You have voters screaming - we want leaders who actually are for working people & will tell billionaires to fuck off & pass policies to raise wages, fortify unions, improve care, etc. But consultants saying - just shit talk immigrants & trans folks. Guess which answer centre-left parties favour?

Monday

Ouch!

Have some slightly wobbly model railway action. It is an afternoon in South East Scotland in the late fifties/ early sixties.

Members of racial groups aren't responsible for the appalling behaviour of their "leaders". And it's not the responsibility of every random Jewish person to disavow them. Racial and religious groups are not homogenous. This is antisemitic.

It…was not a gathering in good faith then.

Reform send Richard Tice, not Farage, who is cheered by some attendees. Badenoch well received. Govt minister Pat McFadden barracked after PM did not attend. LibDem leader Ed Davey was also booed, as were the progressive Judaism speakers at the antisemitism rally www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

How did we get to the position that people like this aren’t afraid to express this kind of thing out loud? They should be afraid to once again.

I guarantee that if any other party behaved like RefUK, the challenge at every interview would be: "Are you saying it's in the bag?/Is it arrogant to take voters for granted?/Aren't you a bit too cocky 3yrs from an elex?" But the possibility of a Farage gov't just THRILLS them! IMAGINE THE SCOOPS!

They’ve invited Farage but Polanski “hasn’t done enough”? Doesn’t feel like a gathering in good faith.

Orphaned hippo Bumpy just can't get enough of his keepers, following them everywhere and making sure he's always got one to nap on.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Hopefully he’ll end up in a basement in Yekaterinburg soon.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

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“Guns aren’t a problem, it’s mental health issues!”

That's the face of an Israeli Arab lawyer after a police raid. The reason is in the fourth paragraph: "The raid was launched following a noise complaint filed by one of the officers involved, who lives nearby." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Ford shook his head.

[Britain looking at the US and feeling stereotypically superior about themselves] those idiots thank god we’re sensible in the UK. [votes Reform]

Perhaps a ray of hope is that this will allow Reform to fuck up in a limited capacity ahead of an election and hopefully open some eyes? I know it’s a pretty desperate hope.

This. There has to be a positive vision.

Ozzy on the windowsill

In the original, the wicker man wore underpants, but the remake had a knickerless cage

“Things can’t get any worse” is one of the dumbest phrases going around on FB posts. We are so profoundly far from a bottom floor for how bad things can get in the UK: and that should be obvious to even a half-educated person.

Good idea

Reform are tending to secure larger gains in areas that are older, have lower levels of educational attainment, and voted for Brexit.

WE NOW GO LIVE TO THE BRITISH ELECTORATE

very unpleasant to see this many people voting Reform, knew it was coming but still unpleasant to witness

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Fgs ditch the racism.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Ofcom-regulated (GB News) TV presenter latest

I think this ranges from quote-tweet dunking to spamming "kill yourself" at actors from a TV show that has upset you. There's a relief belief (or perhaps it's rationalization) that doing so is somehow morally good, that it's a form of protest. I think it's really bad!

“Trump 2024: More Bullshit”

BREXIT ALREADY HAPPENED AAARGH

Lying is the worst because not only do I disagree with your party but I can see what bad faith you exhibit.

This was allowed to happen, through support from the USA and relative indifference from European countries. It’s totally unforgivable, and further destabilises an unstable world to boot.

Amuse polling station staff by poking a shirt out from behind the booth curtain and asking "have you got this in a medium?"

THIS??? THIS IS MR SERVICENOW??? HE'S AI GENERATED HIMSELF, HES A REDUCED CARTOON OF A HUMAN

Franklin expedition is one of my morbid fascinations - this is really big news.

Nature is crazy.

Never mind alcohol…”If she wants to help her constituents in Gorton and Denton, she’ll need allies: nothing gets turned into law with a vote of one.” Surely one votes for something if one believes it to be right, not because of personal feelings about the person tabling the proposition?

100%

I mean, where does the data for the AI come from? Aargh

Finished “For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway. A good novel imo, kind of a proto-thriller. But the melancholy and fatalism hangs heavy over it.

when ur on a walk and there's a dog