michael? peter.

This is perhaps the most cursed party imaginable

A physical representation of trying to stay positive in 2025

Hey man I get what you're saying but what if you were saying something different

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

Montresor, editor extraordinaire, has arrived to deal with the late episode issue.

editor literally breathing down my neck today #caturday #proofofcat

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats. White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers. People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am I'm seeing a trend

Presenting: my cat at six months old wearing a collar for the first time and trying to lick it off

The Green Party of England and Wales says it now has more members than the Lib Dems: 83,500 to 83,174 with "hundreds more joining daily". Interestingly, both parties are growing while Reform and the Conservatives are shedding members.

"And let us enforce the same rules. When you have a newspaper, you are responsible for what is published in it. When you have a social network, you must be responsible for what is published on it."

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Every week when I get the bus to my parents' place I pass the turning to the almost-900k house and swimming pool Farage's girlfriend allegedly bought with cash - no mortgage - that he's repeatedly lied about. The press have now happily dropped the issue. I'm getting angrier about it by the day.

When spending on AI eclipses actual consumer spending...

Measure Twice, Cut Once xkcd.com/3149/

I spend the whole dang first part of my career saying that comparisons between the modern United States and the late Roman Republic are often misleading and facile, and then...he just mints it right out...

Had to replace ye olde laptop, finally, and made sure to buy a mid-2022 machine with no AI built into it.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

This throwaway joke in Only Murders In The Building was fucking WILD. What a deep cut in a show for boomers

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"What's it like, being the UK's first Black woman professor of history?"

They're fucked when the tariff bill arrives.

Turns out that the person behind a lot of the flags going up in my neighbourhood is exactly the kind of person I'd expect to be behind flags going up in my neighbourhood.

“Well, that’s nothing to do with what y–you either want to talk about flags or that, I mean this is mental," he told us when we asked him about it. Read the full story on The Dispatch. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

Ryan Bridge has become a familiar face in Stirchley lately. He's one of two "company directors" of raisetheflags.org, where he collects donations from £10-£500 for flags.

Oh, great. A hardline conservative who is homophobic, transphobic (not quite overtly... YET), xenophobic, and don't even try to uplift other women became the first female PM of Japan. I'm rolling my fucking eyes right now at this goddamn country of mine.

If I could say one sentence to cats and make them understand it, it would probably be, “If you are going to puke, please do it on a hard surface.”

Fun fact: Dame Sarah Mullally is the second medical professional to be Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Thomas Secker (1758-1768) qualified as a medical doctor before being ordained #ArchbishopOfCanterbury

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Gandalf and Shadowfax reach Weathertop and climb to the crown of the hill. The nine Nazgûl surround them as the sun starts to set.

The falconer's saying something about abdication of responsibility. Can't really hear him though, all the way up here

🆕 The US debate about taking paracetamol in pregnancy does not appear to be shaping opinions here in the UK. Just 13% of Britons say they think it is either generally or completely unsafe to take paracetamol during pregnancy.

Another little video showing a reduction linoprint developing - this time in seven layers.

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Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

will no one rid me of this meddlesome Eamonn Mullally's wife?

New podcast! Yesterday's was with Genevieve Guenther, a climate misinformation researcher. It's a great conversation! I don't like podcasts in general, but I think really like these, not just cuz I choose the guests but also because John is a really good host. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECcJ...

The world is kind of scary right now, so here's what I'm offering: Hognose snake drinking water. Be sure to stay for the lip smack.

This is the redistricting guide I’ve been waiting for since ~June. The Downballot is indispensable open.substack.com/pub/thedownb...

South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Red Bellied Woodpecker Portrait [Melanerpes carolinus] What’s going on, Peeps? #EastCoastKin #FlyDay #monochrome #ClassicMono #blackandwhite #birds #photograph #closeup #autumn #monochrome #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri #woodpecker #birdfeeder

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Click through to the article and you even get her husband's name first