I just fancied a KitKat and things spiralled

Real Life, the ninth studio album by Simple Minds, was released 35 years ago this week.

@ThatTimWalker @SpanishDan1 We've moved on Tim, about time you did and stop micro critiquing everything Starmer does. It's boring

Typical of the sort of classy guys Starmer and Blair like to hang around with.

@aakashgupta Nah he was having a good tug and we all know it

He wasn't masturbating. What actually happened to his body is significantly worse than any joke. When the fourth pyroclastic surge hit Pompeii, it arrived at 300°C. That's 572°F. The thermal human survival threshold is 200°C. This man died in a fraction of a second. His brain stopped before a single pain signal completed its circuit. What you're looking at is cadaveric spasm. It's a rare form of instant muscular stiffening that only occurs during sudden violent death by extreme heat. The 300°C surge cooked the proteins in his muscle fibers so fast that his body locked into whatever position it was in at the exact moment of impact. Arms, legs, fingers, toes all contracted simultaneously. 73% of Pompeii's victims were found frozen in "life-like" stances mid-action. Running. Crawling. Shielding children. This man was probably just lying down. The flexed limb position you're laughing at appears in nearly every Pompeii body. It's called the pugilistic attitude. Heat shrinks tendons faster than bone, curling arms and legs inward. Boxers after a fire look the same way. The position has zero connection to what the person was doing. Pure thermodynamics. For centuries, archaeologists assumed these people suffocated on ash. A 2010 study proved they were wrong. Researchers heated modern human bone samples to various temperatures, compared them to Pompeii victims, and found the color and cracking patterns matched exposure to 250-300°C. Death was instantaneous. There was "no time to suffocate." This isn't even his body. It's a plaster cast of the void he left behind. His flesh decomposed inside the hardened volcanic ash. In 1863, Giuseppe Fiorelli poured liquid plaster into the hollow cavity. What you see is the shape of absence. 9.4 million people looked at a man who was incinerated alive in a quarter-second and the main reaction was a punchline. The science of how he actually died is one of the most disturbing findings in modern archaeology.

One of the many reasons why Coronation Street stood out from all other soap operas: After Stan Ogden’s Funeral (November 1984)

@BBCNews A...mazing

Labrinth not involved in Euphoria's third season bbc.in/48llssg

@piersmorgan He's not your friend Piers, how many times. He just uses you as means to an end

Trump is attacking them now because they all oppose the Iran war, and have all been increasingly critical of the Israeli govt. As have Joe Rogan, Theo Von, me and many others who have good relations with Trump. He should stop lashing out, and listen to his friends.

OH MY FUCKING GOD

@hr_unhinged What's a "invisible risk vector" Are you the Teams police?

I noticed a project manager typing a message in Teams and then deleting it before pressing send. I watched the little dots appear and vanish three times. I called her into a quick hallway chat. I asked what unapproved thoughts she had drafted and concealed. She said she was just rephrasing to be more clear. I told her unsent messages create invisible risk vectors. If I can’t audit it, I can’t trust it. She asked if I expected her to send every half-finished thought. I said yes, transparency over polish. I logged “stealth communication attempt” in her HR notes. Then I requested IT enable keystroke archiving directly in Teams.

@DAaronovitch @aunty_shirley No one liked the previous 5 PM's, but most of media a fixed with mindset that they want the PM to fail

No one likes him and he may be about to get hammered in the elections, but Starmer got the big one right open.substack.com/pub/davidaaron…

@ZelenskyyUa @_Jen_nifer_1 If I were you I'd kidnapp his horses and hold them to ransom.

Why would Russians shut down Telegram? I think it’s to push through unpopular decisions. Possibly ending the war in one format or another. Or, on the contrary – escalating it. In that case, it would mean even broader mobilization. That would mean people from Moscow and St. Petersburg being sent to the front – and bodies returning to Moscow and St. Petersburg. In other words, he will no longer be able to avoid mobilization in the major cities he previously tried to bypass. Another scenario is that, not knowing how society will react, they are preparing for one or another outcome of the war. Through their propaganda, they have stirred up a radicalized segment of society. This share is quite significant – I think around 20–25 percent. In my view, these people are definitely not ready to end the war. There is also a segment of society that would react negatively to escalation. In my view, these are the two main scenarios, though of course there may be other motivations. And soon we will see which scenario Putin has chosen. From a conversation with journalists (4/5).

@jefftimmer Come Jeff, he's a political tit. Sorry titan, deffo titan

I’m beginning to get a nagging suspicion that this Trump fella is very bad at presidenting, and also everything else, but especially presidenting.

@KateWilton1 That's my take

Is she outing her husband?

#MAFSAU Has Bec gone mad??

@DPJHodges Something is going down!!

@MELANIATRUMP Just Melania not being friendly with #Epstein

@Channel4News What are the claims?

US First Lady Melania Trump denies ever having a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and says claims around it are defamatory. In a rare address from the White House, Melania Trump said she was "not Epstein's victim" and denied he ever introduced her to Donald Trump.

@disclosetv @GaryNTrader This guy Chance has made this case go into a completely different direction

NOW - Melania: "To be clear, I never had relations with Epstein or his accomplice Maxwell." "I never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time." "Epstein did not introduce me to Donald Trump. I met my husband by chance."

@rittenhouse2a Why are you like this? They're human beings like you and me, everyone deserves respect and live in a country without fear or favour

Which group is the biggest threat to America?

@tonyblackburn Oh no you didn't!!

Harry Worth, I did a panto with him years ago.