Itβs always, always somebody elseβs faultβ¦.
11.08.2025 20:11 β π 44 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0@quigonsmith.bsky.social
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
Itβs always, always somebody elseβs faultβ¦.
11.08.2025 20:11 β π 44 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0Weather good, we are gradually working our way north in search of the Loch Ness Monster.
11.08.2025 13:50 β π 184 π 32 π¬ 9 π 4for the second time this briefing, Trump claims he's "going to Russia" on Friday (he's actually going to Alaska, which is in the United States)
11.08.2025 15:56 β π 4196 π 1229 π¬ 753 π 384One year later
11.08.2025 19:55 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Sheβs properly finding some steel and some consistency now. Have to admire the work ethic.
11.08.2025 19:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Only the greatest plot twist of all time.
11.08.2025 18:53 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Arrogant wankers.
11.08.2025 18:07 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm so sorry. Bless her.
11.08.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Elon Musk the most disliked man in America
Good for him
11.08.2025 14:24 β π 1041 π 135 π¬ 65 π 168Babu Frik
The Luke/Yoda ghost scene
Daisy Ridley
Domhnall Gleeson
Lukeβs death
Yoda's advice to Luke in TLJ is peak Force/Jedi content to me and very much feels like something George would have done.
11.08.2025 17:48 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Has anyone noticed that the President of the United States is an idiot?
11.08.2025 15:43 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0computer end program
09.08.2025 23:31 β π 406 π 112 π¬ 9 π 10Letβs face it, this is where Labour will probably end up on the issue too, just to defuse the hotels stuff.
11.08.2025 14:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0new LOTR trilogy about the time gandalf lost his hat but then remembered it was in the next room, estimated budget $194 million
11.08.2025 14:12 β π 115 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0Nicola Sturgeon: Rapists 'probably' forfeit right to choose gender
11.08.2025 13:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1This is what too much GTA does to people.
11.08.2025 13:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βWe have had the police knocking on every door,β said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. βThey wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.β
Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
11.08.2025 06:59 β π 1351 π 920 π¬ 88 π 218If youβre a refugee and youβre unfortunate enough to bump into Rupert Lowe, just say youβre George Weahβs cousin and heβll welcome you with open arms.
11.08.2025 12:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Philomena 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.
11.08.2025 11:12 β π 3057 π 1156 π¬ 52 π 75Well, this is flattering. I may add "Deranged BUM" to my profile
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.
10.08.2025 22:44 β π 401 π 97 π¬ 13 π 4I 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 theyβre thinking, βah, fβk it, letβs try revolution.β
10.08.2025 19:56 β π 638 π 125 π¬ 34 π 5There's a line in book of Mormon satirising the church's hard pivot on racism in 1978 (God changed his mind) and am reminded of it in the context of Conservative political theology regarding the state of the UK, at some point, for unspecified reasons, we just became a failed state almost overnight
11.08.2025 07:20 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Many of these same people once mocked the left for mistaking their own prejudices and assumptions as the countryβs, egged on by online radicalisation. These same people make the same mistake and then some.
10.08.2025 20:09 β π 273 π 20 π¬ 10 π 1Still havenβt come to terms with 1) being spanked at the election and 2) the fact they have to wait another four years before theyβre allowed another go. Broke their entitled born-to-rule little minds.
10.08.2025 20:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks google AI but I meant to type βshutββ¦
10.08.2025 19:09 β π 2134 π 322 π¬ 93 π 14Brexit 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.
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