Simon Charles

This is a brilliant article Alex.

@LeilaniDowding Immaculate C-bomb delivery Leilani, but don't be so hard on yourself👊

It’s only £1.68 a litre by me…. But there’s none left

If nobody goes to jail for this, we've entered the 'every man for himself' stage of empire decline.

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They’re going to blow up the world before they admit what they did on that island.

These newbuilds that are sprouting up allover the city like prisons. Tiny flats, no real outdoor spaces, demoralising façades, and a strange use of steel bars. They are pens designed for cattle to work their unfulfilling jobs and then to retire to. No space or opportunity, to raise a family. No moralising architecture, or grand design. Just you and your grey little job in your little miserable box. The people who are behind this building and orchestrate this way of life are akin to terrorists.

@SamaHoole Opening line conjures up all kinds of horrifying pictures

Your great-grandmother cooked in lard. Her mother cooked in tallow. Her mother's mother cooked in dripping. Every generation before yours cooked in animal fat. None of them had heard of a seed oil. None of them had heard of metabolic syndrome either. The two facts are not unrelated. We swapped one for the other and called it progress. Progress has a 40% obesity rate.

Doctor: "Your cholesterol is high. I'd like to put you on a statin." Patient: "What does high cholesterol actually mean for my risk?" Doctor: "It increases your risk of a cardiac event." Patient: "By how much?" Doctor: "Significantly." Patient: "But how much, specifically?" Doctor: "Your LDL is elevated." Patient: "The absolute risk. What is it." Doctor: "Statins are very well studied." Patient: "I'd like the number." Doctor: "Some patients experience muscle pain, memory issues, and elevated blood sugar..." Patient: "That sounds like the treatment." Doctor: "These are rare." Patient: "What's the absolute risk reduction?" Doctor: "I have a leaflet." The leaflet is provided by the pharmaceutical company. The leaflet does not contain the absolute risk reduction.

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

@DschlopesIsBack Anyone else care to titter...?

If you know what this is we can be friends.

“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -Omar El Akkad

It's Friday and you deserve to hear “Addicted To Love” in Cantonese.

"OIL PRICE PROFITEERING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED" - MILIBAND. "BUT GREEN COMPANIES PROFITEERING - AT THE EXPENSE OF ENERGY CONSUMERS AND TAXPAYERS - FROM THE CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM WILL BE JUST FINE."

@oldstriker @BorisJohnson ‘Disaster’ as in Malthusian cunt?

This is bullish for bitcoin because Boris is a feckless twat whose instincts are wrong on pretty much everything. He damaged the country with his lies about Brexit, he has caused a million young men to be needlessly injured and killed through his botched diplomacy in Ukraine. The man’s a bloody disaster.

I've long suspected Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme and now I'm hearing tales of woe that make me fear I'm right. mol.im/a/15643681

Buy BTC!

@DickDelingpole Pheasant… or 35mm?

Malvern Bakehouse, a Polish bakery on Church Street in (duh!) Malvern… best croissants for miles. Normally my Saturday spot but I’m shooting tomorrow.

an insane blackpill is watching old movies you don’t even have to go back in time that long. watch any movie of the early 2000 a completely different universe. places and cities you’d want to live in, not the shitholes they’ve become