Mark Britten

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30 years of raiding tombs, happy 30th Tomb Raider.

He's so close

how is this impartiality?

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

#Onthisday 2021. Standards committee accuses Owen Paterson of “egregious” lobbying breaches The 30-day recommended suspension was enough to trigger a recall petition. But Boris Johnson whipped Tory MPs to delay and overhaul the standards system. Facing a furious backlash, the govt promptly U-turned

Everything is pro wrestling

In all seriousness, I think it's one of the purest forms of storytelling there is which is why you can see the same patterns everywhere. In wrestling, the story is that two sides - one righteous, one villainous - are in conflict, and they resolve that conflict with a physical contest.

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

I know the vast majority of you are here because of my art, but I need to share a thread about Brazilian politics because what we achieved today deserves to be mentioned and celebrated I'll do my best to be objective for those who have no idea what was happening

Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must empty into thee!

between Hungary, Berlin and now Serbia I'm starting to wonder if maybe the European Hitlerites don't have as tight a grasp as they thought

Periodic reminder that the media loudly demanded DETAILED POLICY PLANS (TM) from Kamala Harris while gramps over here is just riffing on asses from behind the seal of the President of the United States. Just a daily embarrassment but this is gold for the media 🙄

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

My city centre churchwarden drama: people have been digging up human remains to get at the drugs that dealers bury in our churchyard My friends countryside churchwarden drama: birds nested in the church and after trying everything including flying a hawk inside she had to get a farmer to shoot them

Sketching on the Coney Island boardwalk

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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The human rights situation here seems untenable. The rules have changed in a clearly discriminatory way, segregated "third spaces" often don't exist, trans people affected by this legally can't just resign, and they face court martial and imprisonment for rule breaking.

Happy 54th anniversary of the day Roger Moore recorded this in his Live and Let Die filming diary www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Ah yes. The wurst käse scenario.

First he warned us about the dangers of chasing waterfalls, now this.

Incredible graph this. UK road fatalities between 1926 to 2024. That wartime peak is I think a combination of the blackout... which killed almost as many people as the bombing in the first year... and who knows.. perhaps US and other servicemen who were unused to driving on the left...

This might be a controversial point, but social media, as a concept, has done a lot to prevent people - especially neurodiverse and LGBT people - getting isolated.

I didn't hear Wes Streeting's emergency preparedness recommendations yesterday but, to me, it makes sense to always keep a small stock of a few commodities, whether it's for illness, weather, power outages etc. There's probably a few more things I could add such as bottled water, more batteries.

...or you could read this:

According to legend, it’s 31 years to the day since the Financial Times killed one of Britain’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and the day before they’d bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox. A glorious story, but is it true...?

A Ukrainian soldier severed his own foot to survive. Then came a dramatic rescue. reut.rs/4jURvGj

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

i'm not going to read this article but i really admire the craft

Slamming into reverse so fast you can hear the gears crunch

We believe that the public has the right to know the consequences of this policy change. So if NHS England won’t publish the full assessment, we will. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/10...

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

Fwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.

Trans people are a materially real category of person whether you like it or not, and no amount of navel-gazing word games will change the fact that the punishment society levels at those who declare their belonging to that category is blatantly unjust.

Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

Sri Lanka's 430 is the second highest successful chase in ODIs. We're guessing everyone knows what the first is.

There is something deeply wrong with allowing a sociopath from South Africa to kill thousands of kids in Africa and Ukraine just because he has a lot of money.

This absolutely rules. I don't care if Bluesky isn't Twitter circa 2016; it's a great place to hang out, chat with cool folks, learn new things, and most importantly, not get bombarded with slurs.

its very telling that critics in more left leaning spaces are obviously bummed out about corporations destroying the teams that worked on games they were often heavily critical of whereas grifters are reacting to bioware, 343 etc as personal victories in the war against blue hair and pronouns

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...