All I want to do is fight this insanity, there are so many people like me, and it feels like most of the actual elected leaders who are supposed to be channeling this desire to resist are sitting on my head scolding me. PUT US IN THE GAME

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

Will having a multi post meltdown (justifiably) has actually left me feeling better about things.

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

This will sound made up. But I reached up in the supermarket to buy 'naked' Tyrells crisps. And somehow I reached down (and bought) truffle and sea salt flavour. Oh dear, but also...

I can't help thinking this is the very opposite of Christmas swimming lessons.

Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.

Very small door labeled 'for decoration only'. In case you though you could use it to refurbish your house?

I'm near speechless at this framing of overall immigration falling by, like, 60%

Brutal

I mean I don't think they could get away with this, but it's sounding pretty good this morning

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I must be very very old. I googled (which probably also marks me out as old) what Singles' day is. I guess maybe if you're the TikTok generation you just know this stuff.

Medical practice has sent out invites to some kind of consultation / demo of a new smart triage system. Not against on principal but the link they sent out to register for the meeting is wrong. Easy to figure out, they missed a dot in the domain name. Not off to a inspiring start though.

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

Quote post is funnier than anything I've got. I don't get why the government seem to keep conflating Jewishness and Israel. I think they should not want that? Also don't understand why they feel the need to get involved in stuff that's nothing do with them. Nothing else on their plate?

Started watching a disturbing video on here. But then I remembered there is a bookmark function now, so I'm going to disturb myself in the morning instead! 💤💤

Went to a pub in the country today. And then left almost immediately because they weren't doing food. But they still had all the pandemic stuff. Signs about social distancing, hand sanitiser. So are they just really into it, or just very lazy?

Human nature to assume some things will just carry on indefinitely, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The end of sub £10 cycling glasses from Decathlon has hit me hard.

Watching The Avengers movie (1998 based on the 60s show, and yes I know it's a very bad film) man in front goes 'oh shit' when Uma Thurman falls down a hole. It's not a scary scene, it's not a scary film, it was a very ott reaction

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Love it when Google accepts my suggestions. Usually I stick to maps. This time though I couldn't live with the movie character Dawn Wiener only showing in one Todd Solondz movie.

The white goods version of dead or alive.

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

I didn't know Surrey had its own grand canyon. I was telling someone where I'd been earlier, and they presumed I was referring to the Devils punch bowl. But that's some distance away. This feature on Hinckley common doesn't seem to have a name????

Bought Balatro Thursday evening, played for about an hour and figured it might take some getting into. Went to bed last night having played for several hours, kind of in awe of it. What brilliant creativity to come up with a game like that.

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

The YouTube algo calling me a baby

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

I googled this to make a joke about how she should compare notes with this other person, and folks,

Dame Judi Dench crying as Lady Macbeth sounds like old dial-up internet.

Stealth level 100.

‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.

I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

I went to watch (& listen I suppose) to a Doors tribute band earlier. A couple of songs in I wondered if they would do any covers.

'I will Survive' playing over the shopping centre sound system. I exited just as Gaynor got to the 'go, walk out the door' bit, felt pretty sweet not gonna lie.

Happy Brexit-iversary, everyone!

God knows I'm no fan of Eurosport (I had no plans to subscribe anyway) but this seems like bad news www.cyclingweekly.com/news/eurospo...

Not that unpopular judging from the replies. Thanks Ian for nicely putting together a neat summary of why I can't get that excited about the perceived missteps of the government

“The suspect also regularly played a game about birds who are angry, according to a friend. Police are investigating whether the birds’ anger is related to the health insurance industry.”

Sitting in the Woking Hilton, whilst reading the report about the Woking Hilton driving the council into debt

The more I use the Google home page the worse the rubbish it serves up is. I guess if I keep visiting it the content will become so bad I will have no interest In it anymore and it will be one less source of mindless scrolling. Hooray!

Thinking about the farmers inheritance tax issue. Fair to say I haven't crunched any numbers. But I have been absorbing a fair bit of news from different sources. From this distance it looks to me like it is broadly fair. BUT farmers have been having a shit time for a long time

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Not much of a choice

Anyone else think it's a bit sad you don't get your library book stamped anymore. I want to know what it has been up to before I laid hands on it.

Watching the DNC on YouTube and something keeps flashing up on screen. I think they might be trying to brainwash me subliminally

Sitting on the station concourse revising for my driving theory so I don't have to deal with this anymore

Gotta love the juxtaposition of 'police ram cow' followed by 'RSPCA 200th birthday' on Radio 5 news