have a heart, none of the Reform councillors actually live in the areas they claim to serve, so they've got a much longer commute than everyone else... 🙄 (sarcasm, for the avoidance of doubt)

Watching The Guns of Navarone, and I'd completely forgotten just how much David Niven steals every scene he's in...

This is a great thread showing why AI is...not great. At best, it is not great, actually. At worst, it's going to kill us all.

Last chance!

Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …

We seem to be having another influx… For those looking to shortcut to some military history nerds…

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

In London a couple of weeks ago, a guy told my best friend and I that he loved our outfits because the colours made us look like Disney characters.

Be warned, this may lead you to get lost down rabbit holes you didn't even know existed.

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

"Inverness Copse" by Paul Nash (1919). #wwi #art #ww1 #greatwar #paulnash

Has the Star of Bethlehem appeared? No. “Star shell” by Michel Georges-Michel, 1915 #fww #wwi

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I don't think I've ever seen a case so badly reported in the non-legal press. Almost every headline I've seen claims that Peggie won her case. She didn't. The majority of her claims were dismissed.

Not many people know this, but Hawker Hurricanes sniff each other's droppings to assess fitness, dominance and breeding condition...

TO AUSTERLITZ! (because it’s the 220th anniversary)

Lots of ways to be a man! Problems can lie in fitting into societal expectations of 'manliness', and men can be crap at dealing with that. I've never wanted to hurt myself, but many do, and a British man kills himself every two hours. It's why I support www.mensmindsmatter.org #InternationalMensDay

yes, we did in fact name our dog after her 🙈😂

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

Thank you, Judge Schwager. But it shouldn’t require a judge to say something that is so hugely obvious. To turn this argument on its head: if OpenAI had won, presumably it would be fine for me to go into their HQ and help myself to whatever I want.

There are only two options. Either we *have* forgotten, or we have remembered and decided to root for the other side. Gross hypocrisy.

@cwgc.bsky.social This needs a serious and proper response. It shouldn’t take one man to make something happen, but anger is building and a great many people are watching to see what happens next. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump looks like a Sim that’s waiting for instructions

The Knitfire, king of the skies. Superior in every way to the Messerschknit…

Ah, yes. Reform UK. "A movement built by real people." All smiling and clasping their hands in EXACTLY the same way. I'd love to see the prompts that generated this. <make them happier> <make some of them young> <make two of them - NO, don't want to upset Pochin - one of them black> ~AA

Worth mentioning, there's nothing illegal about seeking asylum. Indeed the need for those doing so to use irregular routes is recognised in law, provided they present themselves, as they have to, to seek asylum to the relevant authorities. This is a grotesquely misleading comment by the Home Office.

According to our guide "it's normal for the steam engine to scream when it's working" You and me both, steam engine.

(finally) on the first leg of my journey to Bristol for nerd Christmas with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social 🎉 fingers crossed for less cursed travel than last year...

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

I have absolutely zero knowledge of both Friends and The Simpsons.

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

If you support racist policies, I'm afraid that does very much make you racist. At the very least, it means you're ok with racism so long as you think (wrongly, in the case of whatever shite Reform are peddling) that you can benefit from it.

I like it when anyone criticises London, and Sadiq posts something saying, “we are all multilingual and bisexual”

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

The UK has officially recognised a Palestinian state, as Starmer has just announced melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2025/09/uk-r...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

"a man two friends short of a podcast" is an INCREDIBLE turn of phrase. Language is beautiful

What a snowflake.

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

A gold star to whoever is doing Channel 4's social media today: