Fascinating results in the second round of the French local elections, with the extreme-right failing to win any of its significant targets once again. Paris remains socialist, and so - it seems - does Marseille. Lyon remains Green. Centre right and "republican right" candidates doing well.

If ever you wanted a representation of the pointlessness and inefficiency of #Brexit, here it is. Two stickers, exactly the same except one has a British flag on it. And we all have to pay for it.

Ex-Prince Andrew wasn’t looking forward to his first night in a static caravan on the visitors’ car park on the Sandringham estate

Lovely Mya. Ooh la la: the late 90s Betty boo. #totp

We recently paid people to unfollow the most divisive accounts on X. After a month, they felt 23% less animosity towards other political groups Their experience was so positive that half declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study and they felt less animosity 11 months later.

Muphry’s law strikes again @iandunt.bsky.social

Was particularly impressed with her repeatedly saying how humble she felt, whilst wearing a sparkly LOOK AT ME dress.

I wish @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com either followed me or opened up her replies. I have Things to Say about the freelance environment.

I see Kemi Badenoch is only a believer in personal responsibility when it is convenient to her.

Oof

Up to an hour ago, there was a debate on what would convince the US Administration to opt for some type of pause on tariffs. Would it be Congress, the President's advisors, business leaders, the legal system, markets, or something else? We got the answer today: 1 of 2

It's uncanny how much Donald Trump resembles Old Biff Tannon

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

Stephen Collins is a genius

Wordle 1,356 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Boom

If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.

I’m on my way into Paris from CDG on the RERB. Every time I make this journey (which is often) I think about all the Jewish people put on trains at Drancy to be sent to their deaths. It’s not much, but it’s something. #HolocaustRemembrance #HolocaustEducation #HistoryMatters #AgainstHate

Quote tweet with a bridge from your gallery

That is a headline nobody has ever used before.

Just deleted my Facebook account. I may regret this, but I doubt it.

Hey @richardosman1.bsky.social - you might be interested in this for your podcast. The French version of "Gladiators" on TF1 was canned after just two shows after audiences plummeted.

"Can you perform under pressure?" No, but I can sing shake it off

An inspirational tale for aspiring journalists. Remember, if you're a sibling of the former Prime Minister, and close personal friends with the current editor of your favourite magazine, and his ex-wife, you too can achieve your childhood dream of becoming its columnist

Writer: A man is knocked out during a robbery. His wife and children are brutally murdered- Pixar exec: Gee, it's kinda dark. Writer: …Ok a FISH is- Pixar exec: YES.

Can we cut to the bit where the hipsters discover mild ale? Bored with IPAs.

Remember to be kind to Suella Braverman, she hasn’t been this upset since she failed to imprison hundreds of traumatized asylum seekers on a prison barge filled with disease

I don't know who needs to hear this, but apparently Nadine Dorries is ringing up bookshops (anonymously) to see if they have her book on display.

one of my favorite things about Minnesota is they have a Confederate battle flag from Virginia that they captured in battle. Every year Virginia asks for it back, every year Minnesota says "no."

I don't have a lot of sympathy for the UK pro-Palestine movement (not the same as being anti-Palestinian), but their march should go ahead. Not least because I suspect it will show these people for who they are, but mostly because freedom to protest is what makes the UK better than places like Gaza.

This former Thalys train’s Eurostar rebrand is remarkably half-assed.

As always, please check your kids candy. We found an M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel mine in a bag of fun size M&M's #halloween #safety

So this is my first morning on #bluesky, and the first thing I have noticed is that the ‘discover’ tab contains interesting stuff. It’s a pleasant change from recent Twitter, where ‘for you’ means ‘this is where the worst people in the world are trying to get your attention’.