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So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

It makes perfect sense to give you more ways of operating something, but it makes zero sense to make things harder.

Everything that is happening to the Labour Party is something they have chosen to do to themselves - to prioritise unscientific, unpopular cruelty on a minority group over everything else they stand for. I won't forget. I'm unlikely to forgive.

Spain's migrants welcome amnesty: 'It will help us in every way' Madrid cites humanitarian and economic reasons to give undocumented workers legal status.

Grown-up immigration policy

"The president was doing a particularly difficult shit and took the opportunity to rant at the prime minister, who congratulated him politely on his commitment to this particular cause."

In a gay bookstore on Christopher Street a kind guy told me how to get into Studio 54. I was dancing my arse off there opposite a man who asked me what I was doing in the city. “I’m here to see the Rothkos at the Guggenheim.” Which was less pretentious than it sounded because
a) it was true and 1/2

Does providing free sanitary pads keep girls in school? A government-led, state-wide programme in India (the SHE Pad Scheme) which provided free sanitary pads in schools significantly reduced dropout rates among adolescent girls, primarily by increasing sc...

India's supreme court has ruled that menstrual hygiene is a "fundamental right", so schools will have to provide free products. It follows Russ study which shows the impact on school dropout rate amongst girls through addressing period poverty

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Peter Beardsley - 'I thought I'd tell you some jokes...' #10YearsOfMince

Lindsey is particularly blood thirsty for wars he won't be fighting or sending his kids to fight. It's all just a fun game of talking tough by a small man.

that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

I'll be honest, I thought Brent Crude was a right-wing podcaster.

A miso old fashioned, reddish brown cocktail in a glass with a large ice sphere and a leaf.

Very good.
A miso old fashioned. We're at opposite ends of the umami scale.

😂

What's your idea of anarchy, Miss H?

I'm in my mid fifties

A sign for Scribbler which days Scibbler

Hmm

There's something deliciously anarchic about surreptitiously eating Babybel under the table in a posh cocktail bar

There are only two decent cocktail bars here, neither of them serves food but there's a One Stop that sells Babybel on the walking route between them

I see you're a lady of desperate tastes

I'm in Southampton so that's more of a challenge than it would be elsewhere

Having an indecently early cocktail. If the world's going to end, it'll be on my own terms.

A food stall for Slice & Dice pizza which proclaims, "roll a dice win a slice"

Actually it's a die, which undermines your whole brand. You're welcome.

IYKYK

the official position of the ADL is that the man on the left is an antisemite and the man on the right is not.

A bus driver from The Simpsons saying 'Don't make me tap the sign' The sign says 'That's not what "decimated" means'

Everyone who has ever studied Classics right now...

If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.

My proudest achievement over two combat deployments to Afghanistan was helping set up and defend the regions first girls school in decades. That, for a while at least, made the dying and killing worth it.

Now we bomb girls schools and murder scores of girls my daughter’s age.

We lost the war.

And his ass tastes like cotton candy