I'll say it again - if you're apologising for the way you said something, you're not apologising for the sentiments behind those words. So he's still a bigot, he's just one with a poor vocabulary.

Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Yeah, that'll show him.

I've never been US President so I can't pretend to know what the job involves, but if I spent most of my time trying (unsuccessfully) to convince dozens of judges that what I was doing wasn't illegal, I'd assume I wasn't doing it very well.

Part of me thinks these pin-eyed soulless husks should be forced to carry out their racism/greed based tantrums. "Okay, maybe I won't move my business, but..." "Nope, you have thirty days. Get out. Oh, it'll cost you millions? Tough."

As a person who sometimes has The Bad Thoughts, reading that story about ChatGPT's involvement in somebody ending their life makes me incandescent with rage. A trillion dollars invested in a Mechanical Turk that supplies the razors. May their creators never know a moment's peace.

"I'm used to being able to speak to people in power whenever I want and getting them to do whatever I want because I'm rich and the very first time that doesn't work I'm going to have the biggest tantrum you've ever seen in your life."

"Once Willow can go outside she won't zoom around the house like an idiot", they said.

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(Trump in a press conference reaches into the back of his trousers, pulls out a handful of his own dung & holds it up to the camera) "I did a bad boo-boo again" (Mainstream Press) "Trump Offers Unorthodox Alternative To Bowel Movements - Do The Democrats Have An Answer?"

You're definitely not doing anything wrong if the only thing stopping you going to jail is the fact your friends are in charge.

The second the cello starts...

I don't watch Traitors but I'm pleased that people are getting to know what a nice bloke Joe Marler is via the show. I did his podcast to publicise my first book and it was one of the most enjoyable interviews I did for it.

I'm not saying that people who are severely neurologically-challenged deal with crisis situations by going into shutdown mode where they do nothing at all. I'm also not *not* saying that.

In Love Actually, it says that no one on the planes on 9/11 sent messages of hate only messages of love, but I like to think at least one person phoned and told their boss to blow a goat.

"We left it open-ended who the bad guys actually were and what the outcome of the plot was so it could start a discussion with the audience." Okay, I'll open the discussion with 'Films that just wasted two hours of my life'.

Your nan trying to tell you she saw somebody in Asda who looks like somebody off EastEnders who turns out to be somebody off Coronation Street and she doesn't look like her and it was in Tesco.

"South Africa. South America. Mouth Afrimerica. Sour Apricot. All those places."

His assertion that Communism was invented a thousand years ago will grab all the headlines but the best part for me is when he announces (lies about) record investment in the US, it gets a smattering of polite applause from the crowd who know it's a lie and he feels like he has to say "It's good".

"If I told them once, I told them a hundred times..."

Willow is now fully vaccinated and allowed outdoors. She is very happy about this. (Harley is also enjoying the first sunshine we've had in days)

What in the Temu gold stencilling kit is this?

Pure Ian Faith energy here:

Pro-terrorist, is it?

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

This is only true if you're buying alcohol (he's teetotal), cigarettes (he doesn't smoke), weed (he's anti-drugs) or firearms (he's a convicted felon so he can't own one). The only other items that spring to mind are porn and sex toys, which...

I think that with the slightest of cajoling, he could be talked into doing an impression of what he thinks a kamikaze pilot looks like.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Cue a thousand articles with Cargo Cult suggestions that if a particular candidate/party/leader fakes some of the elements that made Mamdani's campaign a success, they will also be a success. Like nailing the branch of a tree to a wall and expecting it to bear fruit.

Mamdani acceptance speech. Impassioned, inclusive & inspiring. He spoke of wresting power from the rich. He spoke in support of trans people & immigrants, he spoke in Urdu & it even had gags. "Politics is no longer something that's done to us, it's something we do" This hope business is heady stuff.

NBC project that California has also told Republicans to shove it up their hoop.

I'm broadly against people posting screenshots of Twitter on here - most people are here because they've had enough of Twitter - but seeing posts from there from the worst people on the planet shitting their pants is top notch entertainment.

Mamdani should turn up for his acceptance speech wearing a hammer & sickle t-shirt just for a laugh.

If they broadcast this on the screens in Times Square it will make New Year's Eve look like a meeting of the Flat Earth society.

Elon Musk! Donald Trump! Fox News! JD Vance! Can you hear me JD Vance? Your boys took one hell of a beating!

People I've never heard of in places I'll never visit are being elected to jobs I don't fully understand to enact policies that don't directly affect me, yet it still makes me happy. Odd how infectious hope can be.

It's worth noting that in a two-horse race, the half-brother of the vice president couldn't manage 20% of the vote.

This is going to get a lot of use in the coming months.

But for a superhuman shift from Courtois, that could've been even worse for Real. And Conor Bradley loves playing against them, doesn't he? #LFC

Aye. #LFC

Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.

A 'pointless franchise' that just three years ago produced 'Prey', a taught, stripped-down, brilliantly tense film that received wide critical praise.

Chonk update: At the weigh-in for her final vaccinations today, Willow has put on an additional 300g in three weeks. I fear for the structural safety of our house if this carries on.

"Onions & mustard? ONIONS & MUSTARD? I put it to you this was no sandwich but a harmless hot dog." "No...it..." "It was a HOT DOG. Isn't that the truth?" "NO. It was dark, I was scared, I couldn't see..." "Couldn't see? So it could've been a hot dog?" "OKAY, I CONFESS. IT (SOB) WAS (SOB) A HOT DOG."

I don't know what 'it' he's referring to but I frequently know more about 'it' than he pretends to do, and it's not literally my job to know what 'it' is.

Trump's rattled.