When jogging, elderly people will either completely blank you and get in the way because they dislike you running, or they will cheer you on like they're your mother at school sports day.

Franz Josef in 1859: Hey Metternich watch me smash these Italians!! Metternich:

Any Keynesians out there

Do you think Paradox feel pangs of guilt when they see how their games (especially HOI4) are embedded in online extremist culture?

This was supposed to be get a girlfriend year

Free Trump school walkout

Won't happen in the near future but a perfect technology for a culture obsessed with the creation of "memories" (albeit this a much more 2010s anxiety, but it still is prevalent)

I recognise this bloke, he knows a surprisingly large amount about the natural world, listens to prog rock and metal, knows archery or swords, thinks he knows where King Arthur lies

The British progressive left is having an interesting few years to say the least

Reminds me of the caption for this Gainsborough in the Art Gallery of Ontario, which is so desperate to find something to whine about it starts talking about the *wrong* painting - the second version of The Harvest Wagon notably does NOT have happy people in it! That's the first!

Refused travel insurance because I'm on a waiting list for a mental illness assessment. Sure, whatever.

Bruce Almighty may reach his own conclusions but if a clearly deific being offered me magic powers I'd assume it was actually the devil

I would be less sad about the retirement of Melvyn Bragg - a man not without his faults - if I had any confidence in the BBC to replace him with someone who comes close to his level.

Man who is close to discovering the concept of love but from misogynistic first principles