I'd like to make it clear that I am the kind of mapdevil who adores cartography. Atlases, globes and X marks the spot. I'd change my name but I've been a mapdevil to my family for decades. And why should I have to, anyway?

Good to wake up in a country where shoplifting is effectively decriminalised but touching an umbrella is now a capital offence. Top work @PoliceScotland 👏👏👏

Not their finest day https://t.co/px1j4sC3A6

Saw this in Tesco. What the hell is it?!

What a pathetic little nation we have become. A man who set out to drown out the words of women, speaking about their valid concerns, accused a woman of damaging his broken brolly when he blocked her as she tried to speak to him. And @PoliceScotland has wasted time on this?

Who knew shooting kids in the head and crushing people under tanks would be so disturbing?

A 'ceasefire' in which one side does not have to cease fire is not a ceasefire. Most of the world understands this.

"Halt! Your money or your life!" Muffled conversation inside the carriage. The driver spoke. "We are French, monsieur. We do not understand." "God's teeth. Your #argent or your vie!" A bottle of red was offered. "He thinks you say vin, sir." "Confound it. Good enough." #vss365

AOC nailing it again! 🎯 Trans women tend to be better athletes because they have to work harder to combat oppression. Cis women are just too lazy to beat them.

So the man who illegally disrupted a legal protest walks away with the support of @PoliceScotland who choose to attack one of the organisers for holding up her arm to fend off the same man weilding his already broken umbrella. We have finally reached the edge of madness

@TheFP

In 2012, novelist Philip Roth discovered a "serious misstatement" about one of his books on @Wikipedia. Wikipedia claimed Roth's book "The Human Stain" was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. Roth said this was "in no way substantiated by fact." He should know: he

Connections Puzzle #871 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

daily #referdle1069: 12/25 🟩4️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ https://t.co/iZcLSnt2Q4 #referdle b: @referdle.bsky.social

A song for #EurovisionToday to mark the birth of Aistė, born Aistė Smilgevičiūtė, in 1977 #Eurovision 1999, #Lithuania, Aistė, Strazdas [Song Thrush] https://t.co/wtEDH3iCF7

Hurricane Melissa presents a golden opportunity for the massive US Navy flotilla: instead of pathetically threatening #Venezuela, it can build goodwill by rolling up its sleeves in #Jamaica and #Cuba to help alleviate storm damage.

You may have wondered why the category bands for storms are irregular, and why Melissa isn't a category 6 storm, because its winds are so much stronger.

This picture haunts me. I am so sick of bullies with guns preying on the weak and innocent everywhere. With the strong destroying the helpless with impunity. That seems to be the state of the world, despite all of our supposed progress.

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Anyone who dances like this should never need a ballroom.

You don’t “test” a ceasefire.