when I read this I can only hear that Peter Serafinowicz sketch where he plays Ringo Starr reminiscing about the version of Goldfinger he submitted m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8f...

This is how they are framing him saying that he had not been read his rights until he got into the court room

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

This approach is blowing my mind. Never mind the very strange phrasing of "childlike images". The images are not childlike. They are of children, employing AI to make them appear naked. But that aside: there are laws on this. Clear laws. We supposedly despise this crime as a society. 1/

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Hegelly Blonde

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Labour policy on USA global interventions

Wow these people are so grown up and sensible, unlike those idealists they want to smear who believe childish things like that invading other countries is not good.

Trump: I want to hail the success of Operation Oil Steal. Beautiful name. Just amazing. I just came up with it. RTE/WAPO: It’s hard to say what drove President Trump to act now, but the big winner is global happiness, alpaca owners and just the vibes. Such good vibes.

I do know who needs to hear this (it's assorted European governments) but actually it doesn't matter if you think Maduro is a good guy or not.

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

A note that just because the President of the United States used the word 'captured' doesn't mean news organisations should just use it without attribution... or maybe at all really?

Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week

I can excuse agendas of cruelty but I draw the line at lack of decorum

This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!

This song, this singer, this occasion. It's enough to make you feel something.

To be fair, I was planning on making more soups.

There's a common idea that being a leftist means you and everyone else should be poor. Actually the opposite is true, it entails believing that everyone should be able to live a comfortable life. That's why she is wearing artisan boots not made with slave labour, while capitalism gave us Shein.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Fun fact! Politics, meaning values, has always mattered in relationships. The difference is whether you find out via an app or a conversation in a smoky pub.

🎶Pink Platypus I'm gonna keep on dancing with the...🎶

Happy new year to all, and particularly to vengeful queens.

While we’re at it, have people been eating cottage cheese this year as a bit

14 years ago today I was in the RVH, about to become a mother. Absolutely knew this was happening, obviously, but it didn't seem real till I saw that little face when she finally arrived on 2nd January. And everything has been relentlessly real ever since.

Where "survive contact with reality" is code for "and don't actually challenge anything structural, because the status quo must be maintained and Labour are here to redecorate, at best".

In 2025, 41,472 people had to arrive by small boat to the UK. Zero small boats came to NI. That's 64 people per parliamentary constituency across the UK per year. In NI, 32,000 people died on hospital waiting lists in 3 years, that's 10,666 per year or 562 per parliamentary constituency. [1/2]

When our fresh water systems collapse, along with our food system and environment, people can rest easy in the knowledge that our land was great for business 👍

Yesterday I banged my elbow off a door and it was so painful I was half-convinced I had broken something, anyway this morning my alarm went off and my muscle memory made me lean on that elbow to sit up and my heart rate took a good hour to get back to normal.

Only thing missing is Polanski nefariously rubbing his hands together.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

It’s insane to me that we are endlessly talking about a male loneliness epidemic when stuff like this developing at pace, and is very definitely going to result in actual harm to real women and girls when consent is not part of these sexual ‘encounters’

producer: what’s the new christmas song about? guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop? producer: what the fuck

This is the most beautiful Christmas story.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

It's that time of the year 🎄 🎁 youtu.be/4cCTgRax94o?...

Hope your Christmas eve is quiet in all the right ways

Such a grim indictment of our times that the police have to state explicitly that the husband charged in this horrific crime is "white British" so the racists don't exploit it

No surprise really that Rowling is sending up flak against anti-misogyny work in schools, but worth highlighting. She is anti-feminist.

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

Really good article!

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼

I don't think there is a single media transphobe who doesn't have skin-crawlingly loathsome takes on half a dozen other issues

I remember when the film Once came out and some cad stuck an N in front of the title on some of the posters in town. And he was right!!

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”