UKIP adopting an iron cross is definitely a choice but let's not let it overshadow the fact that the Libertarian party now have an image of a gryphon with a chainsaw

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

This is my favorite seven seconds from "The Death of Stalin." www.youtube.com/watch?v=debp...

It is!

So The Lowdown is pretty great.

The single worst part of being a writer is coming up with titles

Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke

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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

Feels too like there’s a serious danger for Reform in accepting too many Tory defections. Hard to accuse the Conservatives of being the same old faces who screwed everything up in the first place when half of those faces are on your team now.

If you: 1. Need to get guests to studios, and back home after, or 2. Need to get staff safely into work or back home after the tube has stopped running You need to use taxis or private hire. If you do that via contract, it’s cheaper than paying full price each time.

essentially repeating @jamesdaustin.bsky.social's point that people say they want a nice high street and yet aren't using their high street, in order to add: people need to also actively choose to spend more in brick and mortar shops than they would online, even if it feels unfair!

I did the face thing so I can get DMs now. Excited to receive the flood of messages I assume you’ve all been waiting to send

Something wonderfully ironic about this announcement coming from the most terminally online person in Westminster.

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

Oh no that wasn’t the idea www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Cannot recommend this highly enough

(woman who's only read her own Harry Potter books) I'm getting some real Harry Potter vibes from this Iranian political rebellion

If you shoot a woman in the face because her wife implies you're tubby, and then after murdering her call her a fucking bitch, you've dehumanised yourself.

I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.

Path pretty simple from here: -Trump invades Greenland -NATO expels U.S. -Remaining NATO nations declare war on U.S. -Nuclear standoff -Frank Sinatra returns from the grave and tells Trump to "knock it off" -Zombie Frank Sinatra greeted as liberator -President Sinatra -New golden age of martinis

It's as clear as day watching the video filmed by the Ice officer who shot Renée Good, that he killed her in rage after feeling mocked by her partner. That's what this USA administration has enabled & defending. Also the the implicit message is: if you fancy doing a murder with impunity, join Ice.

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

For a script, looking for any good articles about people in their 30s and their relationship to art (like paintings hanging in a gallery type of art)

Win elections with this one weird trick: Govern well.

So here's my unsolicited, probably ill thought-out AI musing: Generative AI was a tool invented out of unnecessity, a classic could/should Goldblum scenario. It's the Jurassic Park of computing. A solution in need of a problem.

For a script, looking for any good articles about people in their 30s and their relationship to art (like paintings hanging in a gallery type of art)

Final Best of 2025 for RHLSTP today. Loads of funny clips. Share this with a newbie and help keep my podcast's head above water in an increasingly competitive medium! shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... Lots of live shows coming up - some great guests already announced richardherring.com/rhlstp

Doing my head in that the people who were against big government interference in people’s lives, and tyranny, and authoritarianism, have just embraced all those things

two posts on here sort of combined for me for a second and i just... i just really, really want Werner Herzog to be on Taskmaster

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

silly me

Back in the present, I still have the instinctive urge to preface what I’m about to write with something along the lines of “obviously this is not the 1930s”. That, though, is getting harder to say with any conviction with every month that goes by....

Not to dunk on this particular MP, but *come on*.

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you.

This is AFTER the murder earlier in the day. They followed up a cold-blooded murder with a literal attack on a high school

THIS IS A SCHOOL, WHY ARE THEY SHOOTING

Only watch if you feel comfortable doing so. But, this clearly shows exactly what happened

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

the administration is lying www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Takahashi Hiroaki (Japanese, 1871–1945) "Mount Fuji from Lake Yamanaka", 1936. Woodblock Print, 29.7 × 42 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt