Dean

Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.

Headline from the Toronto Star reading Opinion: We shouldn’t cull the Toronto Islands cormorants. We should give them their own island instead

I see Big Cormorant has entered the chat

Hate is a strong word, but I re-read it last year (having loved it when I first read it two decades ago) and couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about

I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR

Is it ego? I'm going with ego

I tweeted this 4 years ago and it keeps making the rounds 😂

This is the logo of the Architects Registration Board. Governing body of the profession we entrust with the expert design of our built environment. It's a dare, I reckon. "You, an idiot, think it's ugly. But trust us, it's beautiful. We DARE you to get it. Ha ha ha, you fucking clots. Ha ha ha..."

I used to love your twitter travelogues; the one from São Paulo made winter just that bit more bearable

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1972: Living in the BARBICAN | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

"Even a one-bedroom flat costs as much as £15 a week" 😭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvXp...

Thanks for sharing these photographs. I used to live right by Republic (still visit occasionally) and was curious about the buildings and the sculptures; looking forward to any future updates on their history.

A scene from the TV show Andor: concrete walkways on the Barbican estate with CGI elements making it look even more futuristic and dystopian (in a positive way) than it normally does

Barbican glowup in Andor

Genoa. It's reachable from London by train within a day, has loads of history (plus beaches). And its range of public transport oddities is impressive, including multiple funiculars, a narrow gauge railway to the mountains, and a lift that runs both horizontally and vertically.

I once tweeted that Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish had ‘the best head of hair at boardroom level in the Premier League’ and he followed me on there within 5 minutes.

I thought the same! But I just checked and it’s Vilnius, Lithuania

The plane I will accept as a bribe

Gallery with models of brutalist buildings and the words Strada Brutalissima written on the back wall

Prince could’ve had an even bigger hit if he’d gone with Brutalist Street instead of Alphabet Street

In September 1971, when the new Pope was 19 and at college in his home town of Chicago, Led Zeppelin played the Chicago Amphitheatre.
Don't tell me he didn't go to that gig.
#HousesOfTheHoly

Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" by a Liberal Party logo, Calvin says, "Life could be a lot better, too!" under an NDP logo, Calvin's dad says, "Life being worse builds character!" under a Conservative Party logo

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

Tomorrow everyone! 5pm London time. I have an Erskine subterranean Guggenheim beneath Soho Square to show. And @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social will be joining me for the after-chat

Might have something to do with the greater % of UK houses that are old, as in early 20th / late 19th century, compared with similar countries in the rest of Europe?

Also, we're just not very good at building houses: poor insulation and damp are a consistent problem here

A bus parked by a road with people and bikes waiting to board

A road tunnel with a vehicle driving through it. One lane is marked as a bus lane

Interior of a bus with people sitting and bikes stored

First trip on the Silvertown Tunnel cycle bus. I’d rate it 8.6/10

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...

Feels like this piece from The Onion is going to be getting a lot of airplay over the next four years theonion.com/trump-claims...

A copy of the book A History of the World in 37 Borders; in the background, the checkpoint in Nicosia between Cyprus and Turkish-controlled North Cyprus.

Reading that @jonnelledge.bsky.social borders book while looking at an actual border (although depending on who you ask, it might not technically be a border)

This is pretty much accurate (and I say that as someone from the south of England)

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Thames-side postcards: Millennium calling 📸🐻‍❄️

Would've disagreed until this latest Cobel-focused episode, which has cast a sour note over the entire series. Hoping it was just a blip.

Headline reading Linda McMahon Confirmed as US Secretary of Education above a photograph of McMahon in a wrestling ring kicking a man in the balls.

masterful juxtaposition of headline and image

Morrissey or Trump? 1. “For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace / And frankly, it shouldn’t have happened / That I can tell you / It shouldn’t have happened.” 2....

“This could only happen to me / Who has been through anything like this?”

Trump is the most American of Americans. A photonegative of our unchecked id, an unruly brat destroying for the sheer lust of negation – a brutal, willfully ignorant hollow man who comports to the worst stereotypes that before only seemed to be half-true. The rough beast, whose hour has come at last