Nah, know what? Nah.

This is Deejay. He wanted to offer you a big nose and tiny tongue during this trying time. 14/10 (IG: deejayelgolden)

The news this year has been sickening in many ways. The Rob Reiner news is a shit cherry on top of more shit.

Ooh. When you walk in on a room full of discussion of you, especially that you weren't expecting. That's quite the thing. Particularly when you're having a CPTSD 'mare. Brilliant. My favourite things.

Brilliant piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on why the Nigel Farage racism allegations matter. If we end up rewarding a politics based on the instincts of a racist schoolyard bully, we should't be surprised at what follows bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

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Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel…

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Absolutely delighted to share the news that the inaugural Our House Peace Prize has been awarded to me, by me, who nominated me and voted for me. Well done me.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FIFTY BILLION LITRES OF EFFLUENT! Discharged, not into the sea (which would be bad enough), but into a LAKE! Fueling the growth of toxic algae, and starving aquatic life of oxygen. United Utilities is a greedy, disgusting and irresponsible company. #NationaliseWaterNow share.google/dLv28GvLTHwK...

The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault. You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not

Hell is empty...

Almost no one is affected If anyone is interested in their area, have a look at this map taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/27/m...

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

“I bought it ten years ago for a mil, it must be worth 2 mil by now”…nope! There are about 30 million homes in the UK. Considerably fewer than 100,000 of them will be worth £2m+.

‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’ From the new Private Eye, out now.

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. [Christ on a bike... 😬]

Politicians - especially of the right - like to say how they would curtail benefits to balance the books. This is what it's like to be on the receiving end of that rhetoric. Worth reading to the very end

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

CPTSD is like someone in your ear, 24/7, listing all the ways you suck, & anyone who says you don't suck doesn't "really" know you, & you may as well not try to not suck, because you just SUCK so much. And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as the Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why are we forced to pursue it in court? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

It never stops. The grubby donations. The profiteering. The lobbying. The lies. “In 2019-20, as the UK was leaving the EU, Harborne gave £10m to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, since renamed Reform UK.” They make damn sure they get what they want. We get screwed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ah yes...

BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I’m howling.

Gosh. What a surprise.

Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!

Epstein’s brother Mark on News Nation: “They’re sanitising these files. “There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.”

Please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics. Given Farage's poll lead, this is the most important issue in British politics. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia. As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards. Now government policy

Politico: "The vote for Brexit inflicted a GDP blow of between 6 percent and 8 percent in the decade following the referendum — even worse than predicted beforehand, according to U.S. think tank the National Bureau of Economic Research" Don't imagine this will end up on many Faragist front pages...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

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Everything is stupid and getting more stupid by the day.