I have an Uber One account, For Uber rides, they keep sending me discounts redeemable only in Swindon. I don't live in Swindon. I never go to Swindon. But apparently "there is no way to selectively choose which trip a promo will apply to". My feedback on this matter has been noted. What?

I'm never going back to the USA. I always was free to do this, but now more than ever, I will say whatever the fuck I want about that pathetic little man, his spineless enablers and how justice will prevail in the end, as plainly as i want. on any social media channel I choose.

For the rest of my life, I will never understand how one man, especially that one, was able to infiltrate so many areas of people's lives, where his damn name is dominates global conversations, and how he has been able to decimate that huge country in a stupidly short time. Why? Why? WHY?

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social waiting for the show to start at the Prince Edward Theatre and thinking this is not the best seat for someone with vertigo

As a former Chair of a WI, I've been sad and angry about this for a whole day. Something like 170k members in 6000 institutes and they let a small faction of external transphobes steer policy? For shame. If I hadn't left already, I would leave over this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Today is International Men’s Day. So here’s to refugee men fleeing abuse, trans men denied healthcare, queer men bullied for being different, Black men racially profiled, disabled men excluded from work, and all the other men who fail at being “real men.” May we continue to cultivate our humanity.

Why don't Josh and Esme know each other from school? Ambridge is tiny. #thearchers

👏👏👏👏 🇻🇪 Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.

Let's focus on the woman who deservedly won, not the deluded narcissist who was never in the running.

I continue to feel that our national experiment of making the dumbest MF in the country president was ill advised.

I don't think that's where he's gone ...but this sounds like they're going to try and create Charlianity. I hope he doesn't rise again.

Wonderful evening with Fascinating Aïda at the Memorial Theatre in Frome. Wonderful women. I love, love LOVE Dillie Keane and her potty mouth.

Is he still breathing?

I think this is a vain hope, but I want him alive as long as possible, because I want his victims to see justice. I hope it will all come out one day, but there are many enablers with a lot to lose.

Arriving in London, on the way to the office, I saw a gentleman in Scottish national dress, and very fine he looked too, but all my intrusive thoughts were shouting "white hockey socks, multicoloured skirt and hairy cock bag". #iykyk

Isn't the first rule of dictator club not to call yourself a dictator?

We should absolutely stack the Supreme Court and have it rule that presidential pardons are of no effect if they're in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy of which the president is a participant.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Anyone else listen to today's ##thearchers and think of this? Just me then.

So much this

"Good job" says Taco Tits patronisingly to Finnish President Alex Stubb. a 57 year old man who has been an MP for 21 years.

The fact that they all have to thank that fucknugget for hosting. He's not competent to serve drinks to most of the people round the table. Ugh. #summit

OK even I have to admit that this is a better name than the Gulf of Mexico.

What's most disturbing about this is how many people are willing to join the SS and break the law.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

No matter where I am, my happy place in my head is a country lane in Thomas Hardy's Wessex, it's always there, next to a small corner of Borsetshire.

Gosh. Concert 10 days ago, fallout a week ago, resignations days ago. Talent contracts usually take weeks to negotiate. Taking an idea to a script, getting board sign off securing and scheduling GP, styling, filming, editing, all in the middle of a crisis management process. Wow. Nobody's slept.

Look, I'm sorry, but I will never not find nominative determinism amusing, however disturbing this is, and it is truly macabre.

They can't ask Ivana about this because she's buried on her ex's golf course. They could ask Maxwell about this, while she's still here.

Nothing to see here, right?

OK, what was supposed to be a treat has turned out to be stressful. #iykyk #adhd

"May every day be a wonderful secret". Ugh. I shudder to think what "wonderful secrets" are waiting to be exposed.

"Too sick to go to prison", is this where this is going?

Help. I know it is almost impossible to deprogramme a MAGA cult member, and yet I have to spend a few days with an old relative from the USA. I can't socialise with someone who supports THAT without saying something. It needs to be simple as they are not blessed with intelligence. What do I say?

I don't mean to sound like a luvvie but I went to see Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden's two man play The Fifth Step tonight at Soho Place, and I thought it was brilliant. They were both good but Freeman in particular, he is an astounding actor. It's on for a few more weeks.

Always had the least popular opinion in the room, about this book and its author. Why didn't I like it? Why didn't I find it inspirational? Why was I doubting the story? Because it felt dishonest, that's why. SO fucking smug today. Now let's see if time proves me right about Grayson Perry.

I'd quite like to see his stupid face staring out from behind the bars of one of those cages.

Neurodivergence and stress is not a good combo. Treated myself to a gentle Monday morning spinach and eggs but my eggs were overcooked and somehow this felt like the end of the world. I complained politely, but the breakfast was spoiled and currently it feels like the whole day is ruined. #ADHD

And we're just watching this cuntery happen

I'm on a train and two words keep coming into my head, I'm resisting the urge to shout them. What are those two words? Lovely day? Comfortable journey? No. Manspreading fuckwit. That's better.

Between them, Vinted and Uber "help" could drive me to the end of my tether. I prefer to speak to a person about retail or online purchases and 9/10 you get sense and a resolution. But Vinted and Uber online chat... Christ. 50% AI gibberish and 50% arguing with a pigeon, and a stupid one at that.

I'm not really the garden person of the household, but our wisteria has blossomed rather splendidly this year.

A minor detail in this evening's #TheArchers, yes, but the "special VE Day tea courtesy of the WI" really boiled my piss. As a (thankfully) former chair of an Institute, I can confirm the constant requests for cakes and service get very irritating. It's not a free catering service!

NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

I took my girliepops Lulu on her last trip to the vet this evening. I'm sad but glad she's out of pain. I miss her late night yowls as she carried her tiger toy around. I called it her baby. It's always my duty to see pets out of this world. I wish it weren't. I'm the "strong one", they say.

Probably best I didn't lay into the doggie bellend as coincidentally spotted him (and poochie poo) in the serviced office building where I'm working today.

London train again. Some entitled cunt is letting his large dog sit on the seat, disgusting in itself and (yes I checked) not allowed, but he refused to move it when a woman asked if anyone was sitting there. He said yeah my dog is. Just as was about to pile in, she found a seat. But fuck him.

Back to work this week and making an unplanned trip to Heathrow today, but it's the job. But ah, the joys of train commuting. Today's delight is a train manager wafting severe body odour as he pases. I've liberally doused myself in Balenciaga Paris which smells better (to me at least).

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