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When I don't reply to a text right away, it's because I am thoughtfully composing a reply in my own good time. When you don't reply to a text right away, it's because you are a disrespectful, ungrateful person trying to convey how much you hate me, and/or are dead.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Pleased to make your acquaintance, sirs

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Saw a guy try and start a fight earlier while he was at a pick 'n' mix. Threatening to smash the other bloke's face in while still putting cola bottles into his paper bag. Amazing stuff.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

Liverpool conceded more goals to Plymouth Argyle than Manchester City this seaon.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

I think possibly the most useful way to understand it would be that the vocally, stridently anti-fascist left did well

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Also, 4 in 5 did not. The AfD underperformed polling, meaning the fear of "shy" AfD voters in DKs did not materialise. Maybe most important: despite terror attacks, Musk & JD Vance's support, and a river of dark money and AI disinformation, the AfD *lost* a couple of %pts in 2025. I'll take it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

How sad it is that enough people - including the previously liberal - fell for the fear-mongering against trans people and this wedge issue helped return Trump to power and now we see the terrible cost that must be paid by both the trans community and many others too

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Feel a bit sick because if the AfD have done well then it does kind of suggest Musk and the far right are really about to take over the world.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

these are the kind of moves that'll eventually move the needle towards shifting power away from tech oligarchs

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

Reading pope power rankings. Absolutely losing it that the word for eligible popes is "popeable."

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

It makes me unreasonably angry when a quiz show contestant stands to win like a hundred grand and when asked what they'd spend it on says "oh a big night out" or "I want to buy a fridge." Sort yourself out.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

All HP Lovecraft stories begin like “I will try and relay the events as best as I can manage, though what I encountered that September night may not be able to be expressed in human language, nor be comprehended by the human mind” and then the story boils down to ‘I saw a building that was large’.

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

Sorry for making you look at him but yet again, as with Peterson, Musk, Montgomerie and so many others, the turn to the hard/far right begins with obsessive transphobia. It might be the primary driver of rightwing radicalisation over the last decade. They always bring it up.

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submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

My six-year-old son just hit me with a next-level dad joke. Q: Which room in a house is useless for a ghost? A: The living room

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Is Pepsi okay?" No, actually

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Sticks and stones may break my bones and I'm also very sensitive to words so please no physical or verbal attacks thank you

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Trying to make this scan to the tune of Flagpole Sitta

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

OK well I definitely thought that Gracie Abrams song was Taylor Swift and am shocked that it's actually not. So. I am old.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments