I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Whoa

Home from Mad Adventure, cup of camomile, Far from the Maddening Crowd on the blower This, here This, *right* here

Ah, the joy of being the last man standing straight man to an hour's long outrageous cacohony of whimsical train carriage bullshit

Alright, everything is organised and in readiness for birthday chicanery tomorrow. Excitement is starting to set in now. Eeeeeeeee.

Me: It's only insanity if it comes from the In-Seine region of France. Otherwise, it's sparkling eccentricity. Client: I'm stealing that. *immediately writes down*

This is the worst thing I have ever seen. And I saw Craig Charles's Funky Bunker.

Sums up this most dismal moment.

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Finally blocking the scene in Rock of Ages where I get to sing and dance in a strip club to Def Leppard's "Pour some sugar on me". Needless to say I am having *tremendous* fun.

Oh, to be picked up by the Doctor To go back to the London Trocadero in the mid 90s, and do ALL of the things

Oh. I like how he notes that denying a partner basic needs is toxic, and we tell the abused person to leave, but we also tell people to stay in the same dynamic with the US because sacrifice is "patriotic"

Spinach can send emails 🥦📧

Blocking and choreographing the lapdancing scene from RoA tonight. The urge I had to do ridiculous things with my eyebrows when facing upstage was very real, and must be kept under control at all times.

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back. I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise. It could be true, we just don’t know. That’s how this works, right?

THIS IS FUCKING *EXCEPTIONAL* AND DESERVING OF SUPPORT #KnightsOfGuinevere

This is the most "fuckin NO YOU DON'T" error message I have ever seen.

Whenever you legislate for more powers, you shouldn’t think about what your government would do with them, but what a future bad (evil or incompetent - or both!) government might do with them.

just realized this looks like a fucking smash bros reveal

Everybody: please do not the hat Me:

Tremendously funny adventure game series about a dog in a suit and a violent hyperenergetic rabbit who solve crime for shits and giggles. If you haven't already, get in on this.

I am finding glitter from the weekend in my work shoes. I am finding glitter from the weekend everywhere. IT NEVER *ENDS*

Right. Annual CPD done, charity 5km run, all birthday arrangements made, work goals for next quarter agreed. Stuff's getting done. Breathe.

"It's like if Beige was addictive." #OutOfContextAMTC

Glitter and jackets. There's a Look here, I reckon.

Fascism is bad for business.

Well this is horrifying.

Can’t believe we’re gonna live through that moment in the V for Vendetta movie where Stephen Fry gets executed for doing a really bad Benny Hill sketch

I keep hearing this "student politics" line being trotted out, first by Starmer and now by Mordaunt. It feels like shorthand for "uncomfortable truths that should be ignored for civility's sake while those without the same privileges suffer". Frankly, we could do with more of it.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

Jerry from Ben & Jerry's has resigned after 47 years after Unilever silenced their politcal activism.

Six years difference between these pictures, to the day. Crazy to think what's happened in that time: good, sad and slightly unbelievable. But I'm still hanging in there, and I like to think only getting better with age.

Busting out an old look for a photoshoot I was involved in this morning. #VivaEastbourne

"I asked ChatGPT-" Yeah, well, I asked the Oracle of Delphi and the Pythia, she of the words of the great deity Apollo, said that you were a *prick*.

"Hurty music"

Me: "You can't have a subpoena without a sub in front of a penis." Partner: *face speedruns the Five Stages of Grief*

Spa and stayover in the New Forest today. I think this will sort me out *very* nicely.

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested. Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested. The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

Bookings made for birthday chicanery. Eeee, am excite. *bounce bounce bounce*

Thread.

Help, I've wound up in the Weird Bit of Youtube and am currently learning about a flash-in-the-pan 80's comedian who people today are convinced is actually a demon or a creation of AI or something. #Spook #Slither

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Every clip I see of Zack Polanski makes me like the man more and more. The furious backlash from the establishment press convinces me he has all the right people rattled. It's so refreshing to see a prominent left-leaning figure come out all guns blazing. More of this, please.

Fuck ASDA Price.

I'm getting violently menaced by dancy chairs. Oh, Musical Theatre.

just outright smacking the sign