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Brick Lane

El gato fatto

Late Night in the Studio

Ouch. 😳😳😳

Not the photo I’d have used.

"They're eating the pets!"

TAYLOR SWIFT ENDORSEMENT

I wanted to marry my English tutor when she got out of jail. But apparently, you can’t end a sentence with a proposition.

We do need higher bills. But not to make an appallingly run company "financeable and investable". Let them go bust, impose a large haircut on bondholders, and use bill payers money for sewers not dividends/bond repayments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brick Lane

The National Gallery in London is renovating its Sainsbury Wing and they’ve just found a secret letter from one of the original donors, sunk into a concrete column, saying that he hates the columns and is glad they’re being demolished. 10/10 unhinged rich man behaviour, no notes

Starmer on Downing St location for his speech: “This is a garden and a building once used for lockdown parties…this garden and this building is now back in your service.”

The Wizard of Oz is 85 And in 1998, Rick Polito wrote the greatest one line description of a movie ever for a listing on TCM.

TFW u are told u have in fact been fed before in your life

In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies and will forever be my hero.

Labour’s parliamentary party. “Thousands of ‘em.”

Reform.

I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️

people find it so hard to believe that stormtroopers from Star Wars have terrible aim probably because bad equipment it's 2024 on earth and we have two of the most valuable companies in the history of the world: one of them is making airplanes that crash, the other makes trucks that can't get wet

*beatboxing sounds*

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union. https://t.co/yiq1jamHIT

Late night studio session

I haven’t seen anyone post Steve Albini’s beautiful, heartfelt post about how he and his family spent every Christmas. I am sure that it will continue in his memory, hopefully long after we’re all gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-i-...

Remember when we all had to teach our parents how to use the Internet? Yeah, we should not have done that

Good morning! Rise and shine campers! It turns out the Conservatives are completely fucked iandunt.substack.com/p/elections-...

Chris Mason: Reform UK Party Ltd are "doing well". As in matching their opinion poll ratings. #r4today

POEM there are dogs in polling stations, or sitting outside, waiting for their democratic right to exercise #dogsatpollingstations

One time I bought a Bluetooth meat thermometer for $30 so I could smoke a brisket. Later the company that made it went out of business and when I went to make brisket again, the meat thermometer didn’t work because the app didn’t exist anymore and I was pissed. Now imagine if it were an $80,000 car

How it's going

UK voters - don't forget that you'll need photo ID to vote today! Acceptable forms of ID are detailed here: www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/... #LocalElections2024 #MayoralElection2024

For all my Trekkie friends out there. 😂

How the overseas owners of the UK's water companies make a fortune by polluting our rivers. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy 460th birthday to William Shakespeare! #literature #shakespeare

#proofofcat

something something metaphor about man v nature

The ghost girl from THE RING having to explain what a videotape is to older ghosts and also having to explain what a videotape is to younger ghosts.

As a 13-year-old girl I was the biggest Lord of the Rings geek, so I treated her to the Doors of Durin today 🤓 According to local legend, these Cotswolds church doors inspired Tolkien’s artwork 🧝‍♀️ (St Edward’s church, Stow on the Wold)

How the legal system made it easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses And how the legal system then made it hard for them to obtain justice At the Law and Policy blog - already with excellent comments davidallengreen.com/2024/01/how-...

This, from the best of Jeremy Banx’s cartoons in the FT this year, made me laugh. on.ft.com/4aBrpkk

Good morning, and let us remember the worst fate that can befall a woman is to be an unmarried librarian.

how I also feel about a baguette

Like all sensible people, I have strong feelings about the correct place for the comma in 'God rest ye merry, gentlemen'. And every year at the old place I used to tweet about this important topic. But now such exertions are redundant, by reason of this fine video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfx...

Eight years ago we were helping my mum set up her TV. It asked the sort of question that stays with you.