How does he know I'm fat? I mean, I *am*, but how does he know that? Just going on probabilities, or...?

Over the years / decades, I've had vocal arguments with people I know / people I knew about the obvious terribleness of Neil Gaiman, Richard Dawkins, and Russell Brand. So if nothing else, this has been an "I told you so" sort of year. #Thats2024

Okay. Since this was the year when people stopped accusing me of libel for stating the obvious... here, finally, is my Neil Gaiman bit. #Thats2024

And I'd like to call on Luigi Mangione to dissolve the American oligarchy.

I mean, it's been clear since 2020 that New New Labour's transition into an explicitly right-wing party would end any meaningful democracy in the UK and lay the ground for a literal fascist takeover. I just wasn't expecting the far right to try speed-running it like this.

This headline was so heavily mocked that the BBC changed it, and now there are polar bears going: "Whoa, whoa, whoa. A caravan? You're saying I weigh the same as a caravan?"

#DoctorWho people of Twitter: this JPEG might be useful right about now. (Also, why are you still on Twitter? BlueSky's almost exactly the same, except without the adverts and Nazi apologists.)