Glorious

Time has not been kind to Davidson.

Real audiophiles listen to blank tapes and the pops and crackles are their jazz.

Vance visits his curse upon Orban.

Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

JD Vance as Paddington and Viktor Orban as the queen mashed up with that mad watercolour where it looks like Padders is leading madge into the light

The world is just memes now x

Even if Magyar is no liberal, this is why it is still a huge defeat for illiberalism.

For it shows that a powerful illiberal political machine and methodology can be defeated.

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.

From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.

A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Nice little mask off moment for the GOP here

is there a job that is "argue with insurance companies about covering bills." how do i get that job. next, how do i make that job obsolete

Clever defence lawyer:
But you have to prove my client intended to commit genocide against an entire civilisation.

Worldly prosecutor:
May I read out this social media post.

This is a really good read.

The Middle Eastern war could cause the collapse of American fossil-hegemony and help China to remake the global energy order.
@katemac.bsky.social & I argue here:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...

“Vader, you terrible cunt”

The calm after the storm

5th April 2026 06.42

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I always think "embargoed" should be a post-industrial community, part way up a South Wales valley.

George Galloway: “I have been assailed all day by a “children’s book community” so vile and vicious I’m amazed they even let them near kids #redmolucca”. He was retweeted five times. An account named @winnie_the_pooh, not believed to be connected either to the Disney corporation or the estate of A A Milne, responded with one word: “Tosser.” and was RTed 213 times by the time this well-worn screenshot was taken, perhaps more afterwards

Well, if it’s 14 March, that can only mean... naturally: the ninth anniversary of one of the finest exchanges from The Old Place

Cast iron giant octopus

Just moved in and found this behind the bath.

I've used this place to shout into the void a few times. In cricket you get to bat twice. Some life events you think only happen to other people, and when they happen to you, it is scary to say the least.

Yesterday I bought my new house. It's only a wee place, but it's mine.

Starmer should have come back with “and as much as he’s trying, Trump is no Hitler”. Damp rag.

This is what happens when you have a military lead by the kind of people who think wars are fought like Call of Duty games.

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

This is just to say

I am trapped
In Dubai
While my
Labradoodles
Are sick

Forgive me
My Mounjaro pen
Is in the ice box
So crisp
And so cold

I absolutely adore this. It's stunning.

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Whatever Starmer may think of her party, this is massively insulting and patronising to Hannah Spencer, who seems to be a thoroughly decent and sincere person who is in politics for the right reason.