Tales from the streets, 1970s children’s lit, rag-rugging, canal cruising, crushing the patriarchy and other diversions
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Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on your stunning victory. Your campaign took on the rich and powerful, stood up for the dignity of all marginalised communities, and gave people hope! Real change is coming. I look forward to working with you to bring about a fairer, kinder world.
The Seventies: when salad was not really salad
That's a hell of a lot of ashes
Well, this made me feel super relaxed about whatever else is coming down the pipeline...
real game
Sad news about Trump.
"hey it's me Donald Trump"
If you work in #TEFL, you know that @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social is the stuff of legends - so when he talks about unions you know he's got our attention!
Love the way thiis article neatly skewers UK/US divide when it comes to heritage, and in case anyone doesn't know, the IanVisits London guide is so good (and thorough) that even when you've lived here 30+ years, it's full of surprises. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/why...
When your drunk pals try to look sober while you negotiate with the bouncer.
Appearances on standard BBC question time: Nigel Farage: 38 Jeremy Corbyn: 1 Now tell me the BBC don't have an Agenda...
I'm not sure whether the Telegraph & the Tories are actually interested in Angela Rayner's residences or just obsessed with her. Meanwhile Nigel Farage has five houses.. wp.me/p15p2Q-eWu
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
I mean it should be no surprise Grimsby are good at finding the net
Grimsby Town now hold the right to have Blundell Park referred to as The Theatre of Breams from now on.
Maybe Eric Cantona’s trawler statement was actually an attempt to warn Man United about Grimsby
Yes, but also no; capitalism doesn’t work like that
This is a fabulous magazine cover - I went to Uni in Leicester and feel nostalgically proud of your Pride genius
Guys please continue to help @neverevertory.bsky.social (UK & US politics) get to 25K. Only 300 followers to go! Follow & share! Go go go!
And now I am stealing it from you!
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
So the north London entry scores a two-in-one for those who like pubs with both games and beard-stroking socialists. Worth a visit.
UK HAS NO MORE ROOM UK has 280 people per km2 compared with 7000 (Hong Kong), 8100 (Singapore), 22,000 (Macau) IMMIGRANTS ARE STOPPING YOU GET A HOME The housing shortage is because of the sell off of council homes/failure to build more, and transition from housing for living to housing for profit
'Takeover complete on Sunday; new gaffer in on Monday; a dozen new signings from Wednesday; three points on Saturday.' These kind of stories always have me in bits - especially the thought of a club full of Morecombe fans singing 'Bring me Sunshine'. Lovely!
Starmer as Sir Oswald Meusli - that is fabulous and spot on. Thank you!
Daily Telegraph today refers to A Rayner’s property “empire”. Whatever you think of her housing arrangements, I don’t think constituency house (bought for 375k in 2016), house in Hove, plus use of ministerial flat in London is an “empire”. Duke of Westminster wont fear a rival!
Legitimate Concerns?
Surely most of us know that having fallen foul of a Starmer purge, Diane Abbott now sits as an Independent?
Did they also sanction the lucky orange hat?
But not a video. Don't think I'll ever be signed up to idea that playing a song over picture of record cover constitutes a video
Correct link! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Talk about upstaging - Kate McKinnon musing on bee mating: “Twenty-five female embryos are selected at random and overfed, and then they fight to the death. The queen emerges, then flies to a predetermined location to which all of the men in the colony fly, ejaculate upon her and then die” is peak!
Tremendous crossover move right here:
Fair enough to call a halt to ongoing/recurring fights taking place out back at 10pm, but a curfew is taking it too far
The council got rid of the benches at the foot of Leith walk and the locals have responded appropriately...
Even allowing for the well-proven abilities of Stephen Collins, this is next-level genius. I love it so much!
Been a year (on and off; also had grandchild) but yesterday, I completed my first rag rug
Not sure what a barn quilt is but now I want one!
Ich am not "postinge too much on blue sky," Ich am teachinge an innovatyve open access multi disciplinarye non-linear onlyne course.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
I love your parents!
Yes, I think I remember reading about Rod Stewart’s massive set-up
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
TBH, he looks more like Dom than a Sub…
Sorry, too busy arresting grannies, blind wheelchair user, Quakers, to deal with Farage.
My garden is suddenly full of them rushing away when I disturb lower plants. They scared me as a child, now I see them as entertaining little aliens
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Oh, thanks for the heads-up - absolutely one of my favourite songs and this is a brilliant recasting (and casting) of its message. Saoirse Ronan absolutely slays!
Letter of the day (in the Times)
There’s a Saki story where an advertiser boosts sales for a failing breakfast cereal by renaming it “Filboid Studge” and making ads showing tortured figures in Hell with the caption: “they cannot buy it now!” Same vibes…
I am bewildered, intimidated and deeply repulsed, but I’d buy one if I thought it would shut him up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er_y... Brian in #TheArchers this week when he finds out Ruth and Stella went combining without him...
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.
Who's with Tom Hanks?
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
From this month's edition of The Onion.
In older people, confabulation is one of the clearest early signs of dementia. The day you witness someone confabulate is often the day you are forced to admit to yourself that a beloved parent needs help, and that all the little slips and oddities thehill.com/opinion/camp...
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I think it’s cool to embrace your inner Neanderthal
I wrote the shocking bits of my teenage diary in runes I got out of Tolkien. Reckon I’d still recognise the runes for ‘f*ck’
If you’re garden is only a few metres square and you have a young grandchild, are you allowed to skip the hornets?
Squirrels always look and act like it's their first day being a squirrel
really appreciating the onion as physical media.
In Hackney, the Town Hall steps allow you to bang pots and sing along to Pete Seeger in seated comfort and even the rabbis are pro Palestine.
Love me a bit of Sade.
RIP and thank you, Allan Ahlberg.
I hated him with no clue as to who I was listening to but within a few seconds of switching the radio on. He clearly thinks he's great, but provided no evidence to back that up
Weasel-word politicians will deny that our NHS has been increasingly privatised. But here is the World Health OrganizAtion definition…
what actors call that one legend who’s always overacting
are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?
Bonzo Dog tribute bands are substantial.
Hello, I’m a nervous old lady in a village where there’s been a recent spate of early-morning nervous-old-lady killings. Obviously, I’m reluctant to answer a knock on my front door, but happy to unbolt it when I see it’s only that lovely, friendly new postman.
I just missed the tenth anniversary of Irish Pingu, I’m surprised there weren’t street parties youtu.be/qNxXego2D8A
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Beating pots and pans and holding the flag in solidarity with Palestine in Oxford
Sophisticated 3D printers could, ultimately, mean the end to war because instead of invading another country you’ll be able to print yourself a copy.
The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Guerrilla adverts on the Tube.
After Farage the MPs with the biggest Tik Tok followers are Zarah Sultana & Jeremy Corbyn 👇 wp.me/p15p2Q-eCO
‘With a direct manner’ is an interesting way of saying ‘with a inappropriate and pervy way of approaching women that left them deeply uncomfortable to the point that dozens of them registered complaints
Some good news for us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Can you sum it up in a word?' 'No' 'A sound?' 'Woaherrrr'
This is what our governments are enabling.
So many Americans have gathered and chanted and made us aware that all this it is not in their name. We owe them for the hope they’re keeping alive. Plus I want Rachel Maddow to report the hell out of it. My banner is definitely ’No Kings!’
The Assault Path by Gregg Wallace.
Oh gosh, saw one in my aunt’s garden a while back, and those moths are an extraordinary sight (note to self: get some valerian!)
WE DID IT!!! The government has just announced that it´s scrapping FPTP for mayoral elections. In May, this absurd system resulted in some Mayors being elected on as little as 25% of the vote. This is a victory of communities around the country. But it's just the beginning...
🚨We HACKED an Amazon Alexa at their London HQ. Happy Prime Day #JeffBezos
Sometimes you meet someone and you know from the first moment that you want to spend your whole life without them.
Yesterday a Labour government voted to slash £2 billion from some of the poorest people in our society. They sip drinks at Mastercard HQ while disabled people are pushed to food banks. I know I speak for millions when I say: we won't take this anymore.
I love a) this cover and b) how Suede now look like the cast of a gritty ITV crime procedural. (l-r) Mat - Beleaguered boss Richard - Life-hardened sidekick Brett - Detective who plays by his own rules. Neil - Undercover drugs operative Simon - Forensic pathologist 1/2
Moths are not brown and boring … Moths are not brown and boring … #teammoth #muchadoaboutmothing #norfolk
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