Green Party MP Hannah Spencer said: "We get to spend the summer watching Clacton, a farce of a by-election where one of the candidates is a joke character filled with rubbish and the other is Count Binface."

Or, alternatively to a thread on the nuanced prospects of a traditional by-election - every other party could coordinate to leverage the nation's entrenched silliness & pitch a "Which Way Western Man" between Farage & Count Binface. I hate to hand it to Britain, but this is VERY funny.

I can’t think of a better antidote to the politics in the UK right now than Count Binface beating Nigel Farage in this election… It could genuinely heal a nation.

Trump finds it highly annoying when men are held accountable for rape. He was happy to attack Platner for being a Nazi when he was running against Collins, but now that he's out of the race, Trump really doesn't want to go after him for this brand of bad behavior. Easier to blame the women.

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Thirteen.

Former National MP Harete Hipango-Brownlie joins NZ First's line up of anti vaxxer candidates. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

When I say Bluesky Elder, this is who I'm referring to

Meanwhile, the Scots.

Whoever is sitting next to J.D. Vance at mass on Sunday should offer him the sign of peace... in the form of two rigidly extended middle fingers from a pair of closed fists. God is Love but fuck that racist liar who slander has a body count.

Clearly this building was constructed by Trump’s pool guy!

🔥🛢️Multiple ignition points are visible over Russia’s Nizhnekamsk oil refining cluster during a Ukrainian drone attack unfolding right now. The city hosts two major refining facilities: TANECO, 16 million tons per year, and TAIF-NK, with around 7.3 million tons of oil per year.

"Leave him to me."

🔥🛢️Russia’s Saratov Oil Refinery was also attacked overnight and is now burning after the Ukrainian drone strikes. The refinery has a processing capacity of around 7 million tons of crude oil per year

So it’s currently looking like Nigel Farage v Count Binface.

What if the funniest thing happens and Farage loses to Count Binface?

The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.

Count Binface bringing down Farage may turn this country around.

This leaves it as a straight fight between Farage and Count Binface

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

Farage versus Binface is absolute the summer we deserve

'Don't Die' Guy Bryan Johnson Says He Has Serious Autoimmune Disease https://gizmodo.com/dont-die-guy-bryan-johnson-says-he-has-serious-autoimmune-disease-2000781915

As I say in my book, Bryan Johnson is DEFINITELY going to die.

Bryan Johnson: Millionaire biohacker behind Project Blueprint diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease thenightly.com.au/world/bryan-...

Police are re-investigating 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases after concerns about one case triggered a review of almost 1,000 files. The senior officer who managed those files told me the scale of it was “news to me”. He remains under an employment investigation.

This is the cop who told me rape and death threats were "public criticism" that journalists should expect and weren't intended to harm me because they weren't directly sent to me.

The largest gas station network in Omsk, Topline, has completely stopped selling gasoline to private customers. According to Russian media, the network halted fuel sales after supplies from the Omsk Oil Refinery stopped following yesterday’s Ukrainian drone attack.

Revenge is best served… With mayo.

Window into the mocking with which foreign media is treating the situation. The latest on the live of Le Monde, France’s paper of record: “We’re being told Trump wants to file an appeal with Infantino alleging that the Belgian team played soccer.”

"A prominent venture investor lamented to me how an A.I. idea scribbled on a napkin can bloom into a billion-dollar valuation, while hot companies in other hot sectors — companies actually in operation — can’t get the funding they need to grow." Another point made here is stock buybacks hurt growth

I was playing some Teenage Ninja Turtles and the Hyperstone Heist recently, as one does, and it occured to me that Patriot Front dressing identically makes them look like the generic villains of a 90s beatemup game Crossposted with @openvibe.social

And I'll be cheering them on. Gotta love a claim with a 't' for 'trillion' in the headline.

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Team Belgium’s response to the US after the match.

Belgium’s team celebrated their victory over the US by mocking Trump’s signature double jerk off dance move.

How does this episode not have one million downloads yet

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If Parliament is serious about "protecting girls and women" how about withdrawing that transphobic slop bill and turning its attention to the misogynistic bro culture in #NZPolice that is a real existential threat? #nzpol

A tossup of: Kraftwerk - Autobahn www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOZ... Nena - 99 Luftballons www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5... Plastic Bertrand - Ca plane pour moi www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln31... Righeira - No Tengo Dineiro www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwxI... YMO - Technopolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2lO...

#NZpol He’s an ass about politics on X-Twitter. The message on the billboard is mild by comparison. On X it’s as if he’s trying to talk himself into hate speech, and hard to tell apart from a bot trained to spit out stuff for him. A bit like the US techbros, but a wealthy residential housing bro.

The Green Parrot has never served butter chicken.

As the revelations pile up, the excuses get thinner and thinner. But this is always the story with the extreme right. It's a racket, a deception perpetrated against the public. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Making it easy to check the policy behind any number, for whatever household you model. That was the whole point of YourTax.nz. It doesn’t say ‘low-tax good’ or ‘high-tax bad’. It shows what each party’s policy would do and links the source. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum, you bring the values.

Ukrainians take out oil and military installations. Russians take out homes, apartments, schools and churches. They are not the same.

The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In his inarticulacy, Trump inadvertently reveals how much of reactionary discourse is actually just spoiled toddler bully shit dressed up in verbiage.

The Trump administration asked National Park visitors to report "anti-American" content. Instead, thousands defended Indigenous history, opposed efforts to whitewash the past, and criticized cuts to the National Park Service. A judge has now ordered the historical content restored. Read more: