Meme. Picture: Sesame Street. Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert, and Ernie, talking to a Dalek. Caption: Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letter E.

Today's inspirational message:

Screenshot of an item on the online menu for a Japanese sushi chain, automatically translated into English. Picture: two pieces of maki shushi with a minced tuna topping. Text: Spicy tuna tataki yucky yucky 100yen(110yen including tax)

The joys of machine translation. Whatever the original Japanese says, it isn't this:

French toast in progress. In a rectangular enamel tin, two slices of white bread soaking in a bath of an egg/milk/vanilla/cinnamon mixture.

On a white plate, two slices of French toast.

My pain? Perdu.

Marina Fujiwara on Instagram: "Order link in bio✌️このキーボードのプレオーダーはプロフィール欄から👀26日までなのでおはやめに〜！　労働に負けない！ I made a keyboard with only 9 keys. Pre-orders open until April 26. Now 10% off. Order link in bio.​... 28K likes, 200 comments - mudazukuri on April 9, 2026: "Order link in bio✌️このキーボードのプレオーダーはプロフィール欄から👀26日までなのでおはやめに〜！　労働に負けない！ I made a keyboard with only 9 keys. Pre-orders open until April 26. Now 10%...

Need.

Julie Walters as Rhona YouTube video by sitgeshorn

Meet Rhona.

A brilliant script by the late, great Victoria Wood, and a brilliant performance by Julie Walters as a woman who - and we've all met someone like her - has absolutely no idea how awful she is:

@goldingcartoons.bsky.social

Hi Nigel Farage, don’t forget what Nigel Farage said about Peter Mandelson.

mock tudor house behind a fence its night a sign reads This area is slightly haunted but manageable Monitoring active. Christchurch

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

When Trump goes to hell YouTube video by Rudy Ayoub

What happens when Trump goes to Hell:

British Jews feel ‘under siege’ and worry about children wearing religious symbols in public Antisemitism has been rising in years since 7 October attacks, including recent arson attacks at Jewish sites

Unacceptable. We should be better than this.

(And if any part of your response to this headline includes the word "but...", keep it to yourself.)

Cartoon by Thomas Wykes. An operating theatre. On the operating table, a male patient, on his front, with his bottom exposed. Behind him, a monitor. Next to the table, a doctor and a short bearded man who is wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap and holding a clipboard. The doctor says, "You might feel a slight pain when I insert the camera, and a lot more pain when I insert the director."

Lights! Camera! Action!

Victoria Wood - Swim the Channel YouTube video by transmissionends64

Just because:

Screenshot of Apple Music on my phone - playing Rachel Zegler singing 'Still Hurting' from the new live recording of Jason Robert Brown's 'The Last Five Years'.

That weird noise you just heard was the sound of my jaw dropping.

OK.
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Good guess.
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‘She’d been drinking with Julie Walters. I heard a crash’: Victoria Wood’s genius – by her friends, fans and actors Dazzling performer, brilliant writer, maddening perfectionist, Easter Egg hunt maestro … on the 10th anniversary of Wood’s death, those who knew her best celebrate the shy introvert who redefined come...

Ten years.

People throw the word "genius" around far too easily - but she was.

We perhaps do not need to fully explore the number of times I've told Duolingo to fuck off in the last half hour. But it's a lot.

Ben Platt & Rachel Zegler - “Next Ten Minutes” [Official Audio] YouTube video by Atlantic Records

So this can be turned around in a month - it was recorded live at the Palladium in the back half of March - but we're still waiting for the complete album of Ms. Zegler's Evita. Hrmph.

It's lovely. Mr. Platt, of whom I am often not a fan, sounds good, and Ms. Zegler is absolutely radiant. Will buy.

Dennis Goris | Cartoons on Instagram: "Current status #ceasefire . . #cartoon #cartoonoftheday #peace" 524 likes, 26 comments - dennisgoris on April 18, 2026: "Current status #ceasefire . . #cartoon #cartoonoftheday #peace".

Bang on.

Cartoon by Ellis J. Rosen: A medieval castle. The King stands on a balcony. Below the castle walls, a very large, very angry mob armed with pitchforks and burning torches. King: "My people, rejoice! I start therapy next week!"

Today's inspirational message:

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Two paragraphs from an interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Times: Partly this Webbernaissance has been down to sobriety and — not unrelatedly — a willingness to let other people play with his work, whether it’s the high camp of the Jellicle Ball or the director Jamie Lloyd’s high-concept takes on Sunset Boulevard and Evita. In an interview with Variety magazine last year Lloyd Webber appeared to have fallen out with Lloyd, complaining that Evita was too loud. While he stands by that, they seem to have made up. “Evita was deafening on opening night, but it was brought back down. If it goes to Broadway, Jamie and I have worked out what we’re going to do. I thought I liked everything loud, but Jamie likes it louder. The thing I'd love to do with him would be an American rock tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.” In New York they would have to make other adjustments to Evita. There would be no outdoor balcony scene for Don’t Cry for Me Argentina because of the risk of a shooting. “They wouldn't even begin to get the insurance for it,” Lloyd Webber says. Nor would they make any money unless Rachel Zegler was in it for a year, “and I can’t see how she can be”. Perhaps he has been thinking his way round this because he mentions that Zegler wasn’t his first choice for Eva Peron. “I'd better not say who it was, but she dropped out. Then Rachel sent us a recording of herself doing the whole score, and we said: holy smoke!”

From a (paywalled) interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber in today's Times:

Cartoon by David Sipress. God, on a cloud, looking down at the Earth. An angel flies next to him. God: "What goes on down there in the name of religion is turning me into an atheist."

Amen.