"The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing" is such a perfect summary of Mandelson. The world's most notorious sex trafficker was a better judge of character than the current PM
![Lord Peter Mandelson sought Epstein's opinion on the draft of his 2010 memoir about New Labour's rise to power and his relationships with former prime ministers
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
"I have finished my first read [...] The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing," Epstein wrote as part of an email exchange dated 16 May 2010.
"Your friend, and boss, tony [sic], is more often described as frail, flustered, tired, weak, and Gordon, flawed, demanding, pig-headed, irrationally determined."
The emails, released by the US Department of Justice, give an insight into how much Mandelson valued Epstein's advice and shows they remained close after the disgraced financier was convicted of child sex offences in 2008.
"It is not uplifting, it is gossipy and defensive," Epstein adds, saying he found the draft book
"troubling" and recommending that Mandelson look at his manuscript again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jziujmsqvcwblhtksoo2ezzr/bafkreiczwxqqstqhfil6scxm3soihrmcahptuloseazr67sktpcdzlmvsy@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
"The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing" is such a perfect summary of Mandelson. The world's most notorious sex trafficker was a better judge of character than the current PM
Why does he look like John Torode
Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
February 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Why does he look like John Torode
Gene Roddenberry: I invented Romulan Ale as a cautionary tale
Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"
Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"
February 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Gene Roddenberry: I invented Romulan Ale as a cautionary tale
Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"
Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"
This is an all-time heckle, up there with Gough Whitlam's response to "I'm a Country member"
January 30, 2026 at 7:40 AM
This is an all-time heckle, up there with Gough Whitlam's response to "I'm a Country member"
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Appears this is also true for fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Appears this is also true for fascism.
What's wrong babe? You've barely touched your stained glass England shirt
January 23, 2026 at 2:49 PM
What's wrong babe? You've barely touched your stained glass England shirt
After reading this all I could think of was this Tweet
January 23, 2026 at 5:21 AM
After reading this all I could think of was this Tweet
Think part of it comes down to that Tumblr meme about the two meanings of "respect". MAGA interpreted respect for the dead as the with-reverence-and-fealty version not just with-politeness version and then tried to foist it on everyone
just thinking again about how MAGA’s attempt to suppress all criticism of Charlie Kirk created a backlash so intense that he is now probably the most abjectly Internet-defiled person in human history
genuinely Charlie Kirk may have been more degraded and demeaned by the Internet at this point than anyone else in human history
the universe is not always unjust
the universe is not always unjust
January 23, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Think part of it comes down to that Tumblr meme about the two meanings of "respect". MAGA interpreted respect for the dead as the with-reverence-and-fealty version not just with-politeness version and then tried to foist it on everyone
Might have to bring the Daily Mail Headline Generator back
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Might have to bring the Daily Mail Headline Generator back
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Don't forget the enormous piece of blank space when opening the app: bsky.app/profile/goon...
@metoffice.gov.uk Can you talk me through the design decision to have this enormous space at the top of the new app’s forecast page, forcing us to scroll down for most of the information?
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Don't forget the enormous piece of blank space when opening the app: bsky.app/profile/goon...
Big fan of whichever sub-committee at the Met Office went "for the new app design, let's put our logo in three different places on the screen, so people know what app they're using. And let's put the bottom one floating over actually useful info, that makes perfect sense"
January 15, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Big fan of whichever sub-committee at the Met Office went "for the new app design, let's put our logo in three different places on the screen, so people know what app they're using. And let's put the bottom one floating over actually useful info, that makes perfect sense"
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aye
rip in advance to Scott "Mr Dilbert" Adams who is perhaps most famous for writing a now-deleted four part blog post where he attempted to hypnotize his readers into nutting and asked them to email him after they have nutted to tell him about the nut.
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
aye
Whatever you do, do NOT look at any of the recent "Dilbert Reborn" strips he drew in the last few years before his death, some absolutely unhinged stuff
I used to quite like Dilbert, before I knew literally anything about Scott Adams. This one's great.
January 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Whatever you do, do NOT look at any of the recent "Dilbert Reborn" strips he drew in the last few years before his death, some absolutely unhinged stuff
My answer is Ballard. Not only the perversity of "Crash" is chillingly parallel to that of LLM-generated atrocities, but this passage from "High Rise" describes a strain of sociopathy all too present in the narcissistic strain of people who are Very Online
January 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
My answer is Ballard. Not only the perversity of "Crash" is chillingly parallel to that of LLM-generated atrocities, but this passage from "High Rise" describes a strain of sociopathy all too present in the narcissistic strain of people who are Very Online
Found this quite interesting (in Danish but you can hit translate in the browser) on the Greenland situation, how it isn't as clear cut as it might appear, with the Greenlanders and Danes not exactly in lockstep www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
På et kaotisk Teams-møde opstod splid mellem Nuuk og København: Grønlænderne var rasende, danskerne rystede
Det føg med beskyldninger om dansk nykolonialisme og grønlandsk uforsigtighed på et møde, som flere deltagere frygter amerikanerne kan have lyttet med på.
www.dr.dk
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Found this quite interesting (in Danish but you can hit translate in the browser) on the Greenland situation, how it isn't as clear cut as it might appear, with the Greenlanders and Danes not exactly in lockstep www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
Absolutely top notch WTF paragraph from a footballer's Wikipedia biography
December 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Absolutely top notch WTF paragraph from a footballer's Wikipedia biography
RIP King
25th Hour: Shittttttt | Edward Norton & Isiah Whitlock Jr. | Movie Trailers & Clips
YouTube video by TommyTwoTokes
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
RIP King
Noticing an uptick in will/inheritance dispute posts on Reddit legal advice subs after Christmas, wonder if it's a coincidence or a result of vexatious family dinners
December 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Noticing an uptick in will/inheritance dispute posts on Reddit legal advice subs after Christmas, wonder if it's a coincidence or a result of vexatious family dinners
Catching up on Stranger Things and can't take it seriously because every time they say Vecna I just think of the Vectron sketch from Mitchell and Webb
Mitchell & Webb - Vectron
YouTube video by videodumpywump
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Catching up on Stranger Things and can't take it seriously because every time they say Vecna I just think of the Vectron sketch from Mitchell and Webb
Alan Clark always comes to mind when this topic is raised
Yeah, in my experience “I prefer animals to people” types are suss as fuck. Often cruel and bigoted to their fellow human beings. It’s a major and reliable red flag imo.
Bridgette Bardot's combination of far right politics with a passion for animal rights fascinated and baffled me when we read about her in French class. But in the years since, the bridge between these positions appears clearer, and shorter.
We see it with Morrissey, with Ger¥a!s, among others...
We see it with Morrissey, with Ger¥a!s, among others...
December 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Alan Clark always comes to mind when this topic is raised
Fascinating thread this. For me the ones that drop off quickest are comedians and comedy writers - and it's not even because the comedy is offensive by modern standards, it just quickly becomes forgotten
Just starting a running thread for “once famous figures now slipping into recondite knowledge now that they’ve died and society moves on” to come back to as and when I remember
=1 Peter Cook and/or Dudley Moore
=1 Peter Cook and/or Dudley Moore
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Fascinating thread this. For me the ones that drop off quickest are comedians and comedy writers - and it's not even because the comedy is offensive by modern standards, it just quickly becomes forgotten
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there are no limits to what you can do with a car and still be allowed to drive again one day
December 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
there are no limits to what you can do with a car and still be allowed to drive again one day
Reposted by Chris Applegate
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
Really struggling to like Pluribus. It feels very much like Lost (pejorative), as opposed to e.g. Severance which feels very much like Lost (complimentary)
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Really struggling to like Pluribus. It feels very much like Lost (pejorative), as opposed to e.g. Severance which feels very much like Lost (complimentary)
What is up with the thumb on the middle hand. What is it doing up there
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What is up with the thumb on the middle hand. What is it doing up there