This is for someone's birthday who I don't know so I should probably butt out, but it might be the funniest thing I've seen all week.

I'm a fairly mild-mannered chap, but this happening time after time after time is making me more than a little miffed.

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

APROPOS OF ABSOLUTELY NOTHING To make sausage rolls, you first take pork mince and you season it with salt and ground white pepper. You add a whole egg for binding and a couple of handfuls of breadcrumbs. You mix it through very thoroughly with your hands, yes they will get grubby. Then fridge it.

Rustaveli Avenue is absolutely packed tonight. One year of continuous, nationwide protests in Georgia against an illegitimate, pro-Russian regime. 🎥 Mo Se

Phoned HMRC today. 0/10. Do not recommend. Letter said I owed tax on a medical insurance payout. Don't have MI. Have never had MI. 6 mins of irrelevant babble. 47 mins on hold. 30 secs speaking to a human. 5 more mins on hold. 40 seconds talking to a human who confirmed it was their error. 🤬

They should've given Jack Dee and Bjork their own show. #totp

Every meatloaf song like: I'd vacuum for you (but not clean the filter) #TOTP

"we will not tolerate a culture of leaks to right-wing journalists" I can't be 100% but I think she means The Guardian

Grifters gotta grift.

Jesus wept. #totp

If you'd like to watch along with me and 779 other losers - www.youtube.com/live/GafgqNb...

Find me a better intro I'll wait www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This edition of #totp is nearer D Day than today.

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Ha! Take that, America.

Her *6* bedroomed house in North Kensington. 6!

Cannot abide this sort of whiny yodelling. 🤢 #totp

She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

Remarkable how the gambling industry and its allied MPs always yell that if you tax gambling you’re out of touch with the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap who loves a flutter. Actual ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap: Tax it! Tax it more! Keep on taxing it, you bastards!

REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Strands #634 “With gratitude” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

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Stuart Sutcliffe inventing Suede here

lmao

27 November 1905 | A Czech Jewish woman, Ilsa Strossová, was born in Brno. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

27 November 1921 | A Pole, Adam Szwech, was born in Warsaw. He was arrested and incarcerated in Pawiak Prison in Warsaw on 24 October 1940. In #Auschwitz from 6 April 1941. No. 13441 He perished in the camp in 1941. --- "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved. New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There's a tradition that never gets old: our ex-orphans returning home after giving birth, just to share the joy with the Keepers who raised them. This time of year is full of these reunions - mothers bringing their wild-born babies back to say hello. That's what your support creates. 🐘💚

27 November 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Lucienne Finkelstein, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz on 21 August 1942. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.

“Mirek, could you provide a photo of you looking anxious” “Sorry I only have this”

27 November 1925 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Jeanette van Geldern, was born in Rheden. In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

This is my fave misquote of the day:

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

One of the most informative floorplans.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

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Strands #633 “All aboard!” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵

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