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Ever since Covid, all telephone support services are receiving 'higher than expected call volumes today'. Bullshit. You cut down on staff and haven't replaced them.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... The world gets even madder. And for what? More and more AI.

Having switched to Tidal from Spotify, I am enjoying their 197X! Songs of the year playlists. Often they seem to have 12" versions. The long version of Float On by The Floaters is even more visible than the single edit. Cancer! And my name is Larrrrrry. tidal.com/track/253579...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Ye gods! Watch the video. CJ with Woot Canal would be better than this. Incredibly poor.

♥️ hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2026/dogstar

I suggest setting up or increasing your monthly standing order donation to the RNLI. Get your own back on the fascists.

Funny how a quick 5 mins of guitar before bed turns into an hour and a half.

Unbelievable and yet, at the same time, completely believable.

Spot The Foul. Circle all the fouls that are taking place in this photo and send your answers to Spot The Foul Competition, London W1A 4WW.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... The answer is yes.

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Oxfordshire County Council is leaving X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter. It says it is “deeply concerned about the rise in online hate speech and abuse targeting women and girls… we must make clear and principled choices about how we communicate”.

9 things you can do about climate change Our world is warming, but taking action on climate change can make all our lives better. www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/clim...

Imo “Nigel Farage doesn’t believe in Covid vaccines” would tank his polling if more people knew about it (though you could say that for a number of his policies)

Always good to get a warning that the way ahead may be barred.

38d.gs/bbc_o_eaio

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

BBC News - UN human rights chief criticises UK Palestine Action ban www.bbc.com/news/article...

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38d.gs/xkzy

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

I'd like an apology from @marycreagh.bsky.social please. She claimed my column on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill was "deeply misleading". She failed to explain why. But it was an accurate explanation of the problems with the Bill. Ministers should not make unsubstantiated and untrue claims.

We all recognise smoking kills , that's why tobacco ads were banned in 2002 . Fossil fuels kill too & according to a study in BMJ , cause 5.1 million deaths per year . Help me ban fossil fuel ads for good– sign my petition to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

It's time to exit Brexit and rejoin the EU

Chiltern Railways. 9.11 from Oxford Parkway to Marylebone. Standing passengers filling the aisles of 2 carriages, when we are towing behind us THREE completely empty carriages. Mad and dangerous. #chilternrailways.

A tactical voting website has been launched for the May elections to Oxfordshire County Council. Oxvote is aimed at climate-minded voters and claims to be “the most sophisticated tactical voting website ever made for Oxfordshire local elections”. www.oxvote.org

At last an upside to the climate catastrophe. </sarcasm>

Every time I read the name of that Greenland base it comes out as Pityfuck.

This may be farewell to me reading The Guardian. Either I now subscribe or they share my details with 133 companies.

Authors/researchers might want to check on whether Meta has used your works to train AI for current & future profits. They have use 2 research articles of mine from the 1980s. 🧪📚

Authors/researchers might want to check on whether Meta has used your works to train AI for current & future profits. Looks like they used 6 books & 16 research articles of mine. 🧪📚

Seriously, is there any point in having a Labour government if they are indistinguishable from the Tories?

New moon, Venus, sunset.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... A politician with principles. A rare thing these days.

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That's about 6 x 1000 since Christmas.

I don't believe a) there are that many in the jar; b) they are that old.

I loved the film, despite all this: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in the land, Donna, for we drink from the keg of victory.

Rachel Reeves to soften non-dom tax changes to woo rich for growth push www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Remind me again who won the last General election. I can't tell the difference any more.

It's all getting a bit bloody difficult now!

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Labour nearly as bad as the Orange One when it comes to climate.