Proof that Scotland is the best county in the world: everyone else's national spirit is re-badged paint stripper. Whisky is actually nice

Going after the big fish as always 🤔👀

kebabs are great aren’t they

Crimes of JKR #4896: my mum LOVED the HP audiobooks. She painstakingly recorded Philosophers Stone off the radio on Boxing Day ‘00. It would have been perfect to play for her/us in the long, LONG hours we were waiting for her to pass. But none of us could stomach it (we played Wyrd Sisters instead).

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

Hmm so my electrician who I am reasonably friendly with has sent me a barrage of memes and videos titled "The Song Labour Never Hopes You Hear" and screenshots of Matt Goodwin. I assume the budget has gone down well on racist WhatsApp

Anyone in my network been to Udine? Any recommendations?

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

She's a woeful Chancellor for a supposedly socially-democratic party, and her biggest failing is that she is a creature/sleeper agent of the Treasury but I cannot stand the rampant misogyny

I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.

This sounds fun!

To charm a dragon

Fuck me. Calamity after calamity

It's all a ploy by Big Turkey to get people to buy even more of the stupid tasteless meat from the gobblers

Ross on Rachel's prom night

Orobusos

The fuel duty freeze will cost ~ twice as much as completing the MML electrification programme. She won't get any credit for the freeze, but would for a visible and beneficial investment in the North's rail infrastructure. Naturally, she choses the former. "The adults are back in charge" my arse.

Democratic check aside, I felt that going through a jury trial taught me so much about law and society, it should be mandatory for everyone to do early in their adult life INCREASE JURY TRIALS is what I say

What

Honestly, I'm going to scream. BBC's local news network is full of green ink crap stories but this one takes the biscuit. I guess the alternative to spending £1.2 million before it is built is... Not designing it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@secondmentions.bsky.social "underrated crucifer"

IDGAF about American politics anymore, but Dim Philby is fantastic 😂

pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.

Classic Chancellor move - do something to solve the current problem by giving an even bigger headache in the future. All this will do is reduce people's private pensions, after what a decade and a half of the state trying to encourage people to invest in their private pension? MADNESS

Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.

RIP a legend

Wheezing

Actually it's not even close. Of course the British state would make a key plank of our governance and taxation system in theory simple but completely over-complicate it

Fuck me. Between Companies House and Lufthansa, it's quite the competition of "who has the worst on-line service". I think CH shades it though for sheer frustration

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

People who shop on a weekday are obviously the same people who cannot use airport security

😢

Is this good?

I'm going insane because people constantly recommend using AI for things and it is always, ALWAYS worse than repeatedly bashing my head on a brick. It's like you have an actual problem & all anyone recommends is "have you tried talking to my cousin? He drinks bleach & doesn't wash his pants"

Give it a decade or two and you’ll love it Stephen. A dreary Gerry and the Pacemakers song has become iconic throughout football. Give it time.

One of my Arabic teachers told me the Arabic for “midlife crisis” is “jahl Al khamseenaat”, basically “the idiocy of the 50s”, a phrase I often think about for no reason

it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable

I refuse to believe that Maurice Glasman is a real person

Imagine being proud of coming to with the term "lanyard class"

EuroVelo Celebrates its 28th Anniversary with More Than 90,000 km of Cycling Routes Across 39 Countries #cycling #ebikes tinyurl.com/vzhej8jj

Your dog is frightened of fireworks? I don't know why. The fireworks are only being friendly.

You absolute…

ROFL

Baws

The fact that *every* right-wing shit-stirring account on X seems to be based in a country other than the one they're claiming to be from is attracting remarkably little comment from the sensible media.

A banger