Oh good, the BBC and Sky both carrying Farage's 4th live speech today without any critique. This one looks like it will go on for ages. No explanation of Reform's rise is possible without an understanding of the massive role the media have had in boosting Farage. #BrokenMedia

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I’m still trying to figure out why we saw a half dozen young lads painted blue and dressed as Smurfs earlier today.

The return of Albert’s Nemesis. This was shortly before Albert appeared and started yelling at him.

An actually viable center-left alternative is an existential threat to a hard-right party (cosplaying as center-left) whose only argument for getting elected is "if you don't vote for us, you get the fascists whose policies we're copying"

Gerald, astonished that anyone would vote for these twats.

So the bastards had as bad a night as we predicted & are going to respond in the only way they know how: by doubling down on the double down. More racisms, more right wing rhetoric, even less for the poor & disabled, harder crackdowns on the pro-social hippies & anti-genocide peaceniks

A bit of fluffy cat to bless your timeline:

Via @owenjones.bsky.social A Red Cross staff member speaks out about @zackpolanski.bsky.social

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

We urgently need to make it plain to John Roberts that he’s running a bent court & we don’t have to kiss his ass and pretend otherwise.

I am more and more convinced that way too many of the people who claim to be extremely pro-free-speech are in fact pro-child-fucking. (The latest person to make me say this is Dershowitz)

How badly do Republican men need to believe their god king is invincible?

One thing I’ll give him is billionaires are now so dull and anhedonic but Ted was like an experiment to see what would happen if The Beverly Hillbillies was real.

To hell with CNN. As any kid who grew up in the South in the 1980s knows, Ted Turner's real legacy is the goddamn Superstation.

You know what would be really fucking transformative in 2026? Electing statehouses in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that will join the Interstate Popular Vote Compact, and designate their EC to the outright winner of the popular vote. That’s a better use of resources than navel gazing at 2028

My home district! Hell yes, Saginaw/Bay City!

Goddamn, the Spectator Garden Party media class are some of the most despicable people in the world.

Today's the eve of various elections in the UK. And this looks like a co-ordinated and cross-media attack on the Green Party, involving the BBC, Guardian, Sky, Independent, Telegraph and Times, amongst others.

I could live to be a thousand and still not understand the decision-making which got them here

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

The good mangoes are here! OK, so they didn’t have any Alphonso, but Kesar is close enough! I love May.

Yes, I know the uPVC door needs washing, but Jinxy really has softened towards Gerald, and they are now at least part-time friends.

Today is my birthday, and thanks to Clatterbridge I get to celebrate a few more. As a way to wish me happy birthday, i'd like you to all share this. Ive over 1000 followers and if you all share it could make a huge difference. If i can get 500 people to donate just £1, it would make an impact.Thanks

It’s very satisfying to have done a lot of work in the garden today, but I am somewhat miffed that now I’ve finished and watered everything, the sun finally came out.

I try to beat the snob charges but then I’ll see the art bought by people who got rich on crypto.

*adds hantavirus to the list of reasons I will never take a cruise*

That's the west coast mainline for you

No matter how many times I make my cats run until their lungs bleed they just aren't making me a profit, so I'm gonna get rid of them. If nobody wants to buy them I'll auction them off for slaughter. Sounds awful right? But that's exactly how most racehorses are treated. Fuck the Kentucky Derby.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

Gerald dramatically sicks up hairball, as I am cleaning the litter box, then, as I am dragging the bin bag of soiled litter out the door, immediately hops into the box and relieves himself. Now fully purged, he begins the cycle anew by eating kibble. I love cats, I remind myself.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

Just made the husband a full English for lunch, and in the process found the first rotten egg I’ve ever innocently cracked open and oh my god, it’s even more disgusting than I imagined.

Back from the Port Sunlight market, and feeling smug, because it didn’t rain, and also we bailed before the Lord Mayor could give his speech on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the market’s founding.

Incarcerated while I dish up breakfast. Not only do they need to be kept separate from the ladies while they eat, but they also need to be contained while I get the food ready, or I’ll be besieged, and by “they” I mean Gerald. Poor Albert just happened to be in the sunroom when I jailed Gerald.

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Lambiek has a really detailed biography. Some of it I knew, some I didn't. Nicole was really an altweekly cartoonist who somehow snuck into daily papers w/o the editors noticing. The only one of us who pulled that off.

Leading by example. There’s a thought.

"This is bizarre. These three members of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party seem willing to eat our faces. How on Earth did that happen?"

There is an approximately 50-year-old Karrimor rucksack in this house belonging to my husband, and it looks like hell, but is still capable of carrying a huge amount of stuff. It’s a shame what’s happened to the brand.

I have acquired the goods. Bloody hell, the queue was huge. I predict Solo will do well on Bebington Rd, if the last couple of days are anything to go by.

It's interesting, when you post about the media doing some extremely uneven & politically convenient coverage of current affairs - right before a key election - all of a sudden your mentions fill up with people you've never seen before.

Keir Starmer’s niece was made a candidate in a safe Labour council ward over two sitting black female councillors, it has been reported

Gerald and Jinxy are tag-teaming a very unfortunate insect.

Everything sucks except the weather and my six little friends who joined me during my ten minute coffee break on the patio.

I honestly didn’t think it could get worse than Patel and Braverman. I was wrong.

sad scenes at the House of Lords as the now homeless hereditary peers are led into a van, which will take them to the city pound :(