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Meme of missiles heading towards a city at night as anti-missile defense is released. The defense is labeled "my tax dollars." The missiles are labeled "somehow also my tax dollars."

Evergreen

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be.

Fuck off, Labour.

Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further. The 1999 Toyota Corolla. Let's talk about features. Bluetooth: nope Sunroof: nope Fancy wheels: nope Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn. Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End. You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up. This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children. Things this car is old enough to do: Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes Rent a car: it IS a car This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would. Interesting facts: This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey. In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional." When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey. Favorite food: spaghetti Favorite tv show: Alf Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine." Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla. Google map of cars location

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

The outdated theory that caused the world to make a big Covid misstep A “scientific fallacy” underpinned early ideas about how Covid was spreading, leading to mistakes in prevention and control.

Gosh we've been waiting so long for some acknowledgement of this www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will Based on the true story of amateur sleuths appalled at the dumping of sewage in our rivers, this drama starring David Thewlis is a blast of controlled fury – and could become the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will

It's insane that only 7000 people have signed this.

That’s really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Facing the start of WW3 putting out pretty spring displays in a little indie bookstore cos sanity does what sanity does

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

The BBC is a fucking joke

An article about how awesome Candystand dot com is, written contemporaneously

Ahh, I love everything about this article from November 1999...Real journalism, folks!

I thought so too. We did meet some UK people out and about the town and beach, but an awful lot of the expats didn’t seem to leave the complex.

If they did their shopping onsite they were missing out on some great food and wine at the local supermarket.

The NYT style guide

Nice to be clamping down on refugees just when we’re participating in a war that will create hundreds of thousands of new refugees.

Author's own graph of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary election results in 2019, 2024, and 2026. It compares the progressive votes of Lib Dem, Labour, and Green with the right-wing votes of Conservatives and Reform. In 2024 it has a separate column for the Workers' Party. It highlights that the progressive vote has always been significantly higher than the right-wing vote.

Yes, the Greens had a historic win - but largely because they switched from Labour.

Reform consolidated the Right Wing vote and clearly managed to pick up some new voters

So it's weird to see how adamant they are that they only lost because of some form of "cheating"

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

Photograph of a cat wearing a winged helmet and breastplate armor in the role of the valkyrie Brünnhilde from the opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. 1936. Adolph Edward Weidhaas.

“Oh … you’re so wuvwy”

Sounds like my friend’s Dad. He wasn’t an expat, but a regular holiday visitor because he loved the area.

After that one pub night, we stuck to the town’s offerings instead. Or hit up the amazing local supermarket for goodies for a rooftop barbecue. You’d have loved the lamb :)

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

I first saw this in Spain when a bunch of us went to an apartment complex where a friend’s dad had an apartment.

Huge complex outside the town, with a shop, pub and community centre. We went to a charity quiz in the pub and with the food, drink and accents you’d have sworn you were in England.

Can we finally bury any notion that the "legitimate concerns" about immigration relate to "integration". This proposal makes integration practically impossible.

Top: Pete Hegseth — suit snug, hair oiled, buzz on — signing a missile on Arsenal of Freedom tour. The sign is half cut off, though, so it reads The ARSE of FRE Bottom: the surface of the missile, which reads “Maybe it's the beer talking, Marge, but you've got a butt that won't quit. They've got these big, chewy pretzels here... meddanrtargym... five dollars?! Get outta here!”

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

footprints in the snow on a mosque roof

Cats have been on the roof of the mosque

Ugh. Time to get the fumigators/exorcists in.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

This post is a good example of why I developed a Vinted habit.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.