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"Mike Johnson is a fucking liar."
— God

Pets of the Barnes Foundation Museum in Philadelphia

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

Bad orchard MORE LIKE.

Headline from the (extremely right wing) Daily Telegraph: "Unmasked: Inflatable frog tormenting ICE is non-binary ‘Antifa terrorist’"

Three cheers for the inflatable frog!

I love this! One of my faves:
THE RUSSIAN SOUL #2

Higgledy-piggledy,
Anna Karenina
Went off her feed and just
Couldn’t relax.

Then, quite ignoring the
Unsuitability,
Threw in the sponge and was
Scraped off the tracks. (John Hollander)

I do love a double dactyl

(here's one I prepared earlier, as they say)

Higgledy-Piggledy
Old Alexandros was
Taken aback by a
Girl and her charms;
Shame on his rendering
Petroperpetual -
Slips with the chisel meant
Farewell to arms.

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

👉 ICE thugs.

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

Classic body down, heads up pose for a nuthatch. He's holding on to a single small branch.

The bird directly over me but in horrible light! Nice feather detail tho.

got to maintain those flight feathers. the bird preening.

Habitat and the classic pose.

I found a White Breasted Nuthatch today... and got to watch it for a good 5 minutes or more. aka... Forever in bird viewing. #birds 😂

Netanyahu openly says he "supports the idea of a 'Greater Israel,' which is a batshit crazy idea, which some people used to say was a conspiracy theory on the far right."

Me to Piers Morgan on his show today.

Full show: youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

Mousecow has been rummaging through her hooman's games and has picked out a disk that she thinks will be very good and would like to play and no you cannot touch you play by sitting on.
#EverybodyLovesMousecow

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Suspect it's easy to be dismissive of other people's "incuriosity" when your own intellectual curiosity has been materially facilitated by a shit ton of money (and the access/cultural capital it buys) over six decades

"The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is." -Stephen Fry

I think this is dismissive - many people have curiosity removed from them through childhood - leaving school believing science , poetry, art - are not things they are allowed to be part of and terrified that if they try to engage they will be admonished for not understanding things the “right” way

Agree. Fry is a snobbish prick anyway.

The sound of bollocks

It's like a Brass Eye meets Nathan Barley meets The Handmaid's Tale.

If America is shut down we should sneak in and change their spellings back to the correct English ones, and replace the missing 'u' in their words.

The Met are always very efficient in arresting peaceful protestors. Strangely inefficient at arresting pissed and coked up flag shagging racists though.

I was having a lovely weekend - bit drunk with friends friday, hungover brunch, did some writing, went to the theatre - and ten minutes on the internet this morning has been enough to me realise I was only in a good mood because I hadn't looked at the news. We are so fucked. Turbofucked.

Parti en promenade. Point

#JamaisSansPoésie

Once again, we see the need for an AI-powered "real-time" #FactCheck ticker along the bottom of the screen, or interviewer's tablet, when it detects an untruth...

*We* all know this is a lie by Philp, so there's really no excuse for the interviewer (or the directors voice in his ear) not knowing.

Amazingly, they're still selling the books at the conference.

Books that call:
Cameron: "A lightly glazed polyp"
May: "Vogon Poetry in Motion"
Johnson: "Darth Bagpuss"
Truss: "ITV4 made flesh"
Rishi Sunak: "A chatbot with the hair of a Lego Elvis"

... and list every fuck-up they committed

Once Upon A Time On A Lane A few of you - but probably not loads - will have read this before but, while I put a few finishing touches to a new piece ready for Sunday, I wanted to post it again, in slightly spruced up form, for...

I've decided to make this piece permanently unpaywalled, as a sample of the writing I do on my newsletter. If you like it, you might enjoy a subscription. If not, you probably won't.

P.S. It's significantly better if you read it to the end, I promise.

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.