It's not like they can claim back the fuel duty for every mile driven over the border is it? BBC finding another (non-)reason to kick Labour. There are legitimate reasons so why invent something else? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who cares if one scummy billionaire tries to take down another scummy billionaire's space garbage business? Wouldn't choose to use either... they are both too fascist-adjacent. uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...

And another grifting #Reform deformation has been caught. How many rotten apples in the barrel before you define the barrel full is not fit? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is an interesting gotcha as oil companies and supermarkets switch to pay-at-pump to save staffing costs on overnight opening. And as people take to carrying their payment cards on phone wallets. You mostly can't pay at pay-at-pump with a phone. Play 'nearest manned late night pump roulette'😂

Contemptible ex PM of the UK proves why he was unfit to be chosen by the Tories. He can't accept he fucked up over COVID and is going for victim blaming instead. And this is the two faced scum who led the Brexit campaign and inflated Farrage's presence. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Clue for the Home Secretary... When you introduce changes that are ones Deform would introduce, don't dress like you were a Reform advert. It's really bad aping their policies, aping their dress code just makes it obvious you are not to be trusted. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

What can anyone say? No one is worth that. How can you even spend the interest on that? The interest per year is multiple billions, at 3% it's 30 billion a year FGS edition.cnn.com/2025/11/06/b...

Set an AI to catch AI slop. Originality.ai scanned a bunch of books on Amazon in the herbal remedies category and found 82% were likely clanker slop. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... We are all fucked if this is reflected elsewhere in newly written books.

Interestingly the Deform candidate for the upcoming by-election on Caerphilly isn't hiding his veracity with a first name of Llyr.

Interesting extract from Cory Doctorow's book 'Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse And What To Do About It' to be published by Verso on 14th October. UK publication date. Can't link the article as is apparently not online yet but it explains Amazon's current crap fest nature.

Do you find it annoying when someone posts a link to an article and... All the text they post is the link headline. All the link shows is the headline and the begging of the article is a repeat of the headline. I don't need to read the same sentence THREE TIMES!!!

As highlighted today by an NYT puzzle, why does the USA political right use red when for the vast majority of the world red is used by the political left? Similarly blue in the USA is politically the wrong way compared to the rest of the world. An indication of how fucked up US politics are?

Really, this is a fairly useless message from BlueSky because it misses the who and the how from the action. #blueskyerror #feedserver

The shambling rambling shit show embarrasses the US again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What a class act. www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/trump-s...

Nearly the end of Tuesday here, out of Tuesday into Wednesday for most of Asia and Europe and no sign of the Rapture. Or is God working EDT now? Surely not, God must work GMT+3 (Israel timezone)?

Without giving away any clues to today's NYT puzzle ... So fucked off with the idiocy of a puzzle setter who thinks a random four word string as the connection where the four words are the solution. Why would 'elephant on roller blade' ever be guessed if you saw those 4 words in the matrix?

Oops, seems enough people in the UK are unhappy about 🍊🤡 visiting to do something about it. www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...

Tongue in cheek suggestion for Rachel Reeves... If football clubs are so fucking rich they can lash out a hundred million quid to 'buy' a player, stick tax on the transfer market transactions. Either it would rein in the ludicrous transfer market or it would solve your budget worries.

He had this roll of heatproof polyimide tape, he kapton about it for hours. I'll get my coat

Interesting view on Silicon Valley from some minor self-serving UK politician who damaged the Libs by collaborating with Cameron to govern for a few years before bailing to work for Meta. Would you agree with his view on Zuck as being better? Unsure I would. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Overnight rain and morning sun making island maps on the patio table

Royal punch up in 2013 just reported in a biography, in which the Royal Not Paedo suggested Meghan Markle was too old for Harry. Harry now 40, Megan now 44... 4 years isn't much but clearly too much for Andrew. Wonder if he is on the Epstein list with tRump? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Well that aged verification by photograph by KWS was painful. About five minutes of being told to put my face in the frame before it decided there was a face and then it scanned it for age verification and decided it wasn't a face. Why doesn't it just say it needs BRIGHT LIGHTING? Well lit try 2 ok.

Five stages... Hooked Gaffed Meet the priest Gutted Devoured We are at #2 and I don't need to say who he is do I?

And I crashed and burned, just took many possibilities sharing no letters. #wordle Wordle 1,497 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩

RIP Ozzy Osborne, passed this day. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Elon's been messing with Grok just to prove his falling out with 🍊💩 isn't about him having a change of heart and going all lib and loveable. And still messing with politics outside his countries of citizenship. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Clearly worrying about the COVID inquiry hasn't done Matt Hancock's hair any good...

Listening to BBC R4 and their discussion about the problems with the current Labour government and there they go digging up that useless fucker Farridge again. What is their problem? Everyone else can see he is a useless grifter Trumpalike, the BBC appears to be woefully biassed.

Herring Gull attempting mind control over the photographer to convince them that their lunch is Gull food. Gloucester Hospital, UK

Why the controversy over Mamdani being selected by the Democrats? THIS IS A FUCKING PRIMARY. The election takes place in November. Who knows, maybe the incumbent will be retained as an independent. Maybe Mamdani will be elected. Maybe Sliwa or Walden will be elected. Or maybe 🍊🤡 will interfere.

How come US citizens don't have a term that describes them as a group? Most other nationalities do... think Spanish, Mexican, Canadian, German, British etc etc. You can't have Americans, it either means USA Citizen or someone who lives somewhere in The Americas. /2

#quordle Phew! Wordle 1,463 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Before Google's new building is opened for people its already got a resident population of urban foxes 🤣 #google #urbanwildlife www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

A recipe from poll tax riots in the UK a couple of decades ago that may find a use in LA. A mixture of vaseline (petroleum jelly) and dry porridge oats (oatmeal) is quite good for making a mess of vehicle windscreens... won't wash off with screenwash, won't wipe off easily with rags. /2

Some relief from the s**tstorm of life, when a houseboat isn't big enough... seen on the Sharpness Canal

Peonies Lighten the day with a couple of pictures of 'Bowl of Beauty' peony that has decided to burst into flower.

Interesting fact, given 8647 keeps being posted on blue sky, it's a prime number. Now what's the chance of that? There aren't that many primes around by the 8000s 8648 on the other hand is 92*94

And there is white smoke...

A question of definition... If they are called representatives but do not actually represent the wants of their electorate what are they? Spineless grifters? Asking on behalf of blue state voters.

He is on about 3D printing again, all I hear is plah plah plah

The really worrying thing is not that the administration is breaking the law but that it took so little time to get people to execute those illegal commands.

www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2... Doonesbury as in today's Guardian though they only printed the last six frames.

Competition for Tesla... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If it is 'woke' to accept someone's self-designation as identifying as a cat is it 'woke' to accept some 🍊💩 self identify as supporting America? In which case MAGA are about as 'woke' as they come.

An interesting discussion about the corrupting influence of the ultra rich and their habit of offshoring money and corrupting the world. As in how the oligarchy expect the world to bend to their every want. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

MAGA = Make America Gilead Alike? Maybe someone should point out that 'The Handmaids Tale' is dystopian sci-fi and not a plan for an improved society and that the end of the book implies it ends badly for the sons of Jacob.

Wow, American plastic surgeons must be good... Does this look like an ear that was shot two months ago? I know, it's the daily hate so ignore the words and admire the skill of the surgeon. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

RIP David Lynch I remember how strange and attention demanding Twin Peaks was when it was broadcast here. variety.com/2025/film/ne...