The famous guitar riff for Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine" originated from a "circus melody" warm-up played by guitarist Slash during a 1986 jam session. While Slash played the riff in a joking manner, bandmate Izzy Stradlin recognized its potential, and the band built the song around it.

I’m teaching my first MA psychology class today. I haven’t been booed off stage yet.

We’ve been saying this for a long time…:) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

WHY IS IT SO DARK?!?

Heated blanket has been deployed

My PhD supervisor just gave me some really positive feedback and honestly I don’t know how to process this

Amerikas fucked. And it’s dragging the rest of us down with it

Remember when the Taliban took power and women were horrified and men said we should give them a chance lol

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

Tylenol was always one of those American things you didn't know what it was. Like Twinkies and Pottery Barn and Ted Koppel and whatever the hell a caucus is.

One of the main points I took from tRumps tylenol rant is that women shouldn’t expect medical equity and it’s ok for us to be in pain

Aren’t his wife and kids German?

Why oh why oh why is Politics Live opening with a click bait Deform slogan rather than, oh I don’t know, a Lib Dem or Green story

There are two crows feasting on the remnants of a dead pigeon outside my window which pretty much sums up the world right now

I am watching Drive My Car, reminiscing about my time in Hiroshima

I don’t understand what’s happening here. A politician not avoiding a topic or talking out of their arse. How dare he!

“Me, Myself and I” performance on Club MTV with Downtown Julie Brown (1989)

I have just sent off my beloved EU passport to be replaced by one of those shitty blue/black ones

It’s fucking glorious outside

I was woken up by what sounded like someone whispering in the corner of my bedroom only to realise it was the sound of my own delicately gurgling stomach

Seriously?

It’s time like this you wish Philip was still around to drop a well timed clanger

Two chinooks, two military choppers and a couple of other helicopters just went over so I assume Mr Poopy Pants is here

Lemmy, Leigh Bowery and ‘the two Georges’: 80s stars in the Limelight – in pictures

There is little or no evidence of any significant rise in support for Tommy Robinson during the last 10-15 years. The 4% strongly supportive within the 1/10 who approve are also steady. 4% is a large target niche (2 million people) from whom to raise money and to bring 50-100k out marching

Something being missed in the discourse around Mandleson is attitudes re sexual violence against women and girls from him and other men in power

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A working class woman has to resign after a tax cock up but a posh white man can be mates with a nonce

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

I don’t know why my phone keeps telling me I’m out of storage space..

What Spain's leader says here is unarguable fact, simple cold truth. It drew the predicable and fact free hysterical rant from Israel and the race card. So lame and so hypocritical from a government pursuing ethnic cleansing and genocide. Anti Semitic slander. buff.ly/EKltMaR

it's real support from actual racists

Is a criminal record a requirement for Reform politicians, or just preferred?

Some formally thought of as intelligent people on here making some brain dead comments re the emergency test 🙄

£13.60 for 8 first class stamps!? Are you fuckin kidding me?!? Are they being hand delivered by gold coloured eunuchs??

If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb. The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts

I see the Beeb have voxpopped all the Brexit voting Daily Mail reading old fogeys to get opinions on Rayner

I am currently on holiday, in blissful ignorance of the world and all the arseholes running things. I have to go home on Sunday and I REALLY don’t want my little bubble to burst

yeah, but Angela Rayner www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The finest response I've seen so far.

Yummy

The Spanish PM telling it as it is: if we don’t sort the climate we’re all fucked, all world leaders should be ashamed of letting Gaza be bombed to fuck and immigration is a good thing. I might be paraphrasing..

In more ‘phones make people stupid’ news

Richard Beckinsale, forever the most beautiful of men

I can

99% of men’s love songs are Oh baby i love you so much so much in fact that if you leave me i will probably die on the spot or just kill you and the piece of shit you hooked up with [chorus] now show me your tits

Whoever wrote this clearly doesn’t understand Leigh’s humour and the tone feels a bit prudish and judgy in a Hyacinth Bucket tone of voice