By the sounds of it, I think my dishwasher just yeeted the tablet out rather than releasing it

Kier, maybe you can get Sue Gray back again now

"Briefing against" only exists be because journalists are on the team. Powerful people should not be given license to trash less powerful people without putting their name to it but that is 90% of british political journalism

Drop some hats!

Your fear of looking like a dummy is holding you back you are a dummy accept it you learn more, and it's more fun once you do. (not original)

It's like the person I heard of who found that posting a question on StackOverflow and then immediately answering it incorrectly using a sock puppet account was an infallible strategy for baiting nerds into supplying the correct answer who otherwise wouldn't have bothered.

Have had a stinking cold for 5 days and coughed so much that my muscles now hurt when I do it 😖

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

Diminish a band Nuns And Rosaries

I've never understood why you would want to pump up the jam, since it's very viscous. I'd imagine some kind of rope haulage system would be more practical

It's the hypocrisy that bugs me. By all means go with "might is right"; cynical realpolitik has its place. But don't then lecture us on law & morality. You can't ride two horses with one arse.

Wishing you all a glorious Christmas!

Everybody knows about Betteridge's Law, but it's not often observed that its existence is tacit proof that the media routinely report lies.

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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

The first one I can distinctly remember is the Challenger space shuttle blowing up. As for big events that happened earlier, I'm unsure whether or not I remember them when they first happened.

Laughing at a face mask being advertised as made of "breathable material." Yes, I hope so

Hell yeah! New mediaeval podcast just dropped.

Whenever I see Chuck Schumer trending I always know it's something good.

I know I shouldn't brag but I made an absolutely kickass lasagne tonight.

Finished the Rugby half marathon in 1:41:06 by my watch. I wanted to do under 1:45 so I'm super happy with that. Was quite hilly too, although the weather was very good 😊

I just can't fathom why hermit crabs evolved. Like, you're a crustacean, but unlike every other crustacean, you have to sort out your shell for yourself

Joking aside, I always find it a bit jarring to be reminded Ukip still exists, since they came to be so completely associated with Farage.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to have noticed that the people saying that the ECHR "needs to be updated" are never, ever, specific about what rights they think need to be dropped, modified, or (ha!) added.

To Transylvania

It's clear evidence that our political class spends an unhealthy amount of time on Twitter, that they follow events in America far too closely, and it has gradually cooked all their brains.

One of the lesser known Carry On films

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but don't call me a centrist.

Congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social, first encouraging thing to happen in British politics for years 🙌

Whatever good was done by Tony Blair's government was clearly done despite these people not because of them.

US liberals really need to face this. Even *if* a result is permitted to go against Trump, do you think he will accept it? He already showed us in 2020 that he will not. He was only stopped then because Republicans—Mike Pence in particular—refused to play ball. Think they will again? I don't.

Slightly diminish a band: The Off-white Stripes

Is this the same UK government that says it is going all in on AI?

Twenty years ago, I read the parable of the Banker and the Fisherman, while illustrated the stupidity of making money for money's sake. But we can see that things have got even worse since then.

Not the first time this has happened. I've been watching long enough to remember Congress voting for the USA PATRIOT act without any of them knowing most of what was in it.

Oh yes please do this, I can't wait to find out what would be in the Democrats' version of Project 2025

New video by @hoots.bsky.social !

More than a few pro-Brexit politicians and commentators had spent decades dining out on lies about supposed barmy Brussels regulations, and when leaving suddenly became a real prospect, they had to double down because their only alternative was admitting they'd been bullshitting all this time.

I mean, obviously. If Air Force One was merely a large business jet, the US government could easily have replaced the existing planes already.

This is why the backlash to the initial Covid response has been so fierce. Because for 50 years the elite have been trying to sever our social bonds, force us to think of ourselves as isolated individuals with no responsibilities to each other. But the pandemic showed the instinct is still there.

Laughing at the instructions for my new barbecue which caution not to operate it under the influence of alcohol. Buddy, I got some news for you

-you're masc-aligned means you get ostracized and looked down on. People don't go "Oh this person is interesting I wonder what their deal is", they go "this guy's weird, he's probably a creep", there's an unspoken understanding that men are closed off and cold, and showing emotion is a red flag.

Basically this argument boils down to, "we should be able to do whatever we like, because we are big and you are tiny."

I trust technological change that comes from the ground up, through engineers applying it to their work and refining it so it becomes generally useful. Traditionally, engineers chafe at being unable to persuade management to let them use the latest tech. This is an inversion of the natural order.

Morning team, what new dumb shit happened while I was asleep?

I've seen a few threads on things Trump 2 has shown us we were wrong about, and one of mine is this: Actually, a lot of rich people are motivated as much by social stratification as they are seeing Number Go Up — if not more. Guys like Elon Musk would rather rule in hell than be equal in heaven.