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Look, the problem isn't that he's wrong. Of course he's wrong. The problem is that this is now so normal in the USA that nobody seriously even points it out any more, this is where the Overton window is in the West now. You can just say this shit.

James is right. But that does look like a particularly dull quadrat right there.

As Nick Robinson interviews Farage on #r4today for the umpteenth time, may I remind you that BBC News has instituted a policy of trying to make itself more attractive to Reform voters. True story (see further down this thread for deets).

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

Wait... Appeasing people who buy rather than make their own marmalade? Is he declaring war on the Womens Institute, revenge for how they treated Tony Blair? Where will this madness end?

Yes, it's racist.

There are two policy areas I won't compromise on. (1) Progressive egalitarianism - this absolutely includes rejoining the EU, and (2) Environmental protection, specifically going bg well beyond net zero. Burnham is failing -completely- on both. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Bluesky has five kinds of users

According to Zelenskyy, for nearly a month Pete Hegseth has not been signing off on the delivery of vital Patriot and NASAMS interceptor missiles for Ukraine that European allies have already paid for. Here is a video of Hegseth cynically wishing Ukraine “success” a week ago:

Liz Truss claims Brits would be on Mars by 2040 if she hadn’t been ousted www.politico.eu/article/liz-...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Perhaps the EU / member state governments could learn something from Serbia and bring some young people / new ideas into its discussions. Because at the moment paranoid populism lite isn't working. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

John Castle as Postumus in "I, Claudius" was an even better bit of casting than I'd thought.

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

From The Archives #428 Daily Mail front pages in 2022, 8 weeks apart...

Countries are not companies, they don't operate on the same principles, rules or ethics. They are conceptually totally different - treating everything as a business is not a moral imperative. This is the problem with many ceo's - they're hammers, so every problem is a nail www.ft.com/content/8255...

Serbian and Brazilian results are spectacular. I find myself not understanding what this means in Serbia - I know what this new political movement stands against, I cannot discern what they're for, though.

via @nilesb.bsky.social (ALT-text added by me)

via Black Sports Online: Police Called on 3-Year-Old Black Boy Because He Was Too Good at Soccer #Florida blacksportsonline.com/2026/10/poli...

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

I think the EU is unlikely to care that we have pints of milk. They're also unlikely to demand that we mess up the Irish border by joining Schengen when Ireland isn't part of it. Why would y'all strawman this shit?

A more than 40% risk reduction “would send many researchers over the Moon”. This personalised mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42% go.nature.com/4ik3TNr

So, unhappy 106th anniversary, Alexander, King of Greece, dead at just 27 on this day in 1920 from a macaque bite that went septic, leading—what with one thing and another—to a *lot* of other deaths, the birth of modern Turkey, and Prince Philip marrying the woman who would be Queen Elizabeth II...

There's a character called Fortunato in the Wild Cards novels you might want to look at. It's... Messy.

“In some sense, the absolute numbers of the heat-related deaths estimated across the 854 urban areas are indeed staggering,” said Malcolm Mistry .. who co-authored the study. “But perhaps what is even more alarming is the proportion of these deaths that we attribute to anthropogenic climate change.”

Surprised by many responses. I have so many things bought for pennies that I've had for decades. Why wouldn't a 50p car boot sale wok last forever? A flytioped record deck, why would it need replacing? I've got Kenwood chef attachments older than you am.