Cracking first episode (I'm going to try to watch it in real time and hope nobody blabs).

It's the time of year for the car renewal dance. Emails starting to come in, existing insurer quoting 51% increase. Ah, no.

Why are ratepayers footing the bill for this and the hospitality industry (who stand to gain most) not contributing in any way?

This sounds amazing, and absolutely necessary. Imagine the same idea rolled out to schools as a preventative too.

The US is fucked #103825.

I mean, where do you even start with this? The organisers deliberately inciting the US crowd. What the fuck is wrong with Americans?

What it is about US golf fans that makes them think shouting insults mid shot is acceptable? Some of them need a putter through the head.

This might put a dampener on some plans today.

Fuck sake.

If you want to see some real mental gymnastics she should ask the "protecting our women and children" crowd.

Had lots of work done on the car today (service, timing belt, MOT check, tyres) and am lighter by £800. Needs another £500 spent on discs, pads, CV joint and front subframe.

You've basically just a 1% chance of being fined as a polluter, which is not a deterrent in any sense.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

The french don't F about.

Just skin up and chill, FFS.

Yet another member of the "legitimate concerns" brigade revealed to be a violent thug that the PSNI mysteriously haven't arrested yet despite publicly issuing a threat of harm against victims involved in an ongoing criminal trial

Saw this (left) in my browser's news feed and thought finally a mainstream media provider had the balls to accurately portray this story. Clicked through to the website (right) and...they bottled it.

Ah, there it is.

What time is the rapture happening today? I'd invited my daughter for dinner but am wondering if I should bring it forward?

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

If followers of the Orange Shitler want to avoid paracetamol I for one am not going to stand in the way of them voluntarily putting themselves in more pain.

Has anyone any experience of this provider? I'm heading to a country next month where my mobile provider has no roaming agreement. The idea is to perhaps use something like this eSIM (which is data only).

The whole Tom Cruise Mission Impossible franchise annoys me. Nothing like the original TV series. Just Tom Cruise improbably surviving 100 to 1 risks over and over again while saying trust me all the time. I wouldn't trust him, he's a bloody head case.

With the UK government expected to imminently recognise Palestine as an independent state, our poll finds the public tends to back such a move by 44% to 18% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

There should be a workplace rule that no one can send you internal emails before lunchtime on a Monday.

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever

Excellent idea, now do it.

Long overdue but at least he's followed through. The more G20 countries do this the better.

Conor McGregor’s Irish presidential campaign was brief and humiliating: defector.com/conor-mcgreg...

Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates that his AI smart glasses suck and don't work: defector.com/mark-zuckerb...

Belfast City Council has agreed to partly fund a 2 year trail of a weekend night bus services beginning in November. This will hugely benefit the night time economy and help people get out of the City Centre late at night. Delighted this is finally happening.

I hope you're having a better Friday than this commenter on a local news story this morning.

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022: "When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

Jezza duzza runna.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Several of the anti-immigrant groups posted a very fuzzy photo of a man on a Metro bus yesterday holding a wrapped knife. The bus driver didn't report it to police, nor any of the passengers. It looks like someone bought a knife or tool and got the bus home while being brown. Wise up folks.

🚫An update, four months on: Liz Kimmins has now announced "an experimental scheme to pedestrianise Hill Street" - which will not start for another two months. This is how Stormont struggles to put in a few bollards on a tiny street, yet these people want control of income tax...

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

Adding a new meaning to the term dog-lover.

Wish I had the confidence of these guys, the ability to ignore autocorrect twice in a 4 word sentence.

Reassuring.

Truth v The Truth on C4 right now is a better watch than I thought it would be, clips of whoppers followed by sourced fact checks.

I've got slightly hooked on videos on an Instagram account called tidmouth heritage, of Fred Dibnah erecting the ladders he'd use to climb the chimneys.

Someone needs to put a new light-bulb in Melania.

The Led By Donkeys arrests were apparently for malicious communications. How come Musk isn't subject to an arrest warrant for his call to overthrow the government and give non-violent people to become anarchists?

Trump's state visit is off to a great start.

Well said Adam.

Trump's state visit begins as Epstein images beamed on to Windsor Castle