So when I was the editor in chief of the New York Observer I was determined to continue the paper’s tradition of never attending the White House Correspondents Dinner because it was an embarrassing trust eroding media suck up festival I thought was bad for journalism

The thing about this is I believe she’s pretty popular among his voters. As was Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, all of whom he’s started attacking on the regular. This doesn’t seem like smart strategery.

If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night

Do you plan on charging rent for space I am occupying in your head? #HealthcareNotWarfare

Lethal injection sounds to people like its a medical process designed to spare the executed person from pain when its really a pseudo-medical sham designed to spare observers and onlookers from the reality of the violence they're committing.

Leeds, 1967 A Deltic hauled King’s Cross train waits at a grim and dirty Leeds Central station. This was the last London train to depart before the station was closed and demolished. Hindsight suggests that this would be a well used station were it still open today. #Leeds #Yorkshire 📷 M Lush

Doncaster, 1985 31403 pauses in Platform 8 at Doncaster in the small hours with the King’s Cross to Leeds newspaper train. And on that note, I’d better start thinking about putting my boots on. Last night turn tonight, for a few weeks anyway… #Doncaster #Yorkshire 📷 A Nicholls

Even by the Daily Mail's standards ... this is laying it on kinda thick.

"Fly me to the Moon" comes in two time signatures, I now learn - the one which everyone *knows* in 4/4, and the less familiar original in 3/4 waltz - which why the rhythms in my book of piano jazz standards didn't match what I expected! Looking for other pieces with alternative time signatures...

Crikey - Peter Bucklitsch in there used to be one of yours - he was the Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate in my constituency many years ago. That's some political distance he's travelled.

Reform has often boasted about how good its candidate vetting is. Let's see how it is doing for this May's local elections

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I think about when Michael Gove referred to Reform as "the party of daytime TV" a lot...

They’ve been this way for as long as I have covered them as an election analyst (20 years)

#BBCNews - Four people in court over Jewish ambulance arson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wouldn't like to speak for Christianity but exploring the male, female and genderless aspects of the Divine is a significant theme in Kabbalism, which was heavily influenced by the Wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible.

This entire pointlessly destructive war so far has cost the US military around $60 billion, which is around twice the amount cut from USAID which saved millions of lives.

This is fascinating and although detailed followable:

Ok so, I want to talk a little bit about oil futures. I see a lot of arguments about spot vs front future that I think are backwards and I wanted to try and provide some context on how physical commodities futures work.

Just days into the fallout over reporting on his alleged drinking issues, FBI Director Kash Patel will now have to answer questions about a 2005 letter, in which he admitted to being arrested twice for public intoxication and public urination. Good luck with that lawsuit, Kash. trib.al/QrHbov4

I dunno what these poor bastards are going to be firing but do hear in mind that standard NATO rounds will rip right through cinderblock walls so they’re going to have to careful where they do it.

Tammy Bruce: "The people of his country aren't happy. His approval numbers are not good at all." (She's somehow not talking about Trump ... )

DO SMACK MY BITCH UP AS AN EARNEST GUITAR STRUM FOR THE JOHN LEWIS ADVERT, YOU COWARDS

Following the absolutely disgusting comments from Zack Polanski today in regards to antisemitism, I am calling true Green Party supporters who see and acknowledge the HUGE strides our Labour government are making towards clean energy and to tackle climate change to, just this once... 1/2

Polanski continues being bad on russia-Ukraine. Here he downplays russia's aggression to criticize Starmer on Trump/Israel. Putin has used genocidal rhetoric-- e.g. insistence Ukrainians are russian; Ru propagandists say way worse than Trump on Iran. Ru implements genocidal policies in occupied Ukr

I wonder how this interacts with reported trends in people having fewer friends, but also how mixed gender friendships have changed over time.

the Trump White House deciding that the Falklands belong to Argentina sounds like a worthy attempt to make the heads of the most gammony Reform voters actually explode.

The thing that really pisses me off about altered images like this or the occasional fake truth social post is it's pointless! Things are literally as terrible as they could be without it!

It says a lot about Labour that their "saviour" is a politician who came 4th in a leadership contest vs Ed Miliband, a very distant second to Jeremy Corbyn, and whose maneuvers against Starmer backfired so badly as the last conference even his allies asked him to stop.

What the absolute fuck? Zack Polanski has called on politicians to treat antisemitism with "nuance". How about no? Or put it another way, let's treat racism towards black people with nuance. Let's treat mysogyny with nuance. Let's treat homaphobia with nuance. 1/2

#TheArchers Chris making videos now 🤔

"I stand by every single word of this report...I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information." Sarah Fitzpatrick on Kash Patel: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Not a terrible idea if you want people to build things. The petition was rejected because it’s a duplicate, there is a link to the original in the rejection should you be interested in signing it.

Not to brag but I attended phone-free parties throughout my youth!

Renewable energy is amazing. We've recently switched our cat to solar power and saved a fortune on food.

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

Today's entry in the Football Administrators Suck file: A player was accused of racist abuse towards an opponent, which carries a mandatory 10-match ban. He said he'd been misheard & actually said something homophobic. So they gave him a 3-match ban (well, 6, with 3 suspended).

LOL -- Leavitt says the Powell investigation actually isn't over "The case is not necessarily dropped, it's just being moved over to the inspector general. This has been a priority for the president. The investigation still continues."

The hard right in Britain has never been so influential and its influence is starting to encroach on the political mainstream. And so I decided to fight ✏️ Harry Shukman

Vet gave us some steroids for NotBob's dermatitis, might neck them myself and wake up ripped to fuck, lads.

I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.

*PUPDATE* As god intended on this beautiful spring day, Baloo and I gave gone for a glass of rosé.

FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT!

EXCLUSIVE: King Charles is expected to meet Mayor Mamdani in New York during his visit next week. The unlikely duo will both attend a wreath laying at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan.

FYI for the people trying to suggest that, actually, I'm wrong — the fake viral still appears to be from a longer, much more obviously fake AI video.

New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

The gloriously misaligned Galilee Porch at Lincoln Cathedral ❤️

Second sentence: "Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as THE FIRING SQUAD." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...