Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne

@smudgeboy99.bsky.social

Brit, funny-ish, a bit sweary (not fucking sorry). Retiring disgracefully. Cooking and eating, music (20th century), travel, reading, history, genealogy, photography, ex-archery. Swinging further left the older I get. Yes, there's gas in the car!

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On 9/11, Todd Beamer sacrificed his life along with other heroes to bring down United 93 and potentially save hundreds of lives at the Capitol. Today Todd's father stood next to Trump as he used 9/11 to try and tarnish Abdul El-Sayed - and in doing so, he shit all over his son's legacy.

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Kemi Badenoch and Jacob Rees-Mogg, both Conservatives, criticised Andy Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox Here's Boris Johnson appearing on Eastenders when he was Mayor of London The double standards are extraordinary.

Having spent two weeks on the other side of the world, my sleep patterns were fucked enough already, before the bloody clocks went back. The plus side of being wide awake at 6am - it's a fucking GORGEOUS morning out there. If a tad blowy.

Has anyone else noticed an increase in the use of badly dubbed foreign adverts. I thought these were a thing of the past - if we can't use AI to fix something as fundamentally shit as that, what's the point?

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In the BBC News room... Boss, this new ONS report has good news - unemployment rate falling and employment going up! - Isn't there some bad news in there too, so we can make Labour look bad?? Well, vacancies are down... - Great! Use that for the headline!

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The emperor's not so much naked as wandering around with his pants on his head at this point. What a shame the constitution never thought of this situation and there's literally nothing anyone around him can do! 🙃

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says NATO was "nice enough to give us Greenland. We got Greenland."

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Now then, where’s that box of fucks I had lying around? Nope, can’t find it anywhere. 20 years ago, an old friend who worked in ‘diplomatic circles’ told me “all Russian men are pigs, every single one of them.” Back then I laughed it off as harsh ‘British exceptionalism’. How very naive of me.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social

1/ Russian soldiers are "the new oil", says a Russian warblogger. They are a source of easy wealth for scammers, who have robbed tens of millions of rubles from new recruits and injured men, who are preyed on by their fellow soldiers, recruiters, and even fellow patients. ⬇️

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Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.

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Isn’t it strange how, when you start being paid by private companies instead of elected by the public, the people become the “mob”? Palantir’s record deserves scrutiny – from politicians and the public. https://bit.ly/47avtHW

theguardian.comPalantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contractsFormer Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

In Terminal Three at Heathrow - the price of everything here is astronomical. Obviously they’ve got you over a barrel, but this is blatant profiteering. A small bottle of coke and a Twix - £7.89.

To be fair, the Commanders' and Colts' inability to turn the London #NFL game into anything remotely watchable is really little more than a faithful tip o' the hat to their hosts, Tottenham. They should rename it the Trump Stadium - everything it touches dies.

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Man City fans thinking they can spot flaws in a decision made by three senior lawyers is the new Dads think they could win a game against Serena Williams.