This is the only metric by which we should be judging politicians.

Listening to Sir Anthony Seldon talking at ALSO Festival about Brexit and finding it wholly unsatisfactory. I think he is a highly intelligent, educated and well meaning fool. Unfortunately there are many such people.

Didn't see that one coming.

I have found the only place in England where it is raining.

Too windy or too hot are the only kinds of weather we can have now.

I suppose Americans telling us AC is the answer does make a change from Americans telling us guns are the answer.

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours'?

Me: *runs fast* My Garmin: No! What are you doing!!

I even needed security clearance before they would let me work as a sub contractor on a software project for the Passport Office.

I mean come on

Genuinely did not know spiders drank until today.

Raising a glass to the chap who once wished me "happy Pi Day" and, being British, I answered I preferred to celebrate it on the 22nd July, and he retorted "but that's just an approximation!"

My Big Fat Greek Wedding Speech

Fuck yeah

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.

Btw, if you want to donate to me, please do, two weeks till shift one and have a bit left to raise www.justgiving.com/page/lina-s-...

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