If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Got it. We can move the tax-dodgers from Dubai to Rwanda. Oven ready deal. Accommodation all ready.
The NYT style guide
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
Kingdom: food
Phylum: frozen food
Order: ice cream
Family: ice cream on a stick
Genus: magnum
Species: mint magnum
The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
Just imagine, going to a game and knowing that should we win or draw that’s the points to take us up to the Premier League?
How will you feel?
Well, get ready.
Because it’s going to happen.
Soon.
PUSB.
Great news that the Greens defeated both Labour and Reform last night, but now the word 'sectarianism' is being used to demonise Muslim voters who supported the Greens. Labour rightly took a strong stand against antisemitism - will they do the same against Islamophobia?
The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.
You'll never sing that, etc...
Matt Badloss?
Shitting in someone else’s pants?
Is joining Reform the new shitting yourself for attention?
This is absolute gold
I can't explain it, but whenever I see people posting in this style I am reminded of this tweet
An incredibly lifelike illustration of Paddington Bear, official psychopomp to the British royal family, gently escorting a man in top hat and tails (carrying a Puzza Express takeout) to Belmarsh
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
God let His son die for us.
Then He made His son alive again three days later.
A) What fucking sacrifice? A long weekend?
B) If God only magics His own kids well again, what fucking use is He to the rest of us?
That’s the panel for me too this week! Genius!
God wants us to understand science. For example, to make sure we understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics, He gave us aging and death.
My actual favourite class test is one that David Reed gave me:
“Did the roof of your school come to a point?”
It works in the Netherlands
One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
😂
*dapper man in a dinner jacket lights a woman’s cigarette at a roulette table in a Monaco casino*
‘What’s your name?’
‘The name’s And The Giant Peach. James And The Giant Peach’
Mongolia Olympic Team opening ceremony uniform by Goyol: slogan “What we carried through winter, we carry to the world”
Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
It was the Fuck Around of Times, it was the Find Out of times
It’s great. You need to post when you get to the first f-bomb
