AWESOME, since that's all cleared up... Time to release the unredacted Trumpstein Files!!!

🔔 Chelmsford Springfield, ESSEX CC (Countermanded) 🔶 Lib Dem HOLD 🔶 LDM - 3203, 54.6% (+8.6) ➡️ RFM - 1616, 27.5% (+27.5) 🔵 CON - 723, 12.3% (-25.1) 🟢 GRN - 216, 3.7% (-2.3) 🔴 LAB - 110, 1.9% (-7.3) Turnout: 39.3% A textbook defence from Cllr Richard Lee & the team! Congratulations!! 🔶

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GO. If you want to be able to hear the show when it is released, now is the time to click the link: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

How utterly broken a system must be for the Keir Starmer ‘rent boy’ conspiracy theory to gain traction. This stuff doesn’t happen by accident. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Not too many Neil Young fans on here then?😁

Anyone who wants to invest in real quality audio drama that you’ll return to time and time again - this is for you. Brilliant writing and a stellar cast, can highly recommend.

Seriously, folks... if you enjoy quality audio drama, this is one you want to back. Catch up on the earlier seasons (which are marvelous) and throw your support towards this one. You'll be happy you did!

This is very true. Watching Neil Young’s Glastonbury performance on the BBC last year was almost a religious experience.

Liberal England: No, Leave didn't win the Brexit referendum because of Northern working class voters There are so many myths, and so much snobbery, surrounding the result of the 2016 referendum that I've a good mind to post this every week.

In the 2014 World Cup Germany beat Brazil 7-1 and Germany have just beaten Curaçao 7-1 so Brazil and Curaçao are equally good. That’s how this works, right? #worldcup #germany #curacao

Anyone else kind of hope Burnham loses? Starmer is not doing a terrible job and changing PM is a terrible idea right now.

Q: Why do Norwegian, Swedish and Danish warships have barcodes on them? A: Because they Scan-da-navy-in 😉

A nice thing happened yesterday – the Eurasian Creative Guild, who I've translated and edited some books and poems for over the years, awarded me the Jonathan Fryer Medal for promotion of Eurasian culture. I wish more Brits had a chance to see a bit of Central Asian art, and read their stories.

Amongst all the handwringing about Elon Musk being a trillionaire remember these two facts: Tesla made $30million profit last year SpaceX LOST $4billion It’s all hype. These businesses are objectively worth very little.

For anyone who has found themselves in a FIFA Men's World Cup sweepstake but doesn't know the teams, a brief guide by John Green www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbBn...

Louis Mosley , UK head of creepy data analytics firm Palantir, accuses Sadiq Khan of playing politics by saying: “What Londoners value is not being mugged, not being raped by a serving police officer…” I’m sorry but *who* is playing politics? Wonder if he was wearing his black shirt? #palantir

The ICC inspectors said our pitch was a bit up and down, but nothing especially unusual. No fines.

After receiving feedback* from my offspring that my older books should not be piled up everywhere I have shelved them! *exasperated criticism

Yup. Moaning about the bond markets is like saying that clean water is overrated. Bond markets = our pension funds. If you want to rely less on bond markets then stop spending more than the tax take.

me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:

As several of the replies mention, Annie is transcendent throughout this, but the bit at 1.15 where she hits the "give love" moment so perfectly that Brian and David can't help but grin at her is glorious. And this is "just" the rehearsal...

Reform councillor has swastika tattoo; claims a "brief interest" in Buddhism. You have a "brief interest" and get a tattoo of it? You like Buddhist symbols and choose that one? You seek enlightenment and later join Reform? Save us from these shameless cretins. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bit of 1990s retro here. Great song and album (Adam &Eve). youtu.be/FO9WfBVx9-o?...

Imagine being a Labour member and having Blair turn up uninvited and unwanted like a hard to shift fungal infection whenever something big happens.

Wait there one moment! So this wasn’t all about protecting women after all!?!

It’s pretty warm out, isn’t it?

Not only is this not a quotation from Lewis Carroll, you could only think it was if you'd never read Alice in Wonderland.

Nigel Farage saying his phone was hacked by Moscow is about as plausible an explanation as: “I was looking for badgers! 🦡 🦡” 🙄

Mail on Sunday now a laughing stock for putting on its front page what a conman told it to put on its front page.

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

Now I wonder what the Tories would do here… 😬

Worth reading all of the decade-old article linked (& translated) here. Quite shaming for a lot of UK hacks happy to let him bullshit away to his heart’s content…

Bank holiday weekend Day 2

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1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

At the risk of sounding too excited by the Cthulhu crowd funder I took a little detour on our way back from the seaside today to carry out some cliff top health and safety checks. I tried to hack the museum WiFi too but to no avail! #PleasantGreen @index.pleasantgreen.co.uk.ap.brid.gy

Snape marshes

Sunny Snape.

Here’s a montage of photographs of what the Pendragon Club probably and almost certainly possibly looks like. Best enjoyed with no one else around. @index.pleasantgreen.co.uk.ap.brid.gy @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social @juliansimpson.bsky.social

What the hell is all this Lovecraft Investigations business? youtu.be/_vZrfmN_lCQ?...

Massive congratulations to the Lovecraft Investigations team, fully-funded in under an hour! 🐙🥳 Can’t wait for this! @juliansimpson.bsky.social @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social

I think the anti-vermouth attitude with martinis is so incredibly *boring*. If you just want a glass of cold vodka or gin, thats fine - just have a glass of cold vodka or gin. but a martini is a cocktail, and a cocktail has to include more than one ingredient. Its so performative.

Here’s a slightly unusual view of the London Library for you @juliansimpson.bsky.social P.s. I’m sure a chat with @seththevoz.bsky.social regarding the Pendragon Club would yield interesting ideas.

Proud to be the 500th Supporter 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j... @index.pleasantgreen.co.uk.ap.brid.gy

Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

24 Hours to launch... www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Not any massive surprises there! British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Technocratic Centrist Economic: centrist Social: leaning progressive Sovereignty: cosmopolitan Military: hawkish Authority: leaning authoritarian Constitutional: leaning reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

This sounds like I’m on drugs but I just looked out of the train window and saw a polar bear and a zebra.