Jeeez at last, VvD!! #LFC

Congratulations to 1 million mention Epstein Don and his Black lung award!

The skier’s name? Wilhelm Scream.

Such an incredible song. I mean find me another feel good track where a fella is celebrating his girlfriend coming home from prison.

It's like they watched The Simpsons and thought the Mr Burns episodes were policy initiatives.

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot. I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

This is wonderful

Proof that when politicians are really good at their job, they’re liked.

The answer to this is that if we do not repeatedly reinforce the taboo against this stuff and explain why it is wrong it gets worse. “Just call it names” does not work. We’ve seen the failure of that over the past 18 months.

Zack Polanski explains the reason why he didn't stand in Gorton and Denton is because while he grew up nearby, he's lived in London for the past 20 years Hannah Spencer makes sense for The Green Party in the by-election 👍

Pippa Crerar, "Voting intention in Westminster for the youth age group" "Zack Polanski's Green Party is in the lead amongst 16-25 year olds with 34%

Pippa Crerar, "Would you write off university fees?" Zack Polanksi, "We need to look at abolishing tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants" "We need a conversation about debt forgiveness"

Poor Utd fans suffering the Glazers for so long then getting Jim Ratcliffe added to the mix too. Genuinely feel sorry for them.

Pippa Crerar, "83% of 16-25 year olds want to rejoin the European Union" David Davis, "They've got it wrong" Pippa Crerar, "Don't you think that at some point in the future they'll undo your Brexit?" David Davis, "Well its possible.. I don't think so"

Robert Peston, "Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour" "Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" "Whether its economically, socially, culturally"

Beginning to think they should call them the Trump Files. Good job Mandelson’s not in it that much or it would be the Peter Files, all on PDF files.

Great that people are noting Epstein’s role as a classic ‘disaster capitalist’ along with Paul Marshall and Crispin Odey. I wrote a week ago how he told Bannon “Brexit is just the beginning” bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

Hope he gets caught between the moon and New York City. I know it’s crazy, but it’s true.

Elon would rather go to Mars or the Moon than accept that he has the resources to actually make Earth a better place for everyone to live.

Girl in Black, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25077

Bridget Phillipson, "Keir Starmer is doing a great job" "He was elected 18 months ago to deliver change" "That's exactly what we're going to keep on doing" Except, appeasing Farage and Trump, and 14 u-turns wasn't the change people wanted...

Labour's Samantha Niblett, "I think the party coming together is going to change" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "But the Labour party is not together, this is a fantasy" Samantha Niblett, "Well, no it's not a fantasy" KGM, "It is, because they're all telling us privately what they really think"

Asked my 9yo son why he was lying on his bed clutching his chest after I’d asked him to get ready for bed. ‘I’m having a mid-life crisis.’ ‘I see. And why are you clutching your chest?’ ‘I’m having a heart attack.’ I really don’t get where he learns about all this.

Diane Abbott, "I can't see Keir Starmer lasting beyond the May election" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Why wait till May?" Diane Abbott, "Because they will be catastrophic, and they want him to stay to take responsibility"

Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh (Bildnis Paris von Gütersloh) from The Graphic Work of Egon Schiele (Das Graphische Werk von Egon Schiele), (1918, published 1922) https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/1145492

really enjoy being a foreigner living in Britain because like once a week the rest of the internet will make fun of the Brits for something and each time I get to choose between "hey buddy, watch out! that's my pals you're talking about!!" and "[whispering] oh thank god someone else has noticed"

Car crash interview with Emma Reynolds making excuses for Keir Starmer appointing Peter Mandelson despite knowing he stayed at Epstein apartment

Paul McNamara, "Loyalists say Keir Starmer has done a reset and will change" #C4News "Those on the left are saying, no, we have a care taker prime minister now. We're not going to remove him right now. Come May, come local elections, that's when we're going to strike"

Rep. Raskin, "The Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode" "There's no way you run an intl child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell"

Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? Watch The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

Post a banger not in English. (If you’ve never seen this before then prepare to have your mind blown) youtu.be/unYu22Ign1E?...

John Williams is 94. Seen here with a fan who rushed the stage during a mini-concert in Orlando.

tomorrow's the second Outsiders Arts Club so we're just putting the finishing touches together and reminiscing about how well the first even went, aside from the fact that we hung not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six of our abstract pieces the wrong way up on the night lmao

When the ket hits

Students used to ask why I showed them silent movies from 1896 onwards. I explained that they were still a part of modern cinema with Scorsese homaging Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) in Goodfellas, a film which had many references to the western genre.

No. 10 communications were being directed!?

But he himself was new

It’s not a perfect movie but the final train scene from The Lone Ranger is brilliant. Verbinski pays loving homage to Buster Keaton movies. The scene starts at 4.03 but the overall scene analysis is fun too. youtu.be/_zYs38UTolI?...

Reclining Woman with Raised Skirt, 1918 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/122717

Just discovered Scamfluencers, which mixes chat with doc-style storytelling. The Hitler Diaries episode is fascinating. The show's macro narrative seems to be that safeguards exist but people get so bewitched by certain people and ideas that they lose their minds open.spotify.com/episode/0TLi...

Approval of 5 parties sums to 145% - so median voter likes one and a half and v broad majority choose at least one. (It would be v interesting to know how many people say zero, one or two) Partisanship as identity is lightly held & fluid/volatile: negative partisanship drives approval too

This is a breaking news story.

In bed thinking about what would really make me happy… I’m going to need some privacy.

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

CHRIST!

Quite certain that Trump’s petulant reaction to Bad Bunny's Superbowl Halftime Show had everything to do with the dancing and nothing anything to do with it being sung in Spanish, and ending with the slogans: "Together, we are America” And “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

slept quite amazingly badly and just got teary at Bad Bunny's halftime show so that's an interesting start to the week

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s