Dick Flabbergastedly

Name a non-LOTR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring.

drilling for more gas then telling us to stockpile because of the climate crisis is like digging a deeper and deeper hole because you know a guy who sells long ladders

Dop a BAD-ASS ONE-LINER

Ruin a song by adding "in my pants" to the title The Power of Love in My Pants

Very cool!

Never relent in the fight against Italian conversion cigarettes! Thank-you, Spider-man!

Drop A SIDEKICK

Ruin a book by adding a word Lord Of The Nose Rings by JRR Tolkien

they did the thing

Yuuuuup…

Hard to imagine the fear and helplessness you'd feel in such a situation.

Depressingly, I agree — fascism can't be forever eliminated, cos we can all be arseholes! But we can neuter the conditions it needs to metastasise (inequality, grievance, anger, xenophobia, corruption etc etc).

Russia has tried to take Ukraine's independence away by force for years. It has failed. Ukraine is still here. Still free. Still fighting.

Make a band bigger: Landfill

'The UK only produces 1% of emissions, so why should we do anything?' As this teacher says, just turn the analogy to dog poo or litter.

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit."

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Sounds very encouraging. I just hope it can be easily scaled to municipal-supporting size!

YouTube is full of awesome videos of blades on trucks. Here’s one with the blade mounted on a hydraulic controller, going through the mountains. youtu.be/9dtUrY8_1CM?...

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Social Democrat Economic: collectivist Social: leaning progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: hawkish Authority: libertarian Constitutional: centrist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

One the one hand — yes! On the other, if there's one thing the far right will never run out of, it's make believe oppressors.

A great explanation here of why we need industrial solar, why it's not bad for experienced private companies to build it...and why some NIMBY green supporters are being 'time to cut off this evil nose; there you go face!'

America: You need to re-learn that corruption is real, politics attracts it, and that you need to stamp that shit out like you weigh 300 pounds and wear hobnail boots. And that includes every arsesling paid or motivated to overlook it.

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?" All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

Very Ukrainian accent: "Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace? Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues? Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky? Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"

This is a fantastic photo #ArtemisII

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

The rainfall of Namibia, 🇳🇦 where millions of water lilies bloom all at once

Amid the general feelings of dread and fear this is at least a slight bit of good news.

This is a view of Mount Fuji seen through cherry blossoms in full bloom in a mountain garden… a once-a-year kind of magic you don’t just pass by. 🌸✨ #Mt.Fuji #Sakura #Shizuoka

The Economist weighs in on the noblest of campaigns: STP standards!

This! Literally. Reposts of my art (which are free!) REALLY bloody help, lads! Thank you for all that do! Xxx Art available in Small World section of Artofnote.sumupstore.com #ukgiftam #ukgifthour #bsnm #birds #birdart

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character(s). Wrong answers only.

"We are WINNING so much. In fact, there is SO MUCH winning I want others to come and enjoy it too with their navies. Come on, all this victory can't last forever. First one to say YES gets their tariff dropped to 10%!"

A long, but quite delightful, read, on Banksy, who he probably is, and how Massive Attack is involved.

The Sausage Who Loved Me.

Great thread. It's in nobody's economic or security interests, including the US's, for it to extort and invade its allies!

Wind Power: Affordable and British-made So why does Farage want us to use expensive fossil fuels supplied by Putin? 🇷🇺

cc @tef.bsky.social

24th November, first time I've heard 'All I want for Christmas' this year. Mariah Carey's bank account has just started ting ting tinging!

My own personal Jesus? Someone to hear my prayers? Someone who cares?

Which one is more English?

If you have a @financialtimes.com subscription, I suggest you read this. It's a jaw-dropping account of, to put it politely, monumental ambition being thwarted. Terrific work by @alisonkilling.bsky.social and the FT imagery team!

Happy Halloween

Britain ran entirely on clean energy for 87 hours this year – a fiftyfold rise since 2021. Proof that progress is real, even if there’s a long road to 2030’s clean-power target. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @seththevoz.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org - with thanks.