It's Cheeky Map Time credit: Helen McKenzie Explanation for Americans: brilliantmaps.com/cheeky-na...

Star Wars: an everyday tale of Mon/Moff flow control.

It’s January, and all of the Grundys have had rapid personality transplants #TheArchers

Slightly diminish a game. Hypomanic Miner

Slightly diminish a game. Just Borrowing Auto

"the people of Iran right now are waging a war that Aleksandr and Sergei would be proud of" - chief marketing director of Compare The Meerkat, drying eyes

Amid all the awfulness, I am very proud of my American friends. Every day I see something horrible, I also see pushback, a refusal to comply, a willingness to stand up for friends, neighbours and perfect strangers. We see you.

this is it

The polariser burn on the Falcon's display is something to behold.

The Floofhound feels you all need some wholesome, timeline cleansing content, particularly if any of you would like to give her a belly rub

Property conveyancer? Trans ally? Talk to me :)

Wait, this is confusing. The algorithm has advertised a #Transformers Megatron at me, but it transforms not into a gun but a tank!

What was your #childhoodcinema: The Palace, Wellingborough. Now closed and turned (I think) into a pub.

Re-posting this article from 2024 cause I'm really missing my gym right now (likely back next weekend) but I feel so proud to be part of a space like this that keeps growing every year 💕

Girl who transitions to get the taxman on the phone.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

Toil is undignified. There is no intrinsic merit in labour.

That was a good tutorial. Not because I learned anything new from it, particularly, but because when I was asked questions about the stuff I've been studying recently I realised that I did in fact have a halfway decent grasp of the subject.

Reading my textbook on the public benefit requirement for charities. "The nature of the general purpose must be beneficial. At its most basic this means that a charitable organization cannot be set up to create public harms." Looking sidelong at Sex Matters here...

pra que 2 airfryer????

Wales used to have a youth parliament called "Funky Dragon" (or in Welsh, even more impressively "Draig Ffynci")

ON LEARNING TO DISSECT FETAL PIGS By Renee Nicole Macklin Good i want back my rocking chairs, solipsist sunsets, & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches. i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

Dozens of Palestinians were wounded when Israel fired live rounds, sound grenades & tear gas in Birzeit Uni in the #WestBank. Israel stormed the uni campus shortly before the screening of the Hind Rajab doco, saying it targeted a “gathering in support of terrorism” #IsraeliTerrorism aje.io/fgxjtd

u after i jmprison u in da parallelogram

NOTICE Due to current events it is forbidden to shoot archdukes until further notice. Thank you. (by Marnanel)

Nothing like a good subtitle to set the scene.

I hate being ill. I’ve got some sort of headache+stomach bug lurgy thing which has knocked me out. I feel too queasy to eat so I’m also feeling very weak. Hoping it goes away soon because I’m already very bored of it.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Scalzi letting slip the industry secret that Stephen King is immortal

Following the Tea, Soup, Juice theory of Liquids, if you're Catholic and we're saying the wine becomes Jesus Blood then during Communion the Juice becomes Soup, because blood is, obviously, Soup If you think the wine is changed by the spiritual presence of Jesus then obviously the Juice becomes Tea

This may be the moment when Western Europe realises that the US has abandoned the core values that united them for the past century, writes my @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social colleague and @chathamhouse.org Programme Director for IL, Prof Marc Weller. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/us-c...

"In several important respects, though – political; moral; in which interests he was happy to fight, and which he kowtowed before – Ernest Marples was both cause and symptom of a country about to get onto the wrong track...." Wrote for the I Paper about one of the villains of 1960s transport policy

I love working with mathematicians. “It’s all gone base over apex” It’s still a pretty place to work

I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price. You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue. And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.

Friend of Garak patches are restocked! I haven't had these in about a year and a half. It's hard to photograph but the thread has a subtle shimmer I'm really pleased with. willburrows.art/shop

Is Girobank still a thing?

The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

Colleague 1: What is a mirative? Colleague 2: The linguistic expression of surprise Colleague 1: What, really!? Unintended humour

Parts of the Trusts Law module is about inheritance tax, and I must be getting socialist in my old age as tax avoidance feels a bit distasteful. I realise as someone who benefited from inherited capital - admittedly without any avoidance shenanigans - I may be being a bit hypocritical here.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

In the UK there’s ASsociated DAiries.

Their Supreme Court has a nifty logo.

Sir Keir Starmer has just been kidnapped by American special forces. In a statement from his cell he said "gosh thank you so much, this is great!"

Useful discussion of the differences and similarities to the situation with Panama and Noriega in 1989, and to previous US interventions in the region. (Unpaywalled version of the article linked in the comments.)

Dear lazysky, is the War between the Land and the Sea worth bothering with?

Stop. Please. These are not distractions, just because you are being distracted. All the things matter. All the things are important. The lives of Venezuelans, just like the lives of migrants or trans people, are not distractions. They matter. We matter.

Where's a good place to start learning about the recent state of China's influence in Latin America?

Advert, Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, May 1882: “Cyclists ride 100 miles ... without fatigue by the use of BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES, Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”