My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now

A modern day waiting for Godot

Just heard of the death of #BrianPatten - another voice of #Liverpool gone 😢 You ask for a poem. And so I write you a tragedy about How a blade of grass Becomes more and more difficult to offer. And how as you grow older A blade of grass Becomes more difficult to accept. #RestInPoetry Brian

Well actually my old boss did have one that he had put down put under a tarp that then got up and gallop past his bedroom window at 2am…. #TheArchers #Morethanonce

Germany's largest ever demonstration against the Gaza genocide today in Berlin. Organisers say 100k took part. @amnesty.de

Portland doesn’t need the military. Portland has its own defenses.

Side-by-side map of the shadow economy in Europe and the one of countries that are potential EU members, for no reason whatsoever.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

I’d rather listen to Harpo Marx and he was dead. #totp

The first people have now arrived in the UK under the new route allowing asylum seekers to apply for transfer from France A family of three, including a small child, have arrived, while four people have been removed under the UK-France treaty, which aims to reduce demand for small boat crossings

Cardiacs will be sliding their tentative toes back into the turbulent live music pool on these dates. 11th March - @electricbrixtonofficial 12th March - @newcenturymcr 13th March - @stlukesglasgow Presale tickets for YOUsletter family tomorrow. General sale from Friday So are YOU in it?

A tribunal recently ruled that an employee was unfairly dismissed when she was sacked for calling two of her bosses “d*ckheads” By 46% to 39%, Britons agree that calling your boss a d*ckhead should NOT be a sackable offence yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Evergreen

This should have been front page news www.ft.com/content/6596...

Garden of Earthly Delights

A new generation of Blueskyers seems to have discovered this #Leicestershire thread today, mostly thanks to @flipchartrick.bsky.social. It’s always fun to see responses and reactions some years after I started the thread, often to things I’ve completely forgotten…

Morton Feldman and John Cage discuss the nature of reality.

Given the Sarah Ferguson’s exposé: How is it that Private Eye was so far ahead of its time on this story?

Just adding this.. for the history.

In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round the internet of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland. Photoshop trickery? The bizarre truth: - yes, everyone really saw these - no, they're not faked or manmade - they absolutely don't exist. 1/

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Worth going to the Royal Academy to see the Kerry James Marshall exhibition which centres the lives of Black Americans. Given [waves hand] all this, it’s an exhibition for our time www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/k...

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

As we again approach Holocaust Memorial Day, we again ask: “Are we there yet?” Forget excuses, deflections, “Godwin’s Law”… No, we’re not there yet. But we will be. Unless we stop those working to take us there. Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us. A🧵/1.

How your email finds me

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

#VeeMakes Made a Giant Thing. (Regular size thing for scale)

From my intro to it:

So the solicitor edited the GPs letter adding in that client was too ill to attend and sent that to tribunal. How do I know? Because GP sent my (different) sol the letter they had faxed to old sols and we saw the (amended) letter old sols send to the tribunal!

Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well. tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...

The woman responsible for more people hiding behind sofas in the early days of BBC science fiction is to be celebrated later this year at the Barbican. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/pio...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Update: All employment training places now sold. Lots of social security places still available. Please follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fru-social... Get fantastic expert training on law and practise and then put into action as a volunteer - unparalleled experience for all lawyers.

I mean, "Democracy Dies In Whiteness" was right there...

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

Needless to say that London is an attractive place but I'm sorry to say I'm not enjoying myself here.

Hello podcasters. You don’t need to do an emergency podcast. It’s a Wednesday evening. Have a glass of wine and go to bed. Don’t do an emergency podcast. That’s what the news is for.

If you are at all interested in our experiences at Spitting Image etc, here's what I said in my speech at the memorial (shared with permission of the family).

Very moving (and funny) tribute to the great Bill Dare at the BBC Radio Theatre today. If you ever laughed at Dead Ringers or Spitting Image, that's probably thanks to Bill.

Found a new (to me) Half Man Half Biscuit that is amusing youtu.be/Dk_dC3ktuMw?...

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Update: finally had a proper chat with my Chinese neighbours last night. I told them my favourite dish in the world is Xi'an biang biang noodles. My neighbour immediately says "come over to our house and I will make them for you." You don't need to tell me twice. Immigration rules

THIS BOOKSHOP IS OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND SELLS COCKTAILS. EVERYONE CONVERGE ON PALERMO NOW. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

In the 80s I went to a lecture by a Bulgarian political philosopher. The whole lecture was delivered with his back to the audience writing incomprehensible symbols on the board. He said afterward that they’d developed this habit so the secret police watching would think they were doing maths.

Ok so I haven't done a rage thread for a bit and well after an associate relayed her latest date ( this is a 40 something) I feel I need to have a chat with my fellow men because y'all are gd idiots. My brothers WTF is wrong with you seriously. Let's have a chat and hopefully a few of you idiots

Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.