This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

This is the future Nigel Farage wants for the U.K.

It’s quite incredible how bad series 1 of Star Trek DS9 is.

I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades. One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Farage has apparently said that immigrants are eating racists. That’s a bit weird, but if Farage said it, it must be true.

ladies if he’s a matador that is a huge red flag

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

I have made an attempt at Chopin's Etude in Eb Minor, Op.10, No.6. A little scrappy in parts, but the best I can do this year... youtu.be/-YiVY-t22gs?...

Recognising Palestine is not a substitute for stopping the genocide. When I was in the West Bank, No Other Land’s Basil Adra told the devastating truth.

Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

I am more and more finding myself writing a reply to someone and then asking “Will this be misinterpreted and cause somebody to yell at me?” and “Am I saying something super interesting here?” Aland then deleting the reply. Social media is becoming less and less worth the effort.

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

Lotto’s stunningly beautiful Crucifixus for 8 voices: youtu.be/OZ9dXLmRlpo?...

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

EUROVISION NEW: President of Spanish broadcaster, RTVE, says it is no longer correct to describe the song contest as apolitical in strong statement. "The current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

So this is batshit crazy.

Whoa.

What an absolutely festering pile of ordure.

I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

Apropos of nothing: If you are in a position of privilege, where there are people without that privilege who are literally dying as a consequence, and you use that privilege to insist that “polite debate” is the only way forward, then you are neither polite nor debating.

“The same people who said X are now saying Y. Hypocrites!” Do you literally mean the same individuals? Or do you mean people who are in the same very broad group of people using a classification that divides the entire population of a country, or possibly the whole world, into two or three groups?

My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!

Do parents want their adult offspring to have their own children out of revenge? Asking for a friend?

Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.

"We're gonna out Reform Reform, but if you don't vote for us you'll get Reform"

I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇

"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

When *anybody* adopts the far right rhetoric, they are no longer centrists; they are far right.

Yvette Cooper seems to be the latest in a long line of people who were (relatively) normal and empathetic until they became the Home Secretary and then went mad. Either that job is bad for people or they discover something as a result of taking the job. Hoping it’s the former.

Some really beautiful incidental music in The Orville, Series 3, Episode 7.

I am so glad that the sensible tactical vote for me at U.K. GeneralElections remains the Lib Dems.

But, sure, it's the people who peacefully protest against killing innocent civilians who are the terrorists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Regarding the Star Trek holodeck: whenever they have some historical period groove, it is *always* one in *our* past. Did nothing interesting happen in the Star Trek universe that the crew might want to mess around in in the 3 odd centuries between now and the then?

My wife broke her arm cycling. She asked me to help her with her markup tonight. I agreed and asked for her guidance. And now I know that the proper word is foundation and not grout.

Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.

I have become somewhat obsessed (again) with Chopins’s Ballade in G Minor. It’s way beyond my technical ability, but the last time I attempted to learn it made me develop a lot of technique, so here we go again, I suppose.

I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.

Counterpoint: Fugues are awesome.

I don’t know who this guy is, but why does he look like he’s just come off the printer and needs to dry a bit?