Rupert Stubbs

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

Congratulations British law makers! You have saved children from that most pernicious threat; a free online encyclopedia staffed by volunteers.

Part of the problem for Labour is when they try and strike a tough pose it is just tragi-comic like this.

I fall very much in the “on the level of the abstract I very much agree with this and on the level of actually existing political reality, are you fucking nuts?” camp here

First encountered him via the Garden State soundtrack (“Such Great Heights”). Even his covers are brilliant.

Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: “Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.” The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!” Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen” Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Science fiction is great at short stories, which should suit young modern readers and let them discover what style they like. This was the anthology that got me started (in 1965). Intro discussion between CS Lewis, Robert Conquest and Kingsley Bleeding Amis…! (Newer anthologies are available.)

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

In the next election the Democrats can only be the anti-MAGA party. But they have to have positions that allow a broad enough swathe of people to vote for them. And the biggest test they have to pass will be the question “What Trump/MAGA policies will you change?”. Not as easy as it sounds.

Huh it turns out a single post can make a bit of vomit rise in your throat.

Reading the news this morning was a mistake. I think the best thing any human being can do is to continue to try to be a good person and always do the right thing even - especially - in a world where, increasingly, there is no reward for doing so. All we ever have is our integrity.

First slip wearing a tie. They had standards in those days:

If I lived in this village I'd be getting hold of the biggest 🇺🇦 flag I could. Putting "an afront to God himself" on the dimensions box of the order form

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by Marko Kaar John Noakes Climbing Nelsons Column

I don’t remember seeing this bit, but it scares the bejesus out of me now. Health & Safety an unknown concept…

Also my hot take is Frog Chours/We All Stand Together is the perfect peaceful mass protest song (right sentiment, easy to sing, easy to learn, fun to do as a crowd) and i'm constantly amazed no one does so.

Former KGB-agent trained in clandestine operations, counterintelligence, recruitment psychology and operational security meets TACO.

Simba feels a lot better about Monday after his first cup of coffee…

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge It’s a ‘can-do’ object lesson for the Treasury. And imagine what such ambition could do for the fortunes of Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, says author Jonn Elledge

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway | Jonn Elledge

“who knows what they did?” asks the guy second in command of the US government’s investigative agencies

I think much of the English right built their identity on Brexit, which they never believed in their wildest dreams would happen, but when they got it they realised it solved absolutely nothing, left them bereft of ideas and office, and now they’re thinking, “ah, f—k it, let’s try revolution.”

Brexit was an attempted counter-revolution against many of the changes this country has gone through since 1945. It has turned out to be a failure with elements of farce. This has driven many people on the Right completely mad.

The Trump team is out there trying to normalize an utterly immoral sellout of UKR

Gorey does Kafka for Anchor Books, ca. 1957 or so. Feast your eyes.

The chart timeline reading right to left took me a few moments to twig…

Thanks google AI but I meant to type “shut”…