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New Channel 4 sitcom just dropped

It's kind of interesting how the "the Brits are the big bads of European and world history!" sentiment feels so profoundly informed by the very world war that basically ended British dominance of the world.

France was a major colonial & military power & many of its former colonies are worse off!

The vicar walked into the pulpit like "this week's Gospel reading is the longest one of the year, and I'd love to preach on it, but apparently some idiots think they're starting a holy war to bring about the second coming of Christ so I've really got to address that right now..."

A label printing joke.

I've shared this before, but it always makes me laugh. The pettiness of the joke.

Soldier low key the weirdest job because in most respects its no different than being any other kind of flunky for a large organization except occasionally you have to kill people because the host of Celebrity Apprentice got bored.

To coin a phrase, the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘President Trump will be holding an unscheduled press conference’

Comic. [Person with long hair announcing news. There are images of a sun with a smiley face labelled “last week” and a sun with a frowny face labeled “today.”] PERSON: A warning for solar flares and geomagnetic storms has been issued after new images from the solar and heliospheric observatory show that the big smiley face on the sun has turned into a frown.

Solar Warning

xkcd.com/3215/

I think we should separate the art from the artist by spinning the artist really really fast.

I think we should separate the art from the artist by heating the artist until the art fraction boils off.

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

God, their ads at this point might as well just say "DATA DASHBOARDS FOR INSECURE MEN WITH SMALL PENISES", it would surely save us all some time.

I think it was Galbraith who said something like the American revolutionaries did not want taxation without representation, but what is less mentioned is that they did not want taxation with representation either

Baby-brain nonsense to pretend this a matter of personal courage from the captains and crew, and not the straight-forward economics of prohibitively astronomical insurance costs.

Also, easy to be vicariously brave about sailing a giant floating bomb under Shaheds when you're safe in a Fox studio.

Grand Fleet Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, with cat ears and a tail.

what the subway ad said:
"Cats: The Jellicle Ball"

my costume, having critically misread the above:

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

It’s as if 400 people were simply euthanized by the passive voice. Doubleplusgood.

> @talsmith.bsky.social

I sometimes wonder whether there are people who have never experienced the web as a place with URLs and pages and have only experienced Web pages within apps or using social media as if it were a search engine for Web pages. If there are, that'd explain a lot about AI use for researching stuff

If I was the Housing Secretary I’d probably google something like “is making cement energy intensive?”

Drive less to save fuel, motorists told

This is genuinely leading the Telegraph homepage

So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

The discovery of the man, who was wearing nothing but a £200 XXL wetsuit, sparked extensive police searches and international appeals, but no loved ones have ever come forward.

"The wetsuit that he was wearing was classed as an XXL size which gave us a weight range of approximately 200 to 220 pounds," Ponting said.

In today's episode of 'BBC journalists misunderstanding stuff': at the start of this article I wondered what the price of the wetsuit had to do with it, then towards the end all became clear.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.

We're running out of sky If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia

We're running out of sky.

If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia.

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half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016

Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.

I think it’s like FM, but sometimes there’s cricket?