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Look what you’ve done to the manguage

‘Go Back to Where You Came From’: A flawed reality show that shines a light on racism and immigration Channel 4 takes six Britons with intense and controversial viewpoints to places like Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, and Kenya to experience first-hand the tragedy of displaced people

In true Milkshake Duck style, it turns out he’s a horrible racist. english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

"Fucking reform leaflet" is a good cryptic crossword clue for "FELLATE".

Sames

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

Could you have a quick word with McGinn, while we’re on the subject?

I like the implication in his post that his old neighbourhood is now a shithole *because* he spent much of his childhood there. That tracks

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

DOIs, people!!

Fanny Burney was still alive when the solar cell was invented

With gmail you can add +website name in your address, like johnsmith+ebay@gmail.com. Gmail ignores the bit between + and @ but it still shows up in the to: field

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Q.
A. Thank you for asking, yeah - I got the idea when I was buying £10 worth of Robux for my kid and I thought, ‘There *has* to be some way of applying this to poetry.’
Q.
A. No, it didn’t work at all, no.

"there are no atheists in foxholes" is a terrible expression. sure, the things that foxes worship do not resemble our "gods". that does not mean that they are atheists

Ha, I grew up with him. One of those people where there’s genuinely nothing more to his personality than being a bully

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Don,t forget to occasionally refill your apostrophes with helium or they,ll sink

Oh happy birthday! Excellent ageing, A+++

Meanwhile, in the small German town of Bad Kerning, the Burnout conference has gone predictably awry

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Hi! We've made the Put This In Your Ear Object. It is the ideal size and shape to put in your ear, feels really nice when you put it in your ear, and can be used to clean out earwax, by putting it in your ear. Just one thing, though. Under NO circumstances should you put this in your ear.

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

The museum’s floor has a gradual slope. Our displays reference life and death. There are mannequins.

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Maybe deserves some sort of extremely puzzled telegram from the king or something

Our neighbour has just had his second silver wedding anniversary. Not his 50th - 25 years in a previous marriage and 25 in this one. There can’t be many people who could say the same, surely?

I agree, with the caveat that many many works that don’t see that success have similar exceptional qualities (which is why you get occasional titles selling like mad long after release).

Like, that exceptional aspect means it could *potentially* become a hit. But doesn’t guarantee it at all

I absolutely love this but hang on docked what now

As someone who knows nothing about rugby, this looks like Saints scored 80 points which was so many they forgot to count Rhinos' but reckoned it was probably somewhere in the mid-teens