Do you really honestly believe this?

Why did I check the quote tweets on this? I knew they were going to depress me, just wall to wall people who are going to be poorer than they should be in old age who think that “invest more in stocks and shares ISAs” is some kind of spiv’s charter and not, you know, important advice.

all feels so very retro doesn't it - 'don't talk about this! if you talk about this you are x/y/z! here's a snarky dunk to top it off'. Brings back fond memories of the sunny summer of 2018, which I spent largely looking at tweets on my phone

This website is the last bunker of a dying, redundant pre-disposition. I don't think a genuinely useful microblogging platform actually exists anymore, it's a dead medium.

My first turn as an actor was treading the boards in a Year 5 production of Othello at (my very diverse) CofE primary school (in Zone 2 of NW London).

I was cast as Othello.

WOOOOOO THE NEW ONE HATES HIM TOO

Ever find yourself feeling beaten down by the infinite procession of bad news and disappointment that makes following the goings-on of this world such a bleak task? I recommend simply getting two gorgeous kittens. You will certainly not regret getting two gorgeous kittens.

Thelonious Monk
#jazz #jazzsky #music #musicsky

Bumper stickers: "CLUNGE MAGNET" (pic of magnet) "LEST WE FORGET" (pic of sad soldier)

Amazing scenes in the carpark today.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en Let's say you're a US citizen and ICE grabs you off the street and puts you on a plane to Mongolia. Don't you just go to your consulate, give them your name, date of birth, etc., they make you a new passport, and you fly home? They do this all day for tourists who had their stuff & ID stolen, there are procedures. I mean obviously it sucks to have that happen to you but it's not like your life is over or anything. And the government should definitely write you a nice check as an apology. 3:13 PM • 4/16/25

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.

Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers
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"Oh no", says Reeves unconvincingly, "Please wealthy pensioners, please don't spend your savings now, I would hate that"

Presume the HMT/OBR communication over the last few weeks has looked a bit like this.

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

We’d have to stand for Khalil even if he was a shmuck who believed vile things, but the fact is he sounds like an exceptionally decent guy.

Many of the scientists that the Trump administration is defunding and persecuting will be working on strategically important technologies and research areas. The UK and other European countries should urgently establish programmes to bring those researchers here.

A big coach leaving Highbury Corner every Saturday morning for a guided walking tour of Britain’s most conspicuously dismal little towns, filled with the anthropologically-minded affluent. Refreshments provided.

Surely after ten years of these columns, he could find a better way to monetise his shit towns day tripper hobby

Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people.

The face of a kitten who awoke yesterday morning in a cage in an adoption centre, and awoke this morning in a large box-bed in a middle class couple’s flat

Slightly awkward that our two new cats both seem to gravitate towards me the most. not like I’m smug about it though

Why would you spend £500 to look like a bellboy?

My son is afraid a hummingbird might rip through his body at 9000mph. Can any professionals on here tell him he is stupid and full of shit

If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me?

It did....

i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest

This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way

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And it’s like, I’m not a hardliner at all on any of these issues, which is why twitter is unusable now because it’s ruled by groypers and freaks, but Bluesky is only marginally more useful as an information diet cause it’s just negatively polarised the other way

Yeah I’m seeing retrenchment of moribund modes of politics [‘labour will only win the next election if they emulate Lib Dem signalling’ is my fav today] and tellingly twitchy horror at adjusting systems currently producing outcomes population clearly hates, e.g. net migration, public service reform

Second day in Warsaw: this is a great city that is very obviously thriving. Safe, buzzy, very good public transport, impressive architecture. Big fan!

POSIWID etc