WTF is going on with the BBC coverage of this story.

The court did not hear it was unlawful. His lawyer claimed it was unlawful. The prosecution said it was imperfect but lawful.

This headline implies undisputed fact.

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do they even know what an A level is?? They want people to be able to write 7-page essays on Shakespeare before they can work in a restaurant?

It's just so relentlessly fucking stupid.

It's weird what you get used to. I have just been forced to type in the little /s myself in a date on an online form, and feel quite affronted.

with your help we can change this

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

When it's a scene at night, books should switch to white writing on a black page

Using ChatGPT

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Thank you, I have perused it thoroughly. For me Mr Philippines has it.

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

I'm pretty sure that even if it is possible to have some of the symptoms independently, one day it will be recognised that ADHD, EDS and POTS (and maybe a few others) are all a single syndrome.

I wish we'd get there already: trying to get GPs to take them seriously one at a time is exhausting.

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

Just found the 12th one.

Sébastien_Lecornu_v2_v3_Final_New_Final_Real_New_Final.pptx

*sexually* assaulted, no less.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

I’ve not actively hated Rishi Sunak in a while, so the news he’s taken a job with Anthropic AI (aka the company I’m part of a mass lawsuit against for stealing our work to train their LLM) is actually kind of comforting.

All my comics have happy endings!

Here's a picture of Italy being more normal, for balance.