Flaming June

Just a few days after we were told to stockpile toilet paper someone has kindly put some through the door.

Roger Marshall says Adam Hamilton will let "radical Islums" into the country

Walter Koenig was also unforgettably brilliant as the creepily nasty psychop Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. Quite a range

Attended a Tony Benn speech and he said the main function of a government was to make people feel safe. Farage is doing the opposite. The UK ISN'T broken. Farage needs to attend, say, a Park Run and see decent people getting on with their lives, not obsessing that others are having a better time.

While the election result in #Brazil is obviously good news, we should remember that countless American wannabe-fascists poured $billions into achieving the opposite result and now have nothing to show for it, so it's not just good news, but also objectively hilarious.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Orbán, Vučič, Bolsanaro … Happy days!

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

I don't know what's going to happen in this Brazilian election, but imagine watching these early results as one of those Mayors that shut down bus service to screw with Lula's voters.

Putting the clock back on my oven

“Did you read it?” “I read a synopsis of it prepared for me by my team.” And there is the essence of Piers Morgan: Bullshit powered by bulletpoints.

I got a Garmin tracker because I’m so pissed off with Google Health trying to sell me shite. It tells me what I want to be told, and no more. Lovely!

I’ve always kept a diary, and I’m having a read at it. Blimey, 1991 was eventful 😳😳

Greek Word of the Day. Anyone know it?

Stockpiling? It’s time for a reprint of Noah’s Castle by John Rowe Townsend

Our goldfinch flock is back! We stopped feeding them in summer, as per RSPB advice, so they decamped elsewhere. It must be proper winter today.

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Ouch

Oh give it a rest with the 80 year old grannies opposing genocide!

Sexist boys club Against women’s rights and workers’ rights Funded by Thai-based cryptobillionaire and convicted fraudster Engulfed in sleaze and scandal

"Oh God, we're all gonna end up in the papers"

There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

Share a TV show you love set primarily in the workplace

A radish from our allotment. #SundayPixHarvest

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

My father was born in 1921. He ran away to try to fight in Spain at 15; was a lifelong member of the BCP+Trotskyist groups; corresponded for decades with members of the ANC; and was twice arrested for intervening against police racism. Prejudice is always a choice, not a generational inevitability.

Confessions of a Contemporary Prophet. Being extracts from the private journal of a the man who mistook the dock for a pulpit. "Arose early, having slept poorly on account of the persecution. My dreams are filled with thoughts of Jonah and the Whale..." mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/confession...

For the past 35 years, I’ve been owned by cats. My last old girl took a bow at the beginning of October and now, for the first time, I have none. It’s weird.

The Hoffnung Music Festival concert in 1956, a key moment in British humour after the war, kicking off in the first few seconds with an absolutely brilliant, beautifully executed gag that could only ever work once: youtu.be/0x6ke_3kDYw

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Damn. Missed this hitting 100. 101 now. refukked.lovable.app

Nigel Farage: ‘there’s no room for racism in the Reform party’ #r4today

Reform launches racism probe? Are they trying to root out the members who *aren’t* racist?

How to pay for parking.

Sunny Bank Mills, Bradford

It tracks that this is his definition of consent

This is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”