at last *sobs in relief*

ICE raid in 3, 2, …

The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it

UK politics and political commentary just seems to be permanently drunk and in need of a lie down. It really doesn’t have to be this stupid, nor is it this stupid in most sensible grown up countries.

evergreen etc

Apple Live Photos work quite well with the vibing cat meme (sound up)

US Department of State insisting on the exclusion of DEI activities in a contract with an NGO for the removal of land mines and UXO (most of which were put there by the US…), also pulling funding from an International School for refusing to end “DEI activities”… smh

Our department has a photo competition every year, with prizes, it’s a way of redistributing the diplomatic gifts sent every Christmas to our senior management by embassies. Anyway this year I won first prize with this (left) and here’s what I won (right)

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

“European integration is built differently: not on force, but common will; not on subjugation, but shared benefit. Europeans are, slowly but surely, waking up to what they're able to do. A senior EUminister said to me recently: Europe is not as weak as it behaves” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“The more Trump dominates the global agenda, the better Europe looks and the harder it becomes for Farage to argue that his brand of politics would make Britain safer, richer or more secure” Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever… app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...

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7yo asked me for my favourite punctuation mark; so I told him semicolon (obviously) and yesterday sought me out in great excitement to tell me that he’d seen a semicolon! in a book!

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

It is genuinely barmy that my ten minute minicab ride to Heathrow costs more than my actual flight.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

3 A retired judge dates the change to 2016, the Brexit referendum, & the Daily Mail's front page vilification of judges as 'enemies of the people', the article says. There's also a TV report for foreign affairs magazine Weltspiegel [link embedded in linked article].

🧵 In yesterday's German public news, Tagesschau, an article by London correspondent @christophproessl.bsky.social. "Verbally abused, threatened, insulted: in the UK, solicitors & judges who deal with refugee cases complain of increasing brutalization. This is also reflected in media & politics."

The French once again taking no bullshit.

So bleak that net zero, a decade old Conservative climate policy that is wholly inadequate in scope and ambition, is now too radical for parts of the Labour Party

LFG, that's what I voted for

I am here for the wokeist eco rejoinerism any day.

"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism" is a slogan that would win my vote and a whole bunch of former Labour voters and centrist dads like me

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

Speaking of the Norwegian red hats everyone is knitting: knitters have raised over $300k for MN by buying the $5 pattern. And symbols (like red hats) are a vital part of any resistance movement. They are used to unite members and serve as a visible display of opposition to the regime.

THE STUPID IT HURTS

I just read this story and it's fucked up in all the right ways. You're going to enjoy it.

Well it’s a refreshing take! Who knows, perhaps. Though you would have thought that the poonami of sleaze 2015-2024 would have been all the golden ticket they needed.

😂 This Turkish barbers in Glasgow got fed up with Nigel Farage’s comments about businesses like theirs, so … You can follow the artist the rebel bear on Insta 👇

Left: Reform UK breaks electoral law Right: Vote Leave break electoral law Why are there no real and meaningful consequences for breaking electoral law in the UK?

DiscordianKitty always has intelligent and insightful analysis, whatever the topic is. This topic is vile at best, but the analysis is as on point as always. You'll get more out of it if you're familiar with WoW, but I think there are dots connected here that it could benefit everyone to realize.

go off jack white

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New video: World of Warcraft & the Men Who Ruin the World - A Look at Gaming in the Jeffrey Epstein Files This is not a video I want to be doing, but it's a subject I feel is important, that shouldn't be ignored. So let's talk about it: Jeffrey Epstein and World of Warcraft. youtu.be/nRyIkhbR5B4

I've just seen the most jaw-droppingly racist video reposted here, apparently a screen grab of a social media post by Trump. Even reposting it probably puts the poster in legal jeopardy as in most European jurisdictions it surely qualifies as a hate crime so people, be careful and sensible.

Wondering what the significance is of this art installation in the Parc Léopold just outside the European Parliament 🤔

Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times, & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it Hallowed ground

Yes. Every American should. Because over 70 million have chosen to vote for Trump 3 times and the last two times cannot reasonably have a doubt about his bad character and malign intent. And so should every U.K. citizen that is even thinking of voting for Farage - the 🇬🇧 Trump.

These concessions, Jaydee, are they in the room with you now?

I’m old enough to remember the right wing press simply FYOOMIN that Starmer didn’t appoint Farage as ambassador for exactly the reasons that they now say are why Starmer has terrible judgement and should resign

The Collapse can’t come too soon, really.

Crazy to watch America circle the drain.

He is shaken and angry - you get the clear sense that he realises that this is serious, and that he is, in part, to blame for his situation. I much prefer Starmer's care to Johnson's lack thereof. But... it might mean that the end for Starmer will come more quickly. 3/3

He's seeking to defend the latest in a line of scandals, surrounded by a Party in 'febrile mood', with endless speculation about his leadership and fitness for the role. So far, so Boris. The big difference comes when he speaks. It is obvious that he cares. 2/3

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

V wise thread which broaches a subject I think about a lot because it’s directly relevant to modern morality, politics, celebrity culture

Loot that drops after defeating me: grey: expired Eurostar Carte Blanche white: EU staff pass on a lanyard green: Lego minifig of Jacques Delors blue: signed copy of the Ventotene Manifesto purple: Knitted Helm of Anti-Brexit