@vaush.gg explains why @grahamformaine.bsky.social should drop out of the Senate race. Platner should drop out now. The allegations of rape are serious and credible. Do not vote for Graham Platner. #Vaush #Maine #US #youtube

It's a collective psychopathy, which treats disabled people, elderly people and people with long-term conditions as disposable. We see it in the Covid-19 pandemic. We see it in the heatwaves. Their deaths are inconvenient reminders that a favoured policy is disastrous. So they must be dismissed.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

How long will it be before we start hearing people with disabilities and special needs being described once more as "useless eaters"? Because frankly, if I'm interpreting this right, that's what such culture warriors are thinking. Sorry to download. Feeling quite angry and bitter right now.

@tristanjbarber.bsky.social the Committee have assembled (taking up forbidden places, naturally) in your honour...

Normandy’s behind you, lads

To all my friends: Please could you be so kind as to spare 5 minutes to fill in this survey on men's mental health? It's for EVERYONE, and forms part of a friend's dissertation research; please fill in to the best of your ability. Thank you for your time. forms.office.com/e/B7QWuBJhVB

Gay Cinderella:

To be fair, he really needs daytime rest after being up all night posting fantasy A-I images of himself on "Truth" Social, as all presidents do.

An old watercolour sketch of Cambridge Trinity Street. I must admit that populating the streets with people in their may ball finery did well for sales at a time when I really needed the money! #Cambridge #TrinityStreet #MayBall

Fishing in Cambridge in front of the ice cream kiosk on Jesus Green, Cambridge. Small oil painting #oilpainting #cambridge #fishing

VOL00003_IMAGES_0001_EFTA00003933.pdf Epstein is holding a check in this photo for $22,500. When the text for the signature is selected on this image the clipboard gets the word TAMP. But the signature reads DJTRUMP. So when TRUMP is searched for this image won't come up. #ReleaseTheFiles

An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. We need to share the good news that treatment will prevent AIDS. We must challenge fear by ensuring that everyone knows effective treatment means we can’t pass HIV on to our sexual partners (#UequalsU). 12/13

It was AIDS that killed those men, but it was homophobia that allowed it to happen – and that led to so many men dying alone. Homophobia killed us then. Worldwide, it remains the cause of thousands of deaths, through violence and neglect, even today. 11/13

At the same time Section 28, inserted into the Local Government Act in an attempt to ban “the promotion of homosexuality”, started making its way through Parliament. 4/13

The government’s ’Don’t Die of Ignorance’ HIV advertising campaign, featuring icebergs, a tombstone and a doom-laden voiceover, came out a couple of years later when I was in my first year at university. It was designed to terrify. It did. 3/13

Later that week, I watched with rising panic the Horizon documentary, Killer in the Village. It warned of a new disease that was killing gay Americans. A few cases had just been identified in the UK too. At that time, the disease did not have a name. We now know it as AIDS. 2/13

This not a problem of HS2, it's a problem of CANCELLING HS2 you stupid NIMBY fuckwits. www.thetimes.com/article/b86a... #transport #rail #UK #politics #HS2

Morning.

Not me, another one.

‘Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall, Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal. Cheese, apples and nuts, and good carols to hear, As then in the country is counted good cheer.’ ~ Thomas Tusser, ‘Christmas Cheer’, 1557. #Caturday #BookWormSat

May have started an alt 👀

It's been a productive year... I wonder if he'll thank me? #2025

It’s so refreshing to hear an MP acknowledge that the true disgrace of trans healthcare isn’t the mythical children being hurried into surgery (it DOESN’T HAPPEN!) but the years and years that trans people have to wait to be seen for affirmative care. Thank you Nadia. 💜

I’m 58 years old. I’ve been living with diagnosed HIV for over 27 years. HIV is a virus, not a limitation.

Do you know what U=U means? It stands for Undetectable = Untransmittable. When a person living with HIV is on effective treatment and their viral load is undetectable, they cannot pass on HIV.

I don't like to dress cats up in clothes, but for Halloween I do put stealth costumes on Francie when she's sleeping.

Well, at least *someone* likes the new bed... 🐯🖤

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

periodically I see posts that are like This Big Account Blocked Me And It Says Something About Society brother it is not that deep you were being annoying in my replies

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

Autumnal images snapped on stepping out this morning

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Graham Linehan persistently harassed and bullied trans women. He is not the victim.

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

Too many thought that the whole issue of Brexit was just about the EU. But Brexit, and with it the rise of Farage, was the start of a far right project to turn back the clock in Britain. Now we see the slide into 1970s-style racism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@tristanjbarber.bsky.social greetings! How are you?

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Small-hours Bob 🐯

Latest haircut all gone wrong; not sure what he was attempting to achieve but I'm pretty sure he was using a 4“ paint brush at one point. I look like a particularly unfortunate guinea pig (and feel like one, too).

Still not worse than being fiddled with whilst hearing “He hee”

*31 in my case... #catdad

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

It's a poor musician, nay, a sorry state of a human being, who denies their heritage and legacy in this fashion. Rod Stewart can get tae fuk.

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

I always experience my dreams during a second sleep (if one is granted me). This morning, from approx. 0500 to 0652, @calmeilles.bsky.social and I were receiving grief counselling from Ann Widdecombe, accompanied by Tudor polyphony (composer forgotten)