I am quite liking the fashion for referring to it as the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.

I am quite liking the fashion for referring to it as the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom.

This is amazing!!

📌 Can't stop replaying this 😜 Oh she so went there 🤭🤣🐥

So next year is going to be TDF-tactic for me. One opportunity to watch the men, and two to watch the women, pretty much without leaving home. Allez!

Melania Trump has brought a frivilous SLAPP lawsuit against Trump biographer Michaelf Wolff. So he has let her know he will be suboenaing Trumps for depositions under oath. You know the porn model immigrant turned absent-First Lady won't be down for that! #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFilea

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

'Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history'. ~UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese @franceskalbs.bsky.social

Switzerland has offered to treat 20 badly-injured children from Gaza. French-speaking cantons have volunteered, but many German-speaking cantons are refusing. Shameful. Alt text: Gaza destruction Accueil d'enfants de Gaza: les cantons affichent leurs divergences www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...

Maybe Homer isn’t quite as dumb as he acts?

This dog looks like she asked me if we have smart phones in the north and then laughed at my trainers

Someone posted a work of genius, dancing in cheese overalls to the tune of Dancing in Cheese Overalls and I can no longer find it. Damnéd!

Looks like a Montreal Cycling account has blocked me for calling them out on not using alt text to be more inclusive. Well good, saves me the effort. Small-minded gits.

Dunno, but I think a blitz on social security bureaucracy would help more people in a meaningful way.

Fuck the Groyper Wars and their misuse of Bella Ciao. We're reclaiming it. ✊🏼 Absolutely haunting version. 👇🏼 Posted in the summer of 2024 by Mitski.

I believe these sorts of deal are quite common among the wretched of the earth. Alt text: thumbnail of Andrew‘s palace from the air. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is that a serious question in the BBC headline? I mean, there is a very short list of wealthy people who will pay for White House influence in the Gulf, Russia and the US. Alt text: thumbnail of the White House being destroyed for a Trump vanity project. www.bbc.com/news/article...

WHAT KIND OF SHITHOLE COUNTRY ALLOWS A CONVICTED FELON TO BULLDOZE THE WHITE HOUSE? LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP ALREADY, BEFORE HE DOES ANY MORE DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY. ANYWAY, I WROTE A POST ABOUT IT. DO I CUSS LIKE A SAILOR IN IT? ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/3KTEg9n YOU'RE WELCOME, AMERICA

Is it really surveilled? Is it not correctly: surveyed?

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

I had to go there! 🤭🤭🤭🤭

If it turns out the Sumo lads robbed the Louvre, I will experience a level of pure joy I haven’t felt since the previous millennium.

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

Yes of course. Join the Party.

Noah Caluori, the 19-y-o debutante who scored five tries for Saracens today in their 65-14 demolition of Sales Sharks today has not even got his profile on the club‘s website. I am guessing it will be there quite soon.

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

Should be talking cycling with Vanessa Feltz on @lbc.co.uk after 5pm. Red light running, natch.

funny watching cis ppl post about how we might be approaching fascism this government is making up science and rigging reviews so they can get the results they want to justify their oppressive policies we're already there only option out is to vote green before they take away our right to vote

Pope Leo is apparently going to get rid of Opus Dei. He seems to have made a good start. You know how teams change ends at half time? Maybe the US and the Catholic Church could swap leaders. Trump could run the church into the ground, and Leo could get rid of MAGA.

We need more Bill Nighy. And fewer pairs of shorts. Alt text: thumbnail of a good-looking elderly man wearing heavy-framed glasses - Bill Nighy observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I am predicting another big jump in Green Party membership after this broadcast.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right, we don't need a wealth tax for public investment, we can do that anyway, but a wealth tax is one tool to help tackle inequality in our society. Zack is also right that we need to raise Capital Gains Tax, & we should always question the bias of economists!

If it weren’t for Zidane, would anyone even know who Materazzi was?

A special morning greeting for Andy Mountbatten-Windsor

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

There really should be a way of recognising these dirty players for their success in polluting the world even more. Alt text: thumbnail of a container ship at sea, seen from above. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A little thread. We have very few professional bike races left on open roads in NL. There is a population density of about 500 people per km2 which makes it one of the densest populated countries in Europe. To compare, France has 121 but Belgium has almost 400 so this not he only reason.

Is he black? He would have been at Buchenwald. They had six black prisoners at Buchenwald including well known survivor Gert Schramm, the child of a German woman and a black engineer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Sc...

So glad I don’t have to face this decision any more

British.

Happy Birthday to Oscar Wilde, whose British Library reader pass is being reinstated today.

Digger - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11628

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone. And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My wife has a new job down by the beach, but it's very hard to say what it entails. She sells sea shells on the seashore. #Lunchpun