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Don't see how they fit a horse in there

This is brilliant 🤣

That took a turn.

Going out for some pint’s

Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.

Elon Musk’s “deep sighs on cable TV and emergency Tesla junkets on the White House lawn are hints that he may be beginning to understand the precariousness of his situation,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/du6FyDOM

Bring me my coloured coat My amazing coloured coat!

www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-c... 😁

Canadians fed up with tariff threats and suggestions of Canada becoming the 51st state are now calling Americano coffee drinks "Canadianos." NPR's Scott Simon explains.

Headline of the year so far…

The files confirm that President Donald Trump flew on Epstein's jets a number of times in the 1990s.

free speech! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

When one of your satirical pieces breaks Google

"Under weaknesses, you've put 'Accidentally stopped the fight against Ebola'?"

BREAKING: Critic magazine proprietor Lord Kronsteen announces an important change of direction for the SKETCH.

Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who leapt on to car after JFK was shot, dies aged 93

One day about 18 years ago I was looking around a Yoko Ono exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum when an old wall phone in the gallery rang. This phone was part of the show. I looked around & I saw that it was just me & a security guard in the gallery. He said, “oh my god you need to answer it! 1/5

Please RT: I was run over by a taxi on the north junction of London Bridge (in front of the Wolseley City) around 5.45pm this evening. Knocked off my bike. There were a lot of witnesses. If you saw it, please get in touch.

There are many revealing gems in Simon Hart's memoirs of being a Tory Chief Whip, but this one is my favourite: - Andrew "utter knob" Bridgen gets the boot. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Former Tory chief whip Simon Hart's memoir looks set to put firecrackers under Westminster... 🧨🧨 A raft of eye-watering stories like this one - about a Conservative MP requiring his assistance at dawn in a Bayswater brothel - from extracts in Times today alone

Another day of AI not being fit for purpose.

Those with a queasy disposition shouldn’t watch this. Everyone else absolutely should.

Always, his plans end up relying on a magical cadre of benign, autocratic geniuses who will operate entirely in the public interest. History suggests this is a hard one to pull off.

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'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

The Traitors at Victoria station!

For the love of god, the overweight squirrels of North London are now eating Viennese Whirls.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

Arsenal 5 Man City 1. A humbling.

‘A neural fossil’: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say

FA statement on Myles Lewis-Skelly red card Read at: arsenal.page.link/i5jfKYAbXRFE...

Some things never change! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Lovely to know that viewers of #TheTraitors have donated as much as Alexander would have won.

You join me at the magistrates court, for a morning of criminal court hearings I always find magistrates courts fascinating - Moments of madness for people with previous good character, the habitual criminals who can't stop, & people who tried to turn a corner but slipped back into offending

A group of banks led by Morgan Stanley is preparing to offload as much as $3 billion of debt that helped finance Elon Musk’s buyout of X

Elon Musk in an email to X staff in January, per the WSJ. “Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even”

Elon Musk has posed as a champion of those poor bereaved families in Southport but the killer watched a violent video just before his killing spree *on X* and Musk is refusing to take it down despite numerous official requests from UK & Australian authorities www.ft.com/content/3c89...

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... RIP Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of The Band 😔

A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾🐕 😍 This imprint was made about 2,000 years ago, when a dog walked across the wet clay tile as it lay out to dry before firing. Perhaps not such a good boy?😂 Richborough Roman fort 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

This is so smug it annoys me every time I see it

This is a fascinating turn of events

I've also noticed that that element is quite important

Foggy, frosty trip home

A quick 🧵 on the data and a couple of other points There is emerging data for 2024 - but so far they’ve only collated nine months of it, so it hasn’t been published. So the latest complete published data is for 2023, and as such is the first collection of its kind.

Looks like Bladerunner

Some lovely upcheering photos from Moi Hicks on our Nature Table - Coal Tit, Nuthatch (AKA bird feeder bandit) & Blue Tit

Normative Determinism: The weather forecaster on BBC North West today, an area that has been besieged by snow, is Sara Blizzard.