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These cunts say this every ten years or so like a bit of bait on some string but it never comes to pass.

Many things interesting about this thread of polling. To pick out one: the reform lads sure do love Sharia-like punishments

I still don’t fully understand the logic behind the title “Back to the Future”. I’ve always just nodded through it and then in private moments tried to unpick it. Sometimes I think I cracked it, but in truth: nowhere close.

please post rare turing_polices

Crazy Frog earworm on your deathbed

Strangers in the night Exchanging hamsters Not a gerbil in sight We’ve got our standards

By-election hot take? When I was a teen I once got so drunk at Caerphilly’s Big Cheese Festival I faceplanted a paving slab and genuinely CRACKED IT. It’s only as I entered my 30s did I worry less about the social anxiety than the arse of going about replacing the slab. Brain damage not yet on radar

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

i NEED to know the backstory here

feels quite Guardian that this piece doesn't present the move as good news or even neutral news but instead spends about two thirds of its copy running through every single possible reason why a maybe fun thing will be TERRIBLE and AWFUL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Delighted for Lowry.

The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

@john-self.bsky.social Hello. As a Thomas Pynchon fan who also enjoys reading your reviews: Will you be reviewing Shadow Ticket anywhere?

I quite like immigration.

The Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat. I initially thought there was something wrong with the tape. But it was the beginning of everything for me.

I dare say it’s time to cut these people loose. They’re not the future of the left.

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

You know where we went as you came too.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Labour MP: my new friend here is a fine example of a good and honourable British man! Guy with scrawled England flags all over his head: I think you are a groomer and I want you and your family dead Labour MP: ah, yes. very good.

And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts. Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.

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on 9/11 my friend turned to me at the lunch table and laid out the next ten years of history, nailed all the broad strokes: bin laden, afghanistan, iraq. I remember this not for his prescience but for how he followed it up with an absolutely pitch-perfect impression of stifler from american pie 2

Charlie Kirk believed that gun violence on others was a permissible function of American life. It’s not a celebration of his own murder to point that out.

My view is AI generated culture has already lost. It’s come out the gate deeply uncool. Imagine how embarrassing it’d sound to admit to a colleague you watched/listened to AI content? It’s Male Sex Toy Syndrome. Culturally condemned.

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

Nadine Dorries asks ChatGPT if she is the fairest of them all.

Slipped on three wet steps beside vending machine.

Can imagine the Man Utd schadenfreude was off the charts in the first five years. Now..? A bit weird, no? They’re largely shit, they win a trophy every couple of years? Enough in there for you to make it your entire football personality to hate?

Suede’s Matt Osman on Mark E Smith #falleveryday

Excellent stuff this. Not least that absolute BARNET

Attention, liberals: the only way to discourage these horrible people from behaving this way is to withdraw your support and treat them as the mortal enemies of the ideas you purport to hold dear that they so obviously are. Everything you do and say in response that is not that, is just wind.

RFK Jr is the kind of guy who either just barfed fifteen seconds ago or is fifteen seconds away from barfing. At all times

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

Unrelated but this image looks like the cover of Electric Ladyland.

It’s taking the centre far too long to get to this. On a number of policy areas this country has wasted a decade trying to appease the wrong people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some people have really aggressive holidays

Really good (and funny) thread on the current Dunt bollocks.

Feeling very grim about age restricting or downright banning young people from online spaces. It might well feel very straightforward with regards to pornography, but the implications of losing social media accounts, Spotify, Wikipedia and whatever else feels very depressing and not worth it.

Well what age do you think I look, third party provider?

Signing Cunha and Mbuemo might be the best things that’s ever happened for Zirkzee’s United career. His lay offs and flick ons and hold up play with those two… Those mfs have pulled me back in.

Masterchef to air despite Gregg and John’s sacking. We’re meant to suspend our disbelief. Gregg is gone, and yet there he is. A false present. Hypernormalisation. Only Reform can benefit from this.

imagine it was your dad that threw a can of beans at superman

Kubrick the OG WFH king

The weather is very pleasant and I am doing my best to conceal the sadness that is inside me.

Man Utd are going to sign Calvert-Lewin and there’s absolutely sweet river onions anyone can do about it.