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Everyone is focussing on the wrong thing here… assuming the proportions hold true, Catherine Connolly’s ascent to the presidency is going to result in a pair of dogs of a size previously thought impossible

You give that man his full title, Dr The Beast didn’t go to mutant medical school for nothing!

I always assumed that Bananaman’s age was constant. Fifty year old Eric turns into the same indeterminate aged Bananaman

I’m sure someone will be along shortly to explain that the total wattage required by all of human history to produce Ed Zitron was very high also.

The office of president as a sort of educational aid is an interesting concept…

Dracula 2000?

You’re a star, I’ll send a doc around lunchtime when I have a few!

Apropos of nothing, but would you mind reading (and making some notes on) something for me? Approx 2k words!

Whispering as the knife slides in, “CMAT sends her regards.”

There’s only one way to find out!

Only 430 new mails! We’re gonna make it!

About to do the same after almost a month off and genuinely dreading it. Making a preparatory pot of coffee

I don’t believe in the politics of left and right; everyone should simply band together behind me, a totally normal very wealthy man, and together we can pursue my totally apolitical goals

Listening to this on a beach in the south of France and let me tell you… song of the summer

To be fair, they also have in common that their most appreciated work is long behind them, and their modern stuff so addled we to be sort of embarrassing

I wonder if Rodney Dangerfield ever used the “Danger is my middle name” line

I think I saw it explained as having started out as “GAA for Mas” but changed because they wanted to be more inclusive of people who weren’t anyone’s mamaí

Someone told me recently that AI art scandals have become a real witch hunt, and with that in mind I just want to have it on the record that I saw Goody Altman conferring with the profane intelligences at midnight

I see they’re proposing cutting the minimum size of a one bedroom apartment to 32m², presumably because the current crisis is a result of our lavish, lavish standards

Went to Sweden, enjoyed a sauna and this view

Noticed something similar when I checked out Apple Music for offline listening. It’s a real pleasure to have really high quality sound

That’s just his hair

I heard that the man in the incognito window is wearing a trenchcoat and nothing else

Attenborough voice: And, as the empire finally collapses, there is nowhere else for it to turn its colonial instinct, but on itself

This is especially interesting in a time when fiction is playing more with those elements in ways the web allows for (thinking of John Bois’ 17776 and Sarah Pinsker’s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”).

Writer traps fan in new novel in unexpected reverse-Tristram-Shandy gambit

“Is there any chance this could negatively impact the most vulnerable among us?”

“Absolutely!”

Half a simile, rather than a metaphor

Young people can no longer afford the premium narcotics and are reduced to veterinary supplies :(

“You expect me, expect this court, this jury, to believe that a bee… a bumbling bee, bopped this specific bop-ba-bad-op-bo?”

“Ski-bi-dibbt-dip, yo-da-d—“

Slamming hands down on the table, “Mister Scatman! I remind you, you are under oath!”