Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.

The Labour Party now think I am a far-left extremist because I support policies that were in the 2017 and 2019 Labour Party manifestos.

Look, its very, very simple. It's like this: you told us what to do, and we did it

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Labour always going on about "the Red Wall" but I don't think those mice are even allowed to vote, no matter how good their food is.

The whole Starmer/Labour Together lot have cooked their brains. These are your voters! Most of them voted for you less than two years ago! If your only line is "vote for what you're given or you're a terrorist" this is not a party that can meaningfully understand voters.

Getting irrationally annoyed with my regular pharmacy’s website because they have described themselves as being ‘in the heart of Ealing’. Bitch you are on the fringe of Ealing, you are 200m away from being Hounslow

RIP to a real one

From today STEEPLE is running on Webtoon as a Dark Horse Original. This includes the first five issues that have never been available online before. www.webtoons.com/en/supernatu...

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Morning after the 2015 general election, woeful: 'turns out twitter doesn't reflect the real world :(' Morning after Gorton & Denton, 2026, jubilant: 'TURNS OUT X DOESN'T REFLECT THE REAL WORLD! 🎉'

What does being “told how to vote” even mean, particularly coming from a man who has spent the last five weeks going around the constituency and telling people to vote for him?

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

The genius of #RedDwarf, particularly the early series and that first book, is that it captured so perfectly a sense of existential loneliness. And, in so doing, made so many of us who were adrift, feel less alone. That's why I'll always be thankful for the imagination of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

SORRY I know many of you are Student Loan Commiserating but I’ve just checked and I have a MERE £2,314.21 remaining and that’s about four grand less than I thought and I’m probably going to have it paid off in a little over a year??!!

Ciabatta was invented in 1982 That is way too recent to be inventing new breads

Just gestured too hard while practicing an imaginary conversation and smacked myself in the mouth

I love to click on a link for a publication that I never go to, only to be told that I’ve read my last free article and get hit with a paywall. It’s good to me.

Twice I have written to a newspaper to request a correction. Once because the Guardian implied Genovia had a Greek influence when it’s clearly a France/Italy/Monaco mashup and the Thermopolis in Mia’s name comes from her unroyal Greek-American mother Helen (no response, the article stands).

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Kurt Vonnegut did not buy envelopes one at a time for this.

The only direct interaction that Dawn ever had with Coren was about Rupert Myers harassing women….When he celebrated her death people focused on a different tweet about his dad being famous (one that didn’t even @ him) but that’s not the one that got under his skin…. bsky.app/profile/flyi...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Birth of a legend.

Despite the weepy ups and downs of the past week I have had an excellent day at work! I have many fun projects to work on! This evening I am trying a new dance class which says bring tap shoes, which I think bodes well!

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

I am currently doing an online L7/Masters-ish course officially titled AI and Data Science (that’s AI as in machine learning, not Obsequious Hallucinating Word Order Machine) and their official take on LLMs is Do Not Fucking Use An LLM Because You Will Not Actually Learn Anything

mother! Whiplash Uncut Gems all felt like living inside an anxiety attack

Yknow what stood out to me about that living room picture? The huge bare white wall above the sofa cause you wouldn’t wanna “damage” the wall of your rented house by daring to put up a picture and make it your own

Ryan Wilkins, 34, who struggles to compose work emails without sounding like a regency gentleman challenging a rival to a duel, recently decided that five exclamation points were the sweet spot for conveying that elusive laid-back enthusiasm.

They do this every week please just look in the map where Mexico is. Why is there better Mexican food in the USA than in the UK. Its a mystery

Sad out of control feelings the other day means I have now planned every dinner until 21st March and I feel better because a) I cannot be out of control, I have made A PLAN and B) I have may tasty dinners to look forward to

Did a shitload of embroidery and have not looked at my phone for five hours, I feel amazing

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Foxes! Foxes in the garden!!

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

loooooooooooololol

I was in a meeting for 25 minutes, not even the full half hour, and came out to all this madness. I’m glad we’re all having a lovely day.

Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

13:30: Sorrow as I had never known before! Utterly bereft! Ready to sob at my desk! 15:00: Happy! Content! Excited about the projects I have ahead of me! 17:00: Catastrophizing on the walk home! 17:20: Maybe everything’s fine? Cry! 17:30: The cat will never know how much I love him! Cry more!

Yeah I’m into big tech Big technicolor musicals

my cat every day at 4 pm

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

Blisteringly smug having discovered that StudioCanal took legal action over Bella Mackie’s blatent rip-off of Kind Hearts and Coronets deadline.com/2025/10/stud...

I desperately need Toby Jones to make an ITV drama about the walk between the Piccadilly and Victoria lines in Green Park Station.