Adam Gripton

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

? the math is not mathing here

such a power move to start the hymn Jerusalem with "and". All these other hymns are like "ooh hallelujah" and "ahh almighty" but Jerusalem's just like "WE'RE MIDWAY THROUGH A CONVERSATION ABOUT ANCIENT FEET. GET ON BOARD"

"Scholar" with at least one of the words. without the words. where my words occur. - Google

The internet is so full of AI slop poem generators that it's now surprisingly difficult to search for a simple tool to put poetic words onto a background, so you'll have to make do with my terrible attempts in Paint.

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk with at least one of the words. without the words. where my words occur

Weirdly poetic search result for Google Scholar's UK site

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

ZX Spectrum games taught my childhood self about Bach's Tocatta and Fugue (Riptoff), Mozart's Turkish March (Dynamite Dan) and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik's second movement (Whole New Ball Game), Strauss' Radetzky March (Technician Ted), and probably several others.

Hanlon's reply guy

where by "it" you mean your marriage

Yes. I remember exactly this happening with a Very Leftish acquaintance just after Brexit on Facebook. It's like I could feel his perverse relief of this unfiltered tirade of Rs he'd been bottling up. It's weird how it gets a free pass, it's an awful word.

I TOTALLY DID THAT TOO (on the deli)

BTC/USD 69k, around where it's been for the last few weeks or so

in this time of global geopolitical turmoil, we now go live to that vital decentralised store of value with which you can literally buy anything from a Mars bar to a house:

As the crow flies, the Palm Jumeirah is 156km from mainland Iran at its closest point; almost exactly the same distance as London to Calais.

How it started: "£40m of potential savings" (July 2025) www.lgcplus.com/politics/ken...

How it's going: Maybe we could sell off some of these paintings for *checks notes* £35,000

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today's squaredle:

Came here to post the same thing 😅 cheers for saving me the effort!

Some excellent advice here that shouldn't be necessary, but is. Inform thyselves:

Ah, excellent. Seems I'm not the only one who thinks this. Reassuring

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world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Post old memes to confuse young people

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Right, on to the next logical step: a turn-up-and-go 10-minute frequency 7-day service for Denton and Reddish South, with half-hourly night trains. That must be what the Greens are in favour of, right?

Morning Jonn. You can relax.

News that should surprise nobody with eyes to see.

Progressives desperately need a defence for this sort of shameful innuendo designed to undermine democracy.

It's already happened over there. We can't let it start over here now we've seen what it leads to.

a man in a chef 's hat with the words not great not terrible above him Alt: "Not great, not terrible."

Obligatory GIF reply

They'll be wanting their station back next.

Please do expect in future to get the occasional notification of my having quoted this at someone in some context.

It is both teeth-grindingly annoying and genuinely interesting that some people have really convinced themselves that *not* knowing something is a sign of wisdom and sophistication.

I am not inconsiderably John Major now, it seems

I hope they were on a lot of drugs when they came up with this.