I hope you get help soon, there are lots of invisible people in your phone (like myself) who never interacted with you but care deeply about you and your welfare. wishing you all the best, stay strong x

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington

Trump pardoned the silk road guy

10/10 punchline, no notes

*chef's kiss*

I feel it’s very irresponsible and inflammatory to accept donations from extremely partisan pro-Israel billionaires to help wreck your own party, then conceal them from the authorities while booting the pro-Palestine left for antisemitism, while you facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.

This is great fun. Play a few times for the writing, then another 10-20 to ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ʜᴏʀsᴇ

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Crazy this would happen to one of the world’s oldest parties of labour after being taken over by a right-wing puppet directed by a right-wing advisor with right-wing politics who was mentored by a right-wing toady to large capital and oligarchical interests, all of whom pathologically hate the left.

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

They must have sprayed paint on something

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

Performant, a thespian insect

Do you see how yesterday’s deranged conspiracy theories - conclusive proof that you were a dangerous lunatic - are today’s boring, obvious truths, barely even news: there was an organised internal wrecking campaign closely coordinated with the press, Sir Keir’s campaign was a fraud etc etc

"McSweeney’s first proper job in the Labour Party was [working on Peter] Mandelson’s 'Excalibur' database, which collected information about political opponents of New Labour (including disloyal Labour MPs) that would then be given to journalists."

I see this one is boring old news that everyone always knew about, and it isn’t an insane racist conspiracy theory any more. Funny how that works.

The England² flag - the highest patriotic magnitude you can reach without using fractals (which are Polish so not allowed)

In a debate on the Palestine Action ban on Monday, the security minister said it was based on "clear advice and intelligence", and people protesting against the ban "may not know the extent of its activities"

Today, we are publishing some of that advice
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :)
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute

Herzog has been a consistent cheerleader for Israel's campaign in Gaza. His assertion that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza is key evidence in the genocide case being heard at the ICJ.

Basic facts in the biggest news story in the world, of which Balls displays blithe, swaggering ignorance.

the UK is an excellent data point for the US debates we've had

because the dems have tried to find a middle point between the various parts of the coalition, it's hard to tease out causality - whose approach is working

UK is just "here's what happens when reactionary centrists are in charge"

“Countering” Reform by giving them everything they want

Things are so bad in America they're all shortening "the fall of western civilisation is coming" to just "fall is coming"