Oils doodling today…

When Darth Maul was wrestled to the ground in the Phantom Menace, did he become Darth Ruck? #LunchPun

Welfare cuts for the poor/disabled were not in Labour's election manifesto. PM Keir Starmer said: “those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”. Then hit the poorest. Biggest cuts since those imposed by Tories in July 2015. There is no economic/moral justification.

I use environmentally-friendly toilet cleaner. It doesn't kill 99% of household germs, but it does get *very* disappointed with them.

Hugely unimpressed with the Royal Society. Sadly this decision massively undermines it's integrity if it can't even enforce it's own rules. More later. www.theguardian.com/...

👇🏼😁

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Dunno about you lot, but I can usually tell when a movie doesn’t use real dinosaurs 🦖

and the second my back is turned Freddie Ayo is peak kitten. Mr BabyPotato Head

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

Starting all my emails today with, “to whom it’s about to concern”. 😁

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

Daffodil hunt: The search for rare flowers lost from history

"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

Who would have known www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

"The revolution will be televised... but you picked the wrong guy." Kendrick Lamar

As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? Reeves tweaks non-dom tax law because of “concerns” but ignores the cries of disabled, old, sick, poor. Poor are expendable. Wealthy potential donors less so. Govt must change direction.

The Papershop, Salford, by Steven Scholes (b. 1952). Corner shops used to be everywhere, now rare.

Me, in The National this morning. www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

Measles, mumps and rubella like this post.

When it rains heavy the young King penguins look so miserable...

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

Louder, for those in the back: ‼️ Tariffs are import taxes that are ultimately paid by American consumers — NOT the exporting country. If you don’t understand that yet, you soon will. ‼️

Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.

Good luck to the 16 climate activists appealing in the UK High Court today against excessive sentences. “among them is Gaie Delap, 78, who was recently recalled to prison because government contractors were unable to find the right-sized tag for her wrist” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Early Evening’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt Magazine cover, 1948

🎶 “When the moon hits your knees And you mispronounce trees Sycamorée”🎶

Dreamt Elon Muskolini had been ran over by a bus. I thought 'Wow that could've been me', but then I remembered I can't drive a bus...

The US has truly lost its way.

#StormEowyn The bins, having had a rough time of it during the last storm, are cowering in an corner they can rather than trying to make a break for it... Watch out people. They're getting smarter...

Trump is such a vile, disgusting, cruel, selfish, and heartless man. He doesn’t have a shred of human decency — none whatsoever. No compassion. No mercy. No shame. No heart. No soul. Of course, everyone knows that, but it still needs to be said at every opportunity.

Just a reminder that autism doesn't cause you to do a "Roman salute". Autism causes you to expound at length about how there's no historical evidence that the Romans used any such salute, and it's a modern invention that was seized upon by 1930s Italian fascists.

@reecedinsdale.bsky.social Hey Reece, I hope you're doing good? My publisher is running a 99p sale on the kindle version of my novel for a limited time. Would you mind RT this for me? Thanks

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Some brilliant news. Great stuff. Why anyone would buy anything linked to the appalling Murdoch is a mystery to me

In lighter news ma hoosekeeper has found more 'Bargains'. Aye that's a cat rug and a doormat yer no actually allowed tae put yer feet on

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Vital piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social on the gaping void and 'transition' from children's services to adult care (sorry, 'care'): '...a complete avoidance of issues to do with the grownups that children involved inevitably turn into' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh, come on! At the inauguration? Are you f*cking ketamine with this?

Meanwhile on X(Twitter) there are folk trying to explain that the Musk nazi salute is not a nazi salute and that the real enemy are the people who are calling out a the nazi salute, that the following say ain’t a nazi salute, that totally really is. 🤮

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

Lost Highway ended up being my favourite thing of his, I think. I don't really know why and of all the film-makers and dreamweavers, his tales were some of the most gloriously harrowing and impenetrable.

What a loss. Mulholland Drive was a triumph that stays with me years later

👀

MPs are set to vote through Labour ’s Renters Rights bill on Tuesday, banning no-fault evictions and demanding landlords fix serious health hazards like damp and mould 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...