Can't remember who it was (Maybe @john-self.bsky.social?) but I recall this week ten years ago, as we mourned both #VictoriaWood and #Prince, somebody brilliantly pointing out that her 'Bend me over backwards on my hostess trolley' must surely count as one of his '23 positions in a one night stand'.

Also, John Cena and John Oliver were born on the same day. I'm not saying there's a Twins remake in there, but there definitely is

exceptionally pleased with myself

I scrolled past this quickly then had to go back to see what the fuck Bono was doing.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

ADHD vs ASD

The only way you could get me wearing these is if they had a little switch on the side that I could press to cycle through seven 3-D images from Return of the Jedi

I suspect my university, which I believe is currently the fourth worst in the country, was too rubbish to be of interest to the speakers.

Free speech, NO NOT FOR YOU!

Michael Jackson's career trajectory

university is SUPPOSED to challenge your beliefs! unless of course your belief is that trans people are awful, in which case awwww poor ickle baby, did the nasty mean people exist near you, awwwww poor baby, here let me give you a book deal and a podcast so you can tell us how scared you were

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Sweet gem lettuce, blanched asparagus and petit pois, roast chicken breast, croutons made with the chicken drippings, homemade Caesar dressing. I spatchcocked the chicken and it came out exceptionally juicy and tender #dinnerposting

Clue The American President The Lady Vanishes Witness for the Prosecution

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Delighted by this episode of Star Trek TNG where the away team is trapped in an alien hotel but it just looks like they don’t know how to use revolving doors

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Oh this song is a "bop" is it? You know what wasn't a bop? The charred wreckage near Clear Lake Iowa on the night of February 3, 1959, where a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. The song written about it is a bop, though.

Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently. Newton: now hang on just a minute…

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts. A trans woman enters the room. Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts. Fucking clowns.

I have just got home from a matinee of Into The Woods at the Bridge Theatre and it was PHENOMENAL. Feel extra lucky that we got to see it with the original cast for this run (some of the actors change roles on Monday) and Jamie Parker, Kate Fleetwood and Michael Gould were all wonderful.

Miya Wilkes, 30, who spent the first five episodes of a generic courtroom drama trying to remember which toothy, brown-haired white dude was which, eventually memorised the cast of characters just in the nick of time.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

Bird is DECEASED due to lack of dinner

Good bit at my old work was an IT worker who always said he was going to the 'server room', which was of unclear location. On one such day we walked past Patisserie Valerie and he was in there eating a cake

all rewatches this week but every one a solid fucking banger

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

I've always found the framing around men and women's dating choices re political "opponents" really telling. Men are supposedly more tolerant - but for the most part they're not being asked to date people who literally view them as second-class citizens undeserving of bank accounts and voting rights

The revolutionary new style reportedly allows autistic people to feel as free as they day they were born, without immediately losing their actual freedom on a public indecency charge.

"It baffles me why women might struggle to feel comfortable around someone who supports a politician subject to a number of credible claims of sexual assault, including some already proven to the civil standard of proof".

But when I find a creature who has striven, who has become more than the mud from which they were made, who has glorified this mean world by being a part of it, then I will open a door for them into your perfect world and they will no longer be creatures of time for they will wear stars.

Post the best photo you’ve taken of your pet

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

Every Labour councillor who loses their seat because of the clown car government will have a local authority gifting policy that would have stopped Freebiegate.

trying to post through it rn

Hmm. Via London Centric: "Bailey Nash-Gardener, founder of the widely-followed social media news aggregation account Politics UK, is standing for Reform UK in Havering."

I feel like I've spent the day in the Steamed Hams meme "You have notifications" May I see them? "Forbidden"

Was going through old chats and found this incredible quote from a pizza guy who saved someone's life with CPR

I think even the Daily Express knows the difference between a councillor and a council officer. So this feel like quite deliberate misinformation.

tbh I may already be living this lifestyle because I am now so wealthy I only ever buy Tenderstem broccoli instead of the regular kind

"I'm pivoting to AI, Marge, it's my lifelong dream." "You said footwear was your lifelong dream."

...says the man with the highest net worth on this rock spinning through the void.

There's few things that I find more insulting than Labour frontbenchers trying to claim credit for doing this when we can all see they were forced into it by threat of losing control of the party entirely. It's good that it happened, stop trying to act like it was in the plan all along.

You might have seen a post about Nimbys in Chelsea objecting to the expansion of *an NHS cancer hospital*. It's even worse than it sounds. 1. It's not a hoax 2. @jonnelledge.bsky.social got in touch with them. I've got their response. 3. I dug out some objections. One of them…well, just read it:

Using LLMs are extremely like using ouija boards for everything from writing your homework or novels or police reports or motions to object to police reports, except they're even worse because instead of asking ghosts you're asking 4chan & Reddit posters from 10 years ago

allbirds, my ethical, sustainable and above all fucking comfortable trainer supplier of choice, are pivoting to fucking AI

To be fair the reason they aren't very good at mating is because they're so rare that they have no idea what an attractive member of their species looks like. Sirocco who likes to mate with men's heads was hand-reared and imprinted on humans