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Has Neville #Trump declared "peace in our time" yet?

Oh dear Tim Montgomerie on #BBCR4 #wato giving the "bantz" argument about snivelling racist #Farage

We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…

I always thought Dannatt was a wrong un. Now we know he is. I hope BBC News will no longer give him airtime

I heard the #Trump 28 point plan was written in crayon. There's no indication as to whether it was in Trump's crayon or Witkoff's

Some fights are worth the effort

Just had an argument with Gemini AI over who first wrote "No more lonely nights" (Alvin Lee, 1980)

Al Carns (UK Defence Minister): Russia has suffered more casualties in Ukraine than the US did in the entirety of World War Two, and Ukraine has still kept them at bay. And MAGA keep saying the Russians are winning?

Visual Evoked Potential tests next week (electrodes on my scalp) so I need shorter hair. The comments from my wife - how short do you want it *snip* oh not that short *snip* no one will notice *snip* that beanie you wear does look quite nice.

I misspelled Witkoff, but Google AI helped out and told me I might be referring to a Nazi

Who knew that Nazi-saluting Musk would develop a holocaust denying AI bot?

My phone is back from repair - I had got a USB plug jammed in. During that time I used my old phone with my Libre and I've 4 days left so im now going around with two phones. (Newer phone has bigger screen)

You can always tell when #Trump feels threatened by #EpsteinFiles he tries to sell out Ukraine. I hope Europe has the backbone to prevent Ukraine capitulation

Its a pity The Nerve @thenerve.news didn't use a different name because YouTube already has an established account with that name. Even so, this video by @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social is worth a watch youtube.com/watch?v=y5OwzvIOFEM

Reform are saying that the will renegotiate the agreement to leave the EU after we have left the EU. I wonder if they will renegotiate us leaving the Roman Empire too?

The BBC should start its own crypto coin - call it the Cry Baby - and offer to compensate Trump with a trillion Cry Babies.

Maybe this is the time the EU has a binding policy with the UK on asylum?

THEY DID WHAT

The son of a Chinese woman who escaped the Communist takeover in China told me his mother bought gold coins which she sewed into the hems of her dress so the communists could not find them, and used this money to pay their way when they got to England

FFS I get sent a questionnaire by local hospital asking if I have any of a list of conditions. Why don't you already know? and when you ask "do you have X" why are the options only "Yes". If you click that by accident (as in "Do you have Type 2 Diabetes" and I have type 1) you cannot unclick Yes

🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications @eupha.bsky.social

Local GP is offering private appts. There is a conflict of interest since if he reduces the number of NHS consultations he does, and increase waits, that may increase numbers of people wanting to see him privately. But he's an idiot because he is charging £160 per appt a higher rate than specialists

Eduardo Reyes: “The letter from #Trump’s lawyer asserts ‘the #BBC has caused President Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm’, to the tune of $1bn. (To compensate for an election he won? Personally I’d stand firm on that one.)”

I'm pissed off with app developers. I use BIG fonts on my phone because I'm partially sighted. But too often an app cannot handle them and buttons are off screen. So I have to reduce the font just yo press OK and hope I can increase fonts after

I lived in Kudlington in the 90s. It is not remote. It is essentially a detached suburb of Oxford. I am amazed no one noticed. Loads of backhanders?

Gah. ITV News claiming that every person who has CPR survive. Few do. DNR are for those people who decide their last minutes should not be them being pummelled.

The good news is that in 11 days it will be the 25th, and all these Xmas ads will stop. That's right, isn't it?

Well, I am glad I bought some new wellies two weeks ago to replace the old ones with holes in them

Standing on a bus shelter because of the rain. People vaping. To be frank, smoke smells nicer

Oops desktop Chrome has just died, at the very point I was writing a sarcastic comment about the Reform Council on a local forum. Forage is watching me

One odd thing about having poor eyesight is that I've got into the habit when on vacation of photographing the menu outside restaurants so that I can zoom (and read) them on my phone. Remembering what I ate in France on our 2022 trip

Why di journos say "I am not suggesting anything here" and then suggest something scurrilous? Is that a magical phrase that makes judges say "this person is innocent of slander"?

Argh Fucking Jonathan Pie! Why is it I never remember that that unfunny piece of excrement is on R4 on a Thursday evening?

With all these allegations of the BBC splicing together bits of Trumps rambling speeches, perhaps we should have @cassetteboy.bsky.social as the new Director General?

Just goes to show how AI wants to tell us what to think. I went to YouTube to search for NonCensored, @rosieisaholt.bsky.social podcast, and I got Piers Morgan!

Monbiot can be an idiot sometimes. A Tory government would never produce the recent workers rights bill

Whenever I see videos of techbros latest attempt at an android/cyborg I think: this proves they are white supremacists. Why? Well, two legged uprights are a daft idea, but evolution randomness got us here. Rather than designing something better the techbros say "make something that looks like *us*"

Anyone know what is the point of Joshua Rozenberg? He was on BBC R4 Today this morning saying that the BBC will lose the $1bn Trump court case, when EVERY OTHER lawyer says they will win if its in the US.

Be careful what you wish for. The government wants to end the Triple Lock (they are right, it's unfair on young people paying for it) so they are likely to justify abolishing it by paying some "compensation" for women who couldn't be bothered to read the news that their pension rights were changing

Absolutely delightful interview with Joe Marler, this: www.thetimes.com/article/7778...

Also, #Trump does not care about BBC TV, which is not viewed in the US. Its about the BBC News website, which is viewed and trusted by many Americans

Bear in mind that when the Nazis were attacking Britain the BBC were steadfast

FFS Laffer claims that the UK should cut taxes because "everyone over there [the UK] does the lottery". Why does anyone listen to this idiot?

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Oh FFS I do NOT want a chatbot! Sent my phone to Samsung for a warranty repair and to track it I get a chatbot. Look, I have a order number, just use that to send me to a page to say how's things are. Don't bombard me with pointless questions

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

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