Simon Johnson🇺🇦

She looks twice as old as she is ?

a man is standing in front of a fire with the words `` americans '' written on it . ALT: a man is standing in front of a fire with the words `` americans '' written on it .

There are some bloody nutters on this website

32. Following WW2, the US wanted to buy the freehold to its embassy in London from the Duke of Westminster. His people responded that the Duke would sell in return for his ancestor’s land confiscated in 1783.

When the ambassador asked what the land included, the answer was all of Miami.

Which means that the real fun GOP primary would Pence vs. Vance, with maybe 1/4 of voters mixing them up.

Boarding an offshore oil rig with an Ampelmann E-type fully motion compensated gangway.

The Bin Laden

Uh oh, trouble in paradise

Retain them as key parts of the government's comms operation?

Hoo boy are the replies to this giving me a lot of people to block 🙃

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

The description “hit podcaster” are very useful as it means you can safely ignore anything that person says.

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

I think some of them enjoyed having sex with children though

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

GM Trevelyan was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University & Master of Trinity College Cambridge. Photograph 1943, by Cecil Beaton National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of Elizabeth I, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger c 1597 (one of the Armada portraits) formerly in Master’s Lodge at Trinity College, where it is seen in the photo of GM Trevelyan in 1943. In 2015 it was transferred to a place of honour above the High Table in the Hall of Trinity College, to mark 40 years of admission of women and to commemorate the Queen’s support of the College. After foundation by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I helped fund the Great Court, the Hall & the Masters Lodge. Portrayed in stiff, patterned gold brocade, lace & pearls, with ostrich fan, the learned & pious Queen rests her hand on prayer books; an ornate, gilded throne upholstered in silk velvet to her right. Trinity College Cambridge

“…the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.”
GM Trevelyan, British historian, born #OTD 1876; Master of Trinity College Cambridge, he was photographed in 1943 beneath an Elizabeth I ‘Armada portrait’ by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger c 1597.
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social

imagine if the mad lass does it a second time

NEVER IN DOUBT

C'MON TABITHA

Go Freya

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons" - Churchill

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

It’s also that very rare thing: a brilliant and influential movie that still feels fresh.

JFK wore a top hat for his inauguration

Also of course it doesn't really matter whether he believes it or not. Those are the words which came out of his mouth.

Yes he is just a soul-less husk shaped like a man in a suit