Cold water though, not hot. Hot water releases more pepper essence and makes it worse.

It’s not generally a good thing when your doctor looks in your ear and says “oh wow! That’s impressive” before giving you a ten day course of antibiotics. Hating this, may remove my own head.

Thanks to a person on the internet I have been info binging today on the Greenland Shark. There’s a lot to unpack but the thing most making my brain fizz is the fact that they have to be > 150 years old to get pregnant, and their gestation period is between 8 and 28 years. Well.

it's actually healthy to spend 7-8 hours a day going fucking insane

Dear USA Policing and law enforcement losing the confidence of the community does not end well. Yours, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

I did not have a Kaiju attack on my radar for 2026, but yeah, I mean why the hell not?

Oh nooooo. Dear me *what* a pity. I do hope those big, sad feelings don’t scar them for life on every single level. (I see that word “quotas” too )

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

Amused is the wrong word, but I’m certainly this emoji 😏 at seeing the reaction to the BBC’s idea of “balanced reporting”. The BBC has *always* been like this, you just didn’t see (or live in) the other side of the narrative before.

its awesome how being right years ago brings absolutely no comfort

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

Timeline cleanse: ten-day-old Clydesdale foal goes berserk.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

Excellent shade from Globle today, just in case anyone doesn’t know where Iceland is:

“Without us you’d all be speaking German” he havered. In Switzerland. Where they speak German.

Blue Monday was a fun marketing gimmick until every single day became a depressing nightmare prison for anyone with a conscious or a brain.

“I didn’t get the peace prize, so it’s WAR” is very Duck Soup

Sweet baby Jesus and the 25th amendment. He’s going to kill all of us.

I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There

this particular anecdote from Boorman's Adventures of a Suburban Boy about Lee Marvin getting belligerently drunk at Jack's on the Beach never fails to make me laugh

Did not expect to have to go round and switch off several amps before bed but yeah, that has become a thing.

Blistering thread.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Good Lord. Lauder (of Esther Lauder family) knows Trump since the 1960s and planted the idea of buying Greenland during Trump’s first term. His policy suggestions appear to intersect with his business interests (Something of a characteristic in Trump aligned Government

My children have not seen Cool Runnings😨 We were chatting about Winter Olympics and the massive gaping hole in my parenting became clear.

Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."

#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries. Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805

This series of The Traitors has confirmed that being a Cop or a Barrister does not mean you can’t also be an utter numpty.

That’s it! I have figured out what he looks like! A 1980s Castrol GTX can. Perfection.

My dad who “hates cats” was unimpressed but she insinuated herself with the red setter (who also hated cats) and one day came into the house with the dog (actually underneath the dog). She was given grace to stay in the kitchen, because it was cold out. Only the kitchen…

My parents have had two cats. Neither cat was sought, purchased or invited. Both have ruled the house with a benevolent sort of tyranny. Cat #1, the sweet baby angel and my dad’s endless delight, followed my parents home from the pub and moved into the dog run.

You will not regret scrolling up for the rest of this thread about the sheer audacity of cats to walk into houses they don't live in and swan around like they own the place Honestly, excellent cat behaviour 💯

Art is everywhere if you know where to look.

Cool cool cool

I’m watching shite in YouTube because I have somehow, and against science or genetics, managed to contract Man Flu. I would provide photo proof but no one needs to see the pallor, the red eyes or the toilet roll stuffed up my nostrils.😔

We are watching a “lifestyles of the disgustingly rich and famous” style house tour on YouTube. Today’s offering: French chateau (in America) but make it Disney… no, make it Vegas. Hypnotically tasteless. Daughter is unimpressed: “ if I had that much money I’d want to give “lair”. She’s not wrong.

Water bucket ice.

So do I have this right? Trump invites oil CEOs to the White House for a meeting about how brilliant his Venezuela venture is, then boots out the press when he senses that they are not feeling it. EXON CEO then goes on to tell him that the plan sucks and they will not be investing at this time... 😂

From Evelyn O'Connell’s mouth to God’s ears.

It's vital that at all times, we must know that she was No Angel™.

It is so cold here that the pony has frosted (She’s fine, her coat is 8 inches thick, she’s fully evolved for the islands from whence she came and this is not what she considers “weather”. She also has a stocked, warm and sheltered stable that she is refusing to stay in. She’s absolutely fine.)

Another beautiful , treacherous day.

Stephen Miller’s cousin 👇🏽

So, when the Christmas tree went up my da had to untangle normal lights from copper wire lights and it took him 3 hours. He was firm and direct about his displeasure. We were all informed. Well. The artistic branch of the family did it again. Twisted copper wire through the normal lights…

I’m just horrified and exhausted by all of the everything this year and it’s only the 9th of January. To self soothe I have been taking photos of Jupiter (the really bright one), and to the left (looking like hole-punch holes) Castor and Pollux:

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Attempted to kick a dismembered tennis ball out of my way (a victim of the dog) while wearing fluffy socks on a tiled floor. Arse up, head down, broke both my wrists.