Mani, Udo Kier and Jimmy Cliff all in the same week???

Not sure what Chomsky's excuse will be for this but happy to take money that it involves at least two mentions of Nicaragua www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reform get accused of wanting to go back to the 1970s its usually because of the racism, but it tuns out they miss good old fashioned Cold War spy scandals as well www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ideas for popular policies that would visibly improve day to day life in the UK: Permit term time holidays Make trains affordable Make council tax rational Bad ideas: Taking jewellery from people fleeing a war

If the answer to Starmer is Streeting we should probably stop asking questions

Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”

Charli XCX and John Cale putting the Velvet Underground back together was not on my 2025 list, but I'm totally here for it

The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*. The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.

Not letting me kids have the Simpsons season pass on Fortnite till they add Superintendent Chalmers as a playable skin

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

That Frank Skinner story in Popbitch today is odd. Comedians in Manchester make Shipman jokes. It's local humour.

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-for-making-rich-richer/

Wait, she hasn't looked at her phone and read the big story on the main page of the only news source that backs her party? There is literally nothing else to do at Sky News while you wait, unless she really takes her time on Wordle

Why do young liberals love Zohran Mamdani? We talked to 3 elderly Staten Island conservatives who can’t correctly say his name.

FA: Just stick both the north east clubs on at 3pm. Their fans famously hate football and pubs. Everyone else can be on telly tomorrow at once

Trying to buy a specific kids Halloween costume a week before Halloween and it turns out I didn't get the memo about having to order this stuff in September when I didn't need it

Starting to sound like this Prince Andrew fella might be a bit of a wrong un

The Today program was just a bit odd this morning wasn't it? Whole thing given over to Maccabi Tel Aviv's travelling Ultras save for a bit about Taylor Swift mentioning a painting and Justin Webb struggling to understand what a Community Impact Assessment is

Big issue with the Labour/McSweeney/strategy debate is the mistake that Starmer won a landslide because of saying 'toolmaker' a lot and Reeves fiscal rules, rather than despite saying 'toolmaker' and banging on about fiscal rules. There was no political genius, people just hated the Tories

Please, someone, anyone, make the Andy Burnham coverage stop

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Today program this morning lambasted Ed Davey for doing stunts for media attention. An hour or so later the news cycle is focussed on Reform's latest diatribe and not a mention of the Lib Dem conference

Scheduling it so that pubs are showing Sunderland and Newcastle at the same time is going to make things interesting

It's hard to read the Kimmel stuff and still think the corporatist authoritarian takeover of the US is a bit overblown

Did not have Devo down for performing at Trumps state visit

Finally bounced off Silksong because I simply can not be arsed to pogo all the way to Sister Splinter for a third go

No notes

Sad that the world just got considerably less handsome

Hopefully in a few years time cable ties on lamp posts will join 2 meter floor markers on shop floors as reminders of when things got weird for a bit

Starmer seems to be totally incapable of doing anything that would please people who might actually vote for him

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

There is no need for FIFA in its current form to exist and if a few top nations stopped playing along the whole charade would collapse

Did not have MCA from the Beastie Boys on my suspect list for the Charlie Kirk thing

Starmer’s stated rationale for sacking Mandelson was that new emails showed the Labour peer urging Epstein to prove his innocence this makes no sense it literally implies Starmer would have been relaxed if Mandelson had thought Epstein was guilty when he stayed at his Manhattan house in 2009

Trump Claims He Can’t Be Expected To Remember Every Birthday Card He Sends To Child Molesters https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-cant-be-expected-to-remember-every-birthday-card-he-sends-to-child-molesters/

Did not expect to see Anusol adverts around the pitch in Belgrade tonight

So Boris Johnson and Peter Mandelson are both dodgy? Its never the ones you expect is it?

Why do none of the reported messages in Epstein's birthday book just say some variant of "Hope you have a great day Jeff!" but all say something like "Take as much pleasure from the 'gift' I have arranged for you, as I have from those you have kindly supplied to me over the years..."

Well done England for making the Simpsons soccer meme a reality

Jonathan Wilson on Radio 4 Today?! Immediately after forgetting they had a comment from Wes Streeting?! And then Stewart Lee on Rave culture?! What went wrong at the BBC today and can it happen again tomorrow please

Fire extinguisher on my flight loves 90s Prince

Doing my first solo holiday in ages tomorrow, so figured I would go old school Twitter and ask if anyone has good tips for Dubrovnik?

Think if Sunderland can replicate that result for the next 37 games there is a good chance of us staying up

Have been putting off a load of random work with deadlines for weeks, resulting in increasingly weird anxiety dreams. Sat down today in a coffee shop and it took twenty minutes to do the lot over one flat white

The decision to let Swamp Thing move in as a lodger is going well

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

So from today it's Professor Northcott. Has not properly sunk in yet but current mood is 'chuffed'

Several ex-partners would disagree

The age verification thing on Bluesky seems to be grossly overestimating the number of people under 30 who are not on here for work

Rewatching The Decline Of Western Civilisation Part 2 for the Ozzy bits, but fuck, does Lemmy not own the whole thing