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January 23, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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stephen and rachel did this for every gay man and their work mum who looks after them and tells them they’re great
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
stephen and rachel did this for every gay man and their work mum who looks after them and tells them they’re great
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:45 PM
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
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I’m approaching forty years of age and have been starting to get those unfamiliar pangs, that feeling that I have to reach the south pole by sled
January 17, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I’m approaching forty years of age and have been starting to get those unfamiliar pangs, that feeling that I have to reach the south pole by sled
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Frog we don’t have time for this
Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?”
“Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
“Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
January 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Frog we don’t have time for this
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I bet this guy went to parties and his friends would be like "cmon man do the face"
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I bet this guy went to parties and his friends would be like "cmon man do the face"
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“The women who are in it are all treated with respect. The men do their own emotional labor. It’s not on us to fix, defend ourselves, or worry. We, as women, can just watch this and relax.”
THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽
THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽
I spoke to women (and one man) about what they find so hot about Heated Rivalry.
"The main reason I read MM is I just absolutely cannot stand reading or watching women suffer at the hands of men – in any way, big or small, anymore... We, as women, can just watch this and relax.”
"The main reason I read MM is I just absolutely cannot stand reading or watching women suffer at the hands of men – in any way, big or small, anymore... We, as women, can just watch this and relax.”
Women are feral for Heated Rivalry. What does that say about men?
The explosive popularity of the gay hockey TV drama reveals women’s desire for sex and romance without violence or hierarchy
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“The women who are in it are all treated with respect. The men do their own emotional labor. It’s not on us to fix, defend ourselves, or worry. We, as women, can just watch this and relax.”
THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽
THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽
Everything I didn't know I needed this morning
My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo
January 12, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Everything I didn't know I needed this morning
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My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo
October 18, 2024 at 5:57 PM
My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo
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rip jeffrey epstein, you would have loved grok
January 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
rip jeffrey epstein, you would have loved grok
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Like the hatching of cicadas, the discovery that women are human with independent thoughts, emotions, and sexual desire, cycles around and everyone is surprised by it. Then everyone will forget and revert to unsatisfying slop until a new show emerges that we go berserk for, and it will start anew.
Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Like the hatching of cicadas, the discovery that women are human with independent thoughts, emotions, and sexual desire, cycles around and everyone is surprised by it. Then everyone will forget and revert to unsatisfying slop until a new show emerges that we go berserk for, and it will start anew.
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The Pitt is incredible as proof you can be very middlebrow and very engaging at the same time. So much prestige TV relies on like novelistic subtext or tons of mythology and lore but The Pitt is just like No. You will watch this hot doctor competency porn and you will love it so much
January 7, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The Pitt is incredible as proof you can be very middlebrow and very engaging at the same time. So much prestige TV relies on like novelistic subtext or tons of mythology and lore but The Pitt is just like No. You will watch this hot doctor competency porn and you will love it so much
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This is a good thread, and articulates something I noticed early on about how my books spread: I have a niche, but the people who live there with me talk to each other a lot. I love it. Well done to people who can write to market, but at the end of the day, I write the stuff that makes me happy.
I was watching a video about an author who uses AI, and one of the things that stood out to me was how she talked about writing to market and how, as an author, writing what you want takes a backseat to the market when you get "serious" about it, and I vehemently disagree. 🧵
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January 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
This is a good thread, and articulates something I noticed early on about how my books spread: I have a niche, but the people who live there with me talk to each other a lot. I love it. Well done to people who can write to market, but at the end of the day, I write the stuff that makes me happy.
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My first blog of the year was going to be a furiously scathing review of a bad graphic novel, but now it's a furiously scathing open letter to @wordpress.org about the LLM they think can improve my writing!
Stay tuned for more fury and more scathing!
frankpodmore.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/o...
Stay tuned for more fury and more scathing!
frankpodmore.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/o...
Open letter to WordPress regarding ‘Jetpack AI Assistant’
If Jetpack AI Assistant were alive, I would kill it.
frankpodmore.wordpress.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
My first blog of the year was going to be a furiously scathing review of a bad graphic novel, but now it's a furiously scathing open letter to @wordpress.org about the LLM they think can improve my writing!
Stay tuned for more fury and more scathing!
frankpodmore.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/o...
Stay tuned for more fury and more scathing!
frankpodmore.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/o...
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Always the same answer to this one:
I blew up a tin of beans in my face
I blew up a tin of beans in my face
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Always the same answer to this one:
I blew up a tin of beans in my face
I blew up a tin of beans in my face
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My only hobby is using a box cutter to break down cardboard so it fits in our recycling bin. It's rewarding in ways I cannot explain.
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
My only hobby is using a box cutter to break down cardboard so it fits in our recycling bin. It's rewarding in ways I cannot explain.
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“Upon waking the next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.”
Love the appearance of the only-one-bed romance trope 😂
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Love the appearance of the only-one-bed romance trope 😂
📖🐋
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 AM
“Upon waking the next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.”
Love the appearance of the only-one-bed romance trope 😂
📖🐋
Love the appearance of the only-one-bed romance trope 😂
📖🐋
Little has made me as angry this year as the whole "asylum seekers won't be allowed to take cabs to medical appointments" cruelty
![[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf]
1
FATHER KEIR:
Well, well, well!
[Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters]
2
FATHER KEIR:
Look at all these letters of membership cancellation!
ELF REEVES:
More than ever this year
3
[Father Keir reads one out:]
“Dear Father Keir
I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…”
Awww how sweet
4
“I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.”
5
“Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?”
6
FATHER KEIR:
Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we?
Elf Mahmood!
7
[Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY]
ELF MAHMOOD:
What.
8
FATHER KEIR:
Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left?
9
ELF MAHMOOD:
We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…?
10
FATHER KEIR:
In the sack, please!
[Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat]
11
And off we goooo!
[He wooshes off into the snowy polar night]
12
[Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed]
WOMAN:
Is it not what you wanted
MAN:
Not really, no
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January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Little has made me as angry this year as the whole "asylum seekers won't be allowed to take cabs to medical appointments" cruelty
Oh yes
![[Title over top]:
2025: Please Exit via the Gift Shop
[Show a series of gift-shop type products as described]:
Patriots Ceramic Miniature
[A Lilliput Lane-style ceramic model of two guys hanging a St George's flag on a lamp post outside a newsagent]
A beautiful model remembering the brave dads who defended their country and got through the divorce just fine in 2025.
Katy Perry’s Journey: Commemorative Plate
From singing to friends in space to finding love on Earth, celebrate Katy’s year with this lovely big plate. [Decorative plate showing Katy P in space and cuddling Justin Trudeau]
David Harbour Jam
Made from the remnants of David Harbour, sourced from around his New York dojo after Lily Allen did that album.
Tomy View-Master: Bezos-Sánchez Wedding Edition
Experience the thrill of being in a foam party with Jeff Bezos, in immersive 3-D!
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Tea Towel
Commemorate the royal title-stripping with this beautiful linen keepsake.
Meghan and Harry’s Bad Content
An artisan jar of ex-royal Content, sourced from a boring programme that Netflix wish they hadn’t paid for. [Grey substance in an artisan jar].
The Fifa Peace Prize
Invented to flatter Trump and now nobody else wants it. Could be a paperweight? Please take it.
Robbie Gibb Plushie
The BBC Board Member for Cuddles! A Tory plant to melt your heart. [Cuddly plushie of a normal grey haired man]
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January 1, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Oh yes
I don't think this was meant as a post about how incredible baseball player names are, and yet...
Happy 2026! 🎉
Check out some of the memorable players to wear No. 26 throughout baseball history ⚾️
Check out some of the memorable players to wear No. 26 throughout baseball history ⚾️
January 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I don't think this was meant as a post about how incredible baseball player names are, and yet...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.