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The ancient historian reincarnated as a penguin. An apt and erudite apterydite.
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submitted 1 day ago • 1389 comments

On a business trip in the US this week. Just had a colleague here start to cry when telling me how upset he was at Chump’s betrayal of Ukraine.

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The ancient Greeks could never have thought of Coke Zero

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Our family movie night this evening was Paddington in Peru. It was great fun. I can’t believe I actually cried.

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Well that was weird. My iPhone just spontaneously deleted a selection of apps including Bluesky and WhatsApp. Very annoying. I wonder what else it removed that I haven’t spotted yet.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Ogden Nash's poem "To My Valentine" was published in the February 15, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. (image from The New Yorker archive)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If Doctor Seuss wrote erotica…

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I've been gifted some papers from someone who worked on the Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector, which served in Antarctica in the 1960s, and if any ship had a better logo than its cheery nautical penguin I want to know about it. 🐧🐧🐧 #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 She wore an Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

submitted 541 days ago • 19 comments

Happy birthday to you In a year you’ll be two You’re the best social network Not involved in a coup

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Somebody’s setting up a shell company…

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Alexa, bring me a shrubbery.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

submitted 25 days ago • 209 comments

inside of me are two Beowulfs and i’ve been asked not to return to the library

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

I think I have a new favourite word. I just heard someone in the lift at work say (with no suggestion that this was intentional): “Her actions exasturbated the situation.”

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread ⏬⏬

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Possibly an ancestor of mine…

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NRM has officially stopped using Twitter (X). Celebrate with us by giving us a follow! Thanks! 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺 #RejoinEU

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

I want to remind Londoners that our city is—and always will be—a place for everyone. We’ll continue to celebrate London as the diverse, open and welcoming city it is.

submitted 37 days ago • 65 comments

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Idea: a running app for middle aged people like me, where after a few years, the words “Personal best” change to “What you could do when you were younger”.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The city also has a great selection of plaques marking places of historical significance.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Norwich’s main station reflects the city’s history as an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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Where’s diss?

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Wrong to Brexit without a plan? Oh, the toxic pushback when some of us said this at the time. And now the Leader of the Opposition says it.

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