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submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

i mean this so seriously. if you are transgender. please be safe. do not get caught commiting crimes. do not get caught by the state. do not sacrifice yourself, we will survive

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

Take Me Out but for selecting a new pope

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Have we ever seen a private business directly support a government policy in this way? It’s incredible (derogatory)

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I do this and it’s not even principle. My brain processes AI text as advertising and I just switch off, same as when I open any marketing email.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 8 hours ago • 72 comments

start telling a knock knock joke to bluesky users and they go, one sec someone's at the door

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

Ok, we need a new James Bond AND a new Archbishop of Canterbury, and pretty soon it'll be time for another new Willy Wonka and a new Doctor Who. We need to economise. They should all be amalgamated into a single new character called Archdoctor Bondwonka.

submitted 13 hours ago • 188 comments

This dude doing more and more elaborate crimes because the cops can’t hold him because every time he does one Eric Adams emails an increasingly upset Steven Spielberg pictures of evidence that didn’t go through discovery. The subject line says “New York is an Incredible Place, from bridges to 9/11”

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

A couple of years ago I went on a tour of Buckingham Palace with my parents and my kid. Bit of tourism, see how the Queen lives, bit of history. The mad thing is they're still there while the tours are going round. 🧵 1/

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Thinking about that time I was walking through town in a wide-brimmed hat and purple lipstick and an old man called me Boy George

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

the price of eggs really ups the level of contempt here

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

Twitter Phrenologist: Elon Musk has the skull of a common Welshman! Nate Silver: Source?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Almost finished a 4000-word piece about Lambada. Hope Lambada is still popular! Everyone remembers Lambada, right? Sexy dance craze from summer of 1989? Remember??

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The basic pitch of the book is that it doesn’t matter what the political issue is, what matters is how you solve it. Which sounds nice on paper, but it means pretending that BLM and MAGA are responding to the same material causes, and that they’d reach a compromise if they’d just have a nice chat.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

i know we all need to just internalise this and move on but i really can't get past the fact that all high-level geopolitics is now "thinking up ways to trick the world's most infantile man into believing that your agenda will make him look like the birthday boy"

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Wow, never knew that Steve Bannon was autistic

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I can usually understand conflation and fudging of characters to make biopics work, but has anyone explained what they were thinking with making Pete Seeger’s wife Toshi in A Complete Unknown into a mute sort of Asian ghost, when she was a film and TV producer and organised the Newport festival?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I call this “Les yolk sans visage”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This online ad I was just served might be the definitive artwork of 2025. Speaks to so so many things happening right now. Incredible.

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A youthful pal sent me this which apparently the booktok kids are powerfully enthused about and it's kind of impressive how every sentence is bad, normally some sentences would be mediocre, perhaps one might even be ok

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments