put up the licence fee QR code now, you cowards

The explosive diarrhea outbreak began here.

Spaghetti hoops are basically Alphabetti Spaghetti for backing singers.

"Ed Davey has called for action to protect UK democracy after it emerged that Elon Musk's family foundation funded Tommy Robinson's trip to Russia, where he used his platform to co-ordinate protests across Britain and praised the country as a "civilised society"." via Truth Against Hate

Released July 1978 If the Kids are United, a single by Sham 69 If the kids are united, Sham 69, Steve Hillage, Reading Festival 1978

Farage wants security that is loyal to him, not the state.

The Wagner group, or what's left of it, is now running an opioid ring in Africa. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Andrey Sokolov, Russian (1931-2007), Illustration for Soviet edition of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1950s

'What I want to do is be successful enough that 2000 AD has the opportunity to make more movies because they were incredible partners and really supportive of what I wanted to do.' - @manmademoon.bsky.social talks to @polygon.com about #ROGUETROOPER www.polygon.com/duncan-jones...

Life in #Wülferhampton👇

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Dancers in the Cambridge Strawberry Fair procession from 2005, oil pastel and colour wash.

My darling but slightly unhinged husband is running 180 miles in 6 days along Offa’s Dyke to raise cash for Sarcoma UK. In a heatwave 🏃☀️ We lost our good friend Phil to Sarcoma and so it means a lot to us. If you can afford a couple of quid, please donate. Thanks ❤️ www.justgiving.com/page/mattw-o...

Experts say Russia's efforts aren't necessarily about making Brits pro-Russian, but "making the UK feel dysfunctional, hypocritical, exhausted, divided": "For Russia, it suffices to identify divisive issues to pour gasoline on, intensify them, and benefit from the resulting chaos"

Portrait of Georges Henri Manuel

"[Putin] will recruit anyone to undermine western democracy from within, whether that is Robinson, the Tates or others involved in more conventional politics. There is a pragmatic reason for the Russians to be making links like this." — Prof Stephan Lewandowsky www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

@chadbourn.bsky.social Sunday morning laughs😆😅🤣😂 bsky.app/profile/spec...

'Quiet Shore' (July 11, 2026) mixed media art by Jin Kobayashi

Few politicians have done more to push the cause of devolution and the spreading of power out of Westminster than Lord Michael Heseltine I spoke to the man dubbed the 'Minister for Merseyside' this week to ask about his views on Andy Burnham's plan to tear up the way Whitehall operates...

I see the commentariat are giving us permission to notice Farage’s obvious dodgy Russian links *now*. How kind. A pity they spent years throwing Carole Cadwalladr under the bus for doing the same. And treating the whole Boris Johnson/Lebedev story as no biggie. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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In 2018 there was a grass fire in Wanstead Flats (100 hectares) that took days for firefighters to put out. In July 2022 we saw the devastating Wennington fire that burned a whole street of 18 homes, in minutes. Listen up - consider the fire fighters facing very extreme risks to keep us safe.

The Establishment is now anyone who reads The Guardian, albeit thinking it isn’t what it was, and is aghast at cuts to the BBC while objecting to the rightward drift of its editorial stance.

Of course

You think you know a channel.

Hungarian bagpiper Antal Sós megyerikum.hu/megyerikumok...

Belted Kingfishers Herman Theodore Bohlman, 1901.

Neil The Seal Killed In Shootout With Authorities https://theonion.com/neil-the-seal-killed-in-shootout-with-authorities/

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

Abandoned rowboat, Giverny. #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbandoned #Scape #ScapeDay

IMPORTANT: An extreme wildfire risk is in place across London this weekend ⤵️ Continue to follow London Fire Brigade advice.

Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️

World Cup Reinvigorates Nation’s Interest In Kicking Things https://theonion.com/world-cup-reinvigorates-nations-interest-in-kicking-things/

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1968) 📷 Dan Poush

by Jason Anderson

#Poetry #Painting #Summer The Morning Tide Was beginning to turn, Reclaiming the soft white sand. - Elfrida 🎨 Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865 - 1925)

Binface should hype up the fact that he's going to take off his bin helmet, but when he does so, it just reveals a slightly smaller bin beneath it.

A Cambridge street scene using watercolour, dip pen and ink with touches of oil pastel.

....now here's Showaddywaddy"

#OnThisDay 1944. World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali–Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.

🧪 Thanks to everyone who’s already subscribed to my new YouTube channel, Unbaffled. Nice to see that the first three films have already been watched by half a million people around the world. Lots more to come.

This has been doing the rounds too

Blah blah blah British values. You know what IS the ultimate British value? Relentlessly taking the piss. And that’s what we’ll all be doing this summer 🇬🇧