Mel of the Valley

Dudes, isn’t it TIRING to perform fake stories and to try and guess what words will release the jackpot?

Wouldn’t it be more relaxing to just have a genuine interest and chat, connect, ask questions?

The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.

Never a days goes by without me feeling gratitude to my Dad and his mates for imbueing in me a love of sport. Honestly, whatever your obsession is, if it stirs the soul it's hardly pointless. These clips, in no particular order, have all enriched me.

The French couple dancing to Bjork…

Just sayin’

Watching the free dance couple this evening and I love that there is a move called “the twizzles”

This looks fun!

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

(The Swiss do not have a Prime Minister)

Bad Bunny halftime show: 128.2 milion viewers
Kid Rock halftime show: 6.1 million viewers

"Culture war" may be a misnomer, honestly.

Oh this sucks!

He was so good!

Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.

By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.

What??

Yeah, if I do a thing that needs investigating, I try to do it on one of the most watched pieces of TV of the year...

Tesco with its self-service tills, paying low wages to staff, who are then being subsidised by taxes via in-work benefits, and yet has a projected operating profit of over £3 billion, pays it's executives millions and has a shareholder base largely made up of institutional investors.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Reminds me of when Raab realised that Britain was an island and Calais was thus quite important…

I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

Ooh, first time I scrolled, it was green and grey. Now I have a white rather than yellow light on, it’s pink and white!

It has arrived! Super speedy 😀

Thanks again to donor and bookseller, I’m looking forward to reading this 🖼️ 📚

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

This is first and foremost where the focus of the story should be. Of men, misogyny, and power.

I have always specifically hated this part of my city and the world, the "gentleman's clubs" that are sadly part of the same thing.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

4 panel comic Panel 1: Pink Guy holds up a stack of paper and says: I’m a writer, could you read my manuscript? Yellow Guy, walking dismissively out of shot: gross no Panel 2: Robot moves into shot. A panel in its stomach is full of scraps of text. Robot snatches manuscript from pink guy and says: Gimmie that Panel 3: Robot stuffs manuscript into its mouth Panel 4: Robot bends over and proceeds to shoot a sludge of disgusting paper mulch into Yellow Guy’s smiling open mouth

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

MS NOW confirms: Trump conditioned releasing funding for the Gateway infrastructure project on whether Leader Schumer would support renaming Washington-Dulles International Airport and Penn Station after Trump.

At first I thought this table was a joke. But no, the proposals to restore the Houses of Parliament really are costed at a min of £8.4b and to take 19 yrs; max, £19.4b and 84 yrs. A normal country would go: that's absurd. Let's build a new one for a billion.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I hope it goes without saying that the best way for the UK to prevent a Prime Minister Farage is for Labour to govern well, not for everyone to just keep quiet about how much they're fucking up in the hopes the country doesn't notice.