The world shall know no peace until museumgoers learn to disable the shutter sound on their phone cameras.

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)

why does it appear to have become a thing for tv and radio adverts for food or drink products to feature slurping and chewing as if anyone wants to fucking hear that?

Israel twice in a row ramping up bombing on Lebanon immediately after a ceasefire announced is obviously evil and infuriating and horrible, but it's also strategically *fascinating* because it's such a loud declaration that they are actively sabotaging any American attempt to deescalate with Iran.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Drinking Orval is always a treat. Drinking an Orval that your mate spontaneously brought back for you along with a glass from the brewery on a road trip is one of the biggest treats of all. (And I met her at The Pub!!! The Pub is so SPECIAL!)

"When I went to the bathroom this conversation was about paedophiles and tax evaders, and now we're on red velvet cake" - taproom Sundays as summarised by @sidslim.bsky.social

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

once had a fella at the bar complain that he'd not been told about a change in our membership scheme, and go on to say he'd unsubscribed from members' emails as he "didn't want them"

We are at 628 as of now, would love to hit 630 before the end of the weekend.

Alex has been busy... 👀

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

hey i’m thinking of getting into crime does anyone know if the FBI director is blacked out currently

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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Lager really is excellent. Come and drink it with me and get filled up on tasty tasty food while you're at it!

Exactly one year ago today:

"He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator. But lo, his house looked like shit."

INTELLECTUAL CARNAGE

Or the weekday shop manager setting herself days to clean the staff fridge of this same director's forgotten mouldy foods. A fortnightly occurrence. I mean, she was a mother. Obviously it was her job. Who else?!

Reading a thread about invisible women's work in offices and am reminded of a brewery director at a previous job informing a weekend bartender that she really ought to be doing the salesmen's dishes on Saturdays when they'd been left in the sink from the week. She thought he was joking.

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles

the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

1 ‘There follows a public safety message from the Ministry of Taps.’ 2 [Show a moustachioed man in a white coat, standing next to a sink with two taps.] Hello. 3 Here are two beautiful, British taps. 4 Don’t they make you proud? Cold and hot, divided in modesty, as God intends! 5 But in recent years, more and more Britons are using ‘mixer taps’ - a highly addictive form of foreign tap. 6 The great British tradition of washing one’s hands via a weird sort of hot-to-cold dance is under threat. [Show someone doing this dance] 7 The 'mixer' is a gateway tap. One minute you're dabbling with a dual faucet. Next thing you know, you're 'dancing with the fisherman's hose'. [Show one of those big bendy fishmonger’s hoses that people have these days] 8 See here the brain of a healthy, two-tap using Briton: [Show diagram of a brain with two thirds of it devoted to ‘WASHING HANDS’] 9. And this... is the brain of a ‘mixhead’: [Show same brain diagram, but the Washing Hands section is replaced with ‘FOREIGN THOUGHTS’] Remember: Mixing can lead to foreignness and fishmongery. BRITONS: DON’T MIX YOUR TAPS [Ends]

TAPS

*prints of this and other comics in my shop, link in bio 😘

They bombed an *ambulance worker's funeral*

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I am honestly kind of "whatever" in terms of the amount of solar energy this would generate — it's way more expensive than just putting panels on the ground in an open field — but we should do it precisely because it would make surface parking lots more expensive to build

I love meeting cats on my way into work because it's a reminder that we really are all just silly animals that will frequently scream until fed or given attention. Nature is great.

MY NECESSARY FLUIDS (also I've waited for you, I'm not jumping the oyster gun, dw)

Merry turkmas