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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”
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I think boxing is an abhorrent blood sport, but I also love watching YouTube dickheads get punched to chum with terror in their eyes. You can really see the kind of bind I am in.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I think boxing is an abhorrent blood sport, but I also love watching YouTube dickheads get punched to chum with terror in their eyes. You can really see the kind of bind I am in.
When I was six, I forgot how to spell the word if.
At infants school if you didn't know the spelling you went to the teacher with your spell notebook and asked them to spell the word for you. I am still mortified at the memory of me asking her how to spell I. The letter I.
December 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
When I was six, I forgot how to spell the word if.
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Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hi. Court reporter here again. I can confirm about a third of local cases I see are domestic abuse of women and girls. Where do you think the men start? And almost every columnist tells you to look elsewhere.
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Raising a glass to James Moulden (my 5th great grandad) who smashed up a thrashing machine in 1830 and served 12 months hard labour in Devizes prison.
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Raising a glass to James Moulden (my 5th great grandad) who smashed up a thrashing machine in 1830 and served 12 months hard labour in Devizes prison.
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“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“Be sure to set me to ‘delicate,’ Alison. It’d be a shame to ruin that sweater, you know, in case it ever comes back in style.”
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As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE
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This sounds like someone getting really annoyed and just wishing his nephew would read the fucking cracker punchline already so we can eat
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This sounds like someone getting really annoyed and just wishing his nephew would read the fucking cracker punchline already so we can eat
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
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Out: Children's books by the sex pest who we have decided to Suddenly Notice.™️
In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.
In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Out: Children's books by the sex pest who we have decided to Suddenly Notice.™️
In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.
In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.
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Your periodic reminder that the Luddites didn't smash looms because they were "afraid" of technology, or didn't understand it.
They understood it perfectly.
They smashed the looms because they were a tool to dismantle workers' pay, workers' rights, workers' safety, all in the pursuit of profit.
They understood it perfectly.
They smashed the looms because they were a tool to dismantle workers' pay, workers' rights, workers' safety, all in the pursuit of profit.
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Your periodic reminder that the Luddites didn't smash looms because they were "afraid" of technology, or didn't understand it.
They understood it perfectly.
They smashed the looms because they were a tool to dismantle workers' pay, workers' rights, workers' safety, all in the pursuit of profit.
They understood it perfectly.
They smashed the looms because they were a tool to dismantle workers' pay, workers' rights, workers' safety, all in the pursuit of profit.
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Golden rule always put ya best guy on the fascists.
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Golden rule always put ya best guy on the fascists.
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I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
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Does anyone - anyone at all - have a plan to get us to a future where councils do have money to fix things again?
That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.
Replacing collapsed bridge 'nigh on impossible' cost for council
The Spey Viaduct was completed in 1886 but partially collapsed into the Moray river at the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Does anyone - anyone at all - have a plan to get us to a future where councils do have money to fix things again?
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Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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When driving home for Christmas, always ensure you keep checking the Rea view mirror.
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
When driving home for Christmas, always ensure you keep checking the Rea view mirror.
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If someone said to me 'Bluesky is an echo chamber', I would reply with 'Your mom is an echo chamber' and that's as much challenge as I'm willing to engage in.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If someone said to me 'Bluesky is an echo chamber', I would reply with 'Your mom is an echo chamber' and that's as much challenge as I'm willing to engage in.
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
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As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.
Forever.
Forever.
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What a fucking mensch, and what a fucking disgrace that he was put in this position
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What a fucking mensch, and what a fucking disgrace that he was put in this position
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When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.