have had a blocked nose for nearly three days now, after a weirdly long run of avoiding it, and truly I had forgotten that not being able to breathe through your nose is the absolute worst minor thing that can happen to a person, I feel so sorry for myself, I hate having a body

Very possibly the most incoherent playlist in music history. Utterly berserk.

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

not going to post the picture directly as I'm aware some of you are at work but I would really recommend clicking on the Wikipedia page for vajazzle below and seeing the first example they added, I just have so many questions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajazzle

I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest

'Head of compliance for Reform UK' sounds like either a recurring sketch comedy character or literally a job you would have in a nightmare

Duncan Hames@duncanhames.bsky.social · 13h ago

Richard Tice MP when quizzed by the BBC's Nick Robinson this morning: "Hopefully your viewers will trust that statement from our compliance team"...

continually maddening that people blame "the water companies" for hosepipe bans when "the water companies" have been begging to build new reservoirs but a few retired QCs in Oxfordshire have used the entire weight of the british planning system to prevent it www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water redraws mega-reservoir plan amid local opposition

A new public consultation has opened on the 150bn-litre above-ground White Horse project in Abingdon, Oxfordshire

theguardian.com

think what's interesting about this too is that I have no sense of how others feel about this - we're clearly in a minority on this website by being stridently anti-AI, but does that really mean other people don't.....meaningfully care about the phenomenon below? I find that so weird to contemplate!

temporary secretariat@bonnnt.bsky.social · 21h ago

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

i had to look this up and what do you MEAN it's true

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · yesterday

20% of all mammals are bats and I don't see anyone posting them. Give bats proper representation!

oh by the way thanks to everyone who recommended Upper Middle Bogan to me over the years, finally caved and got into it the other week and I am: enjoying Upper Middle Bogan

woman on the street in Wapping explaining to her friends that she likes Wapping because it's not been gentrified, so that's a swing and a miss

Female asylum seekers are reporting rapes and sexual assaults by British men but many say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecutions. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Female asylum seekers report being sexually assaulted by British men

Women say they are too fearful to pursue criminal prosecution of rapes, for fear of having their claims refused

theguardian.com

"You're an old king from some vanished country." !

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d ago

BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.

love the general weirdness of living on the 20th floor of a building and the extent to which people just aren't used to it if they've never done it, friend stayed in my flat while I was away and just realised she locked the balcony door upon leaving, thank god my nemesis, Spiderman, was locked out

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

landed back from Beijing yesterday evening, had a mostly good night of sleep last night yet unfortunately feel like my brain is no longer able to come up with its own thoughts

nandy pulled off the scam of the year lol like imagine pleading for your job all ooh you don’t understand i was blocked from doing what i wanted to do and then going back to snoring in a hammock

ok do not - I mean do NOT - put me at the centre of this discourse I feel so jetlagged but, if you'd like a Topic Of The Day for UK Bluesky, I'd recommend heading to Instagram where Jeremy Corbyn has posted a picture of himself with Hasan Piker

god you guys sound like you were tiring children

Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.

took the bold decision not to nap on my ten-hour flight back from Beijing and on hour like eight I made myself laugh out loud by thinking "lavatory? I don't know that I'd even kiss one these days!!" so I guess what I'm saying here is that I should have probably just taken a Sleepeaze upon boarding

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

Activists? Activists?

just ate a couple of eggs, some choi sum and some wontons and wondered if that was too light a breakfast, so probably time for me to leave Asia again

"has globalisation gone too far" I ask, sitting in a hipster restaurant in Beijing next to a Chinese woman carrying a Trader Joe's totebag

woman I met this week has a pair of eyes tattooed on her cleavage so she can say "hey, my eyes are down here!", isn't that neat

Area Dickhead Could Have Worn Handier Clothes Than Her Tabis and Bad Seeds Cap To Climb The Great Wall In 32 Degree Heat But Dickhead Remains Happy To Be Here

charmed by the sign in this local Beijing park that explained the rules for fishing in the pond by writing on a sign in English that said it costs "30 yuan for one hour of removing fish from the water"

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