we all know I have no life, so:

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

The Minkes

These guys were just weak and woke:

Neopolis

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

This was bloody stupid bait for the home secretary to take and she's just helped to fuel an open season on politicians of colour when far-right politicians 'joke' in the same way about them.

OMG

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

He’s a deeply insecure middling alcoholic. By all reports he was a terrible soldier and couldn’t lead a one car funeral if you spotted him the hearse. He managed to fail being on the Koch brothers’ gravy train because he couldn’t stay sober & couldn’t keep his zipper zipped up. 2/

Secretary Violent Drunken Zipper Malfunction wants all women, ethnic, & religious minorities out of his military because they’re only in because of what he thinks are relaxed standards, which he also thinks are what prevented us from winning in Iraq and Afghanistan. 1/

The FBI takes 686 days on average to respond to an *expedited* FOIA request.

Give me a break.

It’s also worth reading all 22 bullet points and asking yourself “would any of these be out of place in Mussolini’s Italy?”

I’m not saying Alex Karp is a fascist. I’m just saying he’s giving voice to a business-model-with-a-political-philosophy that just so happens to fit comfortably into fascism.

Im a historian and can think of very few good reasons why anyone would know Oswald's 1939 speeches by heart

Trust Trump? Iran’s Doubts Shadow Peace Talks

"They remember the way ... Mr. Trump imply abandoned a nuclear deal Iran had struck with the Obama admin ... after nearly two years of negotiations. Mr. Trump did not claim that Iran was violating that deal; he simply didn’t like it."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Donald Trump tried to ‘use nuclear codes’ claims: what we know Larry Johnson - a retired CIA analyst - claimed Trump tried to access nuclear codes but was stopped by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Ignore the clickbaity preview, the upshot is that there's no evidence to back this claim besides something Larry Johnson said on a podcast.

Adrian Tomine

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

A Labour Home Secretary absolutely leaning in to their anointed role as the nation's authoritarian thug.

A picture of four of the lost pubs of Cambridge and the text "There have been 23 pubs on Newmarket Road - now only three remain. I'm making a documentary about these lost places for Cambridge Radio and I want your memories to share. You can send me an email at james@cambridge.radio if you would like to contribute"

FYI Cambridge people!

There have been 23 pubs on Newmarket Road - now only three remain. I'm making a documentary about these lost places for Cambridge Radio and I want your memories to share. You can send me an email at james@cambridge.radio if you would like to contribute

The world is at this madman’s mercy His ego got him in and it prevents him from leaving.

The Iran war is about oil, but for Donald Trump, it's a war for an even more precious resource, narcissistic supply. He has to best Obama's JCPOA, but he can't because he sends flunkies instead of diplomats. So, we're stuck.

My latest for the @editorialboard.bsky.social.

LAcon V Announces 2026 Hugo Awards Finalists LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards, the most prestigious honors for excellence in science fiction and fantasy, on April 21. First p…

Hugos nominations are announced and THE POWER FANTASY is on the list of contenders for Best Graphic Story or Comic, which is just lovely. Thanks to everyone who nominated us, and put us in great company. It's amazing to be part of this.

Unrelated reminder that no airline will ever have a cooler name; it is literally the "Air Guild." Hansa is a direct reference to the Hanseatic League.

Eat shit, "Delta."

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

I mean Chubby Checker didn't sing "let's have the Twist."

grammatically weird that we say “have sex” instead of “do sex.” i mean yes, “do sex” sounds absolutely TERRIBLE, but “have sex” is hilariously passive.

"We lost 13 men"

At least three of these fatalities were women:
♦️Capt. Ariana Savino
♦️Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt
♦️Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor

I found this out with about 30 seconds of Googling.
The Commander-in-Chief still doesn't know.

He has zero idea what a currency swap is. Bet me

Trump did't take over Venezuela, he kidnapped two people and acquired a corrupt socialist client state.

BBC Search result. Balamory (2002-05)

Enjoying that BBC iPlayer has separated Balamory into two different eras like they did with Doctor Who.