look at these horrifying images from war-torn Portland, where ICE can't go anywhere without fear of IEDs (inflatable embarrassing dudes)

somebody local has had far too much fun naming segments on Strava but this is my favourite

it's the americans who are most exhausting

*taking a long drag on a gauloise* ah oui...

Penne's dropped.

Amazing what impact a fusilli tariffs can have

new Batman origin story where effective altruist Bruce Wayne discovers how inefficient philanthropy is, becomes direct transfer pilled (of both cash, and fists to the face)

"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

GUYS, I POSTED THIS THREE WEEKS AGO WHEN DANNY KRUGER DEFECTED. AND NOW...

this is fine and good if your aim is to win wars, but if your preference is instead "do pushups and commit war crimes" then maybe they have other benefits

Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!

centrist liberalism girl bossed too close to the sun 😞

Donald Trump's aged and deteriorating body has to get lucky every day, the inexorable march of time and even fairly minor illness only has to get lucky once 🙏😌

As Charli XCX and Taylor Swift are both descendants of the Scottish diaspora, this is actually a continuation of the Highland-Lowland divide, the eternal struggle between the Gael and the Gall, and as such

*replacing the lead image with a picture of Alfie*

bring me a cyberpunk future "hostile state and corporate actors embedding sleeper activation codephrases into anon incels via AI girlfriends" no that's too cyberpunk

Nobody who's tried calling a Gen Z on the phone would expect them to pick it up, pick it up, pick it up

the history will continue until morale improves

brb getting my 90 year old grandmother to do laps of the garden to raise money for the NHS or we'll ship her back to California

you're laughing. George Galloway has been detained under anti-terror legislation at Gatwick Airport on the way back from Moscow and you're laughing.

I have to say, I don't think this is true

formally launching my "Burnham is a symptom not a solution" take if your Labour party finds itself turning to Andy Burnham and going ohhhhhh should we maybe go for him instead then that means your Labour party is feeling poorly and must be tended to, don't ignore the Burnham warning signs

baudrillard, visibly exhausted and smoking a cigarette: please, let me rest

KIMMEL: but you can say "with a mortar launcher" because thats its own sentence, an incomplete sentence sure but it may have nothing to do with the sentence before that so thats perfectly fine, perfectly legal

at the Scottish Owl Centre with the kids, resisting the urge to post every single grumpy, dishevelled looking owl with the caption "how your email finds me"

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

simply not serious - you can't want to lead a party of government and alienate an important constituency like "gambling companies who are weirdly close to MPs"

SEPTEMBER - 2025 TRUMP IS MASTER OF THE CARIBBEAN ONLY TREN DE ARAGUA STANDS BEFORE HIM OCEANS ARE NOT COURTROOMS

tankies, never change

unbelievable "revealed in subsequently unredacted documents to have been collaborating with the repressive government" energy

I forgot I made this I crack myself up lol

*humming The Sting, only in a minor key*

just you wait, everyone in the Metaverse is going to be wearing smart glasses

This skills wallet defeats fascists

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

unexpected misfire of my finely tuned west coast senses at "no surrender" and "British flag" there

2:25 am: just served 26 years in jail 3:03 am: going back for more jail

Labour's current squandering of its majority/political capital/moral authority is well covered, but seriously what the fuck is going on with the Tories

My 2yo tried fish sticks before she ever tried chicken nuggets, so she calls chicken nuggets “chicken fish sticks.” Today this food product entered our home and does anyone have contact info for Baudrillard

my politics are really quite simple - shoot down the russian drones wherever they are, beat the fascists in the streets, do not allow the friends of nonces into government

a shaoghail tha sinn ann g’a aindeoin; / tha a’ghriosach theth fo’n luaithre fhathast ‘oh, world, we are here and live on in spite of it; / the hot ember is yet under the ashes’ George Campbell Hay, mentioned in epigraph to Macintyre’s "Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity"

something undeniably goated about having some proper glasses and a nice port in the house finishing a long day at work and feeling like one of these mfers

"political violence is bad, and we should fear its return to prominence in a polarized US awash with guns and misinformation"

we've all been there, making sure you are last signing the Epstein birthday book so you can read all the other messages to try and find one you can change a few words to make it seem original

Corollary with so much sci-fi like Star Wars, and indeed contemporary fiction like Top Gun, depicting space/aerial combat via dogfights rather than "Space F-35 fires a stand-off missile from so far away the target never actually sees it"

not sure if this is actually stranger/rarer than *still being* an Orange Booker who thinks Clegg was justified on fees (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT)