I don't like that all the dictators have a club now
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I don't like that all the dictators have a club now
Maybe this is his living will! 😄
This film shows the canals right at the start of the process of doing them up.
GOD: *creating the earth ANGEL: I'm really excited to see how this evolves GOD: We NEVER use that word here
If I live roughly to my mid-seventies, how many people do you think I will have met by the time I'm on my deathbed? And how many people could you expect me to know by name? (We assume I continue to live in cities, fairly sociably.) All estimates welcome, thanks all.
Farage’s mass deportation plan isn’t just theatre - it takes Britain down dark roads already travelled by Trump’s America. A warning for our democracy: Please read, share and subscribe www.plagueisland.com/p/britains-d...
Bluesky is designed so you can take your account with you when you leave, if you want to or need to. So it's slightly different from Twitter, who deleted my account when I said I was coming here
Sir Patrick Stewart probably doesn’t remember, but one time my wife and I sat 1 row in front of him on a southwest flight from ORD->BUR. The best part though was since BUR is so small we got to the curb at the same time and his driver was like “do you have any bags?” And he said “I am as I stand.”
(I agree that the endless chastising of Twitter users can occasionally get grating but lol at the somehow many people going "oh I only use it to post links to my work now", like "oh I'm actively trying to profit from the fascism site" is meaningfully better than "I'm on the fascism site for fun")
Up above the streets and houses...
I imagine to get fired from Nestle, the company with no moral compass, the breach must have been pretty bad
I really miss postmarks. Something I didn't ever think I'd say 😄
New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Was waiting for this to happen…
Today I talk to @timheidecker.bsky.social on the show! Music and comedy, confidence, On Cinema, the regression of comedy and culture. Great stuff! Listen up! wtfpod.com
I was waiting to see if she'd redeem herself
You're a piece of work, so I'm blocking you
Recreation Manager with Forestry England, based in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, full-time, permanent position c-js.uk/4g901xu
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Hi LeAnne, unlovely to meet you. That post is 8 months old. Aid was still getting in then. There are a lot of scammers on here at the moment cashing in. A lot of people pretending to be journalists who are already dead. That's why I'm not handing over money on Bluesky, not that it's your business
I love that the racist ended up on the floor. Those people ought to be arrested. Someone has to know who they are
Don't use Amazon. Meta is more difficult because my work uses WhatsApp a lot and nobody wants to download Signal
It's been a busy month! We listened to our community’s experience of Blue Badges and Disabled Bus Passes through focus groups Spoke to BBC West Midlands about the impact broken lifts have Checked out Doncaster’s BSL train info Tried Liverpool’s fab accessible trains
More than 800 people were killed and 2,500 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night. Rescue workers were scrambling on Monday to reach isolated parts of the region.
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference - FT scoop www.ft.com/content/3c33...
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Murder, She Wrote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Replies. Replies also bring visibility
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border late Sunday, leaving more than 600 dead, according to Afghan authorities.
I wish we were like that. Instead we just let those with all the money walk all over us as we tug our forelocks
There seems to be quite a few Liverpool fans who are less excited about Isak than they should be. #notateamplayer #nufc
If the GFA falls then so does the UK
Imagine Putin invades the UK. Imagine your home is bombed. Imagine the safest nearest place to be is France or Ireland, or you have a sibling who already lives in Greece or Thailand and you want to be with them because that's less scary. How would you want to be treated by that country's government?
Obvs need to see detail but first reaction is: This won’t reduce asylum claims because deterrents don’t work. It will cause unnecessary suffering - both via family separation & risk to safety of those left behind. & it won’t be “popular” because people do actually care about refugees.
"Honey wake up it's Mon-" "NOOOOOOOOOO." #MondayMotivation
‘Far right racist’ thugs tried to break into hotels hosting Asylum Seekers. There have been arrests. These hotels are some of the nearest to Heathrow. Where exactly do they expect them to stay? Shouldn’t every single politician be condemning this? Every single one!
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Peak rail fares have been scrapped on ScotRail trains, meaning passengers will no longer pay higher prices for travelling during busy weekday rush hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tim was a baby when he was adopted from Indonesia by a Dutch family. Now in his 50s, he opens up about the emotional scars of growing up adopted. Find out more about the complexities of international adoption here: aje.io/COTT
I think it's pretty normal for that kind of situation. Don't stress yourself about being stressed. It's upsetting. Grab the situation, make it yours. Start looking for another job, if that's what you're doing. You'll find out eventually it was a blessing. It might take a bit of time though
A study calls PFI a “fiscal illusion”. The findings? 📊 Repayments average 3.3x the value of the infrastructure delivered. 🏛 Local gov spends £13.5bn every 5 years ⚠️ £4.2bn (13%) of that is just interest. Read full report: niesr.ac.uk/publications... #StopPrivatisation #NHS
Don't forget Bezos
Zuckerberg is as bad as Musk, just quieter
Lord Alf Dubs and Jake Richards, alabpur MP on #r4today just now. What wasn't said was that under changes Yvette Cooper wants to make, supported by Jake, Alf Dubs would have been denied entry to the UK and would have instead been consigned to the gas chambers under the Nazis.
It is past time #SaudiArabia put an end to its disgraceful use of the death penalty, which includes executing people for crimes they allegedly committed as children, and leaves families torn apart and devastated. #FreeSaudiArabia #StopExecution #antideathpenalty www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
"'He is a predator', von der Leyen said. 'We know by experience he can only be kept in check through strong deterrence'.” He's a rabid animal and it would be better for everyone if he was put down
Even so, the money is missing!
Chat GPT
At least 250 dead after magnitude 6.0 quake hits Afghanistan, officials say trib.al/QI9IXZ6
But why have the police dropped it? That's the most peculiar bit of the story
Poorer pupils in England ‘bounced out of some subjects’ by costs, Families can't afford ingredients for food/nutrition subjects, instrument lessons for music, fieldwork trips, foreign visits in languages, home technology. Lives unfulfilled by inequitable distribution of income and wealth.
Why did he have to share your history?
The God’s honest truth. Proud of @maron standing up to fascist propagandists like Bill Maher, and hate filled anti-trans bullies like Chappelle. Chappelle is worse because he was once funny. Maher has always been a hack. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
So after Brendan and Kris (WTF The Friday Show) said This American Life was square, I had to see if I agreed. From the UK, I'd never heard of Ira Glass until I heard him interviewed on WTF. This episode is an important listen (I'll be listening to TAL again) www.thisamericanlife.org/865/the-othe...
Just a reminder that Trump refuses to pay even his most loyal dumbfvcks. If he won’t pay his own lawyers, he ain’t paying you, Mr. mackie.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
In Ghislaine Maxwell’s Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage control—an attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
You can shuffle the magic pixies all you want but if you have no strategy, no coherent message and are too timid to oppose even full on fascism then you are wasting your time. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It's their oxymoron pay more for the same seat special offer
Trump's Oval Office: a gaudy shrine to ego, drowning in faux-gold curlicues and lifeless tchotchkes, morphing the People's House into an autocrat's tacky throne room. Irony: preserving history by spray-painting it shiny. #WhiteHouse
Bluesky right now ...
Yes, I know and that's fab. But I was thinking if racists see people being kind at the actual hotels maybe a side effect might be they feel ashamed for being such arseholes. But probably not because they seem to be proud of their ignorance and bigotry
Maybe the action to spite the horrible racists is people offering things for free to the people seeking asylum to welcome them. So go to the hotel and give haircuts for free, cook for people or give toiletries or whatever. Let them know not everyone in this country is a racist cunt
I was working in Soho back then and it was silent on the Monday morning. Really eerie
My sister and I blagged our way into the memorial service that evening at St Paul's (just to have a look). Still have the order of service
Neglect is nature
Pretend we're dead youtu.be/AAldX97Ifzs?...
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
But then some things are really underpriced, so it's swings and roundabouts
People are obviously stupid enough to cough up. Can't fathom it myself
🔴 Footage from a factory in China was found on the camera of a Russian “Gerbera” drone downed in Ukraine, likely recorded during device testing. This was reported by serviceman and radio technology expert and consultant Serhii Beskrestnov.
Pricing on Ebay is very odd though and often doesn't reflect true value, but what the seller thinks they can get
A Ukranian producer and entrepreneur pulled out all the stops and seemed to spare no expense in debuting a two-minute trailer for a new sci-fi project directed by and starring Kevin Spacey.
My health is not supporting genocide in Gaza. Will you tell your pharmacist to mark you as “No-Teva” so that your health doesn’t come at the cost of Palestinians in Gaza? Info checklist here: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/i-...
They did that to me recently. Click and collect, no message to say it was ready, then a message telling me they'd refunded me. They wonder why they're going out of business
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951 | Peter Sagar
She was looking at her phone more than the road. Someone like thst should have their licence taken. Someone could have been walking on that verge
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Todays word of the day: FARAGE
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” – The Bear on why leaving the ECHR would be a really Bad Idea.
Beating fascism is the task ahead www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Once fascists get into power, they do not give us the option of voting them out again.
And then there's this too. Guthrie felt Fred Trump stirred up racial hatred to profit from it. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...
youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ?...
But this picture doesn't look like him at all. In the slightest.
If he's dead it'll speed the process up
It'll be Vance, won't it? That's not better, surely
That was like me with horseradish a minute ago
Be careful what you wish for though. The alternatives could be worse
Do people get arrested for painting red crosses, like they do for sprinkling yellow powder or pouring yellow paint? Or is this 2-tier policing? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How overtourism is hollowing out all cities, especially London
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Every movie becomes a horror movie when you watch it with someone who pauses every two minutes to ask, ‘Wait, who’s that?’
Not looking like the British KKK at all
If Trump's dead, does that mean we get Kiefer Sutherland as the replacement? I really hope so
Keep the hope alive
'... we have to face the fact that, so long as safe and legal routes for asylum seekers are inadequate, we are colluding in the flourishing industry of lethal and illegal systems whose effect is to create communities for whose safety and ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...