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There are few things I love more than being part of the determined stream of nerds marching from Kew Gardens station to The National Archives to be there as the reading rooms open.

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Gonna be honest & frank here: Not had the best 6 months. Closing my bookshop, that I'd killed myself for over 2 years, has left me pretty shattered, knackered & broke. Money is extraordinarily tough now. Trying to refind a mojo so I'm using this book as a spark. Nothing serious but still important.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If Americans wanted royals who were obese, deranged and convinced of their own brilliance in the face of all reasonable evidence why on earth did they bother to leave the syphilitic embrace of the House of Hannover?

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This is extremely traumatic and it's in the US not the UK, but it's important: these are the kind of attitudes being re-normalised in a period of resurgent fascism and rampant queerphobia. In this case they have proven deadly. There are people in this country, in our politics, feeding this fire too.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 2 days ago • 1185 comments

Blue Labour are the political embodiment of explosive diarrhoea. Unpleasant, loud and covers everything it touches in a greasy, sticky veneer of shit.

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I've always enjoyed the 18th century Royal Navy's attitude towards putting guns onto islets and then immediately redefining them as ships. Yes, we know it may look like an island, with all the trees and rocks and stuff, but it's actually a sloop-of-war.

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Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

The Errol Sunday Market remains one of my favourite weekend activities. Where else could you, for free, peruse a stall containing (amongst other things) a rusty axe, a selection of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls (individually bagged), and an Extreme Bondage Kit in a suspiciously unsealed box.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Absolute rage and dismay for my talented, hardworking author friends who have been utterly fucked over by Unbound / Boundless. Income lost, years of work shelved, people feeling responsible for everyone who crowdfunded them - the financial & emotional impact can’t be overstated.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The last election was a real shot in the arm for Britain's miniature violin industry, which saw demand grow a hundredfold overnight.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"Police are asking people not to speculate on the cause and motives of this incident. We go live to our Wild Speculation correspondent to find out what that could mean."

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Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

I learned more about kindness and humanity from reading Terry Pratchett than anyone or anything else and it isn’t particularly close we lost him far too soon GNU Terry Pratchett, and a happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to all of you

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

“Discworld is not about how to be good, but about how to do good, and why even the smallest acts of kindness matter.” via @oliviawaite.com

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

spending another weekend as a lawyer looking at the social media pages of my very rich client’s enemies, now to make myself some gochujang pasta sauce with a pinch of sugar in i- oh no

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Someone's asked ChatGPT to make the most Torygraph Money story ever and that person is a "journalist" at the Torygraph who needs some copy.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

What you've got to remember about AI trash is that it's been made by people with no creativity or artistic skill who, rather than spend time and energy gaining that skill, or paying someone who had done to use that skill, want to pretend they do have some creativity while also burning up the planet.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

You wouldn't believe some of the ways they rise up. #Glorious25thofMay #HowDoTheyRiseUp

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A reminder that if your oyster is raw and bubbly you should seek medical advice, regardless of whether it is for dudes or not.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Destroyers only do this when they've been a good boy and want their belly tickled, not actually a problem.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

👉👈 What if we kissed at the Emergency Coupling Class?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

fair play, that’s a decent signing

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

Just speech after speech of Israeli ministers openly saying they're planning and committing crimes against humanity against Palestinians and you still get some weasel cunt claiming there's no famine and no bombing of hospitals and no pervasion of racism within Israeli society.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Romanians tonight

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In training for the World Innuendo Championship next week. Diet is very important in this level of competition so the only things to pass my lips all week have been a firm pair and a juicy sausage.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments