Steve
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Reading an article this morning about Hitler's tiny penis scientists wondering if they found out he had a monster hog would they have kept it a secret or would love of science win the day
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reading an article this morning about Hitler's tiny penis scientists wondering if they found out he had a monster hog would they have kept it a secret or would love of science win the day
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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The Screwtape Letters is a premium feature, lads.
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Screwtape Letters is a premium feature, lads.
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This is such a beautiful illustration of the whole Your Party fiasco, AI generated art romanticising a bygone age of “proper” labour.
Join me, Alan Mardghum, Heather Wood and others for Your Party’s rally with the Durham Miners Association!
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
🌹Saturday 15 November, 1pm
🌹 Pitman’s Parliament, Durham Miners’ Association, DH1 4BB
Tickets are first come first serve, so don’t miss out: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-party...
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is such a beautiful illustration of the whole Your Party fiasco, AI generated art romanticising a bygone age of “proper” labour.
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Terry and June economics. Thread:
Me watching Terry and June at 2:30am: THAT HOUSE IS PROBABLY WORTH MILLIONS NOW.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Terry and June economics. Thread:
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Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
Issue for Labour now isn't whether they break their manifesto pledge on tax. It is whether they do so in a way which is blatant, honest but sustainable - or whether they do so by a myriad of complex and likely insufficient means whilst arguing they are not.
Imho, one seems more toxic than the other
Imho, one seems more toxic than the other
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yes, I think this is what the “it’s smart not to do income tax” stuff is missing. If you remove salary sacrifice on someone’s pension contributions you are increasing their income tax! If you freeze thresholds you are increasing their income tax!
Radio Paradise playing Pink Floyd’s Run Like Hell, oh yes
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Radio Paradise playing Pink Floyd’s Run Like Hell, oh yes
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This is why I thought they'd back off. But because they made the pledge all the options are shit.
Too much analysis was still treating breaking the tax pledge as “just another unpopular decision” rather than recognising consequence of breaking a promise which defined an election for the public. If is correct the govt won’t now break it they may have avoided a deeply scarring loss of public trust
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is why I thought they'd back off. But because they made the pledge all the options are shit.
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A tour of the mysterious Dr. Phene's house in Chelsea, 1912, which was brimful of antique oddities. A scholar & collector, it was said that there was a mortuary for cats in the walls & that Queen Victoria had visited. After his death, the ornate abode was demolished in 1920, tho' his legend lingered
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A tour of the mysterious Dr. Phene's house in Chelsea, 1912, which was brimful of antique oddities. A scholar & collector, it was said that there was a mortuary for cats in the walls & that Queen Victoria had visited. After his death, the ornate abode was demolished in 1920, tho' his legend lingered
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Beano #488, Nov 24, 1951
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Beano #488, Nov 24, 1951
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I will need £1 for the socks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I will need £1 for the socks.
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Tired: em dash (long literary pedigree; now terminally associated with AI gotchas).
Wired: Frankendash (a nameless mode of naming the unnameable; gothic af; hey AI bros, let's see _your_ ungodly creation do _this_).
Wired: Frankendash (a nameless mode of naming the unnameable; gothic af; hey AI bros, let's see _your_ ungodly creation do _this_).
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tired: em dash (long literary pedigree; now terminally associated with AI gotchas).
Wired: Frankendash (a nameless mode of naming the unnameable; gothic af; hey AI bros, let's see _your_ ungodly creation do _this_).
Wired: Frankendash (a nameless mode of naming the unnameable; gothic af; hey AI bros, let's see _your_ ungodly creation do _this_).
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James Bond discourse reminds me that an ex's nan sat in solemn silence through the whole of Austin Powers, then said "Well I don't see how he gets all those women"
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
James Bond discourse reminds me that an ex's nan sat in solemn silence through the whole of Austin Powers, then said "Well I don't see how he gets all those women"
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Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but
I don’t suppose you have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley
It is rather old
I don’t suppose you have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley
It is rather old
What's JR Hartley doing up a tree in the video for XTC's "Dear God"?
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but
I don’t suppose you have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley
It is rather old
I don’t suppose you have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley
It is rather old
I’ve just learned that Kwasi Kwarteng has written three poems in Latin about Donald Trump. See pp108-9 of issue 15 of Vates, The Journal of New Latin Poetry vatesblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
vatesblog.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I’ve just learned that Kwasi Kwarteng has written three poems in Latin about Donald Trump. See pp108-9 of issue 15 of Vates, The Journal of New Latin Poetry vatesblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
‘Digital’. Hmm. ‘Designed for MEN of action’
Nov 1974: Digital Wrist Watch ad from Readers Advertising Bargain Company
(+18ct Gold Plated Digital Wrist-watch; Chrome Plated Digital Wrist-watch; and Backgammon Set)
«Special Offers to Every Reader!»
(+18ct Gold Plated Digital Wrist-watch; Chrome Plated Digital Wrist-watch; and Backgammon Set)
«Special Offers to Every Reader!»
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
‘Digital’. Hmm. ‘Designed for MEN of action’
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Gene Kelly looking effortlessly cool & content outside Glasgow Central railway station, 1953. Photographer unknown.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Gene Kelly looking effortlessly cool & content outside Glasgow Central railway station, 1953. Photographer unknown.
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One of my favourite pop facts is that the oboe on Tanita's stupendous Twist in My Sobriety was played by Malcolm Messiter, whose dad Ian invented Just a Minute. #totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
One of my favourite pop facts is that the oboe on Tanita's stupendous Twist in My Sobriety was played by Malcolm Messiter, whose dad Ian invented Just a Minute. #totp
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
A Friday crossword by Pasquale will always teach you quite a few new words. Tough but fair, as is his wont www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Cryptic crossword No 29,846
Cryptic crossword No 29,846
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A Friday crossword by Pasquale will always teach you quite a few new words. Tough but fair, as is his wont www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
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First rate “posed for local news” picture.
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First rate “posed for local news” picture.
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Tune in at 18:10 to see Thora Hird founding Antifa in Went The Day Well
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Tune in at 18:10 to see Thora Hird founding Antifa in Went The Day Well