TBH it’s instructive to know this is how these wankers talk *to one another* www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last minute shout out to antifascists in the northwest I've just been sent this, they are worried there's not enough support locally. Please come if you are able, there is a free coach from Chorlton Street, Manchester at 11am

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️ The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Imagine not being able to understand that 'standing with' people determined to trigger an all out war isn't a winning election strategy.

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

I'm going to enjoy this weekend even more than usual. Not because I think there has been a sea change in British politics or because I think there's a new messiah, or because a 'team' won; but because I no longer have the nagging certainty that everyone I meet is some degree of cunt.

"POLANSKI!!!!"

The best thing I have seen since Starmer’s letter calling the electorate a bunch of bastards

Holy shit. I deliberately didn't comment on this when I saw the stills because I've burnt my fingers before on misinformation. But this seems very damning, and if it was in any way official the party behind it deserve to lose every seat.

That whole twitter thing of 'blocking is weakness!' really was the most ridiculous thing ever.

LMFAO I LITERALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED AND I CAN CONFIRM TO YOU IT'S ENTIRELY 100% ON THE PART OF WHOMEVER PROGRAMMED THEIR PHONE SYSTEM THIS WAY 👇🏽🧵

Was looking into this guy's political donations and found this on Wikipedia: "Aziz also reportedly paid £150,000 to settle allegations that he had illegally operated an unlicensed Forrest Gump-themed shrimp restaurant at Piccadilly Circus".

These models are flipping awesome. Go buy.

You have to watch the video in the thread...

Wes Streetings 528 majority is so shaky now the Greens could field a peanut in a wedding dress and it would take him down.

Lmao

Starmer's statement makes more sense if you look at it, not as a strategy to appeal to voters (who he seems to be calling extremists) but as an appeal the the right wing fanatics who control the Labour for a stay of execution.

Shitty behaviour relating to a shitty person also affects non-shitty people.

💯. In my direct experience labour cannot *stand* it when greens stray away from wind turbines & start talking about poor people, because as far as they are concerned, poor people are *theirs*. Theirs to ignore, often, but still theirs.

Interesting that he, a former lawyer, specifies drugs will now only available 'to adults'....

Hahahahahahaha cc @paperghost.bsky.social

Good News Friday just keeps giving!

Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.

Fwiw, if I, in ignorance, repost something by someone problematic I have no problem with my friends letting me know - in fact, I encourage it. You don't have to be sorry - I am ❤️ (I do have a problem with 'gotchas' but that's a different issue).

Labour have been visibly shitting themselves since July 2024.

Think it's time some unions took some notice tbh.

Pretty sure this was the start of Facebook, actually

It *is* a lie to show a video of street dealers with a voiceover and caption saying “this is what the greens want” when that is literally *what we have now* and *what the greens policy is to end*, though, isn’t it, so not sure if you’re defending that, @jamesrball.com ?

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From personal experience I can confidently say that this will leave already vulnerable people more isolated and in more pain for the rest of their lives. They will not get their medication, they will not eat, they will not be warm. They will sit for hours in their own shit. And it will kill them.

Hard-hearted, jaded old crone that I am... this is unbearably cute.

The cartoon gallery, Knole, Kent. A long gallery used to display a set of pictures or cartoons. Part of a set of drawings I did a while ago. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing

What's a line delivery you'll never forget?

Got some crutches and pain killers, so 80% of politicians now consider me worthless.

"While you were partying, I studied the blade"

An awful lot of people who's mantra was 'hold your nose' don't seem particularly keen on doing it themselves.

Said this 4 days ago. I'm (in theory) not against tactical voting when you have a choice between two candidates that each reflect *some* of your values. I am, however, completely adverse to it as an idealogy or a general strategy and the resulting tactical voting industry. Make *your* choice.

Totally fucked my back lxds

Smirking at a massive bit of irony on one of my threads this morning.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I'm still crippled with this btw. Shuffling around with a hunchback and having to roll onto the floor before clawing my way up the sideboard if I stay too long on the sofa. That will teach me for being a smug twat that got up before 8.30am on a Saturday to shovel shit for the allotment.

Got a fine for going over the limit (4mph but fair cop). Not too fussed about the fine and costs but 'victim surcharge' is a bit rich. Did I upset the speed camera?

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Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all” Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since “Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

This doesn't bode terribly well for the Three Laws. 'Sorry, won't do it again'

Been at my desk since 8am and despite regular stretches my back has seized almost completely.

I know more shit weather is on the way and gloom will descend again, but for three mornings in a row, I've felt it. Spring is on its way. ,