Notices by Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social), page 2

Just as an aside, in Scotland when you sit in at a chip shop you can order a “fish tea”. This is fish, chips, a pot of tea and buttered bread, essentially inviting you to make chip butties.

http://outlandish-spirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-hell-is-fish-tea.html

I’m concerned that you might be running out of chip shop related matters to argue about, so here’s an article about Irish chip shop delicacies.

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/food/2025/0929/1502941-how-many-of-these-local-chip-shop-delicacies-have-you-tried/

ACAB (all cops anger bees)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/massachusetts-beekeeper-jailed-eviction

@skinnylatte @IcooIey Crows are really smart, I trust them to have a good reason for this.

I deeply regret living in a country where “the Royal Family’s press office has released 1 (one) posed photo” is considered front page news.

@TheBreadmonkey Does it play a weird little tune when it’s finished? Mine does. I’d rather it didn’t.

@deirdrebeth @TheBreadmonkey Manuals are for cowards.

Okay but, is it… meant to look like that?

Not to agree with the misogynistic, homophobic, oppressive, theocratic government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but he fucking *does*, doesn’t he?

#Trump #iranwar

@TheBreadmonkey That’s why they don’t invite you on, you keep turning up for last week’s.

@TheBreadmonkey Well the QT audience is rigged for supposed BBC balance anyway, but I refuse to watch it because I don’t like being angry in the evenings.

Tim Cook stepping down as CEO to spend more time with Trump’s boot.

I just think, when the CEO of a company outlines in detail how they are a horrific fascist and that their company is going to be doing loads of fascism, that you should stop doing business with them. But that’s just me.

People really need to stop equating “it’s expensive and involves a big change” with “it’s impossible”. We’re going to “it’s impossible” our entire species into the grave.

In my local Waterstones, you cannot buy Garfield books or Calvin and Hobbes books. However you can buy Fred Basset collections.

Fred blinking Basset.

“4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read”

You absolutely do not need to read Finnegans Wake. This is a flat lie.

There is no Finnegans Wake Enforcement Service. You will not be fined for failing to read over a thousand pages of impenetrable neologisms.

There is no mandatory test to see if you know what Finnegans Wake means. The plot and characters of Finnegans Wake are not regular pub quiz questions.

No-one will even give you a badge for reading Finnegans Wake, although they should.

Amazing that one arsehole bloke has managed to make every single normal person’s life measurably worse, all around the world.

The Great Men theory of history is wrong, but the Massive Cunts theory of history is holding up pretty well. #Trump

Someone told Trump that closing the Strait of Hormuz was a strategic masterstroke by Iran, so, not to be outdone, he decided to close the Strait of Hormuz too.

#Trump #USpol #IranWar

It took me a second to realise that this meant “shots fired” in the traditional sense of real shots actually being fired.

Not convinced about the new US Army Chief of Staff, tbh. #Trump #USpol #IranWar