Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Gonzo as Charles Dickens in the definitive version of A Christmas Carol

"...And Doctor Who, WHO DID NOT DIE!"
#DoctorWho #Christmas26 #Muppets

In the game we’re making you can:

❄ play as Moomintroll
📖 uncover a heartfelt yet cold story
🗻 wander through beautiful wintery landscapes
🧩 solve environmental puzzles
💙 & discover the warmth hidden in winter’s quiet

Sound like something you’d like to play? 👀

The Epstein Files are BAD bad.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are at a fast food restaurant, observing an automated self-serve menu stand. Blue: These self-serve fast food ordering things sure are convenient. Green sits back and watches as Blue ticks through the options of his order. Blue: No pickles, no onion… Green: I wonder if it lets me order one with nothing. Blue watches incredulously as Green makes his own order, choosing no ingredients. Green: No pickles, no sauce, no onion, no patty, no bun… Once Green has finished making his order, both foxes jump in fright as an unseen kitchen staff fox yells angrily. Kitchen fox: Who ordered the nothingburger?!

Portal is a wonderful bookstore, run by wonderful people. If you're in the UK looking for titles by American authors that have not yet received UK editions, Portal is your new best friend. They sell more copies of each new Toby Daye book than many US bookstores do.

Labour is in the doom loop that Democrats have been in for a while: pandering to people who hate them and will never vote for them. It’s a strategy, sure, but it’s a shitty one that leaves behind the voters who put them in power in the first place.

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.

3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.

Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

mastodon post from user Madcollector madcollector@retro.pizza It's been 3 days since the Louvre heist and the culprit is still at large Feather McGraw holding a large diamond

there are good posts everywhere for those with eyes to see

A black cat chomps a pumpkin stem, showing off its pearly white and very sharp teeth.

Pumpkin tester.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

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

Six geese walking down a path around a pond towards one visible jackdaw. There are more jackdaws but they are obscured by a bin.

This morning I saw a bunch of geese sneaking up on some jackdaws but they kept softly honking to themselves so it didn't work very well

Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

I feel like the BBC does one of these pretty much every year, with the same 'shocking' discovery. Is it really a hidden culture at this point?

It’s not in bad taste to acknowledge that the very ideas that made someone rich and successful is what ended up killing them

Frankly, I'd be completely cool with Bill Clinton getting nailed to the wall if he's in the files. He might have been a fairly solid president, but he's not a very good human being.

I succeeded in getting a lot of silly letters published in the Metro when I was in a job I hated about a decade ago. More info (on the twenty or so among them that weren't shite) can be found here:

bsky.app/profile/seam...

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

Very important info for eg women in violent relationships who maintain a secret phone. Please pass along.

A flowchart entitled “should you explain the thing to the lady”. The first text box reads “are you an expert or at least well informed”. If the answer is no the corresponding text box says “shh”. If answer is yes the flow chart proceeds to the next text box which reads “did she ask? “. If the answer is yes the corresponding text box says “go ahead”. It’s the answer is no the flow chart proceeds to the next text box reads “are you her tutor, teacher or other for her education?“. If the answer is no, the corresponding text box says “stop talking”. If the answer is yes, the flow chart proceeds to the next text box, “Does she already know what you’re about to say“. If the answer is no the corresponding text box says “explain away” if the answer is “I don’t know” the corresponding text box says “ask” if the answer is yes to “does she already know what you’re about to say” the corresponding text box reads “be quiet“

Bluesky needs this Twitter classic from @ellearmageddon.bsky.social.

this means you can post as brutally and defamatorily as you like about Streeting

microsoft, i do not not need a copilot, I AM NOT FLYING A PLANE, AND IF I WAS, THIS FUCKING THING WOULD NOT BE A HELP AT ALL

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one and no one wants to wake up and see Nigel Farage's.

There’s more!

Was watching this quite casually then got VERY invested

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you