Matt Ayre

Finally the Bank of England has given us low interest rates x

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: “They have said I only took questions from conservative outlets. However, The Daily Mail is not known to be a conservative outlet or friendly to conservatives.” Brits everywhere: *hysterical laughter*

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Yes, Trump has always been soft on rapists

For various reasons Trump is not actually a dictator but he behaves exactly as if he were one. There's always the stage where they can't accept any dissent so they bury themselves in toadies and propaganda and become genuinely detached from reality. It never ends well

I've just been reading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for a thing and Trump definitely resembles late-stage Hitler: surrounded by sycophants, rejecting all criticism, denying facts about the war he's losing, making mad declarations, seeing enemies everywhere. Not great

They're polling eight points lower than their general election result, which was itself the worst in their entire history, their leader couldn't explain the big defense policy they opened conference with, none of their big new tax cuts are funded, and yet it's still covered as a triumph

I get the appeal of nostalgia, I really do, but I find it specifically funny to get a leaflet from Reform's candidate talking about how when he was in the Met 31 years ago, he would never have dreamed of lawlessness like the kind we now see in Kings Cross.

Still got it!

"will you choose to share or...." #CPC26

"where's the Tory party, where've they gone..........THERE THEY ARE"

my timeline ladies and gentlemen

i propose a corollary to “if you don’t like abortions, don’t have one” called “if you like the death penalty, volunteer to receive it”

This is the one that kept crashing so was grounded worldwide, and Boeing pleaded guilty to causing fatalities?

are LLMs just an attempt to recreate Americans from first principles

hold up - will confidently interject on any subject, often with significant errors - can't actually read, instead relies on an elaborate method of parsing context through structure & likely words - looks financially impressive, actually built on huge amounts of unsustainable debt

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

It’s called YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING!

A Bloating Trump Sinks

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Eagles fans, Packers fans, Ravens fans, remember... At least you aren't Falcons fans.

Hmm… Punta Arenas… so, sand? Desert? The Atacama is north Chile, so… God damn #maptap www.maptap.gg September 20 98🔥 94🏅 95🏅 97🔥 61😟 Final score: 856

Many people are asking

There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Okay Kushner, let's apply that same logic to Iran. They want a nuke, control of both straits, and to maintain their close ties to Hezbollah and Hamas. That is Iran's line of what they want to achieve. If the US and Israel, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line...

Kushner on Ukraine: “President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” Putin’s brain cell

What a strange name for a child

The Mars Bar Volta

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

You think you've seen the most extreme level of Nimbyism possible? Think again.

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Quite ironic reading many of the replies to this thread, on the same day the UK’s excellent PISA results are released.

Hans, are we the etc etc

Last year teenage homicides in England’s capital fell to their joint lowest level (similar to 2012) in almost 30 years. Thank London’s mayor

The Raglan, E17. Great local, delicious food, always feels warm and welcoming. The Jackalope, W1G. Great rotating beer selection, incredible Szechuan-style noodles downstairs. The Pembury Tavern, E8. Now a 5 Points pub, still got the old billiards table, and maybe the best pizza in London, Ace.

Andy Burnham has defended the government’s early release scheme, citing one example with a very positive outcome. “There was this man – let’s call him ‘Keir’. He was sentenced to five years inside. It was a living hell for him.” From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Found this copy of the NYT in a backpack I hadn't used in a while earlier. Check the date

2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a world we live in that the only player on Madden 27 with 99 throw power goes unclaimed on waivers

The least likely pundit-brain call/prediction is for Sadiq Khan to immediately quit the House of Lords, to run in a Westminster by-election, to trigger a London Mayoral by-election! He would not want to. The Labour NEC would obvs not sanction it either.

So that lady has to do the whole of Colchester by herself? Is she Boudica?

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