we all know I have no life, so:

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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Based on average price changes for the South West, the property being complained of has gained £612,000 in value since purchase, or £443,000 more than inflation over the same span.

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

A bit like The Travelling Whaleburys did? 😄

Should potholing be banned?

You'll only drive it underground.

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Rectum? Damned near killed him!

Surely the 8th amendment comes into play here?

Blue river, gorse and distant hills.

Very colourful and lovely here at the moment.

Victorian Shooting Lodge with mountains behind.

07:00 this morning, looking over Upper Loch Torridon towards the Torridon Hotel. Low tide.

Recently started biking for real, and holy f-ck - the cars. I swear to absolute fucking God. The cars man. I've never in my 30+ year life seen so many stupid fucking idiots in traffic. Blind motherfuckers. They are making my blood boil. Today someone decided it was a great time to make a U-turn in the middle of the street. I kept distance but the car was jerking and was indecisive and just stopped forcing me to go right on the curb making me fall head over the handle bar and crash. Not a care in the world the driver just looked at me and drove off. Never in my life have I seen so many stupid people that can't drive. And I've had a drivers license for over 20 years soon.

A common thread among newer cyclists is realizing just how awful drivers are. There are things you simply don't notice — behavior that has been normalized — when you mostly drive. Biking, walking, or rolling through the world changes that.

More toilets than rides.

I do like the linguistic equilibrium which sees all the 'T's dropped by cockneys turn up at the beginning of words in Yorkshire.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Pine trees, a blue loch and a mountain.

Today's weather.

Is the vehicle going to jail too?

#MyCarMadeMeDoIt

soft on crime

Bailiff: All rise!

Defendant: Way ahead of you.

Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

Terry Pratchett here, foretelling the ease with which Supreme Grand Master Farage can manipulate the populace.

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE Award-winning multiverse adventure where your parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to send, in your green bin, all at the same time - but never actually with you.

Based on a true story. About a dozen true stories in our experience...

NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse

BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes

a person is playing a game of bingo with a golden cage filled with balls . ALT: a person is playing a game of bingo with a golden cage filled with balls .

The markets establishing today's price for Brent Crude.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]