Makes you wonder if Keats and Yeats were ever really on our side.

21h later....

I think maybe yes it was. Wouldn’t fly now, but there used to be an element of subconscious extrapolation towards an imaginary ideal, until high definition & hyperreal images became default and flipped the script. These days it’s inverted: IRL something’s likely not as great as it looks in an ad.

I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.

J on Instagram: "A bit of history joke #japan #china #southkorea" 299K likes, 2,637 comments - isawkwardguy on September 27, 2025: "A bit of history joke #japan #china #southkorea".

And if you're underread on the subject and also am not feeling up to the task of exposing yourself to a pretty gory list of atrocities, I feel like this IG reel perfectly captures Asian foreign relations re: Japanese war crimes www.instagram.com/reel/DPIpNyq...

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

screengrab of a brief from page 4 of issue 235 of The Continent, with the following text: Elder skull brought back from oblivion South Africa on Tuesday returned ancestral human remains and a sacred artefact looted from Zimbabwe during colonial rule. They were taken as “scientific specimens” and include the skull and jawbone of a tribal chief. A soapstone bird, stolen in the 19th century and later owned by Cecil Rhodes, was also returned. Leaders from both countries called it a moral duty and a step toward justice.

I used to repatriate looted artefacts like you until I took an arrow to the knee.

(via @thecontinent.org)

a black and white photo of a woman with the words `` happy sigh '' written on it . ALT: a black and white photo of a woman with the words `` happy sigh '' written on it .

I’m so out of the loop these days.

Managed to reference Bad Religion, Diana Ross AND a popular brand of toilet paper in one single headline today, so according to the rules that means I can take the rest of the month off, right?

🤭😂

@ItsBCJim The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane

Even astronauts get constipated in space NASA packed laxatives on Artemis II for a reason.

All right. But who exactly are all these other constipated people in space who AREN’T astronauts?

a black and white photo of a man wearing sunglasses and a suit Alt: Peter Sellers just wants you to add a little love to your life.

Stop worrying!

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

And then another, as if to rub it in this guy’s face.

an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i . ALT: an older man is holding a ring in his hand and asking why shouldn 't i .

He’s just itching to drop a nuke, isn’t he.

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

ahahahahaha

@lynley.bsky.social what do we call the eye-of-the-storm moment when we’ve finished prep and handed over the draft AFS but the auditors haven’t yet sent any queries, notes or sample lists? Easter?

Eh, we played audit-audit last year AND the year before. Let’s skip this one and say the dog ate it. In the strait of hormuz.

Sure but come on now that’s TERRIBLE wordling.

if that's your jam get you some Akabanga. Same effect but you can knock it back like a shot of tequila. Probably only just the once though.

In my defence, your honour, I really didn't think anyone would bother to check for spoonerisms.

“The rain falls on the just
And on the unjust fella;
But mainly on the just.
Because the unjust has the just’s umbrella.” ~ Charles Bowen

swear by 'em

Oh no I murdered too many pies.

Could murder a pie, round about now.

Free money AND a good time? What's the catch?

The front cover of Issue 233 of The Continent newspaper. The illustration shows a chef from Botswana desperately escaping from a remote Russian military base. The headline reads, 'The chef who escaped Putin's war'.

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 233 of The Continent

This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans.

Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Screenshot from an early draft of edition 233 of The Continent showing a headline reading "Still making 'fetch happen'" and a subhead that says "The Sloughi hounds that help put food on Algerian hunters' tables were once heralded in hieroglyphics"

Screenshot from a later draft of edition 233 of The Continent showing a headline NOT reading "Still making 'fetch happen'" but rather the far less-Gretchen-Wieners-approved "On the hunt".

Spoiler for this week's edition of @thecontinent.org - I've been told to stop trying to make "making 'fetch' happen" happen.