The Foreign Office have issued official advice for UK citizens who now live in Dubai: "You're on your own you tax-dodging bastards! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

i hope the democrats don’t immediately impeach trump after the midterms. it will be a lot funnier to impeach his cabinet first, so they can see him not giving a shit about them

The most unpopular prime minister since records began stands resolutely behind the unprovoked attack on Iran by the two countries that are actively carrying out a genocide in the Middle East. But please, do elaborate more about "extremism on the Left", Mr Human Rights lawyer KC.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.

Proud to support the Football v Homophobia campaign with our designated match today vs Barnsley #FvH26 #LOFC #OneOrient

I've voted Green at every election where I've had the option, all the way back to the 1980s, though several elections where they weren't on the ballot. I've yet to vote for a winning candidate, but it's beginning to look I might before too long.

Labour losing in Gorton and Denton is the result of their whole election strategy being, pointing to Reform and saying we're not them, while pursuing Reform's policy platform. If you want to say you're the alternative to something, you can't be exactly the same as that thing.

the fact out of touch freaks in the media who actually do not give a fuck about anyone other than their own wanky little Westminster access and speshul treetmunt went SO hard to try and smear the Greens and they still won: EAT SHIT ALL DAY

GNU Rob Grant. 💔

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Maybe the bread and circuses we needed all along was for exactly one rich & powerful epstein class dickhead to get arrested per week

with the arrest of peter mandleson please do remember that these are only, at this stage, allegations, and that the only evidence in the public domain that his is guilty is all those emails that were published that proved he did it

Didnt write that very well but what im saying is that the best chance there is of abolishing the monarchy is letting Keir Starmer try to save it

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

A hard fought away win at long last. The RainbOs members that travelled have given their vote to Kaelan Casey, with Dom Ballard a close second! Well played Kaelan! #lofc #oneorient

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

Oh Polly. "How can anyone choose between Lab & Greens to beat REFUK?" Well, one of those two parties is in government, and actively pandering to REFUK's racist base, so there's that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good to see the principle that no one is above the law is being upheld in the UK, but take note of the fact that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has not been arrested because of the harm he may have done to girls, but because of the harm he may have done to profits

while I wish we too had Consequences For Horrifying Crimes over here, Andrew and Trump are like the two most famous, powerful and well-protected men in that whole file and it’s impossible for this not to change the math completely. other men will be afraid today who weren’t yesterday

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

A crowd, a host, of golden daffodils. In the London Blossom Garden, but still too early for most of the actual blossoms obviously.

If you want to understand why the BBC's stance on trans rights - only platforming cis people (and only those with a sceptical perspective) - is so outrageous imagine if it only platformed men talking about women's rights (and only those with a sceptical perspective).

On my to the supermarket this morning I saw someone who really looked like @eleanormorton.bsky.social. it obviously wasn't her, because this was east London and she's in Edinburgh, but she looked similar enough for me to do a double take.

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Much improved that wasn’t it? A battling point on the road for the O’s. The RainbO’s player of the match is Tyreeq Bakinson. Well played Tyreeq! #lofc #oneorient

Lots of controversy about Hesgeth removing Pentagon funding from the Scouts, but what should be controversial is the fact that they were receiving it in the first place. I'm pretty sure that there's no state funding for Scouts and Guides in Britain, where the movement originated.

I am not normally one to kinkshame, but in this particular case I do not think your kink is OK. Don't insert unexploded bombs into your orifices.

There's an article on the radio at the moment about a "social network" exclusively for AI bots to talk to each other, and I really don't know how to react.

To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote": 1. Things have changed. 2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit) 3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.

I'm sorry this is the funniest thing I've ever read. And riddled with the same classism as the Oxfordians. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/shak...

If Badenoch was smart, she'd put out a statement denying flatly that Braverman had defected. The BBC would then be honour-bound to spend the next 24 hours reporting that "competing narratives exist".

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Every person who goes into the streets to observe or respond to ICE knows, in some part of their brain, there’s a likelihood that they’ll be killed by masked federal paramilitaries. And yet they do it anyway. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking or heartrending when a good neighbor is martyred.

Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.

We could do with this kind of thing from a lot more politicians.

Dudes would rather pretend to have mass hallucinations rather than admit they saw some Borrowers.

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Sorry Glasgow, but that's bollocks.