i just told a child that the reason its best to eat eel on a train is that an eel and a train are shaped the same and it stunned the child into silence

There will be a casket toss at the Holiday Bowl.

whilst the James Last version is almost surely an urban myth, this version of New Order's 'Blue Monday' is very much real
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJy5...

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

It is very interesting to me how something can be commonly known for years, decades even, and then one day it becomes a scandal. I find that a very odd aspect of the UK public sphere - is it the same in other countries?

The Monkey Prince Angada delivers Rama’s message to Ravana, by Manaku, 1725, 📸 by @StephChambers76

If your nominally social-democratic party gets overrun by guys like this who proceed to neuter the party apparatus and personally enrich themselves while telling you there’s scientifically, mathematically no way your life could ever improve, and you can’t see the work, I don’t know what to tell you.

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

Listening to the Today programme as the boss of JD Sports is asked what he thinks about the Iran/Iraq situation.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.