That was fun!! 🙌🏼
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That was fun!! 🙌🏼
He is!
Yep, saw that, brilliant 😁
Me neither!! 🤣🤣🤣
Quentin Letts is a hack, best ignored unless it’s to point and laugh at him.
Aus just want it to end 😂
Has she been IDd?
🤣 This isn’t a rugby match it’s a demolition squad! 😁
Gov Pritzker has already posted 🤷🏼♀️
Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
England are a machine! 57 minutes gone, England 33-7 Aus. Brilliant to watch! #WRWC
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
It’ll be worldwide, I have no about that.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
For reasons best known to them, in Sainsbury’s it’s in the foreign foods section 🤨
It’s extrajudicial killing.
The yoghurt chocolate is in Sainsburys 😁
Agree, I prefer Milka. Their yogurt filled milk chocolate is mmm... 😋
I’ve seen it in Aus but to make the statement the first thing you see when you go to the website is terrific, I think 😁 That’s sad about Fraser Island….I haven’t been there, I have been to Fitzroy Island. It’s a beautiful area and respect is essential, imho.
I went to nfsa.gov.au and this is the landing page. I think it’s admirable! 👏🏼
Ah….both owned by Mondelez.
I *might* have already tried the Cadbury’s ones 😇 More than once…
Exactly 😁
I reported that account on Thursdaupy. It’s been suspended, Bluesky are excellent at responding. 😁
UK media is cognisant of contempt of court law so report facts without commentary. If you add commentary, as you have several times on this thread, you commit contempt of court. Once proceedings become active, contempt of court laws apply. No distinction between jury/magistrate/judge trials.
Thin gates but kind weather. Can’t have it all 😉
Please do remember that contempt of court applies. Which, as well as jeopardising the trial, can cause you serious legal consequences.
True fact! My only fear of the other place is who I might meet there 🤨
We’re not going to heaven 😂
They look identical to these 😲
This is important. Very. If you read one thing today make it this one.
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Harsh but fair 🤣
Bernard Levin on Sutherland’s debut Lucia at Covent Garden: “You could hear people not breathing“.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
🤣 For me the first two lines are about eliminating vowels and common consonants 😁
You’re easily impressed 😉 After the second line there were few options remaining, given the letters I’d eliminated. Just happened to choose the right one 😁 Haven’t had a wipeout for a few weeks, no doubt it’s coming 😂
Whatever amount it takes 😂
I don’t do Strands but I was v happy to get the purple line first today 😁
Morning! 😁 Nice job!
We should crowdfund a permanent vacation 😂
Whoa!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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We’re special 🤣
Lottery tonight! 😂
Morning! Not so different 😁
Connections Puzzle #818 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Morning! Sadly, my intervention failed, wear wellies 😭 Hope it goes as well as it possibly can, given the conditions. 🤞🏼
Wordle 1,540 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
OMG! 😫
The above is an excerpt from a book called ‘The Believers’ by Adam LeBor. It’s about Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme. But Charles McKay’s words actually explain, obviously unknowingly when he wrote it, the cult following of Trump. 4/4
Once an idea, no matter how illogical, took hold in the collective consciousness, it was almost impossible to shake off. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.’ 3/4
Mackay wrote: We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds on one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, until their attention is caught by some folly more captivating than the first. 2/4
‘A Scottish journalist called Charles Mackay wrote the seminal work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Mackay's book, first published in 1841, is still in print and it chronicles an eternal truth: collective manias and delusions are a permanent feature of human history. 1/4
I believe Trump may have been an informant in the sense he would spill his guts to avoid prison. Perhaps that’s what he’s really afraid of coming out in the files.
😍 But the mice….that’s a “NO!” 😱
you know, a witness is someone with informatoin an informant, well, that has different implications
I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.
Like a three card monte game where the dealer tells you upfront that the cards are all blank and he's just going to take your cash, and you hand him even more cash to prove he's wrong.
Djokovic beaten by Alcaraz 4-6 6-7 (4-7) 2-6. Delighted to see Alcaraz in the final! 🙌🏼 🎾 #USOpen
His brain is so badly broken that he really thinks rebranding the Department of Defense would've led to outright victories in Korea and Vietnam. He's hawking the Pentagon like it's Trump Steaks. Probably going to place a glossy ad in Sharper Image next.
I shall keep an eye out!
I found it most odd, tbh, for proper football fans trophies matter.
I thought it most odd that he was touting Spurs average finishing position, I’ve never heard that one before 😳 He’s extolling Spurs to the point where the business comes first and he’s totally uninterested in trophies.
From the Fox News National Security correspondent: "It looks to me like the US military is going to war."
Had (what I think was) a very weird conversation with a Spurs fan on here last night. Be interested in your thoughts 🤷🏼♀️
That’s what I would expect too….maybe with an ever so slight hint of sweetness from the ‘honey glaze’.
I’m really interested 😁
Sept 23, 1961. I was 8yrs old, we were playing that mob from across Manchester. We beat them, Nobby Stiles and Dennis Viollet scored and the 3rd was an og. I was hooked…
Are they real? 😲
For those of you who venture into the country this is genuine and important advice.
Definitely not!
I was just able to post a comment along the same lines. Hassett always looks very odd indeed.
Window sills 😉
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.
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Amazing story, revealed for the first time today. No doubt the orange felon will explode with rage that the NYT has exposed his failure. Gift link.
Her birthday is next month, I’ll let you know the excitement level 😂
Seems all kids love Elsa 😁
It’s for my nephew’s 3yr old, she loves Disney princesses 🤩
It arrived, it’s lovely and bigger than I thought, the doll is 14” high 😁
Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with" JR then demolishes Farage, ending with "You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"
Said this about Rayner in 2017. I was right, obvs.
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1) He has zero authority to rename the Dept of Defense. 2) He is required to ask Congress to alter the law to rename it. 3) Stop reporting he has powers just bc he says so. 4) Someday, all his awfulness will have to be reversed.
Leave it with me 👍🏼
Us v the compiler.
Morning! Cracked it 😁
Thank you, yours too 😁
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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![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")
I absolutely need to know what it was meant to say 😁
Ha! 😁
35 yrs ago today, my sister, niece and I in the cockpit of the Spruce Goose, Long Beach. Happy days. 💕
It is, thanks! You? Good to see you, you don’t come around enough 😁
Morning! Hope your day goes well and you nest as many people as you wish. 🙃
Morning 😁
Morning!