Operation Eric Furry

My dad's dad is also notable for starting a huge row about posthumous entries at the local vegetable growing competition by dying at exactly the wrong time.

He lived near Gloucester for the last ten years of his career and everyone assumed when he said he was a civil servant that he meant he worked at GCHQ. He didn't.

My dad's dad was a shipyard plumber who ran a boxing gym and grew championship leeks in his spare time. My mum's dad was a motorcycle courier, sub postmaster and later in life, civil servant that everyone assumed worked in intelligence but he didn't.

CHOTINER: And you posted this?

ME: yeah.

CHOTINER: in the middle of the day?

ME: No, no, no. Look. Isaac. There are these things called time zones

Always a good day on Blue sky when we found out that another person we've probably not heard of is possessed of the sort of hubris that makes one agree to an Isaac Chotiner interview.

Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026

Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.

I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.

Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.

Erm. Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters, obviously. I am emphatically not accusing the great poet of half-arsing it.

Many parents looking briefly at Amazon and going "fuck it, there's a half-arsed tie-in book. You can go as Rumi"

For the first time in ages, my kid actually wants to go as a character that originated in a book, rather than a Pokemon or something. Trikey from @neillcameron.bsky.social's Mega Robo Bros, as it happens.

Rough luck for Keir Starmer to cop for a new Profumo scandal on top of everything else.

Feminists for ages: women should not be defined by their biology.

Terfs: I hope you can demonstrate that you've got large gamete pathways if you're thinking of coming in here.

You never hear anyone saying "forensic" these days...

I keep saying to people at work who ask if ChatGPT could write my reports faster: the writing is where the thinking happens.

I suppose emptily aping the Greens is an improvement on emptily aping Reform.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

It’s like Dunkirk for people who murmur “Like and Subscribe” in their sleep.

“Please, Ayatollah Khamenei was my father. Call me Ayatollah Khamenei.”

I jest but it's probably not a great sign if a product needs a "just in case it breaks your mind" failsafe.

You're right - it does say that your emergency contact is your wife. My bad, I will not email the content of our chat to your work's HR director next time.

Really? That doesn't sound like Keir Starmer at all.

Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound

this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda corvid haters unfollow immediately

Have they tried walking up at 4am and putting their head in a bowl of ice water about it?

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

Thing about Trump is, he's a cunt. Yes, a fascist, a monster, a crook, all that. But strip away all the power and the trappings and everything he's been or done and at the root of it you will still have just a pitiful cunt.

Hold up—was this not true, then??

just to get out ahead of any "what do you mean we" commentary. we produce guys like this in greater numbers than any civilization in history. there is currently no plan whatsoever to stop making guys. we should have a plan. we need to hobble these guys with crippling taxes and restrict their rights

Not getting tired any time soon, that.