The people that need prodding about Farage being on the take are Reform voters. That's mostly old people. Old people watch TV. Old people see outrageously negative stunt about Farage & get angry & complain. OP's friend says "it's not a lie though, is it?" They laugh, agree & the seed is planted.

People complaining about this place today, but the people that matter, those I follow, are on top form today. I've tried to follow about ten people I already follow, for what I (at least) think is illuminating & interesting commentary.

<Subtweet> Social media has its place, but some people are morons. I remember coming home the night of the MEN Arena bombing, I happened to live 200 yards away. The best place to find out what had happened to local people was Twitter. News was behind & vague.

I mean, it fits with the general pattern with him of believing 'human rights are what the law says they are', rather than 'human rights are a matter of morality'

'Britain does not need more people who give speeches on subjects they barely understand for a few likes on social media' is, in fairness, quite a brave thing for Kemi Badenoch to say

This is why vaccines are important.

I went to a group walk yesterday, & an elderly lady in the group took exception to a lady in the park sunbathing (face down) in a skimpy two piece bathing suit. In her loud & defensive ranting, she proceeded to say "if something happens, people will blame the man".

Police helicopter out & quite low, I'm guessing they're looking for someone? Manchester moving into Droylsden.

What's screwing the Daily Mail and tabloids is it's basically impossible to go through Count Binface's bin for dirt without him noticing.

The big populist of 2008-22 was a blatant comic-book Churchill impersonator, & knock off Thatchers are ten a penny. It's obvious to me what the Binface character is satirising, the inspiration for his manipulative politician archetype. It's meant to prompt people: Maybe look past the cosplay?

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

FIFA rankings: Mexico (14th, H) v England (4th), 140pts difference. USA (17th, H, FIFA assisted) v Belgium (9th), 71pts difference. USA painted as at a definite advantage, whilst England were(?) seen to have a marginal advantage. Have Belgium been more boring than England's previous games?

I absolutely adore "Je pense a vous" by Pierre De Maere. I feel like the whole world should be talking about how brilliant it is. youtu.be/kb3VccFdBpw?...

Contemplating if we had different numbers of fingers on each hand, & how the number system would work. Base 60 or base 120? A Roman numeral style system, or would eg 36 be 3 tens & 6 still. Would we have numerals T & E for ten & eleven every other digit, or only go to 5 every other digit?

Ok, my favourite fact of today is that, if you count the Channel Tunnel as an England/France border, all the countries that have ever won the World Cup are contiguous.

I don't understand social media bans. My experience is the people who are radicalised are pensioners, people who didn't have experience with this type of technology as young people. What does this ban do? What are they trying to stop?

I've tried giving EU5 a go again, & am getting infuriated by bugs & poor UI design again. - Sometimes markets decide to not bother using your merchants. - I keep researching new boats, & find out my existing boats were better. - Age 1 heavy infantry won't upgrade to Age 3 heavy infantry.

Notable how much this year's local results for Con+Lab were favourably skewed by London's elections falling this year Proportional seat change Lab London: -40% Unitaries: -69% Districts: -73% Counties: -73% Metros: -75% Con London: +1% Metros: -49% Districts: -49% Unitaries: -57% Counties: -76%

Just went to take off the foil from the roast to crisp up the crackling, and noticed I hadn't actually put it in the oven. It's so frustrating being so forgetful!

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

How do you stop seeing Americans' inane posts saying their president lies or was convicted of crimes? The information sphere might be so empty that it feels like that's contributing. But I don't live in that ecosystem, it ruins my experience of BlueSky, it doesn't learn to show less like this.

This is a seat where the Tories won 34.3% of the vote in 2019 with a Brexit Party candidate on the ballot.

Thought this was a good read on Burnham, his record in Manchester, and his prospects as prime minister

Here's the numbers to help understand how SV might play out in a Greater Manchester Mayor election should the role become available.

eh, what the hell

Burnham is very disappointing. No PR, no Rejoin, throwing the Blair years under the campaign bus, lots of Starmerite hot air, worries about his passivity & nothing positive about immigration as yet. He's not the saviour, he's Starmer 2, Manchester Boogaloo.

Eurovision really should not be having this farce with Israel every year. It's ridiculous they've been allowed to compete again. #Eurovision

Can we quit it with points to Israel, please? #Eurovision

Billy Joel boring me to sleep is not what I need before the scoring #Eurovision

Somebody put them out of my misery #Eurovision presenters.

Here are the results of the Manchester Jury! Are you ready? A little more annoying chit chat? 8 points go to Australia! 10 points go to Bulgaria And the 12 points from Manchester goes to Waste a bit more time Finland!

Somebody doesn't want to host again #Eurovision

Somebody put them out of my misery #Eurovision presenters.

The Norwhite Stripes are quite good.

Engelbert Humperdinck vibes #Italy #Eurovision

Italy phoning it in here #Eurovision

Was there a strobe alert? Cascada are 100 times better. #Eurovision

Poland feel like they've gone for the tried & failed UK tactic of sounding like it's a Eurovision album track, trying to fit in but not exceptional. #Eurovision

I genuinely enjoyed that from start to Finnish. #Eurovision

I've got deja vu with this Moldova song. What is it reminding me of? #Eurovision

Did Austria host a competition to become presenter of Eurovision? They couldn't have done worse with a raffle. #Eurovision

France always manage to be so French. Another Francovision winner. #Eurovision

Bangaranga is brilliant! Sorry Australia, new front runner for the Manchester jury #Eurovision

It feels like they should be screaming in the sky in these postcards #Eurovision

He really is a MalTeaser! #Eurovision

I preferred the original Hard Rock Allelujah. It's just noise now. #Serbia #Eurovision

Alpha Goodrem! #Eurovision