very well then. send as many men as you can spare. and fresh horses for all of them (covering the phone and leaning over to talk to my wife, the queen) an egg fell. off a wall

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

Having just seen photo of protestor being sprayed point blank in the face while their head is on the ground by an Ice agent - begs the question somewhat regarding quite *how* we are defining violent crimes here

All lifts are out of order at work today following an entrapment incident. We had a tannoy announcement this morning that "the lift engineers have been contacted and are en route". Sounds worse than it is but we've already been down to 1 functioning out of the 3 lifts for last 2 weeks.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

When I read The Golden Dome not gonna lie I instantly thought he meant he wants to build a big MacDonalds but that's the golden arches or something isn't anyways do carry on

Bullies gonna bully*. *Back down when stood up to, despite grumbling.

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From the British Election Study: share of supporters who are aged 66+ *or* have a personal income <£20k and household income <£40k Reform - 48% Conservative - 45% Lib Dem - 35% Green - 30% Labour - 28%

Don't know if this sort of rhetoric has caught up with the fact that Reform's base are the most dependent on welfare of any party's

Distract yourself from world events by reading about a frozen former coalpit in Yorkshire.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

He's concerned about accommodation with bars on windows... hmmmm wonder why. 🤔 MH institution or prison - either way 🤷‍♀️

The fact that this post has meaning to so many complete strangers is the wonder of the Internet.

i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place

It's Bins. And I'm reflecting how wrong it feels that the purple bin is for general waste. That should have still been the black bin. And it's only as I type this out it occurs to me that the disruption to the pattern was probably intentional by design to interrupt our waste disposal habits.

the pretty ladies kissing ed morrish on the lips boom could falter without more pretty ladies taking up kissing ed morrish on the lips, ed morrish warns

The BBC coverage of Trump for the last few days has been excruciatingly poor. Degenerative lunacy becomes a "reflective afternoon".

EU trade or visas measures in response to Trump could be adopted by a qualified majority, so ultimately this spineless sycophancy can't block much

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

This thread!

What a headline! BBC News - Sandie Peggie legal team to appeal all three versions of tribunal ruling www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Southern Oxfordshire a few minutes ago #aurora

RED ALERT! AURORA NAKED EYE OVER THE UK NOW!

3 versions of the Aurora Borealis are trending here - #northernlights - anyone out taking photos?

A large old pastel of the Cam with Clare bridge in a hazy winter mist. I always get confused which one's which but I think that's Clare although in this pastel it looks a bit wonky (never mind though: artistic expression).

I fail to see how this isn’t a prosecutable offense under state law. They’re just battering people for no reason.

I try not to do mental health diagnoses, for which I have no qualifications, for people I’ve never met, in a BlueSky post. But I can tell you the strain is becoming almost intolerable.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

Having now seen screenshots from the inst agram o' phone: how incredibly sad. Not funny at all, is it, the breakdown of familial relationships so spectacularly and so publicly. (Yes, I know, live by the publicsword die by the publicsword...

Where might one find the B² nonsense?

To be fair to a certain group of commentators, if you put aside literally everything Trump has ever said or done, it was really hard to see all this coming.

Similarly there is right and wrong. Yes you are *absolutely* entitled to your own opinion. That does not mean your opinion is either the truth, supported by the facts, or right. You are entitled to be wrong. (And hold stupid opinions).

“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!

#C4News report that a Belarus minister shows a letter from Donald Trump inviting the dictator Lukashenko onto the board of peace Alongside Putin

This is a huge problem: humans are not wired to cope with this daily torrent of disgust & dismay. It's exhausting & unbalancing. It's tempting just to switch off the news. But that surrenders the political arena - & the lives of all those it affects - to the hooligans & vandals who are trashing it.

Reeling from a crackdown on protesters in Iran that left thousands dead, Iranians are now grappling with feelings of betrayal, confusion and uncertainty after President Trump repeatedly promised to intervene on their behalf and then declined to do so.

The Americans do *know* that tariffs IMPOSED by the US mean THE AMERICAN consumers pay these, don't they?!

Are we at war yet? I assume we'd get a breaking news alert or somesuch but 🤷‍♀️

Fascinating interview with Francesca Zambello the ? Head/chair of Washington national opera on Front Row on @BBCRADIOFOUR on why they are leaving the Kennedy Centre. Had no idea of Trump's sacking the previous board, replacing with his own appointees who elected him as chair, & subsequent changes.