If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
A bunch of intricate tiny chairs and a beer can
The winning chair and the can type it was crafted from
My favourite tiney chair with tiny woven metal straps
As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens
TBH I've always assumed that's how holidaying in Dubai would feel
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Richard Moth becomes the 12th Archbishop of Westminster on Saturday.
He wasn't initially called to religion, but then he saw the light.
I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE.
These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can.
Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Rate bit of good news here for Labour.
A mess of Argentina and Chile guidebooks, maps, Spanish language textbooks and part of a computer monitor with a bus timetable shoeing
Just two weeks left in the countdown to my South America solo trip and I've pretty much planned myself to a standstill. I'm very lucky that @easymungo.bsky.social will be keeping the home fires burning while I'm marching about Argentina 🇦🇷 and Chile 🇨🇱
But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
I find it absolutely galling to have read over and over about how the state pension triple lock couldn’t conceivably be overturned/debacle over winter fuel payments while there has been as yet zero political commentary about how exploitative student loans have been for a whole generation.
Crapita!?! We're doomed.
BBC News headline: Wetherspoon dog policy could be breaking the law, watchdog says
Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he
I feel like getting the dudes who demand government issued girlfriends out of the gene pool might be one of those problems that solves itself
Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud
I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason
And then I realized:
It's an Egg McGuffin.
The minute a business owner complains about the national minimum wage is the same minute that I lose any sympathy for their plight. They're saying they would pay their staff even less if they could get away with it.
James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes..See more elctap) Sir James Dyson: Rachel Reeves has put my family business at risk
Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."
Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Film poster for the Muppet Christmas Carol
Just about to watch the finest of all Christmas movies for the umpteenth time #muppetchristmascarol
Nevertheless, I'm all for unseating those entitled twats from their unearned privilege - cry havoc etc
People who shriek "class war" only ever speak of it as the lower classes attacking upwards. They never acknowledge the war of attrition that upper classes have waged downwards for centuries.
I'm going to be laughing at this until approximately new years day
In a sign of how carefree (empty?) my life is, I've just spent about an hour plotting a route that would get me from Shaftesbury to Pitcairn Island for Christmas Day
I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
Twitter screenshot; Katebeliot @EliotKate 1d Not only do masks reduce your 02 & increase your CO2 intakes which makes you wheeze or gasp but they also provide perfect warm damp breeding grounds for pathogens to breath in, that will progressively make you ill. For those who WANT more respiratory illnesses - job done. Richard @rcantelo 21h Absolutely none of that is true. Katebeliot @EliotKate 20h And you exact qualifications for stating that are? Richard @rcantelo 20h A degree in medicine and Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, for which I was examined in respiratory physiology and the mechanics of gas transfer. Richard @rcantelo 20h What are yours? Katebeliot @EliotKate 18h Too many to put here
A classic from the COVID conspiracy genre
