"City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman has been arrested for displaying a placard in support of proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000." Read her sign again:

BBC News - Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual assault offences

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

This slightly reminds me of this other story: woman has a heart attack on a plane, cabin crew ask if there's a doctor on board, 15 cardiologists on their way to a conference all put their hands up. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this...

My uni job was a theatre usher. Absolute best time for someone to have a medical emergency was opening night of the opera. Had to crowd control the various doctors rappelling from the balcony.

Such a grim indictment of our times that the police have to state explicitly that the husband charged in this horrific crime is "white British" so the racists don't exploit it

Heated Rivalry can be unexpectedly touching and sweet (in between all the riding)

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

@pantibliss.bsky.social icymi. Can you give a re-skeet. www.facebook.com/reel/4461927...

Just listened to this piece on RTE Radio 1. The sting in the tail, as ever, is she's a Tr*mp supporter who didn't expect that dealing with the immigrants would mean her: "unreal that someone can be treated like vermin for a petty crime that was committed ten years ago". www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head. That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

it’s 2045. the people take to the streets as Barron Trump’s grip on power begins to slip following his refusal to release the Mr. Beast files.

We've done some boxing by mistake

The US isn't a real place, it's just a story that parents tell kids to scare them "If you don't stop fighting I'm going to stop the car and send you to America!"

If I know my conspiracy theorists, this will be the last we hear about the so-called "Epstein Files"

Finished watching both seasons of Wolf Hall last night (so good) but this morning I'm thinking about the fact that Charles and Diana looked at their little ginger baby boy and thought, "Let's call him after a brutal vain violent megalomaniac!"

I suspect this isn't real (if for no other reason than Cher has dyslexia and like a true Queen she doesn't give a crap what anyone thinks and she just types out her thoughts and rarely gets them "corrected") but that don't mean it ain't correct! 🙌

The problem with this is that in my unfortunate experience there are occasionally people (some bad, some just unwell) for whom "respect" simply means "never ever disagree with me" no matter how badly they behave or how unmoored from reality they become - and they are *impossible* to deal with!

every tech guy with an AI “girlfriend”

I didn't realise they were already physically adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Centre facade. Ugh. I thought it was more of an "on paper" kinda thing just to annoy people

Believing "large parts of Ireland" is "following the same path" is what happens when you follow those plastic patriot accounts on twitter who thought a rapist ex-fighter was going to top the presidential poll

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

I was aware that Walliams had become a successful children's author, but until just now I had no idea quite *how* successful he'd been. And I guess that kind of money helps keep things quiet - until it doesn't. I expect there'll be many more revelations now

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

So behind all the Walliams smoke of the last number of years, there really was a huge fire

Same goes for all those stupid AI videos of little old ladies in the street saying "fuck" or "cunt" or whatever 🙄

Didn't watch this clip at first thinking "nothing new I'm sure" and having watched it now, in a way, no, nothing new. But it's also so clearly naked fascism - it could have come straight from one of Hitler's anti-Jewish diatribes - that it's shocking. And maybe we do have to bear witness to evil

Ugh. And I like Manhattan peanuts! Well, it's the cheese n onion crisps I really love but I assume they all come from the same site. The crisps though... 🤤 *so* heavily flavoured with what taste like industrial chemicals, but somehow... really delicious industrial chemicals

Hahaha! I mean, I have to laugh because it's my own stupid fault for letting the pantibar.com domain lapse some years ago. But it's also just odd that someone else, who presumably knows about Pantibar, would take it - and not for the purposes of trying to get money out of me!

For some in Dublin, Christmas dinner still has to mean carp. “When you read the Bible, Jesus wasn’t eating chorizo, or goulash. He was eating fish,” says Rastislav Blazek.

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

My mother is going to be thrilled!

On the left, this week at Bondi, refugee faces deportation after tackling the gunman and getting shot by police for his efforts On the right, at Bondi last April, French guy given residency

"Weirdo makes robot who ends up hating him" is one of my favourite sci fi tropes.

Imagine writing a joke so perfect that years later all someone has to do is post your picture in quote-reply and everyone (of a certain age and TV audience) nods knowingly and smiles

Germany approves $3.1bn Israel arms deal - www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany...

Tom Holland is in S1 of Wolf Hall, but by the time they got round to making S2 he was replaced with a different actor cos in the meantime he'd become Spider-Man. But I think they missed a very fun crossover possibility where Anne of Cleves or Sir Thomas More are getting webbed in Windsor Castle

Myself and others are dealing with something very sad and difficult at the moment and I was taking refuge in easy TV. Watched Aladdin with my sister last week. But turns out Wolf Hall is perfect! Takes you out of this world entirely, and makes you glad that at least you won't be burned at the stake!

funny new euphemism just dropped bsky.app/profile/sbag...

Bilbao is smaller than Dublin

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

At first glance i thought Dolly Parton had @pantibliss.bsky.social around for tea and a festive catchup and I didn't really question it.

Trump has just added this vindictive plaque below Obama’s White House portrait and it bears all the childish pettiness and chaotic capitalisation of his 4am Truth Social rants.

I see the whole "united left" thing is dead already, over a very thorny complex issue that really divides the nation... *holds ear piece* ... eh... sorry, no, I'm being told that it's actually over the incredibly niche interest of killing animals for sport

At this point the judge just be all like: Aw! How can I stay mad at you?!