What the fuck has an ability to write an essay got to do with getting by in the modern UK?

And is the UK government aware of the Scottish educational system?

They're as thick as the Tories were and even more malignant. If you care, give people English lessons and practical support.

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

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BREAKING | Alex Jones loses Supreme Court bid to avoid paying $1.4B to Sandy Hook families

We are over 10 minutes now on coverage of the hostages being reunited with their families.

There was honestly a less than 30-second spot showing some of the buses coming in with Palestinians.

1700 people were held with no charges or convictions.

No happy videos of reunification there.

An American Werewolf in London.

Short story collections are best read in the order they’re in in the book. None of that dipping in and out nonsense.

Ah, The Fall. One of the many films I watched with my brother and shamed myself by making an embarrassing reaction noise.
Also, that bit in Silver Linings Playbook when Jennifer Lawrence beeeeeends during the dance. Could hear my brother's neck creak as he side-eyed me.

I know he's doolally in a hundred different ways but I fully believe his eyesight is buggered and he's too vain to wear glasses.
My mum used Sharpies to write when she developed macular degeneration and a cataract.

I just remembered the first time I got close to Highland cows & I could vaguely hear the warning from 1 of the adults I was with telling us not to approach them as they're large & can be dangerous but most of it was muffled by the ginger hair of the cow I was cuddling.

I wasn't a toddler. I was 11.

Rosie the Ribbiter

Seen on my walk today…Watkins books London, an occult bookshop since Victorian times, I’ve found some very rare treasures here.

All those world leaders patting themselves on the back and doing their smiley photos with Trump yesterday.

What is there to fucking celebrate?

The Bayeux Tapestry online (in case you don’t have a copy at home), battle from scene 51 onwards: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

Using ChatGPT

Reading those headlines that mention the prospect of peace — with no justice, no reckoning, and a refusal of liberation — this morning is making me nauseous

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

I'm tired of books where the protagonist is smarter than everyone else. Give me someone thick as shit

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

Too many books play it safe. Like indie published books, there should be far more unhinged weirdness in trad books. More monster-fucking, more bizarre creatures from deep dives into mythology, more utterly ridiculous ideas vomited onto the page.
Less reality, more gleeful madness.

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature