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It’s a cold and sunny weekend here in Prague so I went for a long walk. Did you know you could surf on the Danube? No, neither did I. And the air temperature is about -8 so I wouldn’t like to guess at the water temperature!

Got to the airport for my early flight to Prague. I really don’t mind T3 - it’s generally a lot quieter than T5 at the best of times. At 5am? It’s dead 😂

Heard the one about the Albanian and the British chicken nuggets? Jesus, I wish this really was the start of a bad joke but no. Our oh so wonderful press is really writing up headlines about this.

I do find it absolutely mind blowing that a govt that is made up of the Labour Party would decide that the Trump approach to unleashing state cruelty on vulnerable people is a great idea. And then they really lean into it and turn it into a video nasty. This is Roman Empire stuff, human suffering

This is all a symptom of having a leader who is bad at politics and is a bad politician. He doesn’t know what he wants to offer to the public and he doesn’t know how to offer it. This is unfortunately why we have a nationalist, populist party polling well.

The SO makes bread every week. This weeks had poppy seeds and sesame seeds in it. Very good.

Two cocktails. A classic bone dry martini (cloudy because the gin came out of the freezer and the ice was getting a bit wet) and a Manhattan Island.

The comments on this are deeply depressing. FAFO is really great if you are a smug white middleclass person. What it reveals you to be is a heartless cunt with zero empathy, so that most dangerous of all things; a liberal.

Time to have a wander around art for a couple of hours (and admire the very tall, very blond, very well put together young man who is also here to look at the art)

Cats and boxes. An irresistible force.

Do have a read of this thread. I don’t agree with the idea that this is linked to enabling genocide in the US but aside from that I don’t disagree with the risks highlighted. My personal fear is that this enables the Executive to reintroduce state murder as entertainment.

Don’t look up people who have been abused and are victims. This isn’t difficult.

Unfortunately this is reliant on Streeting being a decent human being and he’s a politician and by default not.

A pre-gym and post workout photo…these white lycra are fun…😈

Of course Trump wants to build a beachside holiday complex in Gaza. This is just the continuation of the genocidal actions that Biden (and Harris) supported. The US doesn’t care about Gaza or the Palestinian people. What it cares about is the development potential for this, Greater Israel and

Tonight’s food came out extremely well - pizza! Three cheeses (vegan cheese is improving, honest!), chilies, peppers, artichokes, capers and olives.

Ah liberals. Always ready to wrap the white nationalists in a warm and loving embrace.

The SO has been busy sowing seeds today. These are a mix of broad beans, mizuna, broccolini, lettuce, peppers, cucumbers, aubergines and broad beans.

Streeting is one of the people in politics I absolutely hate. There is nothing redeeming about this slimy, self-important traitor. Why traitor? He worked for Stonewall. He knows the violence that is directed towards trans people of all ages and very specifically young trans people.

This is an astonishing take from a person that was absolutely complicit in the rise of the techno fascists. Swisher built an entire goddam career out of being a ‘friend of Mark’ and the rest of them.

So what are you *actually* going to do to resist the seizure of this ‘critical agency’? Just talk? Go grab some of those guns from your home armouries and defend the building and the people inside from being pillaged? We know the answer. You’ll be walked all over and do nothing.

Musk grabbing hold (physically) of the levers and mechanisms by which money flows around the US (and outside) is one of the most terrifying acts of this fascist regime. The grenade throwers and flame torch wielders have won…and they didn’t even need Matt Gaetz in the end to torch the federal govt.

bring back the high cut

I’m currently reading this www.plutobooks.com/978074534581... I’m not an anarchist. This reinforces this but it is a fascinating book and I thoroughly recommend it.

It’s always disturbing to hear just how keen adults are to beat up kids and find really bizarre ways to justify their unhealthy obsession.

This EO was issued three days ago. The entire thing is here www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... I have gone back repeatedly to it and this is the section I keep going back to. This states plainly and clearly that in the eyes of the Trump regime, trans people are neither honourable or truthful.

Sometimes the SO takes an artistic photo of me. Sometimes.

How much more damage will Bezos through his puppet Lewis do to the WashPo newsroom in vengeance if they are successful?

Gosh. We were all young once.

One of the things that makes me giggle when I am in the Czech Republic are the differences between there and the UK. For example rail safety approaches. Yes, that is an exit to the station across the line and yes, that is an opening that takes you to live lines at the main station in Prague 😁

I’ve been partnered up to this human for 25 years. I’m amazed we are both still alive but ❤️❤️❤️

We’ve started doing the London loop walk. Today was stage 2. This was one of the prettiest points - the Five Arch Bridge that goes over the River Cray and holds the water back to create a lake

The nectarine is in blossom ❤️

In Louisiana, a unique and lucrative arrangement means that local jails house most of the state's incarcerated population. These lockups are now likely to grow further, filling sheriffs' coffers, following the passage of punitive new bills.

is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

Unusually draconian laws have made Pennsylvania home to near-record numbers of people sentenced to die in prison: The state has the nation’s second-highest number of people serving life without parole. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

It needs potato

Former Jacksonville Public Defender Matt Shirk disbarred This article is...no, he is...insane.

they let me call John Fetterman a jagoff www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It is. It is a damn long read. Savour it. The author doesn’t take a stilletto to the anti-trans coverage of legacy media - this is a don your Doc Martens, grab your baseball bat and kick the shit out of them - but do them as stylistically as in a modern James Bond movie or in a Beyonce visual album

We have a leak. Obviously this means that she’s found a new comfortable cat spot!

Massacre. Genocide. Holocaust? Netanyahu is a corrupt leader of an illegitimate ‘war government’ and should be deposed if he is unwilling to step down. The West does like regime change. This is an appropriate time to lean into it.

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com