@deedotk.bsky.social since you were so kind as to leave a Queen earworm with me last week, here's the kids from Fame, who've been playing at very high octaves in my brain all day!

From the archives: #AlbeeTheCat waiting for something to come out of the printer. This will not end well for the printer, which doesn't like outgoing paper being attacked by kitties with sharp claws!

"Why adopting Reform-lite rhetoric or intensifying enforcement measures rarely resolves the political problem for centre-left parties: the goalposts constantly move because the politics is not designed to produce resolution. It is designed to sustain a permanent sense of crisis and cultural threat."

The brilliant @fryrsquared.bsky.social explains why UK's stamp duty (a tax when you buy a home) is stupid and breaks the entire housing market by discouraging people from downsizing youtube.com/shorts/dHXKq...

What's the worst that could happen? 🙃

UK friends: anyone on Giffgaff? Feel free to share a referral code with me

A taxi driver just tried to run me over, then yelled at me that I'm a faggot. This is why I'm in favour of driverless cars.

Leading UK politicians, this is on you. You legitimised it. You told these people their concerns were valid. You pandered to them. You shifted policies to what they said they wanted, but they always wanted more. You refused to condemn it; you stayed on the platform whose algorithm promoted it.

I don't know how Keir Starmer can wake up in the morning, see that pogroms have been taking place under his watch, that they are being fuelled by literal illegal activity on social media, and not make it his entire purpose to stop it. We know you're no politician, but are you not a lawyer?

Still one the best films I've ever seen. I still quote lines from it. If you haven't seen it, you should! First out in 1992, it’s being re-released soon.

Charities in England and Wales ‘donate millions to illegal Israeli settlements’

Curious about news media's definition of ceasefire. Countries declare a ceasefire, then bomb each other. How is this "testing the fragile ceasefire" rather than simply breaking it? The choice of "testing" lets media report on military strikes while pretending that peace still exists 🧐

I asked AI what the world would look like for humanity if there's never been war, oppression or tyranny "Humanity would be decades to centuries ahead in most fields, with a more evenly distributed knowledge base… • Richer • More populous • Technologically more advanced • Psychologically healthier

Being lectured on police behaviour by JD Vance is like being lectured on how to lay your patio by Fred West.

Telling that this horrendous story has been completely ignored by Farage and Co. A shocking murder.

@deedotk.bsky.social because of you, I have I Want to Ride my Bicycle on a loop in my head. Round and round and round. I don't know many of the words, but it's still fun. All the octaves :)

Happy #Caturday from #AlbeeTheCat and @els76uk.bsky.social ☺️ #Cat #Cats #Katze #CatPhotography #PetPhotography #Photography

When you want to do something clever, but instead you use AI. The AI told them to base their campaign on massacres by the anti democratic military rulers 45 years ago

#NyushaTheCat liking the evening sun 🥰 #Cat #Cats #Katze #CatPhotography #PetPhotography #Photography

Pinkwashing at its finest… I just saw an advert for Tel Aviv Pride 2026, with the headline "Time for Love"

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

Tommy Robinson - A Life in the Day "Benidorm's leading patriot on gear, beer and sharia. In my own words." by the excellent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

Last month, an Iranian man intervened to stop the anti-Jewish attack in Golders Green. This could have been a time to celebrate the triumph of British multiculturalism, to lionise a man who stepped in to protect his neighbour. But of course that wouldn't fit the narrative, so it was barely covered

lolz… the city of Berlin is battling the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg about locking up a park at night, to stop drug dealers. Of course, we all know that just moves the dealers elsewhere, but the senate insisted. Now a judge has said the senate doesn't have the authority to do that!

After-breakfast snooze 🥰 #NyushaTheCat #Cat #Cats #Katze #CatPhotography #PetPhotography #Photography

The budgie having a cheeky tommy tank* in his cage is nothing to punish it for (* it's cockney rhyming slang)

Happy Pride Month, everyone! At a time when our community is under renewed attack, it is as important as ever to be out there and visible, and to show the power of queer joy to this deranged world we live in.

Looking through the Mandelson files, has Wes Streeting said in public Israel is committing war crimes, or does he just keep that sentiment for DMs? www.gov.uk/government/p...

I'm sure it must be true that the birds have taken all the fish from the sea and definitely not the massive industrial fishing boats that scoop up everything in their path 🧐

Curious from the Guardian. I didn't "warn the party" - it wasn't a party meeting! I said progressives needed to separate those thinking about voting Reform from the Reform leadership. I didn't say we "need to seek to understand" - pretty clear it's about inequality. Other than that - perfect!

No idea about WiFi on UK trains, but the rest of this study cited by BBC is obviously at best confusing 🇨🇭 90+% of trains don’t have WiFi 🇫🇷 only TGVs do, there it’s solid 🇩🇪 it’s decent on ICEs, can be awful elsewhere https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pn4l03r7o

Most cats in Berlin aren't allowed out to the street – instead, they might roam the central courtyards that most buildings have. But that doesn't stop them miowing at passers-by from inside the glass front door, in an attempt to make a break for freedom!

AI can finally get hands and feet right; legs are a difference matter!

#NyushaTheCat says 💤 Happy #Caturday 🥰 #Cat #Cats #Katze #CatPhotography #PetPhotography #Photography

Just watched the first part of the Kylie documentary on Netflix. It's surprisingly well made, and especially fun for those of us old enough to remember coming home from school to watch her on Neighbours. Grown up Jason features… and doesn't come across well.

Today I learned that both Berlin and Gatwick allow people to take bigger than 100ml liquids and gels in hand luggage. This makes me happy… I can bring more and nicer gifts for people :)

Google satellite view is clearly using AI to augment the image where the image isn't great. But AI is making it so much worse, such as this street in north London maps.app.goo.gl/949yTH3bMUts...

View from the bridge #Fischerinsel #Berlin #Photo #Photography

Looks pretty good to me. If anyone is annoyed at this, they can comfort themselves with the other 99.9999% of UK streets where motor vehicle drivers basically do whatever the fuck they want.

I realised one of my colleagues just presses the AI "suggested reply" at the bottom of Gmail every time I send him a message. Sometimes he personalises it to make it relevant, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes it’s helpful, most times it’s not 🙃

Woah: Feds arrested a Google employee today, who they say made $1M+ betting on Google-related Polymarket events. Here are a few of the markets the account allegedly belonging to the employee wagered on. abcnews.com/US/google-em...

personally I think we should rebrand 15 minute cities as a RETVRN thing and see how fast the right jumps onboard. “Remember when your mam used to give you some money to stop by the shop and get milk on the way home from school? no cell phones, no car seats, just you and your bike with a basket”

This BBC article states that "climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this." Let me fix it: Climate change IS making these hot spells more likely and more dangerous. Scientists have been warning of this for decades. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Typical German experience: had a flat tyre, walked to the bike shop, they said they can't do it because they close soon. I asked to borrow a pump to at least get enough air in to get me home. Next thing I know, they're fixing it for me! 15 mins later, it's done.

A few years ago, during quite hot weather, I wore shorts to the office. The MD told my manger to tell me that shorts aren't OK. A week later, it got even warmer, and the MD started wearing shorts to the office. I decided not to point out his hypocrisy. Happy tho to not work in an office anymore.

I still remember how to sign "subtitles on ceefax page 888", thanks to Andy Crane in the broom cupboard (Children's BBC)

At least £325bn of ‘dirty money’ flows through UK each year, says report

President Trump has explained that he was sadly unable to attend his son’s wedding in the Bahamas because the date clashed with his latest staged assassination attempt. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/president-...

Today’s the anniversary of the passing into law of Section 28 in 1988, the first homophobic legislation in a century. Politicians and media said it was our own fault, told us to shut up and give up. We didn’t. Dont you dare give up now on trans people.

1. Erin Brockovich is back, and this time she’s taking on the AI industry, calling Big Tech’s data center boom the next major environmental shakedown facing American communities. She launched a self-reporting map at brockovichdatacenter.com, and within just one week, more than 1,600 residents had