Lads, this is why politically appointed ambassadors are a bad idea
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Lads, this is why politically appointed ambassadors are a bad idea
Why are the BBC obsessing over this murder? I don't recall the home invasion and double murder of an elected democratic politician getting this much attention from an ocean away earlier this year.
Someone tell Peadar Tóibín you can't have a PR-STV vote when only one position is available. It's AV when there's only one slot as you can't have a proportion of one slot shared between candidates. Moron.
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
The world is fucking shit. Fascists on the rise everywhere. "Barely beating the far right" isn't good enough so I can't really take that much solace in Norway's election result.
Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
so I personally would not have done that
Ok but how do I always kill my mint though.
Yeah but who is Starmer's Soltenberg to bring back the pazazz?
The existence of natural gas deposits implies the existence of unnatural gas deposits. Do not disturb them. The Ancient Ones will not suffer any intrusion.
Linda McMahon doing that all by herself.
Well quite
I remember suggesting it to a friend and he said "well if you did that my mum and thousands of people would lose their jobs as tax agents" And... Like... Sorry but a lot of people that make horseshoes lost their jobs in the name of progress.
Yeah our governments just take the money directly out of our paychecks and if they take too much they give it back at the end of the year
The latter unfortunately has the character build prerequisite of "born in Europe/Canada/Australia = 1"
Is this a live update? Did they not... Count the rings?
On first reading I thought this was going the way of penthouse magazine self respect
Leaving
On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Two things can be true at once. Rayner was foolish in her conduct and right to resign. It’s also true she was always despised by much of the right wing press because she was a working class powerful woman.
When the tories refused to resign for much worse behaviour it sucks that Labour still have to maintain standards in public life
Remember when Trump said he wouldn't do any more wars, was a blessèd peacemaker and deserved the Nobel Prize?
Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
Gen Z will never understand the group trauma of the days following when Salad Fingers made it to your school by word of mouth.
They have been condemned as participating in "hate marches" though. That's policing their freedom of expression even if not actually engaging the police in so doing.
It's going to get worse before it gets better
Labour can't try and appease Reform voters and neo nazis and tell the rest of us that if we vote Green we might let the Tories in. Mate you're already worse than the Tories.
Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.
I decided to leave England in 2016 after brexit (although it took 2 years) and I thought... Maybe a resounding labour victory would change the country enough that I might be tempted back. Well.
It's Katsu Curry Japanese?
If you think chicken tikka masala is more temperate than butter chicken you've just opened up a whole other avenue of not knowing what the fuck you're talking about
Whilst sources confirm that the Brits are, indeed, at it again, moments like this show that the Americans are at it worse. Delete your account, Bill
Being kind costs nothing. Unless it’s to really rude, entitled people. Then it costs you your dignity.
I mean, I say that to myself about buying a Bitcoin in 2015...
If you find exercise boring have you tried this great app called Zombies Run? It puts you as the silent protagonist in a radio play in a post-apocolyptic...
I want to know, how does one appropriately flag to Management when they've done this? "Um, boss, I'm not a sex pest or anything but the new website looks a bit..." "Spit it out, Perkins" "Well, it could be read... Use A Vag dot com" "You perverted little child"
The Quakers so rarely disappoint and this letter is perfect.
One of the worst moments of my life was when I realized that... Practicing your scales actually makes you better.
What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration
Well the king of Italy let Mussolini go haywire so...
The DUP falsely claims that the withdrawal agreement breached the Good Friday Agreement - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In fact (as the BBC fails to mention) this claim was rejected by every judge in three courts, up to the UK Supreme Court - supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...
Dismal, depressing day. And yet No10 will give a ready quote on some passing celeb fad.
[sea world] TOUR GUIDE: a shark can grow up to 8 feet OCTOPUS: what the fuck
The fact it's bugs bunny and my friends and I call it "the bunny tail" I'm Sent.
They look like "beer battered chips" from Australia
"How am I supposed to tell my grandson about a gay couple in a Pixar movie, when those two women should have been on leashes accompanying me to the VMAs?" - Snoop Dogg, concerned grandfather
In case you're wondering why racists are scrawling the George cross everywhere instead of the Union Jack, it's because it's much easier to draw and they're all very thick
Overwhelmed Archaeologists Struggling To Keep Pace With Glut Of Early Humans Thawed Out By Climate Change https://theonion.com/overwhelmed-archaeologists-struggling-to-keep-pace-with-1841766142/
I got hole but I'm not...
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Honestly, fuck ever moving back to the UK
god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring
Your former Vice President of Oxford SU, ladies and gentlemen.
*which* British accent?
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Sadly my hands are tied by my organisation's procurement rules and the geography of the office. This caterer will always win the tender.
I'm not that fussy, you can't be as a vegetarian but literally the three things I can't bring myself to eat (meat and fish notwithstanding) coming one after the other.
I am being trolled so hard by the menu options a caterer sent over. Each one of the three showcases an ingredient I cannot stand. I cringed at the first, knowing there were two more possibilities I gagged at the second and started to get nervous At the third I yelled out OH COME ON
Why is this prick even on TV?
The only thing that got me running. 100% recommend the app
Fuck yeah Chicken Jockey from Minnesota
Maybe you should divest yourself from the USA because the current administration is rolling back LGBTQ+ rights. Or... Shut up.
Can I recommend, for times like this, Enya v Prodigy: Smack Up The Orinoco Flow
It takes all of my energy not to post snarky comments on LinkedIn posts because every new post I see is the worst post I've ever seen
Vetting. Government vetting. He was joining the civil service to work on national security.
This reminds me of my friend who had a government betting interview and was delighted to have made the spy who questioned him blush several times
Honiara is so small, you can check in and dump your bags then step outside to the coconut stand and have a coconut, refusing to go through security until you see the plane you're due to take actually land.
Like... Do I need to broaden my social circle? Will I benefit from spending time with people that vote to legislate my friends out of existence? Do I fuck. Freedom of speech is not a right to an audience. I. Do. Not. Have. To. Spend. Time. With. Cunts.
Like... Do I need to broaden my social circle? Will I benefit from spending time with people that vote to legislate my friends out of existence? Do I fuck. Freedom of speech is not a right to an audience. I. Do. Not. Have. To. Spend. Time. With. Cunts.
It's student politics all over again. "The student unions is too left wing!" Well... Would you like to spend some of your free time arguing your points and influencing policy. "No, I'm too busy drinking port" Well then...
What is about it about my behaviour that means my friends don't feel able to be open with me about politics? I think it might (just possibly) be that I've been very clear that anyone who votes for racist hatemongering determined to double down on the policies that led me to emigrate can do one
Slightly diminish a band: Idlemild
I am never going to get used to seeing the letter i without a dot or the letter I with a dot. Turkish, why did you decide to do this?
"If only we could release correct ethnic crime statistics, the people burning down asylum hotels would say sorry and go home" is a very bureaucrat-brained way of misunderstanding the trouble we're in
I see we've reached the "Ah yes, we were told this would happen and we don't care" part of torturing trans people through legislation and guidelines
But you wouldn’t steal a car? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Dear colleague, PER MY PREVIOUS EMAIL
I don't seem to recall that many arrests for the 12th July bonfires for people with UDF banners...
Australians: both of these efforts use the word "cunt."
"I wish the conservatives became completely unelectable" says Labour staffer as the money's paw curls another finger closed.
I will believe millions of Brits are on the verge of revolution over immigration when their total rally attendance over the course of 2025 exceeds the 12,500 people who came out to watch a bunch of theatre kids called "Critical Role" play Dungeons and Dragons live at Wembley in 2023.
I will support this when the technology is flawless but the number of times the speed limit detector in my car yells at me for going past 60 on a 110 highway because it thinks, incorrectly, I've taken the sliproad (and would slam on the breaks if I had that setting)... We're not there yet. One day.
Ive come to be delayed again Because the service is so crawling That nearby baby won't stop bawling And the vision that was once a moving train Halts again With the sound Of idling.
The fastest single kilometre I ever ran was because I was listening to Midnight Show by the Killers which has a beat faster than my usual gait but not too fast it wasn't achievable and I was also angry at politics. The right song at the right time is a runner's godsend
I am becoming increasingly anxious about: 1) The Government’s lack of meaningful response to this, and indeed the pandering to it. 2) The way it’s being covered by broadcasters.
My favorite Doctor and Companion
From substack
Good on you sacha. Very principled and the right thing to do.
Just taking my birth certificate with me on the big shop in case I need a piss in the Asda customer toilet and the toilet bouncer doesn't like the shape of my skull
I had to critique this when I was a student of environmental law! Was sad to conclude that the answer was no because they'd still need a human to represent them, like a board of directors for a company... So could just be solved by better JR laws for nature (a better outcome of Greenpeace No. 2)
This was the topic of one of my environmental law essays "should trees have standing" and I was loath to conclude they shouldn't. Unlike companies, who have directors, nature, rivers etc would need a person to act on their behalf in court... Which could be solved by just expanding public interest JR
Yeah, alright, Lord Sainsbury, no need to post from your alt account.
We live in such a batshit world I have no idea if this is an anti consumerism shit post/prank or actual MAGA shitfuckery.
