I admire BBC News putting 'First cabinet minister resigns' so we can all click on the headline, check the story and go: "Who the hell is that?"

WD 40 works to remove blu-tack from walls, this is an important alert!

Off to the Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum with @chicalolita.bsky.social today.

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Between her and Streeting, are they trying to just save time by putting a Reform policy platform in now?

Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

Labour electing Wes 'Cosplay David Cameron' Streeting would be the absolute end of the party. Their Liz Truss moment, but with even more selling off of the NHS.

It is objectively insane that all the money the average renter earns until mid May every year goes straight into the pocket of their landlord.

.... huh?

Again, maybe we could've done this before the elections?

The entire US system is based on a false economy. See also their constant complaining about energy-saving lightbulbs that actually cost less in the long run.

Starmer is like a film written, directed and produced by committee based entirely on polling, focus groups and AI suggestions. If he ever had a vision of his own, we're never allowed to see it. He's the Madame Web of politics.

It's not like the film has a sub-plot about people who look like they're working together to save the status quo but are actually scheming to take over and oh...

Best graph I've seen to explain the results so far. Look at all those Did Not Votes!

‘If you’re a nativist, you believe in mono-ethnicity, you believe in mono-religion, then London is the antidote and the antithesis, because we are diverse, we are pluralistic, we are liberal and we are incredibly successful on any objective criteria.’

Stranger in my comments: “Do you use AI to make your art?” My art:

Concert ticket pricing.

Brought to you from the man who suggested injecting bleach to deal with Covid.

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My pal Paul points out that the penalty shootout earlier between Rochdale and Boreham Wood pitted Oliver Whatmuff against Ted Curd. “It’s as if I’m playing Football Manager on a ZX Spectrum and I’ve renamed the players myself”

When I opened Friday’s show by saying that all we were waiting for now was Kemi Badenoch to declare herself the real winner of the elections, I was actually and absolutely joking!

I've decided I don't really like Weekend Update as a format, not in the UK or the US version.

The biggest danger in this world is people who barely even bother to read the headlines of tabloids and then go out and vote. And there are a LOT of them.

Labour, eternally learning the wrong damn lessons.

It's good and all that the media is now deciding to highlight the problems with Reform corruption and Farage getting bankrolled from abroad, but it would've been better to do that before the local elections rather than two days later. It's not as if this information was new.

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The Boys aired an episode with a golden statue of Homelander in a church *this week*. That's astonishing timing.

Buy Alex’s books!

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

He's back!

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

How voting third party got Trump elected in a nutshell. Cutting off your own nose to spite your face.

How about this as some headlines: *Reform went backwards on last year *Results in line with their falling poll score *They underperformed their polls in Scotland *If this had been a General, they wouldn't have won a majority even when the govt is phenomenally unpopular Bit of a different story?

I think the right is wrong, as it has been for decades now, that people dislike Gordon Brown. Voters were just exhausted at New Labour by the time he took over. He’s not perfect but looking at what he’s done with his time since then underlines that he is basically a Good Guy.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

A little perspective. Which you won’t get from the media. Note that only England had local elections: Scotland & Wales had full parliamentary elections. #UK #England #Localelections

BBC Projected National Share of the vote for the local elections with the change from last year. Despite the fanfare in the media for Reform this echoes their steady decline in the polls. Reform 26% -4 Green 18% +7 Labour 17% -3 Conservative 17% +2 Lib Dems 16% -1

Doomerism is to Labour what demented optimism is to the Tories. Completely different party psychologies. As a rule, one expects to lose while the other expects to win.

Modest proposal: People who use "staycation" to mean "going on holiday" to be placed under indefinite house arrest.

Hello. You may know me from that thing I posted you liked. Anyway, it's my birthday on June 5th & while I'd rather not ask strangers for help, life in Costa Rica is financially hard & a battery for my bike would make it incredibly easier. So if you can help, thanks. ko-fi.com/nickpettigre...

I miss the days when the media and politicians could point out things that were demonstrably untrue. Demonstrably is the key word here. You can demonstrate facts and debunk lies rather than just staging a shouting match and pretending it's a debate.

They found the unicorn, someone who switched from voting Labour to Reform.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

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Ok this is amazing

When Midnight Run is on TV, it has to be watched. No exceptions.

tbf, Gordon Brown did just that and that's how we ended up in hell.