After it was deleted, Trump re-posted it, having corrected a typo and used Lyndsey Hallidayās full name (in case people thought he was talking about Lyndsey Graham, I guess). The post is still up.
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After it was deleted, Trump re-posted it, having corrected a typo and used Lyndsey Hallidayās full name (in case people thought he was talking about Lyndsey Graham, I guess). The post is still up.
Iām only surprised this headline didnāt finish with āand why this is all good for Nigel Farageā
Ed Davey needs to do attention grabbing stunts to try and get Laura to look away from Farage for a nano second
I for one am delighted I donāt have to see 6th form politics play out on my social media platform of choice.
America is clearly and obviously hurtling towards authoritarianism at a vast rate of knots and yet thereās still the auld boiling frog analogy. That frog was boiled a long fucking time ago. āIt couldnāt happen hereā? Babes, it already has.
I think itās time to recognise that itās gone *way* beyond the whole boiling frog thing, and did a long time ago. This isnāt a creep towards authoritarianism, itās out there at 100mph and yet people are still acting like itās boiling frog territory.
Have to say that I would be put off voting Green if there was any Corbyn involvement.
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6th form politics
Your commentary was the best Iāve heard in a long time. āB&Q style gazeboā killed me š¤£
Free speech for me not for thee.
Itās like sheās shitting herself that Trump will get her cancelled whilst heās here in the UK
Was he not so happy after the big ole state banquet with his friend King Prince Charles?
Camillaās face š¤£š¤£ She didnāt bring her poker face to the banquet
The greatest Royal commentary is currently being broadcast by @mrjamesob.bsky.social on LBC. āThe B&Q style gazeboā had me howling.
Heartbreaking read. Alex is the best of humans and it makes me cross and unbelievably sad that certain people in this country, that is Alexās home, have hurt him so much. This has to stop š¢
Oh Alex š¢š¢ Iām so sorry that certain people in this country have hurt you so much.
Tonight Iām going to see a play that my brilliant big daughter has done the costumes, set and props for š„°š„° My proud cup will surely runneth over
Iām updating my work iPhone to iOS26, so if I hate it, it wonāt matter because itās my work iPhone.
3 years ago I had developed a real fascination and close-obsession with The Great Queue. The ultimate symbol of Britishness. They were such simple times. The division went. The nation united against the Queue jumpers, Schofield and Willboughby. Flags were raised half mast, and not in hate.
Might have to start declaring āNot All Erikasā soon
She gives strong Serena Joy Waterford vibes.
It was! There were some tears!
Plazzy patriots
Last Night of the Proms āuniting the kingdomā better than any of the embarrassing plazzy patriots in London today.
Think Last Night of the Proms might be a bit emosh!
Thatās exactly what I thought when I got it out! Not sure who the Erika was who did the folding, I donāt think I know her.
The only issue I remember having with the Blair ID card proposal was that I would have to pay for it (I have vague memories of c.Ā£90?!). Memory could be wrong! Iāve no issue with an ID card, but if you want everyone to have it, it needs to be free.
I actually took a picture of my perfectly folded fitted bedsheet last week before I put it on my bed š¤£ Couldnāt believe it was me who had folded it
Thank you! š„°
I know these doubts are probably to be expected, and I do know that I can work through them - Iām nothing if not resilient! Like a terminator, I get up and keep on going (not to kill anyone obvs! Iām like the reprogrammed Arnie terminator š¤£) Iām blessed to have such good people around me š„°
This meant that today, at Writerās Retreat, I could get past the overwhelm and unravel the thoughts and finish the week stronger and with a renewed vision and purpose. Doctoral scholar-practitioner study is hard, Iām straddling worlds, and have ADHD. The support I have is invaluable. 4/4
Heās so good at identifying key aspects of the things Iām wanting to research, and also really good at throwing in additional links that help me pull my whizzing thoughts together. Plus he made a ChatGPT agent tailored to our DBA so I can workshop the jumble of thoughts 3/4
And a waste of time. I felt that I had no idea what Iām doing, Iām not cut out for doctoral level work, I donāt belong on the programme. It was horrible. Thankfully I have an amazing cohort friend (weāre a really small cohort) and I donāt think I could do any of this without him. 2/4
Iāve been in Workshop 2 for the DBA all week and itās been intense. Qualitative day, quantitative day, literature review, searches and screening day. Then I hit a wall of massive overwhelm. I hid it well, but the imposter syndrome hit *hard*. All my theorising and work for 8 months felt wrong 1/4
Oh Alex, it breaks my heart to read your pain š¢ You are so loved and Iām so sorry that youāre feeling so fearful. When I was younger, and much darker, I think I would have felt similar. Now Iām a little grey lady so my āMediterraneanā looks have receded, plus women become invisible at my age.
The only āgun controlā Trump would do is to restrict those he doesnāt like from having them. He wouldnāt touch the 2nd amendment, even if it were possible for him to do anything with it.
For people who donāt get why I think the consequences will be bad
I was on the phone to my youngest daughter last time they did it, and I blamed her for the weird noiseā¦.. Iād completely forgotten they were going to do it!
Yes, claim it as 45 being the new 40!
Thank you Liam - keep sharing the stories, keep highlighting the humans in all of this. Youāre a good egg mate
Iāve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having š
Trump renaming the DoD to Department of War made me think of The Day Today - WAR! youtu.be/oQfd6YuZWQ4?...
Printed this paper out on A3, just to give my brain a chance to process š
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Oh Ange šš
Same Alex, I know our press are vile and this is making my blood boil.
Oh, oh no. I would struggle so much with that!
Iāll have to look that up!
Isnāt it awful! I just tried to see if I would fare better on the iPad, but I canāt do anything with the line spacing in pdf form. Might have to download it on work laptop, bc my work One Drive wonāt let me do a damn thing on my iPad, and see if I can do something with it on there.
Itās a nightmare of a system. I tried to navigate it to get help for both daughters, never managed it. Iāve supported a friend in battles with a school who let her son down so badly. She has been an absolute warrior through it all, but the very idea a parent could exploit it! Laughable.
When choosing the font and line spacing for a research paper, why the shit would one go for this dense line spacing and unfriendly font? ADHD brain has gone š¤Æš¤Æ
There is literally no way parents would manage to get SEND provision if their child didnāt actually need it. Every single step within it is a battle and it is soul destroying. You see your child struggling and you have to fight tooth and nail to get anywhere. Tice is an utter bellend.
Absolute fanny
āRight old knobā is prob more accurate. āHoofwanking bumblecuntā also works. As does ātwatā and āwankerā
Nice! Manās got the measure of Farridge, and why the chuff is he even there.
Simple fact is - trust law in this country is complicated as fuck. I still have war flashbacks to Equity & Trusts on my LLB, 30 years ago, and I think youād find many a practising lawyer, who doesnāt specialise in this, who doesnāt understand it. We need simplification of it.
Heās got make up on it again, just managed to get slightly closer to his actual skin tone this time
āInterestingā start to #GBBO with that technical. No need for red herrings in the ingredients.
Honestly, what a cunt
Season Finale is up. And it is a corker, if I say so meself.
The fact that this was unexpectedly waiting for me this morning, after Iād decided to wear a dress named Medusa, is clearly not a coincidence!
Woken up with āWake Me up When September Endsā, and now concerned Iāll wake Green Day up too early.
It is, we lived in Silverstone. I have vague memories of mum and dad going to a thing at Althrop, no idea what or why though!
I was up early that day to go to work at a local golf club. Mum was stood in middle of lounge, big light on, sheād been crying. Di was kind of āone of our ownā in Northants. Funeral was weirder, M1 in Nāampton still closed & flowers still in road when we went over bridge into Nāampton afterwards.
Tricky, because the pic was clearly taken in an iPhone 3GS. Does not look like a well man, and kind of doesnāt really look like Trump
Trump has been working on Gilead policies prior to election and implementing them, at pace, since the inauguration.
Ridiculous! If the power of prayer worked, you wouldnāt have children murdered in school shootings. If the power of prayer worked, youād have half decent gun control.
I remember a brief moment of joy the day after the EU referendum, when my daughters came home from school and reported that 2 Year 7 kids had got into a fight because one called the other āNigel Farageā š¤£
So the surge in immigration, caused (certainly in part) by the Brexit that he championed, revived his political career because heād fucked his political career by getting the very thing he campaigned for. One could almost say that it was all by design!
They say that itās putting labels on children and ālimiting their futuresā. No, what limits futures is bellends not having a fucking clue and causing a ND person more issues by their behaviour toward the ND person!
āNormalā is subjective and overrated, imo!
Oh 100%! And for girls/women too. I got ADHD diagnosis last October, at 49, my sister this year, at 53! I guess as well, we didnāt recognise neurodiversity as much (if at all really!) when we were young.
Maybe instead of complaining that thereās been āover diagnosisā of neurodiversity, we should be recognising that things are just too neurotypical. Itās not over diagnosed. You donāt get diagnosed without evidence of it being there.
Also thereās nothing āsexyā about Farridge š¤¢š¤¢
Iām sick of this bullshit from news channels and newspapers. Wall to wall Farridge, man makes me vomit.
Blunkett and Straw coming out with this stuff against the ECHR and the HRA 1998 is deeply, deeply unhelpful, not to mention horseshit.
The blinkers are on. āIt couldnāt happen hereā, whilst it is āhappening hereā right under their noses. And the newspapersā front pages are festooned with headlines about Farridge. Complacency is the killer of democracy.
Posts above are an extract from Margaret Atwoodās āThe Handmaidās Taleā. If you canāt see that this is happening (maybe not exact, obvs, but the parallels are right there), then thereās no hope for you. For everyone else, donāt do this šš»šš» This is not normal. Trump in 2025 is not *normal*
Everyone approved of that, since it was obvious you couldnāt be too careful. They said that new elections would be held, but that it would take some time to prepare for them. The thing to do, they said, was to continue on as usual.
Things continued in that state of suspended animation for weeks, although some things did happen. Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said. The roadblocks began to appear, and Identipasses.
There wasnāt even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasnāt even an enemy you could put your finger on.
It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.
It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the President and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control. I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that.
Itās all going a bit Russell T Daviesās āYears & Yearsā, isnāt it?
The Shit Drawer has been emptied, I think for the first time in its life. AND my saucepans fit in it! So does my colander! Who knew! (not me, obvs)
Thatās still TL:DR!
How does the Crowley/Aziraphale kiss at the end of Good Omens 2 STILL make me cry?!
This is absolutely why I made Liverpool my home over 30 years ago ā¤ļøš
I was howling at āthe UKIP attempted march is currently doing a lap of St Johnās Gardensāš¤£š¤£ Liverpool stands up and does us all proud, once again ā¤ļøš
Well, if a character reference from a convicted sex trafficker doesnāt put an end to the speculation, what will?
Tbf, a sane country prob wouldnāt have voted him in again after last time, but hey! I canāt actually criticise because Iām British and we can hardly say anything after some of our country voted for Brexit š¤·āāļøš¤·āāļø
Bigly projection. Also - what the fucking fuckity SHIT is that hat? On the head of a grown ass man, who was (inexplicably to me) voted to office of POTUS. If Trump was right about even the slightest thing, then Iām Billy Joel!
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Iām not convinced that me using a VPN in my house, with no children in the house, is going to keep a child safe.
Someone at Moorfields platform was eating crisps (think salt and vinegar discos) and now I really want crisps.
I do like Peter Kyle, but I suspect heās been consulting with GPT5 on this and itās fucked up the answer.
But what if I want to use my VPN (that Iāve had pre online safety act) and Iāve verified my age? Am I allowed to keep using it then?
Next time thereās some journo getting voxpops at an āasylum hotelā and the voxpopee says āwE dOnāT kNoW WhO ThEsE PeOPle ArEā, can the journo point at a rando group of, say, white men, and ask ādo you know who those people are?ā [point at another group] āwhat about those people?ā, etc, etc
