I know which one I'm ticking.

I'd be quite happy to see Starmer go, but when you have Streeting and Mahmood being presented as the most viable alternatives it doesn't exactly bode well for the future. Seems guaranteed that the attacks on marginalised communities we have seen already will be ramped up. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve been procrastinating over learning a CAD package to replace SketchUP which I’ve been using for 20+ years. They all seem way more than I need & would take ages to learn. Then I heard TinkerCAD had 2 new feature that turn it from a toy into a serious contender: Sketch & Sketch Revolve. 1/2

I threw fiscal caution to the wind and bought a 3D printer, a Creality K2. Then I designed & printed this table lamp.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

The Tokyo Electro Automobile Co. Tama Electric Car from 1947. It achieved the driving range of 96km and the maximum speed of 35km/h. And it looks GORGEOUS. I love it. If they were still being made, I'd get one. I wonder if a sheep fits in the back seat. www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE_...

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

We need a Panorama investigation into Tufton Street. No dodgy editing required.

Busses as Fifth Columnists?

Remembrance Day was intended to be a time to remember the appalling cost our ancestors paid to preserve our freedom. It was never intended to be a celebration of war, victory or nationalism.

AFAIK there are no surviving photos of the uncle I never met, my father’s older brother who died before WWII got properly started. So I share this photo of his grave on 11th November every year.

me when the AI bubble bursts

It can’t be said often enough: BBC News and current affairs have presented unacceptable right wing bias and have platformed MAGA-funded think tanks masquerading as research units since well before the orchestrated campaign to separate us from Europe.

The US Supreme Court has denied a request to look at overturning its 2015 decision that legalised same-sex marriage. The appeal was submitted by former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.

My new neighbour has managed to piss me off before I’ve even met him. I can hear his fucking dog barking right next to me. Another neighbour’s cat, the little shit, is sitting staring in, driving the dog nuts and probably loving it.

“Religion is an elective psychosis.”

#R4Today #Butterflies Impartiality is not Neutrality It must be based on seeking the Truth/Facts & calling out BS Equally & Impartially. There's no trans ideology. Hamas are evil terrorists. Israel committed war crimes. Trump's a criminal. The 'Far Right' undermines Lib Democracy & Human Rights.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Me, flirting. (In my dreams)

I love the insult generator, too, for different reasons dr.eamer.dev/insults

"...the ultra-rich thrive on impoverishing other people." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A good day

*climbs on soapbox* If you read a Daily Mail article online, you are adding to their impressions, which is how they justify their advertising fees. If you just have an X account or view their hosted content, the same applies. You support the far-right if you want, but stop sharing it with me.

Just because 5th November is my birthday it doesn't mean I have to love fireworks. I actually fucking hate fireworks and think selling explosives to the public is an idiotic idea.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Nice shot of a cormorant standing on a mostly submerged picnic table. @wulfhelm.bsky.social

Llandysul park. We can only hope the cricket pitch dries out by next summer.

The other side of Llandysul park. No football today.

We don’t do expensive gifts in my family. My sister found these delightful Hot Wheels cars in an ’antiques’ shop for my birthday, and also some Caramel Nibbles. Never mind what the packet says, anyone wanting to share them can fuck right off.

Dictatorship isn’t sustained by strength, but by exhaustion, by people too broken & afraid to resist. It devours energy to maintain its illusion of order. Every act of refusal, every choice to remember, withdraws power from its grasp. Collapse begins when obedience ends. Last night was a great start

Llandysul park bound to be a lake by now. If I can get close (roads gonna be flooded as well), I'll post a photo later.

69 laps around the sun completed, and so begins the final year of my 60s.

Well done New York 🎉🥳👏🍾

Doc prescribed these for shingles. Early days, but they seem to be helping.

I was horrified to hear a friend’s kid say she’d done something ‘two times’. When I suggested she try saying ‘twice’ she looked at me like I was mad*. * British ‘mad’: mentally unwell, as opposed to American ’mad’: angry. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Moving some stuff around I came across my Ba dissertation. I read it for the first time in many years & thought it was pretty good. Remembered the way history & theory was taught at college was positivity sadistic, seemed clear tutors wanted to make it an unpleasant experience. 1/2

I cancelled my Apple TV+ subscription after watching the last episode of the new series of Slow Horses. Before the subscription ended I watched the first 2 episodes of Down Cemetery Road. Only watched because Emma Thompson & Ruth Wilson. Subscription renewed.

Good morning.

Posting an A.I. generated video is like posting a picture of a shit that somebody else took

No lying or making yourself out to be a cool kid. Post the first record you bought. If you can remember the shop or circumstances add that too. Local colour appreciated. Cycled many miles from home in Chobham, Surrey, in 1969 to nearest record shop. CCR as not cool then as they are now.

I thought this would have happened years ago -- someone finally built a modern sailing cargo ship. It's on the small side for a modern cargo carrier. I wonder the tech this will scale up to those huge container ships. Aims to cut carbon emissions by as much as 90%. youtu.be/dUdaBnJ58jI

I have been experimenting with scrape painting — pulling a band of paint down the paper with a rubber tool made for the job. These 2 are experiments, I might try for a finished piece today. First painting used mid priced acrylics, second one used ruinously expensive Golden Fluid Acrylics.

There are more speakers of Indian English than British English or even American English. We'd best do the needful.

Weather was cool enough to feel like autumn for a week or so. Then it gets mild again. Weird — 15°C daytime, 14°C overnight is more like September.