Jonathan Username

If I ran a bellringing group in north Yorkshire I'd call it Ripon Bongs

Madness

This is probably a naive take but why can't we have immigration bargaining like wage bargaining. Publish the figures the NHS and care system need, issue Care Visas or some such marketing rot and do some id card nonsense to back it up. My inner liberal hates it but it might be hard to denigrate.

"We like to drive in England", incredible arrogance to speak for the whole country. I reckon this "cultural thing" was different when Bristol was covered in railways, not highways. Naturally, Bath's pedestrianisation has ruined it and now no one comes and no businesses survive there... Blinkered!

A clay model of a house dating to around 1700 BCE and found in Archanes, Crete. The house has a balcony, an inner corridor and a large central room. On display in the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion in Crete #crete #minoans #ancientcrete #archaeology

A headline that reads "Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change".

Four maps. 2015, 2017, which shoe substantial pollution, 2020 which shows it reduced a good deal, and 2024 which shows it reduced even more

Worth sharing

Good on you. Ghost has an undeserved reputation as an easy install. It's a modern wordpress.

Maybe they misread it as caramelized unions?

Monte Cristo? No, this is The Monte Carlo Sandwich. I randomly sample fillings and cooking techniques, averaging out how nauseous I eventually feel.

He really looks like Putin in the 90s

Anecdotally I'd say Stroud and Bath, at least south of Gloucester. But there's few people in the Cotswolds in absolute terms anyway. Perhaps more broadly I'd say it's the demographic of Fabians who live near a Gail's.

Ho-Ho-Hobbes

"Wot did you fackin' say to me, Telemachus?"

Ah, a limp and flaccid response. Yes. I'll leave it there.

Oh they have actually improved it. Finally I can see the location of the buses on my route again.

May I ask what deadscroll refers to? Scroll-jacking?

Build new good houses and let the old crap stuff become affordable. I'm tired of our housing stock getting smaller and worse for the vague fig-leaf of "affordability". If we have to have new developments, at least make them worth it.

Black cat on a duvet, staring into the distance, ignoring the photographer

Cats on duvets! But many, like mine, could never be relaxed like this for more than a nanosecond before hearing a tectonic gurgle or maybe an ectoplasmic raindrop, and snapping awake, staring urgently in a seemingly arbitrary direction - halting unspeakable ghouls through their constant vigilance.

Extremely obese cockney called Barry Hat-Trick

Bluesky rhymes with brewski

As my grandma sadly indelibly remarked "there's only one way to shag in an e type and that's over the bonnet"

The European centrist party
The rural left
The "sane" free marketeers (orange book)
The cuddly bumpkin progressives
Socdem Lite
The most definitive characteristic of the Lib Dems is that they can't decide what they are or how small their tent should ideally be

Are you on 3 by any chance? I'm seriously considering changing phone carrier for an unrelated reason and I wonder if some networks are better than others. I know the lack of masts is the main issue, but is there variance between providers?

Nathan Barley isn't a satire of hipsters, it's a satire of investors. Now I've realised this I can't let it go.

Ah, is that a tracker collar? How many have been lost so far? Our running score is 3.

GOP should know when to fold, Trump is a busted flush. Harris/Walz have played their cards right from the moment we knew this pair would run. Let's hope they get a full house... of representatives. Yeah that's as much as I can do.

For some reason it reminds me of the video of a kid brandishing a toy sword and declaring "I have the power of God AND Anime on my side"

I thought the same, but perhaps just a misogynist. Or given the proclivity for confusion she could be both.

Spaghetti all'assassina. It sounds cool, feels wrong, and it's fun and fairly easy to make.

Alternatively for banal updates when people talk about issues on "the main road" or some scandal that could be local and you discover they're on the other side of the country and wonder why that message popped up in your feed anyway.

I miss an accurate location tag for a different reason. It was useful to see accounts appearing to deeply care about the minutiae of British politics and yet be based in Texas. Not that they can't or shouldn't, but it tended to be a useful signal.