“Q: What do you think Jonathan thought of you? A: It doesn’t matter.” The Jewish Chronicle tried to replicate the Guardian’s Blind Date column. It didn’t go very well. (via @lindasgrant.bsky.social)

Do you know a logician who's trying to give up booze? I just saw the perfect sign!

After border patrol agents fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, agents showed up to a high school and released chemical weapons during dismissal, Minnesota Public Radio reports. Their live reporting here: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

Make it viral.

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

"Meanwhile, witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street." www.fox9.com/news/minneap...

not to be all shouty but THEY ARE GOING TO SHOOT SO MANY MORE PEOPLE IN THE FUCKING STREETS IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS ONE

"let's be calm and wait for the facts to come in" was probably a lot less annoying to hear back before everyone had an HD video camera in their pocket at all times

Feel motivated and capable to send a message to my GP through the NHS app about possibly finding out if I have ADHD (and maybe autism). But they don't accept messages outside of survey hours. But... I feel motivated and capable *now*...

The government had long wanted @a transition of power” in Venezuela and kidnapping a president is a super simple way to do it - well done everyone - it’s Satan I feel sorry for , such company for eternity

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

While there was so much to love about tonight’s Traitors - including some outstanding barrister-on-barrister action - I think the most perfect moment was a criminal barrister being rejected by his audience for giving a truly unpersuasive hammy speech. Bro - we’ve all been there. #TeamHarriet

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

I ACQUIRED TWO ADDITIONAL PRATCHETT VOLUMES, LEADING ME TO RE-OPTIMISE THE SHELVES, AND NOW THERE IS A GAP

Oops. Deleting that. How disappointing. I was a big fan of his go-kart racing, I didn’t know anything about his history of kidnapping princesses.

#23: Spoons

Dr Strangeworm, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Dune

I have a ridiculously broad definition of a sandwich, hotdog? Sure. Taco? Yep. Pizza? Indubitably. Spaghetti bolognaise? Why that’s just a meatball marinara with boiled bread. Bangers and mash? Sure, why not. Even beer is bread, so fuck it. Everything is sandwich.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Christmassy but not at all Christmassy mini cryptic crossword! mycrossword.co.uk/mini/194 Sample clues: Subject 99 is prime example (7) Circulating orbiter controls neutron gravity (7) Even more ghastly 50% cuts to Mint, with National leader making u-turn and swapping sides (7)

Christmassy but not at all Christmassy mini cryptic crossword! mycrossword.co.uk/mini/194 Sample clues: Subject 99 is prime example (7) Circulating orbiter controls neutron gravity (7) Even more ghastly 50% cuts to Mint, with National leader making u-turn and swapping sides (7)

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Amazingly I have found some time to bash out a Christmas cryptic crossword - mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2979 Samples: Each holy man's trip starts here?! (4) Delight at headless Christmas visitor (7) Childish human network nearly ruined Christmas? (11)

Amazingly I have found some time to bash out a Christmas cryptic crossword - mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2979 Samples: Each holy man's trip starts here?! (4) Delight at headless Christmas visitor (7) Childish human network nearly ruined Christmas? (11)

On a ferry across the Irish Sea, and my 9yo daughter is eating pistachios like she's on The Krypton Factor.

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

me and my wife waiting for santa

Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

Ooh look what just happens to be the next Discworld book as I work my way through...

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

Here's the first pardon for the next Democratic president

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.

A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.

This is THE BEST thing on the internet today

i have at least two questions

This is so fucking funny dude.

My hero of 2025