My pal @pjrfoto.bsky.social caught me lulling the Downing Street rodents into a false sense of security...

“What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts”

Here's the full video interview with Zelenskyy: www.theguardian.com/world/video/... (2/3)

The stars of Orion's Belt are called Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. From our perspective, we think of them as is in a row. But they have different depths of field - distances from Earth - so someone a long way from here standing at a different point in space would say 'fuck off… that's not a belt'.

A debate is raging in Ireland over the future of Europe’s largest refinery of alumina, the key raw material used to make aluminum. Investigation by OCCRP and partners revealed that the Ireland-based Aughinish Alumina refinery was sending the majority of its exports to Russian smelters.

As the 2026 World Cup Looms, a Shadow Tournament of Cyber Fraud Begins www.occrp.org/en/news/as-t...

Our exclusive interview today in London with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He told me & @pippacrerar.bsky.social that Ukraine's position on the battlefield is the strongest for two-and-a half years and he hoped Reform-run councils would "put up" Ukrainian flags again (1/2) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Pret a Manger, Leigh Delamere Motorway Services (Eastbound), June 2026

Yep. Happened to me too. Priced at 39p.

It must be Friday Stewart Lee: Some of the crosses scribbled on Hegseth's body look dangerously like the ones you're still not allowed to display in Germany. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence

Which books: 1. affected you profoundly? 2. taught you most? 3. do you wish you hadn't read? 4. cheered you up the most? 5. have you re-read the most times? 6. changed your life for the better? 7. do you reference the most? 8. have you quoted the most? 9. do you wish you'd read earlier in life?

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There are 11,000 otters in Britain. 8,000 of them live in Scotland. This one lives mostly in the pub. (the source for some of this information is Richard Osman's House of Games)

Honest book review: Yep, it was good. But rather than me overstating the value of this one largely due to the personal bias of me spending time reading it, out of the 4 million published books in the world, it's likely there are thousands which would be more meaningful to you.

"Wild? We're livid."

#MyFavouriteDailyActivityIs finding humour

Mushroom crop harvested

My dad was SUCH a scatterbrain. (He was a hitman, it was kind of his signature)

Last Week Tonight Yesterday: Here’s last night’s story about New College of Florida, the small liberal arts school that has been taken over by Governor Ron DeSantis. Plus, some quick standup tips for the school’s administrators! We’re helping the only way we know how. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU

Matt Burgess, WIRED: “The aggressive policies by the Trump administration, attacking international law, as well as the EU and democratic principles, has led to several wake-up calls” @marietjeschaake.bsky.social We've now documented around 40 efforts to abandon or replace US technology in Europe

9. Due to excellent posts and humour. Like this one.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

US interference in the World Cup is mounting. Iran squad moved from Tuscon (Arizona) to Mexico in May. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." Along with US entry denial of a Swiss star player (since TACOed), these are indicators of more to come. 1/3

Trump: I call all the shots! Hegseth: I’ll have a slippery nipple

Amalgamating all this week's horoscopes, your bag of parsnips shopping order will be replaced with an owl sex helmet.

Looks like the UK is going for some combination of client-side scanning/similar approach, plus device-level age verification requirements? Cannot see Apple/Google voluntarily implementing what the government wants within the three months that's been asked

Plugged heavily and hilariously in the main running gag on the heavily unadvertised new Mock the Week last night. But then they went and overdid it and showed most of Unacceptable in the first ad break. Coming to TLC Sunday 5th July, 9pm.

On Mock the Week (special summer run on TLC) last night there was an odd secondary running gag about pigeon jizz on statues. Now it all makes sense.

As I've been winding down tour, I've turned down most requests. But when @novaramedia.com asked me to return, I immediately said yes. My first conversation with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social was a favorite. Grateful we had a reunion to reflect on everything a year on. 💗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwK...

George Monbiot: This is not the first extra sweetener the government has given the project. The money it is spending on this short stretch of road could instead be used to transform the entire national transport system for the better, as the figures here show:

In the next Cabinet reshuffle: Peter Thiel appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Stephen Cohen (Palantir) Health Secretary Alex Karp (Palantir) Defence Secretary Joe Lonsdale (Palantir) AI Secretary [newly created position] Nathan Gettings (Palantir) Under-Secretary of Personal Data

Well done, Armenia. Birthplace of my grandfather. The last time I went there 18 years ago, it was firmly under the influence of the Russian mafiya. A new beginning.

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Researchers have traced the signal to a single Russian military satellite, Cosmos 2546, part of Russia's early missile-warning constellation. https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

After Trump got effectively dick punched so hard he had to tantrum out the interview, NBC are to rename the programme "Press the Meat"

Meowie Antoinette

"I would like to thank the Academy, my agent, and Timothy Dalton for demonstrating that one can achieve screen success despite having the acting range of a ham."

Reform Candidate Sh*ts Himself On National TV Rob Kenyon’s Question Time appearance was an absolute abortion but despite that and his sexism, he could still win Makerfield regardless. I explain how and why, while absolutely ripping the piss out of him youtu.be/WAw3V2XZqqk

there’s been a terrible accident down at the blowjob factory

My wife says I’m a sex machine.. She calls me a fucking tool but I know what she means.

"Here is a Cadbury's mini egg... which I shan't be giving you."

Hello? Who is this replying to... ah, yes, no, that's my mate who just changed their profile pic after years using the same one.

Qatar. The hardest country in the world to fly around.

def ieid hdrfcinirfucnonfn - King Charles ordering special gloves online.

The problem with late capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's money

Brand new "special summer run" of Mock The Week on TLC right now. Will be on TLC +1 in an hour.

Or 🪆 nesting planes

Hope this helps 🙂 😂 🐿️

Russian interference in UK politics - European court ruling Sergei Cristo: "This matters because six of the seven judges came from countries where Russian interference has been notably successful" @carolinelucas.bsky.social, @benbradshaw.bsky.social, @alynsmith.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social