David Maloney

Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.

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I'm playing Bob Dylan's Christian period albums in the background while working today. My mind is on what I'm typing so the lyrics are floating past without sinking in. Musically speaking, the albums are a lot better than I expected.

Never date a tennis player — love means nothing to them.

My daughter is watching a song about the early Prime Ministers of the UK set to the tune of Mambo No. 5. Nothing beats Horrible Histories.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Ok so SOMEBODY convinced me to make this and it took me absolutely ages when I was supposed to be doing something else so enjoy it! sgtp.lovable.app

Give me your best out of context comic panels or covers.

Nice collision of the headline from one story and a picture from another on The Times website.

Not a massive surprise here findmypolitics.com

I was once given £1 to say nice things about Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt. It was a quid pro quo agreement.

The threshold for what is considered scandalous has really changed in recent times

Happy Mario day!

Time and time again I get to the bottom of an excellent interview in the Guardian, then scroll up to see who wrote it, and see the name Simon Hattenstone. The recent one with Corrine Bailey Rae continues this pattern of high quality writing. Fantastic.

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

I bet very few people skip the opening titles of Gummi Bears on Disney plus. That theme tune is so good.

And Ozymandias, who did NOT die, thereafter wandered around the lone and level sands himself, personally inviting any passing Mighty to look upon his Works and despair

"A curse on bakers and their loathsome confections!"

Trying to convince my kids that the pronunciation, based on the original German, is The Grink

It's only the 3rd of December and already

Floating mountain home

@secondmentions.bsky.social Arnie's old antagonists

Another Connections streak halted by my lack of knowledge of American culture

Crikey Finland

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... Lovely article about snorkelling around the coast of Britain.

This morning's bathroom guest

Searching for Dune online, and my phone autocompleted to Dunelm.

Connections is tough today

One of mine in the new @privateeyenews.bsky.social. Please buy one (the mag not the car).

Downloaded this image to reply supportively to a post flooded with humourless replies, and the original author (rightly) got sick of the grind and deleted the post. But Desperate Dan eating cow pie is too good to not share.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social what is this?

Not "Not Now Bernard" now, dad.

Thinking of setting up a Go Fund Me to buy Dan Biggar some socks

Call of Cthulhu? Cool off, Cthulhu!

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

When I’m in the office, my jokes get a laugh. When I work from home and call in via Teams, they don’t. I guess I’m not remotely funny.

Connections Puzzle #629 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 A rare solution for me - don't normally solve purple first.

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Um.... who and who took questions?

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

Super interesting video, why *do* supermarkets have clock towers?

I want to see a four header something starring Coogan Brydon Tennant and Sheen. TV show, movie, stage play, I don't know what. But I want to see those four together in something.

The mission statement of the Galactic Drainage Inspectorate is: "We are all in the stars, but some of us are looking at the gutter."