Norm MacDonald was a comedian who relentlessly mocked OJ Simpson despite knowing the network director was a friend of Mr Simpson. It got him fired. At this time of a craven GOP (understandable MAGA are nuts) it seems pertinent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Ma... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Ma...

That’s actually quite clever. I turned on voice text and brushed my teeth to see what would happen. I was rather expecting it to type some sort of noise sound. Brrrrr or whatever, but it didn’t type anything impressed.

Today’s hero: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Wülferhampton chocolates

The leader Putin failed to break Maia Sandu is the Telegraph’s World Leader of the Year after defying the Kremlin to turn Moldova into Europe’s front line of democracy archive.is/2025.12.31-0...

Wet Winter Weather, painting by Mal Burton, b.1944.

@bsky.app 1st thank you for your work. I am concerned recent reporting has shown that bots and bad actors are flooding social media, fostering division. What is Bluesky doing to minimise this? Thank you. finance.yahoo.com/news/cracker... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Doesn’t mean he’s a pedo. (Doesn’t mean he’s not either)

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

🔥 This morning, Enterprise "Temp Combine" of Rosrezerv was hit 💥 Rybinsk oil depot is an important point for the storage and distribution of petroleum products in the North-Eastern region of the Russian Federation.

A lot of people are saying Trump's trade war is ineffective, but in reality it keeps delivering for Aussie beef farmers.

Listening to a long form interview with Theresa May on radio 4 and wishing we had more long form interviews / interrogations of current politicians

Cuteness overload www.instagram.com/reel/DS25_41...

Back in September of this year the Russians launched a missile into Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers building and attempted to assassinate Ukraine's Prime Minister in her office. Why wasn't Trump "very angry" about this?

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

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This is how you do it folks

Bluesky juxtapositions. I rather like this one

He can tske his chlorinated chixken & hormone fed beef & stick it you know where. 38d.gs/bm8t

More musicians have canceled upcoming concerts at the Kennedy Center after the board voted to add Trump’s name to the venue. Singer Kristy Lee: "When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else's ego, I can't stand on that stage."

The UAE’s EDGE Group plans to acquire a 30% stake in Ukrainian drone and missile maker Fire Point for around $760 million, valuing the company at $2.5 billion. Fire Point, known for its FP-1 and FP-2 drones and the Flamingo missile, has become Ukraine’s top defense supplier in just two years.

"Following the Ukraine-US meeting, Trump lauded Putin, saying the Russian president “wants to see Ukraine succeed”. This is becoming farcical giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Blackout in Moscow: over 600,000 Russians are reportedly without power, according to Russian media. No official cause confirmed yet, but it follows earlier reports of a Ukrainian drone swarm targeting the region.

Farage has said in the past that it is he who has destroyed the BNP and far right politics in Britain by providing political vehicles that engage with 'legitimate concerns' in a less extreme way. But the truth is he just sanitises the far right. He has been stoking/amplifying it all along.

If you were personally not racist but you ran a party that contained this level of racism, you'd resign on the basis you had somehow ended up organising racists into a serious campaigning force, which had never been your intention. On the other hand, if you *are* a racist...

@chesneyhawkes.bsky.social watched you and your missus on escape to the country. You both seem very nice

Biden & his natsec team w/the seeming exception of SecDef Austin, wanted to make sure Ukraine did not lose, but also were not willing to ensure that Ukraine could/would win becuase they were overly concerned about Russia's viability as a state if Ukraine did win. 1/

It reminds me of the place the Tories were in during / after Brexit. They decided it was simpler to put the headbangers in charge. And now look at them: utterly irrelevant, with the headbangers jumping ship to an even crazier cult. If the GOP were wise, they'd look and learn. But they aren't.

Heard a psychologist on (I think ) CNN saying only 4 national leaders have ever met the clinical standard for "Malignant Narcissist". Gaddafi Saddam Hitler Trump And Trump has cognitive decline. His conclusion: "the President of the USA is both evil and demented"

Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

One of the two parties Trump is negotiating with is brazenly lying to his face about something as serious and easily disprovable as a large scale assassination attempt... and he not only couldn't give less of a shit but credulously repeats the lie to the world's press. Should be a bigger deal.

PSA: The reason Ukraine isn't targetting Putin's residences with drones and missiles are that both are finite resources and: a) It's not clear killing him would help; b) The residences are heavily protected by air defense; c) They include bunkers; d) They are huge so you can hit and still miss.

Discovery: If you like lebkuchen you’ll probably like gingerbread kit kats (and vice versa)

I often think back to a Greek taxi driver who once told me: "Too many people want the harshest laws they can imagine - for everyone except themselves." This thinking is rife on the right, but it is also prevalent in a significant minority on the left. And that last part always takes me by surprise.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

@quietriotpod.bsky.social it’s interesting (to me at least) that whenever I hear about attacks on Starmer, I assume they’re from the left. Also Naomi may be correct that FPTP may have had a terrible year but it’s still clinging on with vice like grip!

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Good morning from the very wise cat.

Netanyahu announces that he's awarding the Israel Prize to President Trump. Trump says it's "surprising and very much appreciated"

I'll have you know the BEST TEA in the world comes from the Yorkshire tea plantations planted on the rolling hills and dales of the old muck-stacks.

@wulfhelm.bsky.social hope you are feeling ok

Good morning to all the Wülferhampton miscreants… and if you’re not a miscreant… Well there’s still time to fix that

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@edstringer.bsky.social it seems to me that Biden did not want Russia to win and didn’t want Ukraine to lose. An ongoing conflict that weakened Russia and prevented the chaos of Russian political collapse. Despite Trump being pro-Putin is the US continuing the same policy?