I'm looking forward to Andy Burnham making performative visits to the people of the south of England. It'll be like when past PMs visit the North. "So what is it you make here? Money? Ah yes, my grandfather used to make that. Very good, very good."

I need a Hiro!

We do like to fight idiots with idiocy whenever possible. Nobody expects politics in the summer, it's unseemly. Farage should know this as a nationalist. If he wants to go door to door in a heatwave, let him have it. I bet Binface has aircon in there.

Binny McBinface. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing British people voted for. Hartlepool elected a man dressed as a monkey to be mayor on a policy of free bananas for all local schools WHICH HE UPHELD. H'Angus the Monkey aka Stuart Drummond Mayor for 11 years. Dream the impossible dream Clacton.

Jenrick is on @lbc.co.uk the same day the police announced they're investigating him. Nobody's mentioned this yet www.ft.com/content/1527...

He's acting like everyone but Clacton is smart enough to see he's dodgy. The voters have a shot to be rid of all this crap. There must be more news agencies in Clacton then politicians on any given day. Vote for peace Clacton! Save yourselves!

So Nigel wants to gain immunity from all his sins by winning the job he already has? And he's still the most physically attacked politician of modern times even though two have been killed in the last ten years and three weeks because yes the tenth anniversary of losing Jo Cox was only 3 weeks ago.

The 200th birthday was so much more civilised. Happy birthday America

Good thread, I'm hoping this will be one of "those" images. One for the history books. Good people, patriots looking at what's in front of everyone and saying the emperor has no clothes. The dude's nude, Dude. The dude is nude.

Some help required. Daughter lost her very special to her Coraline Cat (pictured) at the Kneecap Crystal Palace gig on Saturday night last. Incredibly long shot but means a lot to her. Any and all help very welcome. Pictured at the gig and previously visiting Big Ben.

Have that (Print run of this one now available in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com)

It must be galling for Kemi Badenoch as she makes a statement about Labour trading Starmer in for a pair of eyelashes and a black t-shirt, that soon she will not automatically be the most stylish party leader. Easy to clip up a winning exchange when your opponent looks like Starmer. Less so Burnham.

If I was Keir Starmer, I'd pass a bill to rejoin Europe and flip off the Reform bench on my way out to the bar. Then close the bars.

Because of Brexit we can take control of the sun. We used to have to share it with Europe but they never let us have it full strength. Now we've won it we've done it. TURN UP THE SUN!

There is no safe addiction. But for other addictive things like cigarettes, tobacco, gambling we have age limits. We also have recovery programs for those who need them and public information for known risks. We desperately need that for social media too.

youtu.be/ItxpnClS8-k?... Rest in peace Ripper

Quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

this is why Dems need to go as hard as possible on reforms and actually fixing things rather than kick the can, because "people will remember how bad things were and not put these folks back in charge" is a demonstrably false statement

Unless Lammy is crushing JD's knuckles in his vice like grip, this isn't a good look. Read the planet David.

"All of it conducted with the arrogant, reckless confidence of two countries that have decided the normal rules of consequence simply don’t apply to them. As if power absolves you of the need for strategy, as if entitlement is a substitute for wisdom." Well said Bear. Well said.

open.substack.com/pub/techtren... Good read. Confirms a lot. Tldr AI code is janky as hell, being solved with resources not quality.

Describe your bluesky account in a single image.

In a world full of problems, I hate that this technology boils our engines of hope down to empty non-interaction. My school recently polled to see how the faculty feels about using AI for GRADING. At what point is it just robots talking to each other? Where is the humanity in these humanities?

You will not agree with everyone marching at No Kings! You won't like every sign you see or cheer at every single line from every speaker! And that's fine - that's even great! It's important to get exposed to the diversity of the coalition and figure out where your lane is.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m... This is what happens when people think that just because nobody is holding them accountable today, that means they will never be held accountable. They will be held accountable. Happened with tobacco, happening here.

After the last time we had the Chilcot enquiry in the UK which gave us a checklist of what we should check before joining another war. It gives clear reasons to tell Donny to piss off. Legal implications, what does success look like? Not great there. What might happen next? Who the hell knows?

Me: "May I have two scoops of cookie dough please?" Waiter: "Yes, you wanna spoon?" Me: "Sure, what time do you get off?"

If you see this, post a robot 🤖

We've gone from YOLO to FAFO in just over ten days.

Why is everyone surprised that a ship the size of a village that was docked and taken to bits took a week to get going? It took my car three days to get through it's MOT.

Just recording the point where I said fuck Labour and switched to Green. This isn't a sudden decision and I've never been a party member, I strategically vote against the right wing. This though... It's one thing to jolly the old fart along in a golden coach. It's another to join his war.

Previous generations of rich people knew that it was important for them to shut the fuck up and build libraries and parks and hospitals since that was the only way we would tolerate them in society. This generation of rich people have forgotten why this was necessary. We should remind them.

This is not the most important thing, but a really good reason to educate your kid in math early is you end up finding pieces of paper with equations written in little girl handwriting, with hearts and cats drawn around them.

Share a preacher, priest, or nun.

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

So FIFA gave Trump a sculpture of a human head weeping into it's hands. Bleak man, bleak www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Yesterday, today That escalated quickly

How's my morning going?

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨 That’s outrageous! Or is it? Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy? Let’s take a 👀 1/17 🧵

#duolingo energy cuts you off mid lesson then makes you watch an ad to then cut you off again mid lesson. It's a killer for me. A note at the start of the lesson saying "you won't get through this" would be nice. The free tier just went anti-learning by penalising when you quickly answer correctly.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... I guess the mass unsubscribing contributed too, funny they don't mention it. It's all discussions and judgements and not "that really f*cking hurt our streaming income!"

No particular reason

Tonight at 11:30