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Cohen said: “The itinerary was looking pretty full, to be fair. I’d have had to hang around the venue until about 11pm, which is usually the time I become a depleted husk of a woman. So this has worked out perfectly.”

I just do not know how to tolerate the expectations around Christmas anymore. So overwhelmed; feel like a toddler (negative).

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I mean for starters, sell the weird extra chairs you’ve got going on in this picture?

If you own a property worth over £2m and having to pay an extra £2.5k-£7.5k in tax a year has "ruined your retirement" you must be really really shit with money

Hope reform party will bankrupt itself bailing out these unauthorised erections

wtf space and solar flares and planes this is WILD

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Bang on, @bjennings90.bsky.social

Leeds — Peter Mitchell, 1980s

Oh thank goodness Firefox updated the app and undid all the things they broke

Research shows unequivocally what the benefit limit means: kids go without food, clothes, and heating. You can think it’s unfair some parents get cash you don’t or made poor choices you didn’t. But if you think that resentment is more important than a child, I’d suggest you might reflect on that.

The two child limit is and will stay popular with the public. It jars a sense of “fairness”: if I have to assess my finances before having kids, why shouldn’t you? But people get sick, sacked, and contraception fails. Crucially, fairness isn’t always what matters. Whether a child goes hungry does.

How much are we betting that Russia and Germany stereotyped werr in breach of some kind of policy, and so they just retuned the country name instead? (Can’t fathom Lithuania for this, though).

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins. It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?

"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK" *clears throat* I HAVE OPINIONS metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

COP30 in Brazil was billed as the “implementation summit”, when hot air turned to action. But Edelman, the PR firm that won the contract to promote the climate summit, was pulling in two directions. 🧵1/2

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Earlier in the year I got our little mezzanine painted an orangey-yellow, and now on the mornings it glows like this and makes me happy.

Shame on her!!!!

I often talk about “stitching” so I thought you might like to see one of my pieces. I am fascinated by moss, lichen and fungi so try to interpret what I see with stitches and beads. #fiberart #embroidery

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

Yes please

A delightful project www.mappingthegayguides.org

I mean, I understand wanting a computer to help me with parties (hi, I’m autistic) but I want one to help me fit in and be liked, not come up with ways to demean someone’s appearance?!??

[tw: DV, financial abuse] due to a series of incredibly shitty situations as detailed in the GFM, my friend needs some help raising funds the most pressing issue is becoming a british citizen bc of the rising wave of fascism, costing £1785 please donate if you can afford, & share! #MutualAid

was already feeling insane from the Trump/Mamdani meeting but I now worry that my brain chemistry will simply never be the same

I need someone who doesn’t have raging executive dysfunction to come cancel all my problematic subscriptions, turn off AI mining everywhere & generally help meeeee 😭

What solid feminism from the terfs! What an outcome! This will dismantle the grip patriarchy holds on us - more judgement of women’s bodies!

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

It’s hard to read this stuff from doctors without cringing at how wildly out of touch it sounds (and how little self-awareness). £100k+ income is, to most of the public, beyond our dreams. Entitlement and class privilege is not the best way to win people over to your cause!

it‘s an aside, but wtf - women in US are about 8 times more likely to be killed tbh their partner than in the UK (men are 17times more likely, but from much lower base line). The US is bonkers dangerous!!

Wouldn’t it be great if all this dithering from Labour on the budget was a deliberate distraction, and then BOOM, they will do a wealth tax that is so large it will create a national sovereignty fund that will be used to build social housing and hospitals 😍.

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.

Decided to just go for it and attempt to fix a rotten corner on the sash window frame. Anyway, now there’s a tiny hole to the outside which I’m sure is fine.

I connected a WiFi enabled solenoid valve to a hose and set up a script on my phone so when the camera detected a squirrel it got blasted with the hose briefly. It was very effective.

To everyone in the replies: tell me you’re autistic without saying you’re autistic.

Sometimes I forget that on day 1 of being prime minister, Starmer had the power to say “that genocide that Israel is doing? We are no longer going to be providing weapons/military support.” Shame that didn’t happen, eh?

I have seen a lot of 'dont comment on women's bodies' etc posts about the Wicked press & i generally agree but the normalisation and celebration of ever-shrinking forms is being blasted into the retinas of thousands of young girls across the world & that is also bad

A true statesman.

We’ve been migrating for millennia; we will keep migrating. It is human nature.