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As inspired by @2tone4real.bsky.social here are my favourite tracks for each year of my life.. 1/57 🧵 Jimi Hendrix - ‘All Along the Watchtower’ youtu.be/NdSyFxTDQUM?...

Saw the incomparable Reece Shearsmith at the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms tonight. He was talking about his book, Things I Took From The Dark: The Museum Of Me, & he was, of course, very, very entertaining.

Apologising for something completely avoidable is pointless. He & the other bishops had a choice, but they chose wrongly. There’s no point in trying to spin this now. Of course he’s angry it was publicised, he’d rather no one knew about it 😒

Some Storm Boelo action from my house, complete with roaring sea. It’s literally 200 metres from where I was standing .You can hear one of our dogs whining in the background. The wind drives them insane. 😳

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #LMNO, any bird whose name starts with one of those letters. We have many #Magpies here, & they occasionally venture into the house, although no photos exist of that disgraceful behaviour 🤣

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Savagely accurate piece from @davidjroth.bsky.social, which perfectly distills the essence of what it means to be a Trump Republican. The hollow men are trying to seize America, & they’ll stop at nothing.

I am so SICK of corporations & billionaires destroying the planet that the rest of us live on. This is unforgivable from Google & a clear “fuck you” to everyone. They do as they please because we allow them to. But what CAN we do? Before we’re living in ‘Blade Runner’. 😡

Great Scott Happy 88th Birthday

I suspect if you asked people here in the UK, most would say CBS was the most trustworthy & respected TV network in the US.  After this era, I’m not sure that will still be the case.

If the lines are this long for early voting, imagine the madhouse they will create on Election Day. Vote early so you have plenty of time to resolve any issues with your voter registration and don't subject yourself to standing in hours-long lines and harassment and intimidation from ICE on 11/3!

Everybody needs to vote! Go BLUE!!!

These people have something fundamentally wrong with their brains. Although, we know the GOP supports paedophiles & rapists, so it’s hardly surprising it attracts people like that. I’m sure Amy Acton’s birth mother was paid handsomely to smear the daughter who hasn’t spoken to her in 50 years 😒

A GOP candidate using despicable tactics to try and gain votes. How predictably vile. Ramswamy lacks any of the qualities that persuade people to vote for someone. He has no charm, no charisma, no personality to speak of. I wish he’d just go away. 😡

This is why the Tate brothers, and other vile manosphere ‘influencers’ are so dangerous. But sure, let’s ban Palestine Action & age restrict the internet, instead of forcing social media companies to take responsibility for the content on their platforms. 😡😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last year’s Halloween costume with my best friend (who also happens to be my sister in law) 😁😁😁😁

Very curious as to who paid for this ad as I think they might be the single worst person to ever live. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

quick question, mike if the public polling is so biased against you surely you’ve got internal polling that looks better you could release *puts finger to ear* “apocalyptic” you say?

This is bad. Russia evidently has good reason to believe that America has switched sides. Europe MUST address this immediately, in unequivocal language.

Trump is a Russian bot….

Is Congress still on holiday? I mean this seems like something that they should be dealing with, ngl. Are they planning to just allow Russia to win? I don’t understand what’s going on in America.

This was always Trump’s goal, but he didn’t show his hand at the beginning, because he wanted to surround himself with loyalists first and purge the military upper echelons of anyone who wasn’t a Trump loyalist. America is NO LONGER an ally of Europe & people need to wake up to that fact.

I’d build one of these Scandinavian nature houses. They recycle the waste water to irrigate the plants after it passes through a system of bio filters. Solid waste is composted and becomes soil. I can’t imagine anything nicer than living in a house inside a greenhouse 😁

Ashley Hinton is the kind of swivel-eyed zealot, who’d burn her own daughter at the stake because she was convinced she was a witch. These people shouldn’t be allowed to roam freely in public, let alone be in Congress. 😒

Scott Jennings rn;

School shootings like the one in Bend, Oregon, are reported by the # of dead kids. But every surviving child carries the trauma, as do their families and everyone affected by previous shootings. Trauma upon trauma, generation after generation. Societies that tolerate this are profoundly broken.

Oh for fuck’s sake. See instead of using his money & influence making exploding rockets, trucks that burst into flames and whatever this *gestures at stupid car* is, Musk could be investing in renewables, & medical breakthroughs, & ways to increase food production. Fucking billionaire bastards. 😡

UK petition on the matter

This is appalling. Last time I was in an NHS hospital, I was on a mixed ward for 2 days, so there’s no excuse for this. They clearly didn’t assign people to the ward I was in based on what their genitals looked like. The UK government’s hatred for trans people is shameful, & driven by bigots 🏳️‍⚧️

I’ve been at wedding receptions with more people attending. JD Vance, charisma vacuum, atmosphere Hoover, vibe killer. Doing the Dems’ work for them. Good job 👍👍

This doughy, lying, charisma vacuum just demanded that Dr Abdul El-Sayed should show a little gratitude. After telling him to shut his mouth, & referring to him as a ‘weasel’. Grateful for what? He’s an American citizen, he was BORN in America. Same as Vance. Except, he’s Muslim. Wait….ohhh😐

Definitely worth remembering that Matt Gaetz was Trump’s number 1 pick for Attorney General. In case anyone needed further proof that Trump is terrible, haha 😒

Trump’s goal all along has been to aid Russia against Ukraine. That should have been obvious with the way he & Vance treated Zelenskyy. Europe should shun the US as a rogue state, at the very least until Trump’s regime is toppled, & the new admin has prosecuted everyone involved.

I’m choosing to assume that the court artist finds Russell Brand as vile & repellent as the rest of us. That’s the only explanation for this quite delightful sketch 🤣🤣🤣

Absolutely PATHETIC. And he’s not even CORRECT, there’s no law there that prevents someone from recording in a public place. Predictably, despite almost every person in the room recording him, he picks on a WOMAN, because he’s a Republican man & they’re all weak & cowardly.

I had no idea that Katy Perry was in a relationship with Justin Trudeau. Very odd pairing. I don’t think I’d want to go anywhere near someone who who had been intimate with Russell Brand 🤢

Israel now deciding whose books can be published in the UK. I wonder what’s next? Burnham needs to address this insanity. Palestine Action should not have been proscribed.

Reminder: Trump is president, and Republicans hold majority both in the House and in the Senate as well as in the SCOTUS. Republicans are responsible for the mess we are in.

Several of you appeared to enjoy reading my post telling the backstory of our massive orange cat Jim the other day, and his graduation to domestic life, so I thought I'd do a thread here, looking a bit more closely at Jim's career as a cat, and mine as an author, and our contrasting fortunes...

Utterly tone deaf comment from Mike Collins. He’s whining about the most privileged demographic in America being ‘forgotten’, with zero awareness of just how offensive that is to anyone who isn’t a white, cis male.

Katie Zacharia is an ‘attorney’ in the same way Melania Trump is a ‘businesswoman’ 😒

Farage is visibly falling apart under pressure. The facade of being, ‘just an ordinary bloke like you’d meet in the pub’ is cracking, and what’s underneath is simply a petty, greedy, self-serving bigot, who doesn’t give a toss for Britain.

Important thread. It's almost impossible to keep up with the volume of crimes Trump himself and his agents commit day by day. But these felonies are the crux: a conspiracy to threaten & if expedient commit violence to serve the larger conspiracy to destroy US democracy. Prison. All of them.

Did they put Eric Schmitt in charge of ad buys?