Kaiser of Crisps

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

"Hello, son, when are you going to pardon me?" "Dad, I have to tell you something..." (h/t CRK)

I'd be embarrassed to put my name to this, even for money.

I went to see it. The sculptured glass module final boss. Architects: Burtar & Gassman, 1905 Date of Groovying: Unknown

no amnesty

Prediction is hard. Especially about the future. That Yogi Berra gem proves that you don't have to be a sf writer to get irritated with people insisting that you must know what's going to happen tomorrow, but (as a sf writer), I can tell you that this is one of our main occupational hazards.

They missed a trick there, it should have been... AI PIES! For the busy tech bro! What makes them AI? We don't know, THEY JUST ARE! AI PIES!!!

Aspirational on-the-go pies for the LinkedIn generation. Hungry when you touchdown in Zurich with no time for a sit down pie before you’re 10am strategy meeting? No problem. We got you.

The wrong decisions on Rosebank, Heathrow expansion, heat pumps and EV targets would result in getting on for half a billion extra tonnes of CO2 being added to the atmosphere Truly insane as drought, wildfire, storm and flood continue to hammer the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

It is, today, not the 13th anniversary of the publication of Steven Morrissey’s autobiography (it had been out for ten days) but something much better: the 13th anniversary of the Sunday Times publishing A. A. Gill’s merciless mauling of it—a review which went on to win Hatchet Job of the Year

So better to let the Republicans remain in actual power then? FFS, what brain rot is this...?

Like many of us, I grew up with the original Star Trek, but hadn't seen it in decades. More recently, I've been watching the series again with my elderly parents, like we used to in the 1970s, and it has brought us such joy. Thank you Walter Koenig for being part of that. R.I.P. Pavel Chekov

I seriously think that if you view paying tax at 47% on marginal income as anything other than an extremely modest contribution to pay in exchange for getting to live in a decent society, then you are morally subhuman and the world would be better off without you www.mediaweek.com.au/ruby-tuesday...

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RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

"Tricky things" What kind of preschool language is that? He's the fucking PM. Cost of living crisis? Tricky. Far right in the streets? Bit of a pickle. Ongoing wars? Ooh, what a knotty problem.

Even among people who use AI, nobody wants somebody else's slop. They like using AI to get out of doing work for other people. Use it for them instead of doing work, and they're not so happy.

Ali Fortescue to Ellie Chowns on the group Greens4Palestine: "This group obviously has a big influence over your partys direction... do you think they should be kicked out of the party?" Can you imagine a journalist asking, should Labour Friends of Israel be kicked out of Labour? Of course you cant

HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA...!!!

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

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I don’t think enough is said about how funny this is. He would have briefed somebody to do this. Possibly while stood behind them, making suggestions over their shoulder. Stood on a stepladder.

So... That Turning Point/UVF documentary with all the people admitting to actual crimes is going nowhere except the memory hole then, huh? Damn, you'd think that'd be at least one or two real journalists in the country capable of feeling shame about what that says about the industry.

The AirBnB people whining about the incredibly postmature rules changes are hilarious. Hey, here's an idea, if you don't want to pay someone to clean up after guests don't run a fucking lodging business!

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Restore Britain have a new policy: no new British citizens from abroad at all, except by marriage. Catherine Blaicklock, founder of the Brexit Party, is among those on X who think this policy is too open/liberal.

Happened here with Corbyn, his own party fucked him over and threw a general election...

An interesting thing about the trailer for EBENEZER is that "Johnny Depp gets sucked into a bed by a ghost" is literally his first film role and it looks so much worse here than it did 40 years ago.

lol

Ah the time of night where the longer you wait for a train the sooner you get home! Magic!

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Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

The Thing Between My Legs

Alexei Sayle's Stuff (26th October 1989). Joan of Arc (Jan Ravens) is subjected to an intense interrogation. Angus Deayton is asking the questions in this sketch written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

Again: the international fascist movement.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

add “between my legs” to a movie title The Bloody Pit of Horror Between My legs

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