“A rich, lefty, white male celebrity…" - well, she’s not wrong. Must make a nice change for her.

“… he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.” - and why hasn’t her government appointed any other black women?

“This is an early example of what life will be like if they win….” - sweet.

“Do not let the bigots and bullies win.” - see above.

Bozo the clown?

Nothing a generous sprinkling of caltrops wouldn’t sort out.

“Sunlight is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal sunlight supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring sunlight a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to sunlight. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that sunlight is stuff like any other stuff, and like any other stuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give stuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this sunlight, and there are many different possibilities there.” - that Nestle CEO, probably.

There should absolutely be an enquiry over the contracts awarded for PPE during the pandemic. It seems to me that some companies with no history of, or experience in, supplying medical gear won multi-million-pound contracts. I’d like to know the basis on which those contracts were awarded.

“Hey everyone, Elon’s renamed Twitter to X. We should have a one-letter name, it would be so cool. Like, the kids would love it. Elon’s a visionary. We should definitely, definitely, definitely do what Elon’s done. When has he ever made a mistake in business? Exactly, never! Maybe I could have a bonus worth billions! So cool!”

I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have read such pericombobulation.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I can still hear the music from this game in my head.

Nice, a positive news story. Go Diesel, go!

“Ok, fair enough, Omprakash, have you picked a date yet?”

Call yourself a serious fucking news source, uk.news.yahoo.com? Tell us what actually fucking matters here: Heinz or HP?

In today’s money? About 17p, or 21 US cents. Shocking, really. I’ve got a club because at that price, why wouldn’t you?

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses”

Bollocks, more like.

The earliest known laws are from The Code of Ur-Nammu from Mesopotamia written on tablets around  2100–2050 BCE. If Moses existed, he was probably chiselling away at his tables six or seven hundred years later.

So I demand that these laws replace the 10 Commandments in schools. Who could forget such classics as:

• If a prospective son-in-law enters the house of his prospective father-in-law, but his father-in-law later gives his daughter to another man, the father-in-law shall return to the rejected son-in-law twofold the amount of bridal presents he had brought.
• If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt.
• If a man, in the course of a scuffle, smashed the limb of another man with a club, he shall pay one mina of silver.
• If a man stealthily cultivates the field of another man and he raises a complaint, this is however to be rejected, and this man will lose his expenses.

Whereas they ignored everything East of France over here.

Actually, I went to school in Scotland so our teachers also tried to ignore everything south of the border too.

Found the AI.

Or a piece an’ Macaroni Pie. Carb in Carb in Carb. I’m sure you could get the pie battered too in the right chip shop.

Unfortunately it is not going.

He needs to have an expert check the moovement.

Yeah, that was me. It wasn’t a completely serious entry (generally opposed to AI ‘art’ but I didn’t own the rights to any real images of sewage dumping).

Thoughts and prayers.