Tim Lyons

BBC Yorkshire: Five fall ill with E. coli at beauty spot

“Are you sure the meat paste sandwiches are fine?” asked Dick, “Joan the housekeeper made them a week ago”.
“You’ll eat them anyway, you tubby bastard,” Anne replied. And she was right, they all ate them.

Excerpt from Five Get the Squirts (Enid Blyton, 1951)

the last American president to actually *do the surrendering* like Trump is proposing was Jefferson Davis.

Bloke is in some Ngo Dinh Diem areas I would have thought.

The Liberal Party of Australia is a mean-spirited party of privilege. That's it really.

I don't think "confusion about their purpose and values" was the problem. A bunch of people got a roughly clear look for once and went *WTF?*

Did you learn to reverse park without PS? That is the test.

I don't think I could produce a birth certificate if asked without figuring out whatever the rules are to get an old one in a State I haven't lived in for 40+ years. (My privilege, and that is the point of course.)

Will now show up if you search "Weird Al Moka Pot Disaster"

Here's one I took some years ago

There was a time when you reliably get, with a few clicks, a photo of the bridge framing Jade Dragon Snow Mt, or an obscure quote from Althusser you sort of remembered, or a reliable way to clean a burnt Moka pot and they .......... borked it. Deliberately.

"a brand-new physics framework......a 3-D model of a bong" I mean get on the plane to Stockholm buddy you are collecting the big prize

Melbourne's best Brutalist building is probably the Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union

That was a shocking building TBH. Went to some 90's ALP Conferences and an ACTU Congress in it.

Cinemas asking for "birth certificates" if someone wants to have a piss. Insane.

Australia Mentioned!!!!!

That and a dash of Clamato is called a “Miami Cappuccino”

Push message from reddit: Gout is not your fault

I have been on internet for so long that it stopped giving me “milfs in your area need some wd40” ads ten years ago and now I get this shit by push.

Today. All the Smart People are doing it.

Chat GPT may be the worst thing done to a generation of kids since the Somme.

This seems fine………

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

The thing that gets to me about this is not that it's stupid (it is) or even that it could become dangerous (it could), but that so many people who do really difficult, important things are struggling while these people have infinite money for doing nothing.

www.ft.com/content/0e24...

He's gonna come back from meeting Putin having *given away* most of Lithuania and part of Poland to "restore Kaliningrad's borders"

Not even the back of a beer coaster!

"Beyond Ignites Curiosity" is, even if spelt correctly, just an embarrassing thing to say.

I'm going to give dogs dog autism so they can play Factorio with me.

New level of dystopia achieved: A state Supreme Court has announced a death sentence ruling via an AI spokesman

pick up please urgent

Style-guide changed "Race Riot" to "anti-migrant protest"

Yep. I do work with a bunch of orgs and am on boards and the whole thing is deeply age and gender coded.

100%. Catch the train in to a hot desk. Feel valued.