Staying in an abusive relationship to disprove my partner’s insistence that I’m a bitch who’s going to leave him

First, they came for the pedophiles, and I did n-- *touching earpiece* oh, they didn't?

A podcast about why podcasts are getting worse

Stephen Miller is the level of dickhead where you feel like you’ve never seen a dickhead before. He redefines the possibilities. He crashes through the dickhead ceiling. It’s breathtaking dickheadery.

Once I get on top of things I’ll get on top of things

Blimey the moon

Bari Weiss, tireless champion of the overdog.

The Michelle Wolf Netflix special is terrific

Very much the vibe of being alive right now

This was only June

It’s going to be so wild to see who America picks next as their leader. like when a friend leaves an absolutely terrible relationship and you know it can only get better but also their floor is so madly low they could bring home like a dolphin

These are incredible photos

The only thing I’ve read that really captures what being alive feels like right now, is, ironically, a book about the 60s/70s: Murderland

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

No thank you

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

The theme for Ross Douthat’s podcast is such a perfect musical evocation of the New York Times (derogatory)

Roses are red Love disappears

Paul Dano is a good actor, he acts without vanity, he acts a weak piece of shit like a weak piece of shit cos that’s what a lot of American men have been, sorry QT, you’re great but you are twelve

The Succession group thread really knocking it out of the park right now www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Not this, but

This actually making me cry

A selfie is half a hug

Yeah that’s because people who’ve known you are terrified you could get real power you fucking nob it makes sense

Music’s wild, it’s like ‘I’m gonna chant rhythmically about the worst thing that ever happened to me and you can half-listen to it in a dentist waiting room in twenty years.’

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This feels very the modern news cycle

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

There are some really terrific cameos in the latest Alan Partridge on iplayer. Particularly great are Anna Crilly and Rufus Jones but just great casting all round

Oh what and your sexts are so tight and impressive and free of rural imagery

Even for me (who's been saying that pol editors, journalists could just as likely be corrupted by Putin) ...the TOTAL absence of Nathan Gill's Sentencing on The Sun, Mail, Express, Star, Telegraph AND Times is astonishing.

Everyone expected this big wrestling match and Trump came in the ring with eyes like hearts and started awooga-ing himself over the head with a trash can lid like Roger Rabbit

They line up perfectly.

Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

He said it’s not so much an open relationship as ajar

The New York Times is so embarrassing, it’s a mock Tudor house with a pool, it’s like someone hung a monocle on a pig.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

So that hero guy who saved all those people on that train has left hospital, just in case you missed it because no fucker is keen to draw attention to it www.bbc.com/news/article...

*maintains eye contact while licking salt from rim of a margarita* *keeps turning the stem to consume all the salt*

Does anyone have any recommendations for computers to write on that can’t go online, and phones that also can get messages or calls but can’t go online. Or experience with the brick?

Are Women Ruining the Sex Parties?

The logical explanation is Epstein at al are embarrassed about how much they like pizza so they’re speaking in code

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

Fun learning that the clandestine ultra-rich see a badly written email as a kind of flex: TBTS (too busy to spell) TBFKTS, jefff