Accurate:

February is the worst month of the year and this man is wonderful pic.twitter.com/vV73ZF2Qn4
- Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) February 4, 2022

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In UK politics news, Jonathan Pie is back! :D

“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by ( Read more... )

A little politics:

Our politicians keep being an international embarrassment...

But kids are great:

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Some nice things.

PTSD: Ex-soldier builds castle as mental health rehab space - BBC News

David Tennant and Michael Sheen being adorable friends for 7 mins

Drone footage follows 10,000 ducks “cleaning” rice paddies in Thailand

If Bible characters had iPhones w/ John Crist

benedict cumberbatch having a crush on his wife for 3:44 minutes

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Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay.

In this clip from 1965, Richard Dimbleby returned to the site of the Belsen concentration camp where he had reported from shortly after its liberation in 1945. He recounted the horrific scenes he witnessed that day.pic.twitter.com/bC8Q1xzj2L
- BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) January 27, 2022

The news is just somewhere through the looking glass at this point. Never mind Russia gearing up for WW3, this is what's happening in jolly old Blighty:

Birthday celebration for PM sparks new party rowI have gathered a selection of commentary from Twitter, because that is what Twitter is for. And at this point the whole thing is just a farce ( Read more... )

Two things.

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First a deligthful thread sent my way by Kerk:

Thinking about biological collections lately I'm reminded of the time that somehow at age 4, I got a personal tour of the @UCBerkeley entomology collection (Essig?) from a kind scientist (anybody know who?!). Asked my parents how on earth THAT happened, and it turns out...🤯
- Rebecca Varney (@ ( Read more... )

So many things, but this might be the funniest:

Brilliant from Stephen Flynn - the little wave at the end was the icing on the cake even Boris Johnson found it funny. #PMQs @StephenFlynnSNP pic.twitter.com/4aRctdkz1J
- Mike H (@mikoh123) January 19, 2022
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Some good news.

Crime bill: Lords defeats for government's protest clamp-down plans

And I am linking to the comments for this article... They're rather enjoyable!

Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson

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Today we went to see [the new] West Side Story, which was very good. (Sorry, no deep thoughts.) Post has been ( Read more... )

I have previously pondered the lack of cultural impact of the Spanish Flu (not sure that's the best phrasing, but I'm tired), although it makes sense considering WW1 and everything else. However, having just re-read Dorothy Sayer's 'Whose Body' (the first Peter Wimsey novel) I wonder if it's just not having been tuned into looking for it? 'Whose ( Read more... )