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Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, Scott Adams wrote a comic strip that made me laugh and think. That was a very long time ago, and in the years since, he became exactly the kind of craven, hypocritical, logically dubious, and evil person he used to mock in his strip.
We owe him nothing.
We owe him nothing.
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Once upon a time, when I was a teenager, Scott Adams wrote a comic strip that made me laugh and think. That was a very long time ago, and in the years since, he became exactly the kind of craven, hypocritical, logically dubious, and evil person he used to mock in his strip.
We owe him nothing.
We owe him nothing.
I honestly think the #VAR officials are deliberately fucking it up because they hate VAR and the way it removes so much (profitable) subjectivity from their powers, and they want to discredit it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
VAR errors increase - every mistake so far in 2025-26 Premier League
The Premier League's KMI Panel makes judgements on every key decisions. Here's what they say the VAR has got wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
I honestly think the #VAR officials are deliberately fucking it up because they hate VAR and the way it removes so much (profitable) subjectivity from their powers, and they want to discredit it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Wait you're telling me Harris knew Trump would do this and she STILL threw the fucking election?
Jfc
Jfc
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Wait you're telling me Harris knew Trump would do this and she STILL threw the fucking election?
Jfc
Jfc
The issue with this would be that Trump might see it as a deal he can accept.
An Austrian NATO official sent a blunt warning to Washington: Touch Greenland & Europe seizes US bases.
Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.
Gunther Fehlinger says if the US annexes Greenland, every American base in Europe—from Germany to Italy to Romania—would be confiscated, ending decades of U.S. military power on the continent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The issue with this would be that Trump might see it as a deal he can accept.
The offence and defence on an NFL team play for the same side. It's like that. They do different jobs but they're aiming at the same result.
Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"
January 12, 2026 at 12:08 PM
The offence and defence on an NFL team play for the same side. It's like that. They do different jobs but they're aiming at the same result.
Hey anyone remember literally any single thing about that Star Wars ripoff Zack Snyder made?
Me either 😂
Me either 😂
January 11, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Hey anyone remember literally any single thing about that Star Wars ripoff Zack Snyder made?
Me either 😂
Me either 😂
a small poem for #smallpoemsunday
'heart'
in
deep
water
the
cold
is close:
surface
detail
fades,
blood
slows,
hurt
lasts
a lifetime.
let’s
go –
me
and
'heart'
in
deep
water
the
cold
is close:
surface
detail
fades,
blood
slows,
hurt
lasts
a lifetime.
let’s
go –
me
and
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
a small poem for #smallpoemsunday
'heart'
in
deep
water
the
cold
is close:
surface
detail
fades,
blood
slows,
hurt
lasts
a lifetime.
let’s
go –
me
and
'heart'
in
deep
water
the
cold
is close:
surface
detail
fades,
blood
slows,
hurt
lasts
a lifetime.
let’s
go –
me
and
This is not a new phenomenon. It's how the US got to this point.
It amazes me that the vast majority of Americans are now saying there is something wrong with the current government, the leadership and policies...and yet the media is simply reporting things as if the insanity is normal and everyone condones it.
They don't
They don't
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
This is not a new phenomenon. It's how the US got to this point.
'my wife, the poet'
so it turns out my wife is a poet
in all her passions and wyrds
and philosophies, layered
i always dreamt desperately
of being a poet
but now i see the difference
turns out i’m a spreadsheets kinda guy
and my wife is the poet,
and i’m married to her
(for isobel)
#micropoem
so it turns out my wife is a poet
in all her passions and wyrds
and philosophies, layered
i always dreamt desperately
of being a poet
but now i see the difference
turns out i’m a spreadsheets kinda guy
and my wife is the poet,
and i’m married to her
(for isobel)
#micropoem
January 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
'my wife, the poet'
so it turns out my wife is a poet
in all her passions and wyrds
and philosophies, layered
i always dreamt desperately
of being a poet
but now i see the difference
turns out i’m a spreadsheets kinda guy
and my wife is the poet,
and i’m married to her
(for isobel)
#micropoem
so it turns out my wife is a poet
in all her passions and wyrds
and philosophies, layered
i always dreamt desperately
of being a poet
but now i see the difference
turns out i’m a spreadsheets kinda guy
and my wife is the poet,
and i’m married to her
(for isobel)
#micropoem
All of this because the "strong Black woman" helped build up the fascist paramilitary knowing what it was and how it would be used.
Then threw an easily winnable election by offering nothing but "eat shit" politics, and handed the fash power with a big, smug smirk on her face.
Then threw an easily winnable election by offering nothing but "eat shit" politics, and handed the fash power with a big, smug smirk on her face.
All this because they couldn’t vote for a strong Black woman...
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
All of this because the "strong Black woman" helped build up the fascist paramilitary knowing what it was and how it would be used.
Then threw an easily winnable election by offering nothing but "eat shit" politics, and handed the fash power with a big, smug smirk on her face.
Then threw an easily winnable election by offering nothing but "eat shit" politics, and handed the fash power with a big, smug smirk on her face.
'shocks'
bang and the light
stutters in and away
like a god
disappearing from clouds!
as the afterglow dark
rises triumphant
for my loved ones
i pray
everything precious
to us
is earthed
because lighting
strikes twice
when it can.
and it has.
and it has!
#micropoem #micropoetry
bang and the light
stutters in and away
like a god
disappearing from clouds!
as the afterglow dark
rises triumphant
for my loved ones
i pray
everything precious
to us
is earthed
because lighting
strikes twice
when it can.
and it has.
and it has!
#micropoem #micropoetry
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
'shocks'
bang and the light
stutters in and away
like a god
disappearing from clouds!
as the afterglow dark
rises triumphant
for my loved ones
i pray
everything precious
to us
is earthed
because lighting
strikes twice
when it can.
and it has.
and it has!
#micropoem #micropoetry
bang and the light
stutters in and away
like a god
disappearing from clouds!
as the afterglow dark
rises triumphant
for my loved ones
i pray
everything precious
to us
is earthed
because lighting
strikes twice
when it can.
and it has.
and it has!
#micropoem #micropoetry
'the fash'
you were never cool
so you let their lines
define you, trusting
some themes
are always in:
white / black
blue / red
#micropoem #micropoetry
you were never cool
so you let their lines
define you, trusting
some themes
are always in:
white / black
blue / red
#micropoem #micropoetry
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
'the fash'
you were never cool
so you let their lines
define you, trusting
some themes
are always in:
white / black
blue / red
#micropoem #micropoetry
you were never cool
so you let their lines
define you, trusting
some themes
are always in:
white / black
blue / red
#micropoem #micropoetry
'the fear'
i
am more
powerful
than 51
per cent
of you
this is
an important fact
this is important
*fact*
#micropoem #micropoetry
i
am more
powerful
than 51
per cent
of you
this is
an important fact
this is important
*fact*
#micropoem #micropoetry
January 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM
'the fear'
i
am more
powerful
than 51
per cent
of you
this is
an important fact
this is important
*fact*
#micropoem #micropoetry
i
am more
powerful
than 51
per cent
of you
this is
an important fact
this is important
*fact*
#micropoem #micropoetry