Tried something a bit different with the #crochet hexagon cardie this time #knitsky 🧶

I see he overlooked Remembrance Sunday by… attending the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the actual Cenotaph in full War Christmas regalia and paying his respects 🙄

New EV registrations in Germany for October 2025, top 20: As you can see, no #Tesla

Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located). www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

It’s too late baby, now it’s too late. When I was a kid, it was a sombre and dignified reflection on us getting hundreds of thousands of guys killed in an insane war. Now, the Sensible Moderates have turned it into War Christmas to boost their crackpot politics, and there’s no going back.

Strong contender for graph of the year 2025 from the FT with this Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas research paper. "Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points" 🤷 www.ft.com/content/60df...

What’s your most illiberal prejudice based on wildly extrapolating from a vanishingly small dataset? Mine is that women don’t know how to load dishwashers. (Maybe it’s men too, I just haven’t been in any long term relationships with men. IDK.)

Not in shot: Health Secretary RFK Jr because he fucking LEGGED IT (see hilarious video footage)

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Bluesky’s really fun, I think you’d like it.

Not now, Bear Army

He may be only 34 but he has had 23 years’ experience running a city

I’m also looking forward to the Professional Darts Council’s first Physics Prize which I guess will also be won by Donald Trump

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Just a call out to smart women helping the entire world. This is Lotte Bjerre Knudsen. She invented liraglutide and co-invented semaglutide. She is one of the biggest reasons we have effective anti obesity medications. And her sense of style for this talk is 🤌

@lukecharters.bsky.social hi, I just want you to know that the "Labour's DOGE" thing was one of the most pathetic things I've read in my life and if you were capable of shame you'd be feeling it now.

My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government. I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.

Why is no one talking about this? Where is the outcry - and most importantly, where's the action? Nations must finally work together to fight climate change. 🚨 https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/11/04/for-the-first-time-climate-models-show-the-15c-goal-is-dead

On the day that Elon Musk funded Tommy Robinson's legal expenses to return a not-guilty verdict, Just Stop Oil activists were found guilty of public nuisance and may be sentenced up to 10 years in jail. Make it make sense.

I’m a grounded grown up guy who does not fall for advertising pitches and thinks carefully before laying down hard earned cash on luxuries, hey no impulse buys here before breakfast nope not me also I don’t need another fountain pen I have like nine already 🖋️

Congratulations to the USA. Now time for celebration but also vigilance: Trump knows now that he can't win fairly, and he has no intention of losing.

Kinda funny watching all the people who wrote me "get deported, Euro trash" four days ago now share stuff about how comms based around hope and positivity is how you defeat darkness.

Downfall video dropping in …

Let this map of the congressional districts of Illinois be a reminder that gerrymandering is total BS and must be stopped as it makes a mockery of democratic principles. Source: www.reddit.com/user/simonge...

Start at 13:11. Treat yourself to this, it’s worth it.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Bitcoin and $TSLA dropping:

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

"Chris, you're an enthusiastic knitter, are you watching Dive Boy's Knit-Off?" Very hard pass. #Knitting for me is a solitary pastime, a refuge, the antithesis of competition. Sure, I like a bit of validation, who doesn't, so I will share the odd photo on the socials, but competitive knitting?? 🧶🚫

Exactly this. The ECHR is there to protect Britons from their government, and Britons have less constitutional protections that any other state in Western Europe. This is the last country that should be contemplating leaving. (And the right should not be turning its back on rights and democracy)

@fundafun.bsky.social Ook leuk, in Belgie. Praktisch ook, een plee op je slaapkamer (of een bed in je badkamer). www.vansweevelt.be/te-koop/huis...

New awareness campaign

Is it still hyperbolic to call them nazis when they put actual swastikas on their office walls?

“I had only to speak the Elvish word for ‘friend’ and the doors opened. Quite simple. Too simple for a learned lore-master in these suspicious days. Those were happier times. Now let us go!”

A purported ally threatening diplomats and their families with personal consequences if they maintain the positions they’ve been instructed to take is very deeply shocking, extremely hostile, and undermines the norms by which non-violent resolution of international disagreements are possible.

A Taste of Aggro by the Barron Knights. Purchased from Woolworths New Milton in 1978, during a visit to my Nanna. I had heard it played by Ed Stewpot Stewart on Junior Choice and thought it was hilariously funny. I later swapped it for my friend Barry’s copy of Mull of Kintyre.

See also the thread from which this comes. Americans, even the progressive ones, are clearly getting a completely false impression of what life is like in the UK thanks to the disinformation being spread by fascists on both sides of the Atlantic.

I’m revisiting the Led Zeppelin back catalogue and still think II is the best and Rambling On my favourite track on that but can’t stop wondering who was this fair maiden that he met in the darkest depths of Mordor and how Gollum and the Evil One crept up & slipped away with her, it’s just not canon

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Hmm, what have Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran got in common? 🤔

Only ten sleeps to War Christmas, gammons!

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Taps sign, again

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate! 🎃 👻 🇪🇺

View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.