"Most crossings don't have tolls". Urm the Tyne tunnel has tolls. Why is it that some drivers just hate paying for anything? Maybe they should just use the bus themselves instead.

Wow. This skirts awfully close to the disgusting trope of gay men as p*dophiles.

delighted to see a spammy account get their ECBs confused. (Hugh Morris is a former Chief Executive of the England & Wales Cricket Board) #cricket 🏏

A very normal headline from a very normal newspaper.

I'm unconvinced that car makers have seen the light. Touchscreen are cheap to design and implement. It's long proven that car companies have to be mandated to make things safer. They won't do so otherwise.

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

Trump: "I dropped ties with Epstein before it was fashionable". Me: That tells me that he was in it from the beginning, how fashionable?

A quick google informs me that after this surge, Australia provides about 4% of our beef imports, and our beef imports are about 25% of our consumption. So this headline is basically saying “anger as 0.6% becomes 1% of total” and I’m not sure that’s particularly justifiable

This has interesting comments about the actual physics and what the police probably tested and then misunderstood

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

“This attack on the trail hunting is an attack on the countryside!” “But polls show over 70% of people in rural areas oppose trail hunting” “That’ll be all the incomers. They’re not really country people” I think I’ve heard this argument elsewhere…

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

It has the “capability of reaching 103.8MPH” said police. What they didn’t say was that the speed is reached only in a vacuum above Jupiter.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Very Starmer to scrap Right to Roam and replace it with riverside signage and telling people to go for walks.

Who in their right minds sings the national anthem at Christmas? It's weird enough the rest of the time, but for Christmas? Also where is the flag? Why is the flag? Also why is there a wink emoji? Mike Tapp bringing me utter bemusement for Christmas.

News story warning people not to use AI to help plan their mountain walks. But sure, use it to govern the country.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

The Epstein Files aren't about what Trump *knew*. The Epstein Files are about what Trump *DID*. This is an important distinction to remember. We can't let them shift it.

joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

He no longer can even remember that he just posted one of these, and with most staff with families today, nobody is managing to distract him by talking about his ballroom.

Never in history has there been a man who made his guilt so painfully obvious.

Further confirmation that anyone who seriously called themselves as an influencer is actually a useless dickhead. Didn't check the forecast, ignored thr changing weather and got caught out. Which then put a resuce team at risk. I hope they made a large donation to the MR team.

“Share with care”, cars get the majority of the street, while people walking and cycling fight over the scraps

Usual Trainspotters! Marxist Townie Duck Haters!! @greens4hs2.bsky.social

The Guardian's true colours on display. Happy to platform the Green leader, as abstract 'hope' in October. But the moment his politics threaten the neoliberal centre, the knives come out in December. It's not journalism; it's policing the left for Starmer. #UKPolitics #NotMyGuardian #RIPTheGuardian

Are we all drivers now? Am I a bicycle driver?

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

They confirmed that wheat causes celiac disease during the post WWII Dutch famine (when celiac kids, like all kids, didn’t get any bread but actually died less than before )

Mumsnet, Christmas Day:

The Guardian accused me of hubris because I dared post at 3pm. The Calais Appeal donations are shooting up. Maybe the King might like to donate too? Or maybe the Government could actually implement a fair & managed migration system? A Christmas miracle!

The Express will keep doing this. Churning out anger and division. They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day. But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different: Humanity. Kindness. Hope.

An absolutely ideal story for the day. Wrenched the heart. Merry Christmas.

It's not a proper Christmas day until you see children on new bicycles in the street.

Even after Kirk and two attempts on himself, Trump is still inciting violence. This is illegal.

And now we await: 1. FUMMIN at rotten turkey 2. FUMMIN at three hour wait for pub Christmas lunch 3. FUMMIN that shop won’t honour gift card and/or return of unwanted gift 4. FUMMIN at Christmas BINS MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts. 1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack. 2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit. 3) join.greenparty.org.uk Merry Xmas! www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

Short cranks & low bottom bracket ✅

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

When he said he could shoot someone in the middle of Main street and get away with it, it wasn't hyperbole. He was telling on himself

Also Trump r*ped a woman and when she reported it to police had her murdered. Like that just came out today in the Epstein files. Haven't really heard much about it. Seems like something you should journalists should maybe follow up on.

When a newspaper backtracks on using GenAI images to illustrate articles due to backlash and then the editor is using GenAI images to illustrate their blog you know exactly where the call was made. An editor in the same alienated WhatsApp chats as the similarly disconnected business CEOs.

It's I think one of the coolest and most interesting things about the Nativity story that people *genuinely believed* that the Roman empire at that point had been powerful enough to achieve a movement of people at a scale basically not seen until...what, Chinese New Year *now*?

“Like prime, but with human beings”

My advice, as someone who enjoys a wonderful relationship with parents from whom he was once estranged (before the age of internet chatrooms): if you want your children back, start with self reflection and contrition. Oh, and don't write for a newspaper that hates them.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Paris-Roubaix zombie movie, anyone?

"Nobody in the 80s had autism." My brother in Christ, Rain Man came out in 1988. Do you think they invented autism for the movie?