Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans

Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.

The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.

An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

Poulet Rouge, aha (aha) aha (aha)

No *you've* got ABBA stuck in your head.

A chart showing the decline in newspaper jobs since 2007, with every single year starting lower than the year before. From about 350k in Jan 2007 to about 78.4K in 2026

I have been thinking about this chart for months, and basically reference it any time someone asks me what's going on with journalism nowadays

Source: reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Text reads: Navigating a cancer diagnosis is complex. 10 minutes of your time could help empower patients. Pictured: a doctor provides care to a patient. Common Sense Oncology, Queen’s University, and CDA-AMC logos.

Are you an oncologist, caregiver, patient, or patient advocate? Take 10 minutes to help empower future patients to have the information they need for decision-making by filling out this survey: tinyurl.com/ywxmms4u

#CommonSenseOncology #CancerCare

Show me what democracy looks like

(this is what democracy looks like)

Kaplan-Meier p0rn thread.

A hand drawn cartoon, titled "Time to Choose, showing three characters (all ridiculous) named 'Evil', 'Good', and 'Don't know'.

Reminds me of this David Shrigley cartoon.

Not quite the answer to the Q you asked but hopefully useful thread nonetheless! 👇🏼

bsky.app/profile/data...

Really insightful analysis.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator...
stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed"

- GK Chesterton

Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results. This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop. But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. We need people to: 1. "buy" the book (it's free) 2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book. That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

News/UK Politics Live: I feel like I've come

Not the 9 o'clock news

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

Two push alerts from the BBC. The second is a correction of the first, but with a capitalised 'd' in the word 'Digital'. The alert reads: Chris Mason: Digital ID U-turn is yet another climbdown for government

Big D energy from the BBC this morning.

caillou en forme de manette xbox

🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.

The ICE shooter in Minnesota is apparently called Jonathan Ross as well, which adds to the overall surrealism.

So, the Ashes has been utterly fucking miserable - turns out We Couldn't Still Win This, After All. However, @barneyronay.bsky.social's writing has been a bright light throughout the series. "A voice you only get to hear if you've been following the conversation" is just a perfect line. Read him:

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

Tribute to Isiah Whitlock Jr?

Shit.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

You will be visited by three spirits

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

🧵

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party

It has seen action in many a late-night swingometer-fuelled election party.

I mean, it was tempting not to throw it at the wall after that Pope dismissal.

A broken mug that reads "WE CAN STILL WIN THIS".

A mended mug that reads "WE CAN STILL WIN THIS" next to a tube of superglue.

Think I've jinxed the 3rd Test.

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.

A pissed off thread using data.

Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10