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Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday 😂

Here's how all my attempts at speaking Spanish go. Scene: a tabac. Me: Vendes sellos por favor? Them: Si. Quantos? Me: Uno, por una postale a Nueva Zelanda Them: Spanish Spanish Spanish Me: <confused look> Rest of conversation conducted in perfect English

I'm in a bar and there's an American man with a haircut and beard that makes him the dead spit of JD Vance and I don't think he knows how close he is to being punched in the face. Reflex, no court in the land etc

What is it with wearing black gloves in food prep/cook videos? I know there's theoretically a hygeine reason, but it's just become a fad, right? Surely I'm not the only one who finds it actually off-putting?

Gorgeously sunny weather in Shaftesbury all week, so of course I'm here in Valencia in the rain 🇪🇸 Nevertheless I'm singing, not whinging, in the rain ☔

There are lambs appearing in the field across from us - one of my favourite signs of spring #baaa 🐑

Watched #NationalTheatreLive The Importance of Being Earnest this weekend. It was brilliant - joyful, colourful, physical, witty (obvs), and with a fabulous curtain call that proves yet again that every film or play should end with a dance 👜

This morning my brain decided to refer to that one country in the middle of the North American continent as “Cloud Coup-Coup Land” and reader, in that moment I both laughed and cried.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Looking forward to getting involved in this great scheme from Dorset Council to help folks understand their devices, get online, or start using digital services to do what they need to do. Wish me (and them!) luck. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/news/digital...

They had their own wall! A little Bafta wall!

Collective bargaining wins across Europe 💶Netherlands: Wages up by 5.3% in 2024 and 7.1% in 2023 💶Austria: 3.5% increase for 10,000 social and health workers 💶Germany: 4,000 non-profit workers will receive a 4.2% pay rise, and a higher night work and Christmas allowance It pays to be in a union

Thanks eBay

1970s photography: "Let's photograph Lorena with our precious camera and film, which costs quite a lot to get developed. And let's make her stand in the hedge for some reason. In fact why don't you stand in the hedge with her?" "Shall we move the rake out of shot?" "Nah, not worth the effort."

This is important journalism.

honestly: a minor solution to the PhD funding crisis would be to remove all funding awards for Oxbridge — and make them fund their own PhDs from their enormous investment portfolios — and disperse that money among post-92s.

Well, to begin with today: 21 years ago, Facebook was founded. And everything’s been great ever since.

The FT has some advice about how to 'dial down ‘masculine energy’ in your workwear' and apparently dressing like you've just ramraided a charity shop is the way forward www.ft.com/content/fa78...

just saw someone in the FT comments section referring to Tesla as the swasticar

I just deadlifted 35kg and, as a lifelong puny person, I'm feeling quite pleased with myself 🏋️‍♀️

Everybody works but mother. She's a suffragette 💪💪💪

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Then I had a midlife crisis and bought all my childish things again off of Ebay.

On 31 January 2020 we were in a slightly rainy Lisbon, avoiding Brexit Day. I had to be far enough away not to see a single celebratory firework or hear one note of triumph in anyone’s voice. The distraction worked – at least for a couple of days. The catastrophe has lingered. #brexit

In my experience, one of the most reliable indicators of low intelligence is "never shutting the f**k up about IQ"

every sentence here is worse than the last

It's nearly 5 years since we started routinely communicating via Zoom. So I think the time has come to issue fines to anybody who is interviewed on TV news and still thinks it's ok to make us stare up their nostrils. Put. Your. Laptop. On. A. Box. Or books. 📚 #saynotonostrils

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was written in 1914, but if you swap out "Crass" for "Trump" and "British" for "American" it could have been written this morning.

Well this comes as ZERO surprise www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

We've reached the sad moment of the holiday when online check in opens for the flight home. Just one more day left in beautiful Langkawi 🏝️

Small, pissed-off fish

TIP: when a Malaysian person says to you "this has chillies in it but it's not hot", believe the first half but DON'T believe the second half 🌶️🌶️🌶️

So @easymungo.bsky.social's birthday treats have proliferated as the day wore on. The lovely people at our hotel have looked after him very well (and most unexpectedly) 🎂🎈

And to finish? Chocolate cake, delivered by a group of the breakfast waiters singing "Happy birthday". I think the champagne took the edge off the embarrassment.

Champagne with his cornflakes? What better way to kick off @easymungo.bsky.social's birthday? 🥂

Langkawi Sky Cab and Sky Bridge are not for the acrophobic. But hey, what's 650 metres high, dangling on a single cable, between friends?

Hooning around the mangroves at Kilim Geoforest Park, with added kite feeding, bat cave (no sign of the Batmobile), monkeys (of course), and the crocodile cave (named because it looks a bit like a crocodile if you've consumed enough of the right sort of drugs).

It's getting out of hand! 👀

We've all seen hotel towel art. But hotel towel art with googly eyes? Next level hotel towel art.