The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Eight. Seriously? Not even worth a slow handclap.

Portland is such a cool place. Even when it’s war-torn, the combatants get to wear the coolest uniforms!

The egos have landed?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... No. LLMs are not going to create AGI. And someone smart enough to create an AGI is going to ensure there is an easily accessible "off" switch. I suspect the Tech Bros are worried about the direction the USA is taking, and what prominent targets they could become. 🎯

#ZiaYusuf whinging that #BBCQT audience weren’t representative was the highlight of my Thursday. He’s so used to BBC bias & being surrounded by his fellow far-right lunatics that he no longer recognises balance.

15 years of obsessing about immigration at last called out. A breath of fresh air through the received notions of Question Time. Almost like getting the decent Country we once were back for a second. Air in a fetid room . #bbcqt

I'm watching it now & I have to say the Shrewsbury audience did a brilliant job of demonstrating that most British people are not the racist shits that Reform, Conservatives & even labour think we are. This ridiculous obsession with immigration has to fucking stop. #bbcqt

That the BBC invites the likes of Denham onto all of its political programming, and introduce them as 'journalists' rather than hard right lobbyists on a well oiled ideological carousel, is one of many reasons why I've been losing trust in its objectivity #r4today #bbcqt bsky.app/profile/eddi...

The QT from Shrewsbury restored my faith in the UK. Almost without exception they got stuck into the politicians, took no prisoners, and told them EXACTLY what they thought of them. Zia Yusuf came under particular pressure, and looked as if his world was caving in around him. More of this please.

This, 100% ⬇️✅

For all the people romanticising the USA as being the best template for life (looking at you, Reform and the Tories) take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE

And she thinks that’s a vote winner? Seriously? Did she even look at how that’s working out in the USA?

Nothing truly gets deleted on the Internet… 😂

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.

Not sure the man responsible for this poster is best placed to lecture anyone else on taking politics “into the gutter”.

Good God. These are the numbers of mass shootings (not victims) per year in the USA. Madness.

Farage not so impressive when put under pressure by a real journalist. If only we had a few more of them…

Amusing, despite being seriously scary… ⬇️

Portland looking pretty quiet. Cars are even stopping at the crosswalks. Not enough people in sight to have a decent conversation with, let alone stage a siege. A war zone? Laughable.

Pay for the privilege of being bombarded with AI nonsense each morning? What a way to start your day… I think I’ll pass.

This only happens to you once

This, 💯 ⬇️

Trump’s hearing must be terrible. It’s not “Earhart”, it’s “Epstein”…

Hasn’t anyone told them about the 14 unit limit?!

I’m loving @mrjamesob.bsky.social trying to make sense of tailoring on his mystery hour. Honestly, I’ve never laughed so much in ages. So, now the new rule is “no motoring” and “no tailoring”related questions.

It's a common myth that is going round that more people are stabbed to death in the UK than in America. But actually 3x as many people per capita are stabbed to death in the US than in the UK.

This is the best news I’ve heard in a LONG time. This is a ghastly disease, and anything that helps save people from its effects deserves huge applause. I hope it gets licensed and brought to NHS treatment as soon as possible.

Love this. Removes almost no land from the field, potentially improves the growing environment, and provides an extra income for the farmer, as well as helping move us towards net-zero.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

This brought it all back. My visceral hate for the Tories that monetised the pandemic, whilst also totally mismanaging it. The biggest cost & the worst outcome. Billions wasted. Vast numbers traumatised or dead. And yet, the people in charge - no accountability. They all moved on and up. Cunts.

Wonderful. ⬇️

This, 100%. You can hear the tumbleweed…. ⬇️

Another man that thinks the rules don’t apply to him … just the little people that he has to pretend to like in the pub.

I went through a period of being badly bullied as a child. One day he pushed me too far; I knocked him down, and stuck the boot in with far more enthusiasm than was probably justified. I got into a bit of trouble, but was never bullied again. Overcoming one bully makes others avoid you too.

Yeah, and we all know how good Trump was at running casinos…

Wow. Appeasing Trump certainly comes at a cost. I wonder how much growing a backbone would have cost?

As we in the UK are probably going to be forced to discover. The hard way. #BrexitBenefits

Unsurprised. Supposedly a good constituency MP, but spent most of his career rebelling against his own party leaders. When he was made LOTO (a joke, surely?) he had an ego the size of a planet, and the leadership skills of a lemming.

The New Disney By Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach, on free speech in the the USA under Trump

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The BBC has become infantilised about “small boats” and immigration, not helped by the views of the senior management who were mostly installed by the Tories.

Trump seems able to do whatever he likes in his own country, but I find this appalling behaviour, and he shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it in ours.

How many times did the leadership change in this hypocritical bastard’s last administration?

Yep, but you’re no spring chicken Ed 👍

“Charlie Kirk didn’t go to college.” No, and look what happened to him…

Strongly agree, but also for the suggestion of better UK govt responses to Trump, Putin and Reform.

Exactly this ⬇️