Sitting on it and swivelling?
Sitting on it and swivelling?
But you have FOUR ones!
Ha, exactly.
Would genuinely rather have solved this in three than two. Wordle 1,535 2/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
I always did think your sister had great taste. (I've seen it eight times.)
This, plus applying penalty points for not indicating correcting at a roundabout, and traffic would be cut by 70%. No, 85%.
I love that he’s so proud of it that he watermarked it. “Our lawyers are watching!”
Expert here. What happens is the generative AI you fed this to is a piece of shit that tried to extrapolate a shadow into what statistically should be flesh, while you sat there loudly saying "ENHANCE. ENHANCE." like a dipshit.
I have no mathematical talent at all and yet I got this calculator to tell me the square root of 6724. Where's my article?
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Tbh I thought that might *help*…
Tickets running low for this one 👇 (also check out other events in the same thread):
BlueSky whenever someone is cast in Harry Potter
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
All of which is to say: maybe think of things to make it more appealing to come here instead of new ways to shame accounts for wrongthink, if you want Bluesky to survive.
As the Jewish telegram put it: "Start worrying. Details to follow." My review of Mikołaj Łoziński's My Name is Stramer (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones): the story of a Jewish family in Poland between the wars, with plenty of comedy and an increasing measure of darkness.
I’m afraid the phrase “payment flows” was a red flag that the rest would be limitless bullshit.
[being murdered] murderer: (murdering) what are you doing on your phone me: (putting away phone) my bad what's up what's going on
Bet they're staying in hotels, too.
When you're writing something and really want to use a word, so you check its meaning and it doesn't actually fit, but you really want to use it anyway.
This is the content we need
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
If you continue to contribute to the success, visibility and profitability of Musk's platform X, by still posting there, ask yourself why.
Think I found who you mean. Checked timeline: there's a lot of uninvited "education" there. Pre-emptive block. Felt good.
The Wiener Library opened in London #OnThisDay in 1939. Following the November Pogrom of 1938, also known as Kristallnacht, Alfred Wiener prepared to bring his collection to the UK. It arrived the following summer and opened on this day in 1939, at the time as the Nazis invaded Poland...
We know the Tories are in terrible trouble. My latest post looks at its chances of survival, drawing on the lessons from history, and names two people who can help it see off Reform kellnerp.substack.com/p/how-the-to...
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Impossible not to! Sparks would be turning in their graves, if they were dead.
I didn’t realise they were so big in France until we went there this summer! They have … Lion bar *options*.
Low fat Babybel cheese: 5g of protein High protein Babybel cheese: 5.2g of protein 🙃
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
@mitchelmore.bsky.social has - see his blog: this-space.blogspot.com/search?q=ell...
I liked this one a lot too, though I was left with one unanswered question: Why did the man who was Benjamin for a dozen books suddenly become Ben?
Also “this marriage / ain’t big enough / for the both of them” doesn’t scan because ‘marriage’ has one syllable too many.
Francis Wheen's finest hour. (I arrived on work experience about a month later!)
"As you know, Bob..."
Building underground networks where true patriots can exchange samizdat slices of Hovis Soft White beyond the tyrannical gaze of Big Sourdough
"Souvenir". Amazing. Was this the paper that also carried the Carole Malone diatribe against Di in most editions?
#neverforget
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
“Stop! Stop! He’s not already dead!”
The summer grows late, cool, ragged, precious. Clouds like ungainly brooms are sweeping showers across the slates ... — ‘A Crow’ by #EdwinMorgan, published in Sweeping Out the Dark (Carcanet, 1994)
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
The Knights Who Say Ni****
So honored to be in the nytimes crossword 102 across
I can
JD Vance denies Trump death rumours, posts picture of the President signing an executive order
It's (as ever) the delivery too. My boys and I do variants of that line all the time.
Interesting to read the other replies to this, as I've always wondered it myself. The phrasing "that's a real writer" always made me wonder if it was verbal rather than written, and then recorded by someone else. But I see it was in a letter.
Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Blimey. Excellent knowledge. Thank you for your service.
As the Jewish telegram put it: "Start worrying. Details to follow." My review of Mikołaj Łoziński's My Name is Stramer (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones): the story of a Jewish family in Poland between the wars, with plenty of comedy and an increasing measure of darkness.
Did it start off on Saturday or Friday? I can't remember. It's like Saturday Live / Friday Night Live all over again.
Gary Numan watching a seagull fly away with his paper #totp
I went to see Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia at the local indie cinema in Sheffield tonight. The guy who put it on kept checking his phone throughout the showing and even took photos of the screen. We had a chat on Instagram…
That’s where we watched them but I guess these things come and go. Will head over for the new one imminently.
ITVX?
Fisk is back! FISK IS BACK
“Smack your head and let the words come out.” A book where people always need to pee; an office worker facing the worst horror of all (a team-building retreat); a pocket history of Romania; and a book that notes how Hugh Grant these days “looks like an old woman.” My roundup of translated fiction:
It's called subitising. Most people can learn how to quickly assess 5 or 6 things accurately. (Don't get cocky, so can crows.) Pharmacists can get real good, what with counting out pills all day, but this here feels like a Rain Man-type situation
My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that
Who’s been whispering sweet nothings to the Mull of Kintyre?
What has the sea ever done for us?
On where UK Bluesky does have a blind spot, I haven’t seen anything on here about the vandalism of Policy Exchange’s office (see below). This kind of stuff should be called out and criticised and I’m very happy to do so.
My niece and nephew went to a French primary school in the 2000s. The rule was you could only get hit if you got spanked at home. Teacher made all the kids put their hands up who got spanked. Everyone put their hand up except niece and nephew. They went home to my sister and complained.
Today I learned, through an unfortunate chain of events, that it’s possible to start a car with the keys on the roof, have the keys stay on the roof for five miles, ask “what’s that clunk” as they fall off, continue for a further 20 miles, then find you can’t lock your car and it won’t restart.
This is so fucking infuriating. Why do they insist I need special software to send them a quarterly update. Why do they need a quarterly update. Why can't they supply the software themselves if it's so important to them.
It only happens because I change my starting word every day and sometimes get lucky!
Yes, maybe so!
That’s an amazing solved-in-three rate though!
Painful! I pulled one back today.
Oh god, I'd forgotten about that!
Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs: BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution BTW = Bold Tie Warnings WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate
Anyone fancy Max Bygraves’s 1977 novel The Milkman’s On His Way? #readalongaMax
Haha, indeed.
Well that’s your problem (re no holes-in-one) right there, innit?
A good question. I don’t see many of either from publishers. If you’re aware of any publishers doing translations of contemporary fiction from Welsh or Irish, point them in my direction.
Do you use the same starting word each day?
Both taken from books I was reading at the time! One was Hotel as I was reading DM Thomas’s The White Hotel…
Not that my self-esteem depends disproportionately on keeping my solved-in-three number ahead of my solved-in-five number, but it’s getting perilously close.
A lovely review of Iris Wolff's BLURRED, among other things, in @john-self.bsky.social 's latest roundup of translated fiction: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
“Smack your head and let the words come out.” A book where people always need to pee; an office worker facing the worst horror of all (a team-building retreat); a pocket history of Romania; and a book that notes how Hugh Grant these days “looks like an old woman.” My roundup of translated fiction:
PS my Van Morrison story:
Loved this. The only one I already knew was ‘In the Days Before Rock ‘n’ Roll’. And I had no idea about the contractual obligation album!
My new piece for @thequietus.com
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire, mind and senses purified Freed from desire...
Still haunted by the time people on twitter said I was racist and trying to get black people killed by cops because I said you don't need to carry your driving licence when driving. In the UK. Where I live. And where you don't need to carry your driving licence while driving.
It’s cheese here too and I actually thought that’s what all the social media about Cracker Barrel was about…
Christ. Horrible news. I hope he improves soon.
That might work! I didn't think of that, oddly. Probably worth a shot!
Dying at the book he's reading
It feels a bit dramatic to log out of iCloud - lots of warnings etc - but it was fine for me (once I remembered my password!), though I did need to set up Apple Pay again when I logged back in.
As long as they come on perforated paper. SRSLY THO, always interesting to see which authors add acknowledgements/author's notes and which don't. There's a generational divide I think but it's not quite as clear cut as that.
Yeah this happened to me. But it wasn't enough just to de-select the Times app from iCloud backups - I had to log out of iCloud on my phone and then log back in, and THEN de-select the Times app. It's been fine since. (Mine hadn't backed up since April either so maybe some Times update screwed it.)
Because this tactic went so well for Johnson. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
