Freddie

I genuinely thought Kate Hoey was already in Reform... #Newsnight

But be aware that IPA can damage some plastics if you have plastic frames

Unless you've experienced it yourself, you will never understand the frustration of being soemone who is good at using Excel watching someone who isn't using it in a meeting

Its on the iplayer version too...

It would be an incredible bit if Boeing just insisted that this plane existed but was just too stealthy to see, and then pocketed the money because the President felt that this scanned

"A modern dishwasher will usually be more efficient than hand-washing, both in terms of the amount of electricity and water it uses." Come on it's literally the next sentence

i’m sorry i put salmon in your backpack when you went hiking. But how was i, the sole beneficiary of your estate, to know bears like fish?

I’m Entering My Curmudgeon Era My current project: I've been dusting off the old hard drives with my ripped CD collection and loading them into an iPod. A 20-year-old piece of tech with its click wheel intact, no WiFi, and no algorithm feeding me recommendations I didn't ask for. The result: I've started listening to

This is my Curmudgeon Era.

Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way.

More in the "I refuse to be gaslit by modernity" way. I refuse to pretend that constant connectivity has made us happier. I refuse to buy into the idea that infinite scrolling is anything but digital debt.

oh my god stop this, stop yankifying football, now, of all possible times, is not the time to decide to randomly yankify something that was entirely fine to begin with

Professional soccer player holding up a new sports shoe. The shoe is dark beige, the base pink, then green. It looks like a sandwich with tomatoes and lettuce

All I saw was sandwich for at least 15 seconds

But there is a chance that one's job might have a fancy dress day for comic relief. Like a mufti day at school.

I think that joke is obsolete in at least three different ways

The groan I gran

I mean you don't need to know the subject THAT well, but I made it up, so I demand it be considered funny....

My wife went to India after reading a classic novel.

Forster?

NO, SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD.

As ever with these bits of research I’m reminded of the 1933 Oxford Union debate in which 275 to 153 voted for the motion "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", and six years later that wasn’t the case at all

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

4'33 by John Cage is a perfect piece of music. No notes.

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon

saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing

Yeah, when I started to subscribe it was cheaper than any other option for 1tb of storage, the office suite was just a nice perk. And no, a 2tb usb drive is not an equivalent.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.

(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).

1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.

Motherfucker.

Meme showing screenshots from Star Wars where Padme says “so this is how liberty dies” and instead of saying “with thunderous applause” it says “with a coup by a fake government agency named after a meme run by the most divorced man alive and his troop of incel twinks”

Just me or was Bloomsbury Group's wall significantly harder?

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling

Recently catologued two of the most interesting and unique election campaign materials I've ever come across - party dresses worn by Phyllis & Marjorie Hervey during their father's campaign for the Bury-St-Edmunds seat in 1906. The case for Tariff Reform painted onto a 6yr old's dress...

I vaguely remember the royal navy trialling rubber decks on aircraft carriers for gearless landings at one point...

HERCULE POIROT: Mon ami, whom do you believe to be the murderer?

CAPTAIN HASTINGS: Goodness me, surely you don’t want to know MY opinion?

POIROT: Au contraire!

HASTINGS: Well…that lady did it.

POIROT: Wrong, you big hot stupid baby bitch English piece of shit.

HASTINGS: Let me die for you.

The fortress of Barad-Dur atop which sits the eye of Sauron, but I've added hand emojis pointing to each other to make the classic uwu sign

Sauwon

Only since 2009!