Some words of hope from the US House Speaker.

This brave little guy ran up to check me out as soon as I got to their enclosure this morning. Immediately made me think of Dave Fane's escaping meerkat story (IYKYK).

Harold Shipman arrested over inappropriate use of prescription drugs.

If that's the case, Mike, why were only 12% of Civil Service Fast Stream interns under your government working class?

Remember how the London Passenger Transport Board, precursor to the TfL, used to publish adverts hoping for the end of work?

"BTP will make every effort to ensure the officer is replaced by another member of the team" - before the ruling, were they making "every effort to ensure" women weren't searched by men? Or did they just make it not happen?

There are so many cats in Athens that they have to find other things to do. This one, for instance, has joined a biker gang.

I know that Azril isn't Athens and that Vitrine isn't Greek, but I thought she might enjoy the rebuilding of the Parthenon anyway.

I was walking along the road at the same time as two Americans. When we crossed the corner and passed this house, they started talking about how run down and threatening the area was, and maybe they should call a cab. Forcibly reminded that most Americans who can afford Europe are from the suburbs.

The two most popular Parliamentary petitions in the UK right now are both in support of trans rights. Brits are turning up in droves to say they support their trans neighbours and won't bow to Trump's demands.

For people wondering about the bi/lesbian difference: it's because some bisexual people are men, and men overall have less positive views about trans people. When you control for gender, the data for cis lesbians and cis bisexual women is about the same.

If your product placement is a branded product in a scene, that's annoying but understandable. If your product placement makes me feel like the character is advertising to me, I should be allowed to kick your producer in the shins.

Pumpkin spice rice pudding ain't bad. (I'm half expecting rice pudding to be the next dish taken over by gourmet hipsters, so putting it here to prove I was ahead of the curve.)

2003 was a very different time for Marvel publicity. Alan Cumming could do an interview with Wolverine & Gambit comic where he described Nightcrawler getting penetrated with his own tail and nobody would even blink.

It turns out that the "one weird trick doctors don't want you to know about" has been part of advertising since at least 1829.

825 years ago, a stonemason working on the first version of the Louvre decided his masonic mark was going to be a ballsack and honestly good for him.

One of the easiest ways to practise a language is to read things you're already familiar with, I tell myself as I pick up another copy of a book I already own. (It doesn't count! It's in French!)

Thanks to Storm Darragh, I found out this morning that my window seals are not quite as sealed as I'd like to think.

Fucking loved that none of the judges recognised my costume - for them it was half an hour of work four years ago - but that fellow attendees did. Thanks to Kate for capturing the confusion! #SFRoP