It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
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It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...
Anyone seen Owen's follow-up tweets where he outlines what the solution actually is? (Hopefully someone different to what he's been trying for the past 20 years which hasn't made a blind bit of difference, if that)
Past 24 hours has been a constant stream of "Here's my story about being harassed by GL" posts from lots of different people. The man's a septic tank in a jacket
Enoch Burke now owes the State €225,000 and has fines for trespassing increased by High Court
I think the "opinion" thing was his arrest on his way back to UK for this trial for a different arrest. It's hard to keep up. (The opinion being that trans or suspected people deserve to be physically attacked in places you don't think they should be & people should do so. You know: an "opinion")
Seen a stream of posts all day with people's personal anecdotes of being specifically targeted by him. Tip of the iceberg
One seductive thing is that people can be heroes purely through hate. They don't have to do anything good or productive or hard or humane. They've happily accepted propaganda that all trans people are icky, immoral, dangerous, predatory, so they become righteous, moral protectors with no real effort
FFS
i know the earth isnt flat because no company is trying to sell me a trip to see the edge of it
Sometimes you're looking through old sci fi novel covers, and you have to share one.
I thought he was all for additional livery, not de-livery. Make up your mind, KS KC KBE (middle name's Rodney, apparently)
Going to hell in a...
Is someone somewhere curating simple archives of the awful things these people have said and posted so we can just point people (including journalists) to the years and years of viciousness, nastiness and hounding they are responsible for? True believers will ignore, but average folk might take note
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Hung correctly - OK Hung upside down - Warning! Dressing to the left - Danger!
"But what did he/she/they say that was so bad?" Here. Pages & pages & pages & pages of it. Fill your boots.
Are there any curated resources out there of tweets & statements by these people which we can point other people to when they pop up like uncomprehending new born babies when they pretend not to know (or actually don't) how awful, how nasty & how obsessed these folk are? It's not our job to explain
Literally just NatC
(We love you, Erica)
It's only America if it's talking about itself. It's Areerica if someone's talking to it and Iserica if someone's talking about it
Which bits they decided to put in quotes and which not in quotes also pretty enraging
Notably, the BBC decided to selectively chop out anything remotely negative in its report (I say "report". "Report" would imply some sort of accurate representation of what happened") www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC: "Let's chop out the actionable bit" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Très bien. Et maintenant : l'Elysee.
I think "Streets" is the cool nickname he thought up for himself?
Fixed it
(I have just seen the first episode)
I may be about to make Bee & Puppycat my personality for a while
I legitimately think he has been on the same sentence for ten minutes. I wouldn't know how to punctuate this.
Bluesky hellhole
Cool. I assume that posting identical tweets about MPs will be fine. I may not try that immediately
And let's not talk about Northern Ireland
Actual Ancient Greek public square
"Protect the Dol(phin)s!"
Gardayloo!
“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
Yesterday & Today (Mainly today unless you're reading this tomorrow)
Dear White People, It is okay to just say Native American. You don't have to do that weird pause thing or say it as if you're using air quotes. If you are feeling a little unsure, it is okay to ask us what term is preferable or even what tribe specifically.
A competition between rival UK politicians vying to performatively out-patriot each other is a "Union Jack-off"
New rival to Lynx* just dropped *Axe for non-UK
Magritte, but in German
Fleshmob
True. The nation is definitely flagging
I call this one "How to work out how tall the person in charge of cleaning the mirror is"
If not women, then who? I've definitely seen some around
US vice president outraged by British suggestion that he "Wet her spoon" by freeing someone called House
Everything is wallpaper (and not the interesting type). Everything is just about hitting the next deadline or triggering the next sale. But as you say, long term it will just be sludge generated from sludge generated from sludge generated from sludge
The underlying thinking seems to be that producing something very quickly which is just about adequate is fine because it's 100% disposable. It's a picture for a social media post. It's background music. It's a document which might be read once.
A colleague envisions the future of coding mainly as reviewing machine-generated code. As you say, the ability to review code effectively is currently a skill you'd develop through coding. It might sort of work for 5-10 years, then...
And the revolving door between careers in politics and (politely) "journalism"
One depressing thing about taking a trip somewhere with a very long history is that a lot of the summaries are "It was really bad under a series of tyrants for 300 years, then it was sort of OK for 30, before getting bad again". Arc of history pelting us with arrows
I'm finding Josh Widdecombe's voice more tolerable now that I've decided that he's a jackdaw who antagonised a powerful wizard
Imagine getting killed in Storm Wubbo. Your family would just have to lie and claim it happened in a less embarrassing way, like a sex game accident with Jacob Rees Mogg.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Saw a man on the underground. Big guy. Shaved head. Sportswear. Right hand & wrist in old school white plaster cast. He was intently watching a video of a man doing boxing training with a punch bag. Pretty sure it was a video of himself
FFS. The cod latin and other "borrowings" were bad enough. She has all the creativity of a turnip.
She literally made her money by exploiting other people's "dead" "names"? I may need a moment
Though there are fewer better applicators of Kirby crackle
Appropriate uses for AI #52: Progress bar on the outside of public toilet cubicles
(Series of documentaries)
The Phlegm-press The Hi-Rise-Pants The Wheel of Fart Tunes The Hismet The Sitar The Moomin The Ten Parents
Cursing the clientele of my bar by buying a load of not-quite-tarot-based beer mats from Temu The Hinged Man? The Towie? The Foal?
RIP Hercules you would've loved Labor Day
Well, it is a magic symbol: it's simultaneously a stanard red and white flag and a massive red flag
the haters said Star Trek Enterprise was a bad show, so I watched the first two episodes and honestly, a great call by the haters
One day I'll stop reading the 2nd digit of a 24 hour clock hour as the time (18:00 as 8pm) but not today
The adverb qualifier "biologically" (also so, so wrong) which was tightly paired to "female" when used as an adjective then gets upgraded to be a standalone adjective loaded with extra meanings which they can then apply to other nouns on repeat, repeat, repeat.
And that creepy, almost veterinary use of "female" as a noun again. Propagandist verbal trick to reframe, redefine, limit, re-emphasise: it's not a quality, it's the immutable essence.
I'm just old enough to remember this 1980 BBC documentary en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chang...
Yes. This. And reframing from two things of equal status to a hierarchy of validity
I think he was on the programme because he had set up a chain of gyms
No matter how much I learn, there are always levels of anime culture which sound like sublime, transcendent gobbledygook
Entire shelf in a shop window of standard burner-stretched & blown glass animal figures, then hidden in the corner... Not sure if there is a horny glasswear shop somewhere with one disappointingly chaste cat
In a controversial move, Michaels has announced 'funny sketches' that 'we rehearse properly' and 'don't go on uncomfortably long'
Research to date: - no Donald Ducking - low hygiene standards - short trips to shops only - semi-formal to formal (orgy?) - slimming - zombies (leather?)
Would like to know how this sort of pattern became the norm for nightwear. Google is actively unhelpful
Handy chart for the liberals screaming at you for your “purity testing”
i wouldn't really mind having Sisyphus' job, as long as i could listen to podcasts
Gad Elmaleh had a routine about "Where is Brian?" youtu.be/11jG7lkwDwU?...
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
maybe if we sang “Free Palestine” to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” we could get more white people on board
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Sonc
And "This one has a Spike Milligan cameo"
I went through several rough learning experiences in the old VHS days with a series of "Wow, a Peter Sellers film I've never seen" incidents
lex sesbian and riff the wonder dog
Python (and Cleese in particular) thrived on having establishment figures & rules to react against
Almost as if a lot of satire or work with social commentary is deeply rooted in the time it is made, in terms of what you comment on, how you do it & how it may be received. And you need a massive leap of imagination to think of a current quivalent (and not just a carbon-copied transplant)
‘WHY CAN’T YOU HEAR ME?AM I DEAD?’
The Welsh for June is Mehefin, which means midsummer. May is Mai which, like the English word, derives from the Roman Maius. However, there is an archaic name, Cyntefin, which means the start of summer. So summer is Wales is 3 months long. It rains in all three.
Troomp Dood Wat nou?
This always seemed like it could have been phrased better for the UK
If it is confirmed to be an Elvis situation, a fitting tribute to his Scots heritage: youtu.be/4yw0bLHTOb0?...
Amountaindewo
