From the Maltese town of Sliema, scenes of vibrant door-knocker relocation:

The Mayor of Silema, a small town in Malta, has appealed for witnesses after a man stole his door knob.

What kind of person goes around stealing door knobs?! pic.twitter.com/52iKgeOHia

— Rare | ♻️🇬🇧 (@RareRestore) August 31, 2026

The gentleman, whose identity has not been disclosed, is, it turns out, involved in “other ongoing court cases.”

Update:

Update:

Our aspiring knob engineer returned to pinch the other one, thus completing his set of stolen knockers. pic.twitter.com/TU4buTaSBH

— Rare | ♻️🇬🇧 (@RareRestore) September 1, 2026

The above now seems weirdly close to a comedy sketch.

Via EmC.

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Via Stephanie in the comments, a glimpse of the wider world and the wonders it contains. I’m assuming she collects these things. For reasons we won’t go into.

I mean, all things considered, this place is almost respectable.

Classy, even.

Oh, yes. Nearly forgot. Open thread.

I’m just going to leave this here:

If you’ve ever wondered why the cavalry often turns up late?
Fucking cyclists, it’s always fucking cyclists. 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ImtA56jObt

— Myxy Jeff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@MadThom4PM) August 12, 2026

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Or, Discourse Was Attempted:

Perfectly normal. pic.twitter.com/AShv6sF3b0

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) August 2, 2026

Now, ladies. About your changing rooms…

Update:

Our Bellowing Man-Witch shouts, theatrically, “I am the villain of this world,” as if he were a martyr, presumably in some attempt to elicit sympathy and thereby compliance. But in a non-trivial sense, he is a villain. As I said regarding this bestubbled maiden:

The demand for dishonesty, the demand that lies should be imposed, ain’t a virtue or a basis for applause.

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Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly:

Elite opinions change fashion faster than elite wardrobes.

When you express a luxury belief, you are communicating your level of education, your income, and your sociopolitical sympathies. It is an expression of what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called cultural capital.

You… pic.twitter.com/1UgebJRJT1

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 23, 2026

Mr Rob Henderson, speaking above and in this longer interview, has been mentioned here before.

The role of status-seeking in political opinionating, whereby a person’s professed beliefs function as a kind of social jewellery, the latest must-have, has cropped up here quite frequently over the years. Along with the inadvertent social gaffes that can arise if you’re not particularly interested in whether your views are perceived as suitably modish and high-status:

Oh, and this came to mind – on the unhappy siting of adverts – lots of adverts – for assisted suicide:

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