"Tammy Waddell taught school for 25 years. Her obituary asked that in lieu of flowers, mourners should bring backpacks filled with school supplies, to honor her commitment to students in need."

Just listened to the brilliant F1 history podcast “And Collossally That’s History” about the ‘08 Brazilian GP. It’s easy to forget just how incredible a season finale that was, and how gracious Felipe Massa was on the day. Plus Matt Bishop really conveyed the emotion at McLaren that day. Glorious!

That should keep the Trick or Treaters away tonight.

I agree with you though that a lot of this is unrealistic and high voter expectations meeting a really hard situation for the government to deal with (which I think a lot of people also seem to be underestimating). Trump alone is a really massive problem for them.

The existence of Betty Boo doing the do implies the existence of Betty Boothroyd doing the doothroyd

If you spend just 5 mins researching Nigel Farage's partner Laure Ferrari you will suddenly see clearly how much the media chooses to ignore the big stories for political gain. For a start no one seems to be asking where an unemployed former waitress found £900k to buy a house outright in Clacton

Fair dinkum, Nige. That’s a stylish suit you’ve got on. Just try and avoid getting any dinner medals on it.

Looks like Angela Rayner will be sacked over not paying her taxes. I don’t recall so much fuss when Jeremy Hunt, “forgot” he owned a number of flats and therefore didn’t declare them and he was the chancellor!

Remember this guy? He was pretty much given every job in the cabinet. Tories can fraud themselves raw. Labour can never make any mistakes. Ever #Newsnight

Happy #FollowBackFriday everyone. I don’t think the tories are in a position to lecture anybody when it comes to corruption… Will follow back like-minded people.✊ #newsnight #r4today #BBCBreakfast #AngelaRayner #RaynerOut #Raynermustgo

That’s good - otherwise we’d be calling them Parlıck lhıslle.

Nice to see another Doctor Who link to this year’s Eurovision; the winner has clearly gone to Davros’ costumier for their outfit. #Eurovision #DoctorWho

Just seen an ad for “New Oreo Original Recipe”. There’s something wrong there ….

Is it just me, or is Austria’s Eurovision entrant the result of a Brundlefly type accident, where Terry Christian and Gok Wan stepped into a teleporter at the same time?

Cyprus’s vote announcer takes Most Unusual Suit of the event award. Blue silk ribbon; bold move!

DLT’s let himself go a bit, but has still secured the job of vote announcer for Belgium.

Finland’s vote announcer is clearly wearing a jacket made from the mat used beneath a Scalextric track.

Montenegro’s points announced by Mel Gibson, in costume for Braveheart.

Has Italy’s Eurovision entrant dressed as the ghost of Justin from The Darkness?

Tim Currie tribute act currently giving it large while the Eurovision votes come in.

200 million viewers were just subjected to a woman in a sparkly dress spitting into a scaffolding tube. Is this entertainment?

Current Eurovision scoresheet, from me (until the end) and the present Mrs Furball (until she fell asleep).

How long plastics can last; found yesterday just above the strand line on Drigg beach, West Cumbria - Co-op barm cakes bag. Price; 1 shilling.

America. You’ve somehow convinced yourselves that a convicted criminal is a legitimate President. Please wake up. You know, deep down, this isn’t right. Don’t you?

Democrats; please, please wake up and do your duty. The free world may depend on it. You have this power in your hands, whether you appreciate it or not.

"I'm not a huge fan of Ukraine. It's a very very corrupt country," says Nigel Farage. This should be the final nail in Reform's coffin.

Over 100 countries offered assistance to the US after 9/11. None of them asked for their money back, demanded a thank you, insisted on quid pro quo, or suggested we consider capitulating to terrorists.

FFS Donald Trump! Stop. Think. Do better. I’m an inconsequential guy, but I hope that somehow you see this. You know you can do your job better than you have so far in your second term. Far, far better.

The regulatory state, when functioning well in the common interest, is a pinnacle of civilisation almost without parallel. Only human beings would be stupid enough to build it, and then start making up reasons to tear it down.

A good government agency is nearly invisible. You have safe food, clean water, stable power etc and you never have to think about it. The best societies have boring bureaucracy notices in the paper and not much else.

Musk Farage et al are the enemy. That is the news and everything else is just semantics.

There is no salient person who does not know it was a sieg heil. The whataboutism and explanations dismissing it are what should alarm you. I knew Musk had racist leanings, he’s South African for God’s sake. I was not yet prepared for Americans to not care. The lack of outrage is the lead.

Repost proudly if you have left X and joined Bluesky full time 🦋

Trump’s Idiocracy Begins: How The F*** Has This Happened Again? The broverlord’s idiot circus enters town as a new study PROVES the radical right (and only the radical right) uses disinfo as political strategy. We must resist the assault on truth and never let it happen again. youtu.be/wcEiFvyp99I

My local Council has just announced that thanks to the best Government settlement they’ve had in years, they can reintroduce a free travel card for under 18s. Labour have been on the end of a load of newspaper criticism but this kind of thing goes unreported. Under the Tories, it was cut cut cut.

Let’s give this a go then… 🚨NEW VIDEO🚨 youtu.be/GHiVzVS26Jc?...

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

Respect to Labour for planning to ban “trail hunting” which is essentially just backwards toffs continuing to illegally fox hunt like bastard savages. A working class govt means the rich paying inheritance tax, private school VAT and not killing animals. Your mates aren’t in power now, posho’s. Ha.

"We need to call privatization what it is: adding a profit tax onto a public good. A public post office puts all its resources toward delivering mail. A privatized post office will divert a large chunk of its income to shareholders. In what universe is that better?" @snmrrw.bsky.social

Its hard to celebrate Trump found as a felon without a sentence. Its not how the rule of law should work.

Lawyers for Liz Truss have asked me to stop saying Liz Truss crashed the economy. I only said Liz Truss crashed the economy because Liz Truss did crash the economy. If she wanted me to not say Liz Truss crashed the economy, she shouldn’t have crashed the economy. Please don’t share.

Every single @uklabour.bsky.social MP, the UK PM and every single office of state should come off X and join blue sky. It would send a very powerful message.

Low-key rebellion against Farage - how about reclaiming the name Nigel? #OurNige #Nigel