It's a toss-up between the time I fell over a "caution, wet floor" sign and the time I fell off my bed while changing the duvet and broke a metatarsal
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It's a toss-up between the time I fell over a "caution, wet floor" sign and the time I fell off my bed while changing the duvet and broke a metatarsal
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
It... seems like some people are in desperate need of a short introduction to the history of U.S. foreign relations?
My linocut portrait of Margaret Cavendish in gold holding a large globe of The Blazing World; it’s blue with icicles at the top and water at the bottom and several personages in between. The Empress, is a gold dress and crown is in the centre. To her right is a group of anthropomorphic animal scientists: a red northern cardinal-man, polar bear-man with white head, a pink worm-man, and a white goose-man. On her left are a green fish-man, and brown gorilla- and bear-man. Below is a hexagonal submarine with louse-man at porthole window.
Starting 2026 with some unknown birthdays: 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬 #histsci Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 1673), 17th-century English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, writer, with her imaginary world from her strange sci-fi novel ‘The Blazing World’ which she appended to 🧵
If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.
I've got this waiting for me...
A table of YouGov polling data with the headline: "How your reading habits compare to other Americans." The chart has the sub-headline: "About how many books have you read or listened to so far in 2025? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Possible but I'd doubt the people who were speaking on the news yesterday have inherited Nazi artifacts, since they were of Turkish background. Seems like most people were keeping gold in there.
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
Painting of a central decorated Christmas tree on a table with apples on a blue table cloth in a interior with bookshelves to the left and a woman in a long pink dress in the background to the centre right
Christmas Still LIfe, 1908 by German Expressionist painter Gabrielle Münter #womensart
I don't know if that's true all over Europe but I know what you mean in Germany. I certainly notice the difference between here and my country of origin, the UK, where hardly anyone seems to smoke anymore.
The most quietly savage put-down I’ve come across from Venezuelan Spanish is la inteligencia los persigue, ellos son más rápidoso. It means “intelligence is chasing them, but they are faster.”
One of the offices of my public sector authority in Germany has ashtrays on top of the toilet paper dispensers in the cubicles. Actually designed for smoking on the toilet! Needless to say you're not allowed to use them anymore, they just haven't redecorated since the 80s...
"..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you said 'fuck off back where you came from', I was sick and you said we should replace the NHS with private health insurance..."
Can I guess the answer before clicking? Was it because we didn’t invest in the Bahn?
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time
"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"
Chair says "have English as a second language"
Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
Shameful
RIP the great Martin Parr
Astonishing courage and bravery.
As war grinds on, electricians risk everything to keep the lights on
www.thetimes.com/article/85c5...
Amazing. Once I've surmounted that castle I'll be a person seeking for relaxation
Worth reading the whole thread
So Deutsche Bahn is finally, after all these years waiting, going TO RUN TRAINS FROM GERMANY TO LONDON! #CrossChannelRail
This story is unbelievable. And eat your sabzi, everyone
I read your first post as "more than 60 people" and thought, wow, that does sound like it would give you a headache 😉
I have read that one but I enjoyed The Sentence and The Round House
You can download the Maude translation for free from Project Gutenberg. I enjoyed it.
It's a UK/US difference isn't it?