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What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

A bad week for Trump and co?

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

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This is the advice that the UK media is sh!tting the bed over. It’s very sensible to have enough basic provisions to weather the first 24-72 hours of an emergency such as severe weather causing infrastructure disruption. Most countries advise their citizens to do this sort of stuff.

“Oh by the way, apparently we should start prepping.” “Does this mean I can finally have a crossbow?” “What are you going to find to shoot with a crossbow around here?” “When society breaks down? Fucking EVERYTHING.”

Just finished some holiday reading and can highly recommend this one by @russincheshire.bsky.social Very witty as well as informative. Buy a copy to keep Baxter in biscuits.

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The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

Who called it Tolkein and not Mordor, He Wrote.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Among Keir Starmer's worst deeds were his legislative and rhetorical attacks on nature protection. In those two wasted years, we spiralled backwards, even from the Tory legacy. At this week's biodiversity summit, the Burnham govt should pledge to turn that round. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Go on then, Bluesky, tell me the stupidest thing your dog has ever done. Mine decided earthworms were missing from his diet, and as part of his culinary experiment chose one that was still attached to a fishhook. The FIVE resulting surgeries cost me the price of a small car. Good boy, Baxter.

Well that's very kind of you but sadly I'm busy that day... whenever it is... I'm busy.

Such a shame @vizcomic.bsky.social wouldn't plug my new book. Maybe next time.

#FOTW Daily Post 11 I'm unflinching about the science — but I refuse to trade in despair. The past tells us things WILL be grim, but if we lose hope and fail to act, they will be far worse So, pls share and tag 2 That's how hope becomes momentum #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable #ClimateHope

I don't have a problem with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, but the problem is, they just don't integrate into our society. Oh. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Eggs were rationed to 1 per person per week (if available) in WW2, and we certainly didn’t have fresh bananas or fresh coffee. Is this a photo of the King’s breakfast?

The progress that the Green Party has made in England & Wales had the potential to force a sensible environmental policy position in other parties. That they have been hijacked by antisemitic people with no interest in their party progressing its overall political agenda is a great shame.

What measles did to one family

Hi, European here. Little tip if I may: look up and see the bigger picture. Europe is an idea, a joint path forward. Carney got that better than most Brits ever did. If you're only in it for the money, maybe don't bother.

#NigelFarage has been named Terrorists’ PR Professional of the Year after once again demonstrating that people can be made to #fear a terrorist attack without terrorists even having to organise one. #ReformPanic

It’s almost as if the government has a lot of influence over messaging. One of the huge problems with Starmer was that he couldn’t work the news agenda competently.

‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.

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Very good thread on the legalities of disrupting rescue operations in territorial waters.

"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...

NEWS: I don’t like transphobes and here is a short list of why. 1) They are full of shit.

Ladies and gentlemen, male opera singers dubbed with ship’s horns

I thought Hot Fuzz was a work of fiction but I've woken to a TL full of posts about somewhere called Piddington (which sounds like a quaint English village name made up by a US sitcom writer who's never been to the UK) and apparently not. What a horde of cobwebbed arseholes.

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

Remember when Nigel Farage was more than happy to publicly big up the IRA for £74. The fuck you think he'll do for £72 million..

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

I suffer from FOMO. Fear of messing up acronyms.

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

Wildfires, drought, record heat, the worst-ever arable harvest: we have seen just recently what ecosystem collapse looks like in the UK, and we know it will only get worse. The govt must treat this existential threat as the national security issue it is.

I find it weird that uk news broadcasts seem so much more worried that AfD are winning in Germany than they are about Reform winning power in multiple parts of England.

Hair removal below the waist has reminded of this genuine Amazon review of Veet for Men. Sadly the tech bros have zero sense of humour, so the original is long gone, but it's preserved here. www.key.aero/forum/genera...

The situation at Dover is ridiculous. An occasion where a more European policing would be welcome. Just tear gas the cvnts and they’ll soon disperse.