Last week: Ozymandias. This week: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm enjoying how we seem to pick one piece of culture to be the meme for the week.

I love it when the Wikipedia app glitches and doesn't update the photo between articles

When the party launched my view was that it didn't really matter if they and the Greens were similar as the main thing was to prove there was constituency for leftwing ideas within the electorate, and that nearer the election it would be clearer where the energy was and one of them would wither.

They say "Death by Lightning" but I guess "Death by Absurd Medical Fucking About" isn't as snappy a title

I really don't give a fuck about these things but they do seem to be keeping my local comics shops afloat.

I mean it's clear which of these is in the pocket of Big Potato.

"So he was like out there hitting the car with the branch, it was so banter and Manuel was like..."

I am delighted to inform you all that theres a horny emojipasta about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

what things are happening here. i just wanted to buy a curtain rail

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!

I think about this post a lot, when I'm bored, or struggling, to try and focus on what I'm supposed to be doing. It doesn't always work but it's a beautiful piece of writing.

Horrible isn’t it, when obviously malignant ghouls are kicking you in the balls and stealing your wallet, braying at each other like idiots about how funny their total impunity is, and there’s nothing you can do. A sick, nasty feeling, as they roar at each other about how hilarious it all is.

It's going to be that Happy-Shopper-Rod-Stewart plumber cunt, isn't it?

It turns out that if you scream and stomp everyone out of your organisation except those slavishly dedicated to pushing a right wing agenda, not only will it not stop the right wing coming for you, you also don't have anyone left who knows how to do anything except "give them what they want."

I remember this now! I'd love to say it stood out in my child memory as being weird and enticing and launched me onto a path of finding strange music. But it didn't. I had totally forgotten it but seeing it here instantly brought back the texture of the carpet I was sat on to watch it.

Not really gonna be *just* the broken promise that causes that though, is it?

yeah someone should try that

I feel like we’re going collectively insane. He said those things, in the same speech, to his rabid followers who then tried to violently overturn the election. Those words were real. Everybody saw it. Everybody condemned it at the time.

This is the moderate position.

i think they should let Ms Rachel design a squid games for Mr Beast specifically

I enjoyed this paragraph. "The white poppies were first produced way back in 1933, in the aftermath of WW1, with the idea being that war should be avoided again in future at all costs..." *Takes drag on cigarette* "... didn't fucking work"

Sorry one more

my wife described someone as being like “someone who thinks they could pass an exam because they were an invigilator”, and it sums up a certain mindset beautifully, doesn’t it?

Post deleted because I fell for the slop machine.

Same, maltloaf, same

This is utterly disgraceful.

There's a YouTuber my kid likes, Half Asleep Chris. It's all good wholesome stuff - cats, Lego, travel, interesting facts, so on. Anyway, he released a video yesterday introducing a new kitten but the whole tone of it felt like it was preparing for the imminent death of the older cat.

This obviously isn't the intent, and maybe I'm making up a guy to get mad at, but I do feel like, after the looming AI market crash, the fact it's been forced onto every device and website will be used to dodge blame by making out it was a collective failure.

How is it possible to be this wrong? The people who want to "stop the boats" will never vote Labour even if such a thing were possible and they somehow did it, because "stop the boats" doesn't have anything to do with the number of boats and has everything to do with the number of non-white faces.

This guy has whatever the opposite of imposter syndrome is, he's totally out of his depth, he knows it and it shows constantly on his face.

Everything reminds me etc etc

My main tweed jacket has been getting increasingly raggy, to the point of almost unwearable due to a large hole on the shoulder. Mooching around a charity shop earlier I found a rather nice grey one that fits, bought it, swapped badges and pocket contents over, old one went in the nearest bin.

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

Fair fucks here, the "identify as" could have been a cheap joke in the manner of "attack helicopter" dickheads but is in fact a statement of support for trans rights.

I'm going to say this very clearly: if you hand it to MTG on literally anything, anything at all, you are a fucking rube

There's loads of discourse about this but to me it's just another example of the calcified Blairism that has become this government's hallmark. What was "strict message discipline" - a very effective tactic - under Blair has ossified into DO NOT EXPRESS AN UNEQUIVOCAL OPINION WITHOUT PRIOR APPROVAL.

Not while the NEC and leadership are so viciously factional and in control of internal candidate selection. Why bang your head against a closed door?

What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.

This is the stupidest thing anyone has ever proposed building in Saudi Arabia.