I'll be surprised if Lindsey Graham's heart doesn't explode today from the strength of his wargasm.

Two months ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Now we are getting 15% tariffs on everything. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

Vyborg city officials are part of Putin's inner circle. While things may not be materially as bad as they were just after the economic collapse of 1998, they've not recovered from the moral collapse. Russia is built on a legacy of rampant thievery, thuggishness, corruption, cruelty, and neglect.

Russia has made some money but that place, Vyborg, has seen very little of it. The entire city budget was embezzled two years in a row in the 2010s. The person who was going to testify in court got shot in his own backyard. In front of a banya. Russia.

My most memorable visit to Russia was around year 2000. My teenager self would describe it as following: There's no seedy underbelly in Russia. That side is turned up here. Ugliness is not hidden. It's everywhere. This nation has experienced an utter and total moral collapse. 👇🏻

The people of Free Derry continuing to influence those standing up in the face of authoritarian state brutality.

Shameful — yet not shocking — that the IOC banned Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing a helmet portraying Ukrainian athletes whose lives were claimed by russia. Why is telling the stories of athletes who will never compete in the Olympics labelled "political"? Full support for Vladyslav.

People who say "Fascism will always lose" and point to WWII as the evidence are talking out of their arses. Fascism was defeated then not by internal forces but by military force, with enormous loss of life. What happens when there is no enemy to defeat them? Nobody will save you but yourselves.

Romanians are buying generators, other energy equipment, and devices and are bringing them to the Ukrainian Embassy in Bucharest. Thank you, Romania! 🇷🇴🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Embassy will organize the shipment to people affected by Russian energy terror.

I’m on my apartment balcony to illustrate how Donald Trump’s corruption and contempt for the rule both threatens our democracy *and* affects our everyday lives. Behind me is the Gateway project, a $16 billion effort to build a new rail tunnel across the Hudson. ...

Germans donated €200,000 in one week to support Ukraine. This Ukrainian woman, Nataliia, called on people to make donations to purchase gas stoves, heaters, and sleeping bags. 📹 DW

Of course there's no real chance of Yersinia pestis being renamed after Trump, but surely coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 should rightfully be renamed after the one man who has done more than any other human being to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to be infected with #covid19 .

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

@justrena.bsky.social It's nice to see Mandelson apparently meet trouble he can't slither out of.

I note that in at least one of the released Epstein files the name of one of the girls preyed upon was left in clear text while a pseudonym for the same girl was redacted. This is beyond the level of stupidity we'd expect from even a Trump minion, so...

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Prototaxites sounds uncomfortably Lovecraftian

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Harvey Andrews' haunting "Hey Sandy!" continues to resonate. Unfortunately. "And the sound of the steel and the black boot's heel was pounding in your head And your freedom's past, they have come at last with the blessings of the dead"

The life cycle of human skills and arts in the 21st century: 1) Homogenisation 2) Commoditisation 3) Extinction

Almost all of the world's Botox is produced in Westport, County Mayo. If (when) Trump ever again threatens Greenland, Denmark or the EU in any way (or attempts to undermine European institutions) Ireland is in a unique position to punch the Trumpies right in the Mar-a-lago face.

Episodes 6-10 From the persistence of faith and culture in the Ghetto, to the events leading to its destruction, and the final testimony of its founder, onto the archives post war recovery and restoration. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The story of the Oyneg Shabes archive. Narrated by Anton Lesser. Between 1940-43 a group of dedicated writers, led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, secretly recorded every aspect of Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Prime Minister Frederiksen: We have been able to take a very important decision within the European Union - to phase out fossil fuels from Russia. All Europeans can see now that it was a huge mistake to be dependent on Russian fossil fuels. We should never have done that.

This is the guy who murdered Alex Pretti. What is his name? And what about the others, who put 5 more bullets in Pretti when he was already dead? ====================

The President of the United States is not "Leader of the free world". We don't vote for their president so if we are free how can he be our leader. But the current incumbent is much farther from being anything of the sort: he is just a turd that has somehow escaped from the toilet bowl.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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"Old MacDonald had a farm, AI, AI,AI-oh. With bullshit here, and bullshit there, everywhere bullshit"... Sorry, it's been one of those centuries.

Can drones be used to safely monitor ICE operations or are there too many legal issues?

It is frankly criminal that industry talking heads trying to protect their own stock price are claiming children need to become "AI-native" No they bloody don't. That will atrophy their ability to create, reason and learn. These wankers must be stopped.

Now would be an excellent time for a widespread theatrical re-release of V for Vendetta. For purely artistic reasons.

#ICE #protestICE #protests2020 #ICEout #AbolishICe #Minnesota

Yet another massive Russian attack on Ukraine. There are dead and injured. Last night, Russia launched more than 370 drones and 21 missiles of various types at Ukraine. Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions were attacked.

While Russia says it wants peace, its actions say the opposite. Almost the entire city of Chernihiv has been left without power after a Russian strike on energy infrastructure facilities, the city council reported.

You misspelled "BORED".

Russians targeted energy infrastructure of #Kyiv and Kyiv region. One person was killed and at least four others injured. In Kyiv, nearly 6,000 homes are once again without heating following damage to critical infrastructure, the mayor reported.

Gestapo-ICE detained a 2 year old girl and sent her on a plane to Texas despite a judge ordering for the baby to be released. They also detained a 10 year old and a 5 year old and used the 5 year old as bait. It’s inhumane, evil and of course it’s child trafficking.

Remember, American friends, if you're stopped by ICE pass your hand slowly in front of their faces and say firmly in a commanding voice "These are not the droids you're looking for".

If you flirt with fascism you can expect to get get fucked by it.

If Luxon accepts Trump's invitation to join his despot's club there needs to be a no-confidence vote in Parliament for wasting money we don't have to align ourselves with something shameful and illegitimate just to give him a chance to kiss Trump's arse like one of his fawning cabinet of eunuchs.

I know I'm not normal because every time I listen to 'Sympathy For The Devil' I can't help being irritated that Jagger mixes up the Hundred Years War with the Thirty Years War.

The strong may think they will do whatever they can, but that doesn't stop the weak from slitting their throats while they sleep.

Ich have seene how thys movye doth ende and it ys awful

My contempt for the morons who elected Trump is hardening into hatred.

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Mark Rutte may or may not have been a gerbil in a previous life.