No she’s cashing out to get her pension and walk away from all the insider trading she did when jump was playing with tariffs

Meanwhile I’m diving with whale sharks and manta rays, forgetting to breathe, and thinking maybe I should check on the coral before it melts without me.

Exactly. It’s like they want you to wear the flag as a costume, not actually understand why it’s there. Patriotism as decoration, culture as optional — all the pride, none of the thought.

Because Tim, politics in Britain now punishes choices that don’t boost GDP. The “rip-off degree” panic is middlebrow moralism—learning must have ROI, universities are job factories, and studying English is seen as a luxury, not the foundation of language itself.

That painting is stunning. I totally get the struggle of finding time, but even small bursts of creativity could reignite that spark. Quitting the day job might be a dream, but every masterpiece begins with a single brushstroke! 😄

He’s going to be angry very angry. The committee look for actual, sustained diplomacy — treaties, conflict resolution, verifiable change. Trump’s foreign policy is all spectacle: a summit here, a tweet there, and then a return to threats.

Ooh yeah I forgot

I wouldn’t worry too much about typos - this was put out yesterday by Staffordshire Reform Cllr Dave Poole. it’s glorious, isn’t it? Like a GCSE PowerPoint presentation that escaped captivity. fat right” You couldn’t invent a better Freudian typo if you tried.

Drill a hole in the boat

that’s exactly why I ditched TV — it’s rarely worth the attention, but background noise is basically a social crutch for one’s own brain. Music’s the better companion anyway; at least it doesn’t judge your life choices or leave you hanging after a cliffhanger.

Not surprising

That’s the modern dilemma, isn’t it? An ocean of content and not a drop worth watching. You’re better off staring at a blank wall—it’s got better pacing and fewer plot holes. I escaped the cult of the glowing rectangle long ago.

The following article is basically a polite public service announcement dressed up as science reporting: “please stop eating red mushrooms with white spots because TikTok told you they’re magic.”

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Mushrooms are not plants they belong to their own biological kingdom, Fungi because they lack chlorophyll and cannot perform photosynthesis. Instead, fungi are heterotrophs, meaning they must absorb nutrients from external sources, much like animals, by secreting enzymes to break down organic matter

Fly agaric doing the business

Depends

Left for the Sherpas to remove

1,000 people trapped on Everest in a storm—tents collapsing, hypothermia reported. Extreme weather, floods, typhoons… and yet here we are, still treating the world’s highest peak like a theme park. The absurdity of mass tourism in the age of climate change.