuffed that I liked them too. Big grin now just remembering dear old Uncle Alf.

Ted Brown is a British gay rights activist. He organised the United Kingdom's first Gay Pride Rally in 1972 as part of his work in the Gay Liberation Front and co-founded Black Lesbians and Gays Against Media Homophobia. 🏳️‍🌈 #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏿

Ages ago I said that if you repost a Stonetoss comic that's been cleverly manipulated to support trans rights, you still made Jewish and queer and black people look at a fucking Stonetoss comic. Here comes Billy Bragg to give a demonstration of how that works.

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

I'm glad that Dolly's sister loves her so much, but DAMMIT FREIDA you scared the bejeezus out of us!

Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh both worked at the hotel kitchen where Boston creme pie was invented, but not at the same time

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

I love this poem from @popovaprof.bsky.social

I reckon the worst earworm ever devised is John Finnemore's comedy song where Pachelbel laments the fact that nobody ever wants to hear him do anything except his Canon in D Major...to the tune of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. This should probably be a Geneva-banned weapon.

Tenderstem broccoli is just SO good.

Crappy vending-machine hot chocolate has more comfort and moral support than good hot chocolate. It's always there for you.

Seriously, this is SO important for understanding how we got here.

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I would love to play this.

5-footer married to 6-footer; would love to try this but live in old Dutch house with traditional staircase

Immigration status: questioning the grammar of the letter approving my permanent residence

Martin Luther has entered the chat.

All I know is that in Prague, "Mediterranean Restaurant" used to denote "pizzeria run by Croats, get the pljeskavica and if there isn't one on the menu then ask anyway because there may well be a Secret Pljeskavica"

This is some absolutely glorious graphic design.

May start using this still of Ed Davy when I'm next coaching passing skills. Excellent base pass; drive up through the hips, bent knee, arms following through towards the target...

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Arc words for the #Starfinder character I'm working on right now: SHUT UP I'M DRIVING

This article is proudly sponsored by Brompton Bicycle Limited.

Ready for launch! The lovely little black-fronted dotterels were my (almost) constant companions at Lake Hattah.

Book Cover of the Day:

I am sitting at a table of delightful people who have just realised that the phrase "mix tape" comes from physical cassette tapes. Their minds are blown, and I'm feeling very very old.

my fundamental problem with this time is: im as cynical as the next guy but i really do not want to live in a world where nothing matters and nothing is real. i like to stand on the earth sometimes and feel it solidly beneath me. call me old fashioned. when im sick i want a doctor not joe rogan

It used to be "women are merely lust-crazed animals distracting men from the life of the mind" and somehow went to "men are driven by testosterone to fuck as much as they can, regardless of how women feel about it, and any man who doesn't is less of a man" and I don't think it's an improvement.

Our friend Melanophryniscus spectabilis lives in the Santa Catarina and Paraná states of southern Brazil! They are known for their brightly colored patterns and the large lump on the end of their nose! (photo by Alan Hentz)