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Men should have evolved so that their sex drive disappears around age 50. It would make life much easier for everyone.

Wanna feel old? This is what 90s pop sensations Busted look like today.

A couple of good ones for your block list: @sidneyroughdiamond.bsky.social and @chicagonewsbench.bsky.social Toxic, abusive pro-Trump/pro-Farage sewers. Do not engage. Just block and share this

I'd quite forgotten how amazing this scene (and Paula Pell's performance) is.

Absolutely horrifying case. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seeing more clearly is the first step toward wiser action.

#SophiefromRomania went on a good walk with Juno and Nuna but got a bit over excited when we met a group of friendly dogs

This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

I often wonder whether the bloke who bought my old house managed to stop the prick of a neighbour claiming he owned our second parking space at the rear. I tried to show him the land registry paperwork etc. Multiple times & he said it's wrong. Gave up as I only had one car.

EPISODE TWO IS OUT TOMORROW

Does anyone know which supermarkets are selling eggnog?

Heated Rivalry can be unexpectedly touching and sweet (in between all the riding)

I like that their first stop is to witness a lot of small boats crossing The Channel, something I'm imagining the author of this book is vehemently against.

I took a bunch of kids to Zootropolis 2 today (all authorised btw) and it was rammed, with many small people, and the atmosphere was very quiet and attentive. I’m not sure how true it is that cinema is always ruined by ‘other people’. I DO know I still hugely enjoy going, versus watching at home.

If you write "no Virgos" in your dating profile, you're not only signalling you don't want responses from people born between August 22 and September 22, but also from anyone with a brain. Just a head's up for Millie, 27, from Barnsley.

Excited to see that the head of the political wing of the illegal bloodsports community (Countryside Alliance) Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting has been banned. 🧐

“The last loyal dog in the universe.”

Excited to see that the head of the Countryside Alliance, Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting is set to be banned.

“thank you for your report, ms. hollingworth, but unless you have an on-the-record statement from herr hitler i’m afraid we cannot print it.”

Ahem... Dublin. Just saying.

A mysterious anomaly challenges the most widely accepted vision of how the universe works.

Remembering Samuel Beckett

Good demonstration of why Google AI overview should not be trusted. According to this, Chris Rea had fairly robust opinions on the "business implications" of Brexit. But it's confusing singer Chris Rea with a completely different person.

A vile column from Murdoch’s Times. Can they really believe child abuse is something that should be forgiven/forgotten? A newspaper that wrongly considers some Queer ppl subhuman & threats to children, but calls for >actual< child abusers, & their facilitators, to be forgiven? Sick stuff.

See you in 2026...

Girlfriend and I were on a beach on holiday. A gorgeous woman in a bikini walked past and set up behind us. A few minutes later my girlfriend whispers "that girl with the big boobs you were looking at, has just taken her top off if you want to look." I've never loved her more.

Monday night’s curved viewing line nearly stretches to the border of Minnesota and Iowa.

Please help Mithqual and his three children if you can gofund.me/78acabc1

As part of Gaelic culture ppl are judged on their hospitality & generosity. We even have a word for it: flaithiulach. Indeed, the expectations of hospitality, by class, were laid down in the early medieval period in the Brehon Laws. There’s no worry about Ireland losing its culture.

A little selection of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. twowords2.page.link/play

A little list of some of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

This is wild, and seems like it might be related to DMT or maybe it's just a merch tie-in for S2 of Common Side Effects

my wife has just introduced me to the chinese anime series god troubles me and it is EXCELLENT

MAGA Future: why Epstein and foreign policy have Trump under pressure www.channel4.com/news/maga-fu...

Bondi Beach attack: gunmen threw explosive devices at crowd www.channel4.com/news/bondi-b...

Giant Shropshire sinkhole collapses canal and strands narrowboats www.channel4.com/news/giant-s...

Secret Post Office documents are “absolutely mindblowing”, says Labour MP www.channel4.com/news/secret-...

Post Office Scandal: secret Fujitsu contract revealed www.channel4.com/news/post-of...

Please help if you can, these children are freezing in the Gaza winter chuffed.org/project/1491...

One day, someone might accidentally design a toaster that toasts evenly on both sides.

Women’s experiences of pain – and how pain is felt, understood and lived through the body – sit at the heart of the exhibition.

Just fancy that! Time Person of the Year. From the new Private Eye, out now.

People in Gaza ask us to quote their posts because their accounts are deleted so fast by Bluesky that reposts are pointless. So if you quote, please put the gofundme in there too. Can you help this family find €150? gofund.me/5fd8abadf

“And to drink?” “Oooooh, lashings and lashings of ginger beer!”

While making this video, I came to appreciate the genius of casting Jeremy Irons, the world's campest homophobe, as Scar. A genuine triumph. youtu.be/VZUiqj0Uz4s

The perfect response to a grotesque post.

Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things. When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA

The Bruges Group have decided to go into children's literature and it's like they threw ideas into ChatGPT and got this. So many questions. First: Why is AI David Tennant on the jacket? 1/3

Rachel Reeves has set a date of 3 March for an early spring statement, as Labour attempts to draw a line under a year of tax speculation that business leaders blamed for damaging Britain’s economy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They're freezing to death, please help find €150 to buy a tent if you can: gofund.me/78aa2a366

@maybejed.bsky.social #MilkNoir The Big Caper (Robert Stevens, 1957)

A silence settles on ancient woodland at sunset The birds, already singing in hushed tones, go quiet as the shadows lengthen Any noise at all now alerts the senses of every living thing. The atmosphere is somewhat electric It is my favourite time

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

we’ve finished for the year but there’s still funny videos on the Patreon

All the Chris Rea obituaries are inevitably latching on to "Driving Home for Christmas" as his big hit but actually it peaked at number 53 when it originally came out. So it's perhaps the most famous example of the "Christmas compilation album" effect where a song becomes famous thru cd ubiquity

Super dehydrated but I have a cat on my lap and Mrs Beth is asleep on my shoulder. Trying to get one of the other cats to go to the fridge for me

Worked on several major infrastructure projects in the 1970s. Watching old Time Teams on C4 on demand at the moment I weep for all the archaeology we smashed through back then, including several burials and what I suspect was a Roman villa on one occasion.

It’s a long story so don’t ask but…Tank Museum wrapping paper, featuring festive tanks, actually exists and I feel the need to share this

Why is it called a Carol service and not a Jesus service, it’s not like Carol was born on Christmas Day

Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US' Denmark describes his comments as “completely unacceptable" and summons the US ambassador in a new eruption of tensions over the future of the vast Danish island news.sky.com/story/trumps...

🎵He’s cooking some chips, he’s cooking them twice, then once again so they’re crispy and nice, Making chips like Heston Blumenthal🎵

Human rights watchdog should investigate local election delays, Lib Dem leader urges news.sky.com/story/sir-ed...

The tracks were found parallel to an ancient shoreline in the Torotoro National Park.

Dunno what anyone’s on about Daniel Craig’s accent is bob on, that’s what they all sound like

🎵 He's making a list and checking it twice Gonna give the job to Sam Allardyce Santa Claus is the owner of a struggling Premier League club anywhere between about 2010 and 2022 🎵

Chris Rea's death reminds me that 1980s Irish radio DJs never formed a consensus on how his name was pronounced, you could hear a REEah or a REE or a RAY or even a RAY-AH, it was never the same twice, keep em guessin up there in heaven with Paddington Bear, big guy, RIP

The survivors said the way the release was handled made it “difficult or impossible” to find documents for their cases.

I shouldn’t have found out this way 😬

Via respectful memes

Postmen/women should be allowed to cut away those ridiculous Christmas door bows if they obstruct the letterbox

"Imagine how many billions more Cameron could have made doing Roots with giant Black cats and a white hero who masquerades as one of them by putting on a Black body as a costume and helping them fight back at colonial powers seeking to enslave them."

Personally I am gonna totally ignore the new Avatar out of spite

Hammam's accounts keep getting deleted, he's trying to raise €50 to buy a tent, please help if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...

This article now has drone video footage for you to see the catastrophe as a Crow might see it

I predict garbage. Also, what is it with these male morons reading Dickens and thinking "I want to go to the darker places he wasn’t allowed to write about." (Steven Knight, the twat). deadline.com/2025/10/john...

Please help if you can, they're homeless and freezing in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/1574...

If money worries are weighing on you this festive period, you’re not alone. Support is available on a range of issues, from managing bills to accessing benefits. Find links to trusted cost-of-living advice:

🧪A Christmas edition of the Life Scientific on Radio4 tomorrow with environmentalist Tony Juniper.

Watching 1956 crime movie The Big Caper. Only twenty minutes in but the number of times I've looked at Rory Calhoun and thought "What a slimeball" is already into double figures. He exudes grift.

For those in the Canary Islands for Christmas you will see more rain than Ireland 😬

Great apes are hugely popular with the public at zoos, but a dark illegal trade is affecting the survival of these much-loved animals.

I can't be bothered with Christmas after my mum passed away unexpectedly & I had to empty her house of all those years of consumerism, I have zero interest in continuing to fill our house with stuff I don't need, I'm getting a skip to start clearing crap in the new year.

If anyone want a safe modern equivalent. Also includes cursed wallpaper samples.

🔴 A Lexicon for Life: Episode 1 - Loneliness Words are our species' greatest invention. Jay Griffiths, Joanna Scanlan and John Mitchinson present a podcast series built on eight powerful words to help us navigate through challenging times open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

If you haven't heard our mix of all the Christmas songs from ages ago, now's the time. We've moved it to Spymania's page - it's free to listen or download, but if you choose to pay 100% of the profits go to Fareshare, a charity helping those in food poverty. spymania.bandcamp.com/track/festiv...

I have to ask a) who is doing all these, and b) why has Paddington become the number one leader of dead people to the pearly gates?

From tomorrow night onwards, there’s a series of lighthearted Only Connect festive specials on BBC Two. But there’s a proper episode tonight at 8pm, for anyone who wants a last shot at difficulty before the liqueurs kick in. (When you watch tomorrow night’s, you’ll know how literally I mean that.)

Today's been judgement day at the Tower of London. Do stay tuned until TOMORROW when we'll be revealing the winner of the @historicroyalpalaces social media #palacephoto of the year competition! Well done to all the shortlisted five.

Many will say we’ve been here before, but something is different this time. The consensus that stood firmly in favour of excluding the far right from power has been blown away. Superb deep-dive on upcoming French election by Olivier Morel. Highly recommended. Free trial to The Wire available. ~AA

It’s v hard to take seriously, a tulip who used his law degree to be responsible for urine-testing sailors in the US Navy & advising on torture legalities. A morally-shorted man with a tiny mind, all het up. Or at least as far as his platformed, elevator lifted, Cuban heels!*

The Google parent company said the acquisition would increase data center capacity to meet growing demand for AI.

Football played under lockdown conditions shouldn't count toward any meaningful achievements. The whole thing felt like performative morale-boosting rather than real competition. Basically a bunch of exhibition matches. We should strike all results from the record.

The FBI director is already facing an investigation from Democrats over his use of taxpayer funds.

Putin said Russian law enforcement officials would keep their Tajik counterparts informed of developments in the ongoing investigation into the killing of a 10-year-old Tajik student.

Must Watch Christmas TV Special… … with special guests Russell Tovey and Danielle Galligan. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that

Chris Rea has died at just 74, which really isn’t fair. But I have to say, given his most famous song, it’s impressive timing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDt3...

Sad news about Chris Rea, he always meant a lot to me growing up, and I know he had a lot of health problems. For the last 20 years when I finish my last gig before Christmas his is the song I play as I set off from wherever in the world I am.

"It does look increasingly like Wes Streeting is on manoeuvres." "He would say 'Keir Starmer is here to stay' - but he's thinking, 'in case he's not, I need to do some positioning'." Is Wes Streeting defying the PM in calling for Britain to rejoin the EU customs union?

I really think this borders on disinformation. Someone actively thought: "NAH. Too positive. Let's feed the discord angle."