Phil Dore

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

If you get the chance, take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki. It's a two hour journey across the Baltic and if you pay a bit extra you can have an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet when travelling in the morning.

I'm told this is what the regulars in the British Army refer to as the SWAT team.

Some Weekends And Tuesdays.

What happens when you're too lightweight for GB News? Apparently you get a gig on Talk TV.

Wait, Darren Grimes, the guy who was too lightweight for GB News ...

...let those words sink in. Too lightweight for GB News....

....now has a show on Talk TV? Just how washed up is that channel?

Oh God yeah, if there's one thing we've learned over the past 3 years, it's that Ukrainians don't bow down to kings.

Yeah, apart from anything else it shows that Zelenskyy's putting his own people first, and not impugning their dignity by fluffing up Trump.

Also....it's just *embarassing* when world leaders do that.

Side topic, but what's with the Mail referring to everything as "Soviet" these days? Just the other day they had a headline referring to the thriving democracy that is Estonia as a "Soviet republic."

This may sound like hyperbole, but I've been surprised by the amount of doorknock surveys where people say they're thinking of voting "Green or Reform".

At first I was confused by that, but then realised what they're saying is they're fed up with the usual parties and want something else.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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You're not wrong. The Netflix series doesn't seem sure whether it's a biopic, a slasher show or a surrealist art statement, but it fails at all three.

Just been trying out season 3 of the Netflix series Monster - the same one that covered Jeffrey Dahmer and then the Menendez brothers.

For season 3 they're doing Ed Gein and - God, it's dreadful. A confusing, addled, insight-free mess.

Honestly I think half their electoral coalition has gone to Reform and the other half to the Lib Dems, basically leaving them with no reason to exist.

You just have to find somebody whose infodump schedule vibes with your hyperfixation calendar

I also recall the....er....redecorating efforts that had been done to the gates of the Russian Embassy.

I've been to Estonia 3 times. It's a vibrant democracy with great culture. I recall the cocktail bars having renamed the Moscow mules as Kyiv mules.

The country that inspired Keir Starmer's digital ID card fiasco: Labour's blueprint for Britain is a 'goldmine for hackers and scammers to steal your money' By ANDREW YOUNG IN TALLINN, ESTONIA 11:01 05 Oct 2025, updated 11:30 05 Oct 2025

The Daily Mail went to Tallinn in Estonia and spoke to residents about the system used in the Soviet republic for more than 20 years

wait did we all see the Daily Mail calling Estonia a “Soviet republic” in their article about digital ID cards

The closest they come to looking like actual cops is that they look like they've spent a LOT of time in the doughnut shop.

It probably helps that those two ICE "agents" looked like absolute clowns with minimal or no training.

There's a lot of Alpha Chad Special Forces Operator types getting turned into soup by overweight folks with a drone, an XBox controller and a Mountain Dew addiction.

Score one for the kids who got bullied at school I guess.

Love it when an entire community just says "absolutely fucking not."

Just amazing that when we do get our balls-out fascist government in the not too distant future, they won’t even really need to do anything to get rolling, because ‘The Centre-Left Party™️’ have willingly, deliberately built all the apparatus for them.

I forget who said it, but I recall someone saying that the real AI threat to jobs is not that it can do your job, but the AI companies can convince your idiot boss it can do your job.

But remember: AI is the future 🙄

Twas yoinked.

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.