Give it to Ange til the end of the season, if anyone knows how to get a tune out of a bunch of mercurial workshy arseholes it's that guy

Starmer supporters: "ooh I like wine, ooh I like tea, I'm a bit of a Champs-Élysées in the kitchen and I like being nice. Oooh aren't books wonderful?" (sees a Zack Polanski post) "Bwagrefjugbb how DARE you exist, you're ENABLING REFORM and are BASICALLY FARAGE you ENABLER"

Pickleball is an op. Young black people have been getting too good at tennis so the powers that be are punishing them by taking public tennis courts and turning them into a game so lame only old white people would play it publicly

The job he was elected to do is taking the blame for the poor showing in the May elections.

It's mad that they're acting like this is the same as asking your mate if there's at anything going at their office. When it's the PM's private office asking the head of the FCDO about a diplomatic role

Questlove shipping the Micheal movie, sad!

Olly Robbins is the absolute head off Moritz Von Oswald eh?

Call me old fashioned but holders of the Great Offices of State should not be appearing on fucking podcasts.

Lovely sunshine out there today but this breeze from the north can get itself to fuck.

I can manage to be both a coarse, uncouth vulgarian *and* a school librarian, get on my level Kevin ya big galoot.

Look, it's actually pretty simple, it's important to show that Starmer wasn't to blame for the Mandelson appointment because he is going to be to blame for the May elections.

Civil servants have been getting away with this kind of inscrutable mandarin nonsense for far too long; we need an American style system of politically partial appointees (exactly what Reform have been asking for) so ministers can be more rapidly appraised of vetting failures/ things of this nature

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Civil servants have been getting away with this kind of inscrutable mandarin nonsense for far too long; we need an American style system of politically partial appointees (exactly what Reform have been asking for) so ministers can be more rapidly appraised of vetting failures/ things of this nature

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

It's easy to get annoyed at Keir Starmer and his increasingly desperate attempts to worm his way out of a situation of his own making that's totally gone to shit, but I think it helps if you think of him as being played by Tim Robinson in an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

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The most successful centre-left projects in the last ten years were Nicola Sturgeon's SNP and Justin Trudeau's Liberals and no one will admit that because their success was based around taking working aged women and stuff like poverty, the environment and social liberation seriously

It was a popular trend for a moment during Francis to post a quote and a “dang, this pope is liberal” and then reveal it was Ratzinger, saying pope things.

I don't actually think it's trolling. Leo is doing very normal pope things during modern conflicts; he's just doing it with an american accent.

striking that the UK govt has decided that the institutions best placed and often designed to widen participation in HE are disposable. They could choose differently.

Quite something to think we are staring down the barrel of a crisis which will end high level research and teaching as something spread evenly across the country's cities and towns, accessible to all, and both UK and devolved governments just don't seem to particularly care?

Pigs in blankets

Carlos Alcaraz Credits Success To Tennis Being Easiest Game In The World https://theonion.com/carlos-alcaraz-credits-success-to-tennis-being-easiest-game-in-the-world/

Absolutely transported by Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi at Union Chapel last night. Captivating sound in beautiful surroundings. But I can't entirely shake the feeling that an overnight trip with a total of 9 hours travel for a 50 minute set was a tiny bit of a swizz.

Some of the greatest Alt-Text you will ever see

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Haven't been updating from Counterflows because it's all been so utterly fantastic. I love sound, I love listening, I love socialising with people who love music, I love friendship and gossip and fun. Sad to miss the closing event but already looking forward to doing it all again next year.

Good evening, can I interest anyone in a little Republican Socialism?

Absolutely spellbound by Xenia Pestova Bennett's performance on a piano planted in a community garden, accompanied by a wee blue tit flying about in the trees above.

*Incredibly Cher absolutely belting out the chorus to Gypsies Tramps and Thieves voice* EATING CHIPS IN BED

So much fun kicking off Counterflows last night doing an orchestral work for Kazoo with Agnes Pe, harp duo from Rhodri Davies and Áine O'Dwyer and an utterly charming set from the wondrous Remont Pomp...

Idk if I'm just really paranoid but if I knew this I would never say this in public until it actually happened.

Cool that Israel gets to kill hundreds of people after a supposed ceasefire to show that they can do as they please. And they’re right because no one ever stops them.

Frustrated to see the lack of nuance when it comes to the motives behind what’s been happening on the roads. As a son of the soil myself who has forced his roots between the paving slabs, a plea for evenhandedness: Sure the tractor protestors are cunts, but you must remember, they’re also bald.

Was unaware of The Free Press until 2 minutes ago and have had two references to both and it's all fascist apologia weyyy

Every photo of Altman looks like he just got caught jerking off in the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese

Idk what Chuck E Cheese is but you better believe I'm RTing the shit out of this

At work this week, no kids in the building so been able to fire on the headphones and batter on with some stock work. This has only got better since it's been released, serene w gorgeous echoes of Blue Nile/Mark Hollis/Woo and other swooning loveliness otherlands1.bandcamp.com/album/rumina...

it gets easier as they get older. once they’re at nursery they’re more tired out

Finally got round to finishing Pluribus last night....hmm.

We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot. We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.

Finally managed to get the potatoes down this evening

The Rock n Roll Man of Letters is back out there with a new book people, lock yer doors and windows or he'll be in yapping about yer grandma's SuperSer!

auditions for the new 808 State live show are going well

Any chance we can just ffwd to when all these pricks kill themselves in a bunker?