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fancy that

10.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Duolingo-style lessons could be rolled out to people who can't speak English Ministers believe boosting English language speaking will help improve community cohesion

They should roll out Arabic lessons and everything else too for those of us who don't speak duolingi.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

10.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tuesday March 10 page of The Far Side desk calendar.

Featured cartoon shows two cows sitting on a couch watching TV when a rotary phone on a side table across the room begins to ring. they stare at the phone and one says to the other, "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit here  without opposable thumbs."

Tuesday March 10 page of The Far Side desk calendar. Featured cartoon shows two cows sitting on a couch watching TV when a rotary phone on a side table across the room begins to ring. they stare at the phone and one says to the other, "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit here without opposable thumbs."

happy tuesday

10.03.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This would be funny if it wasn't actually tragically funny.

10.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

they deserve all the mockery about to rain down on their stupid heads

10.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, what a great thread. Love this brilliant detective work, amazing that they'd use this, the wankers!

10.03.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

done that a few times, pretending to navigate, slowly, and badly to my home page, accidentally switching my (non PC) laptop off etc. but then thought, this is my time I'm wasting, just fuck off straight away.

10.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

just horrible. these predators

10.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can't bear it that the primary target for these arseholes is a baffled, harmless old person living alone and suddenly fearful about being hacked, brr

10.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just got a scam call from an Indian phone bank which escalated REALLY quickly when I asked how they knew I used a PC. "Don't get over-smart with me! I know everything about you, including where you live!" Imagine being frail, elderly and vulnerable getting bullied by these cunts. This fucking world.

10.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.

10.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 11028 πŸ” 3530 πŸ’¬ 1137 πŸ“Œ 486

Oh this is fantastic. Elegantly brutal and funny. Cor.

10.03.2026 07:41 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
get equipped with noisy travel

get equipped with noisy travel

10.03.2026 07:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesterday I had no internet for a few hours and ate an apple. It felt like an extremely minor insight into what it's like to live as a horse.

09.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 399 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 2

Taken from the current issue of Private Eye, if anyone's interested.

09.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

NEXT SUNDAY! All Remembered Mothers' names to me please by 10p.m Saturday 14th. Reposts appreciated.

09.03.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

08.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 3214 πŸ” 1679 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 188
The Difeafes and Calualties this Week,
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Ibe Afise of Bread ferforth by Order of the Lord Malor and Court of Aldermen, A penny Wheaten Loaf to contain Nine Ounces and a half, and three half-penny White Loaves the like weighr.
A weekly Bill of Mortality, 1665. In this particular week 7165 people died of plague, but some still died of grief, lethargy, falling off a belfry or just "suddenly. Note, at the foot, the controlled price of bread.

The Difeafes and Calualties this Week, Impofthume Infants Killed by a fall from the Bel- frey at Alhallows the Great- Kinglevil- Lethargy Palfie Plague- 7165 Rickets Rifing of the Lights IL Scowing Scurvy- Spleen- Spotted Feaver. TOE Stilborn- 17, Stone- Stopping of the fomach- 9. Strangury .- Suddenly Surfeit- 49 Teeth 12L ThruΓ­h Timpany. Tiffck Vomiting: 5 Winde- Wormes IS Bortive A Aged. Ague. Apoplexic. Biceding; Barnt in his Bed by a Candle y at St. Giles Cripplegate Canker Childbed-Chrilomes- Confumption Convuilion Cough-Droplic- Feaver- Flor and Small-pox-Frighted Gow-Grief Griping in the Guts-Jaundies- 42 18 134 64 33 309 3 C Males Shrifined Femalesβ€” 95 CIn all-- - 81 Plague-7165 -176 --8297) Increafed in the Burials this Week- 607 Parithes clear of the Plague- Parithes Infe&ted -126 Ibe Afise of Bread ferforth by Order of the Lord Malor and Court of Aldermen, A penny Wheaten Loaf to contain Nine Ounces and a half, and three half-penny White Loaves the like weighr. A weekly Bill of Mortality, 1665. In this particular week 7165 people died of plague, but some still died of grief, lethargy, falling off a belfry or just "suddenly. Note, at the foot, the controlled price of bread.

1665 - a week in London of causes of dearth. Plague very big that week. Significant number of Griping in the Guts.

08.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 9
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I laughed way more than I should have at this

08.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that an actual GOAT you've got there, you fucking tube of dick?

08.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Price of first class stamps to rise to Β£1.80 Royal Mail says the increase reflects the rise in delivery costs, but the move angers consumer groups.

Privatization picking our pockets.

Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price Β£1.80, 2nd class 91p.

When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.

06.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 388 πŸ” 185 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 13
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A street off Scotswood Road, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

08.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc

08.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 280 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

The White House. A murder of bros.

08.03.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a professional humanitarian responder and I'm trying to think how this ends and the bottom line is there is no way it ends without mass casualties *from the water issues alone* especially coming shortly before summer.

08.03.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Aye … right

08.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

technically it's the band, clipping. I'm allowed to not have heard of them, I'm a STATE PENSIONER

08.03.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a short video somewhere on youtube where the band explains "nobody coming on Tiny Desk was making music using the desk...so we thought we'd try that".

08.03.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Daveed Diggs. What a very lovely noise. Man, when the piano happens... Thanks to @juliansimpson.bsky.social and his excellent Cartoon Gravity newsletter for bringing this before me. I've only heard the first song and had to tell you! Enhance your Sunday, comrades. xx
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...

08.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ’” x

08.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0