“Dude, Where’s My Copper Ingots”

Happy St Barbara’s Day @misssavoy.bsky.social, Patron Saint of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and having your father blown up. A santabárbara is the Spanish word for the powder magazine in a galleon.

1) What the actual fuck how did this just get normalised in the space of three years…. Oh yeah everyone just hanging out on Twitter like boiling frogs

2) not broadcast, as they aren’t quite ready to push Ofcom on this. This is the “good stuff” for unregulated YouTube.

A Manticore with the caption "I am not a toy. I am not a pet. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 400 year commitment."

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

Symmetry between Stalin/Hitler pact and Trump/Putin pact is incredible. And it’s always about Ukraine and controlling world food

Russians are literally writing US foreign policy, they have more power projection in DC than in Kyiv LMAO

Would have been the best naval shitposter in history

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is now available in the UK! North American release January 6. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

RFK Jr. and the inexplicable appeal of repulsive men How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.

RFK Jr. and the inexplicable appeal of repulsive men

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.

Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

A beautiful stormbeach Goniatite fossil, polished by Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.

"Evening Light" - my oil painting

A dirt road near Loch Turret in Scotland. There are mountains around the Loch.

Gods, Scotland is so beautiful.

The Ethiopian saint Samuel of Waldebba riding a lion while carrying a hand cross and a prayer staff.

St Samuel of Waldǝbbā on a deep purple background hits hard 🦁

Ethiopia, 19th c. #saint #samuel #waldebba #lion #ethiopiansaint #africansaint #africanart

norman rockwell’s famous “freedom of speech” oil painting

an old jacket in a glass case, which belonged to the model in the painting

guys I’m off this week … went to the norman rockwell museum. found the meme in real life — and his jacket

Periodic reminder to everyone that no history book should be longer than 250 pages except mine.

I always feel a bit disappointed if a history book or other non-fiction isn't at least 400 pages. Like I'm not getting value for money.
I am, however, a simpleton. So really, I don't think my opinion should weigh heavily on the minds of authors and publishers.

Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Stamp & Shrimpton.. the essence of swinging London 1965. #TerenceStamp

If it makes you feel less alone, it's why I could never do day drinking. Because if I had one drink, I would have to *keep* drinking, as when even the mild effect of one drink wore off, I felt intolerable.
Day booze has to be a session running into night, elsewise, trouble.

Had a cocktail for lunch and was basically in a coma for 3 hours. Remind me why I don’t do day drinking.

There are white people living in the exurbs of SE Pennsylvania who have never been into Philadelphia and never will because they are convinced that if they did they would be immediately murdered by scary brown people.

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

@StephenM on X: The threat being made here by Mayor Bass is explicit. The Mayor of LA is effectively saying the mob violence is caused by the mere presence of ICE in the city and the violence against ICE will not stop unless federal law enforcement is withdrawn from the city. This is the definition of insurrection. LA and CA leadership demand the right to illegally import unlimited foreigners into America, to control America’s entire immigration policy by fiat — and if they are not so permitted they will allow mobs to target ICE with impunity. Los Angeles and California are demanding the nullification of the election results, of federal law, of national sovereignty, and of the bedrock constitutional command of one national government.

I know it's super inconvenient for everyone trying to go to work and get the kids into summer camps and all that, but the White House is literally trying to start a civil war

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

A new series of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum! in which Lofty and the gang shoot Gandhi bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...