Ian Fletcher

I feel like it would just take one Pokémon looking at Pikachu and asking “why doesn’t he need to live in the ball?” to lead to some fuckin changes in that society

BBC 4 extra scheduling for The State of the Art

Due to be available on BBC Sounds later today👍

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

At least two Australians and one Canadian

The massive proportion of the UK bar indicating that we mostly think of people as "all right, I guess" seems about right

move slow and repair things

Still very much a thing in Northern Ireland

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The Saudis have a terrible record on human rights. But....

Old?

<Turns into dust and blows away on the wind from the northern wastes>

Yep. People who would, ironically, be happier not voting rather than turning up at every election and basically scrawling "BASTARDS" on their ballot paper.

That feels about right, again from anecdotal numbers of the proportion of independence voters who also wanted to leave the EU

So the upward trend might be a combination of the Tories losing votes a bit more slowly, protest votes, some of the more.... excitable fringes of the SNP vote moving about and the ever reliable Lizardman Constant.

But I think there might actually be some vote transfer from SNP to Reform going on as well. It's always been a bit of a coalition party with the single unifying thread of independence. If it was ever achieved the party would shatter instantly

Everyone who is likely to vote for the Lib Dems already is

I think there might be a lag in the Scottish Tories not having hit the skids quite so violently as their English counterparts who, let us not forget, managed to only just beat the Monster Raving Loony Party in a by-election and lose their deposit

As the something of a protest vote party we've had the Greens and their stunning success in (checks notes) failing to set up a bottle recycling scheme that Irn Bru had for decades may have soured people on them.

The protest vote thing is pretty much the only thing Reform and Greens have in common

How is it possible to fuck up LinkedIn? It's designed from the ground up to be horrifying

I'm going to guess "pissed with all the parties that have been in government recently", which accounts for the SNP, Greens, Labour and the Tories in the UK.

Which leaves you with Lib Dems, Reform or (lol) Alba

Ulster museum used to have drawers full of mice which appeared to have been skinned and mounted on lollipop sticks.

Always wondered who's job it was to iron the mice flat.

A glass jar. It contains lots of moles.

Also: a jar of moles. Hello moles!

Which sucks because a conspiracy would be strangely comforting. To know we’d been set up and out manoeuvred by an incredible scheme played out over decades.

Because the alternative is we’ve ceded control to people who’d eat crayons.

And that can’t be right? Can it?

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Obsidian Statue done!

#miniatures #miniaturepainting #malifaux

only one of these guys has an actual read on america and you already know who it is

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

He took a whip to the money-changers. These guys would be lucky to get that.

Free-free rat! Rat did nothing wrong-wrong!

Oh come now.

High state of readiness ✅
Successful interdiction of the threat ✅
Remembering to complete the paperwork vis-a-vis "is it one of ours?" ❌

In the immortal words of noted military philosopher Mr M Loaf, two out of three ain't bad?