Remembering facebook circa 2011 when I would 👍 all my family/friends photos, and then say something like ‘baby asleep, time for tv and a glass of red’

what kind of monster would smoke a pet without its footwear?!

Look at what they have kept from us

Joining the Horlicks Left, after a nice bath.

Is there ever going to be a significant political force in the UK again actually arguing for personal freedom and civil liberties in any way? I don't agree with a SM ban, but that's not really my specific issue, but all of our mainstream politics is just endless bans and crackdowns.

hope you brought urine!

ACAB includes single taxis.

I’m afraid I will once again have to vote for my terribly left wing best friend from school, Perdita Genocide-Smith, who thinks unemployed people should be melted down and used as glue

I see the papers are listing three paltry & ridiculous statements about Polanski every other day then going ‘omg looks like the evidence against him is really mounting up!!’

Summon the quartermaster, I'm going to the shops!

When a presenter on a current affairs programme starts scoffing about "ah, but the Bond markets" they're just deploying the latest of a long line of catchphrases aimed at defending austerity forever, they've no interest beyond that.

They're also mistaking an instance of "the left being disciplined by technical-sounding public discourse" for an actual technical discussion of how public debt works

There is appetite among lenders for states, especially institutionally robust ones, to borrow for investment purposes Gilts are a rates product rather than a credit product. Only columnists, not political or financial actors, ever talk about the U.K. defaulting on sovereign debt.

Huge amounts of smarm here about how bond markets are laws of nature, not political forces that can themselves be challenged

*Announcement* It is with the greatest sadness we have been informed of the death of our dear friend, activist, researcher, a giant in MH Diana Rose. Our thoughts are with her family, her friends and everyone who knew her

Absolutely this. The media will always be misleading, either to get clicks on their websites or to peddle the views of their billionaire owners. But they are no match for one on one conversations between people on doorsteps. Not if enough of us do it.

Curious from the Guardian. I didn't "warn the party" - it wasn't a party meeting! I said progressives needed to separate those thinking about voting Reform from the Reform leadership. I didn't say we "need to seek to understand" - pretty clear it's about inequality. Other than that - perfect!

People overestimate the political coherency of the average voter. I bet there are lots of people sitting on the fence between Green & Reform.

a) this has never happened, even when they set rates below 0.5% b) those people then have a big problem because they have future sterling liabilities they are investing for The Bank of England sets the price of borrowing in pound sterling. Bond yields follow rate expectations...

Graham Platner is the most excitement us ‘lesser evil voters’ have had in some time. No one likes tut-tutting in support an unremarkable centrist. But The Cheating Killer Nazi? That’s got some zazz. I’m ready to tut my damn finger off

The reason the UK is a service-oriented, low-investment, low productivity, low wage economy is because of that project to weaken labour. It's not an accident of history, or a moral failing by the British people. It was done by design and there is no plan to change it.

Met Frank yesterday. He is chaos in a tiny body and I love him

The headline doesn’t match the article in the slightest though? It’s not like he’s suggesting to listen to their ‘concerns’ re the immigration, quite the opposite in fact

In another year or two it will turn out that Labour austerity is very bad, and we need the Tories to get the welfare state under control and unleash Britain's productivity by continuing austerity

i feel like they were going for something different than why i took the photo

Would be very funny to include George Best in this

“It’s like cabbage-flavoured Pepsi!” says the soft-drinks marketer lining up four cans of orange-flavoured Tango.

I see Laura K is demanding Sturgeon to apologise for her husband’s crimes and then going on to basically ask her if she’s a lesbian. Top quality feminist interviewing.

It is a bit of a shame that there is, maybe for the first time, a level of sincere interest in football in the US but their world cup comes while they are at their most hated and most corrupt.

A Labour minister unable to condemn Reform's plan for the mass deportations of our neighbours. Cowardly and disgraceful. Labour are incapable of standing up to Reform's divisive nonsense. Only the Green Party have the courage to do this.

Thank you to @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and @mariecgoldman.bsky.social for sending this letter about the draft EHRC Code of Practice. We fully agree that it needs to be withdrawn, and that women's rights and trans rights are not in conflict. 🧡🏳️‍⚧️ We're re-sharing the letter, with Alt-text. 👇

THEN IT IS NOT A CEASEFIRE JFC DO SOME JOURNALISM NYT

If you only believe in bad things when they happen to you personally you are not a good person

trying to force disabled or depressed ppl in to work doesn't work. every government for the last 25 years has done this. all it does is lead to increases in death. you can't magic ppl out of depression and disability. it doesn't work like that.

sorry to be a prick but I just nudged my VO2 max back into superior for the first time this year. get it up yeeeee. I will never die. my heart is an iron piston. I am ascending.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Digging through settings and getting extensions and learning tricks to get rid of AI feels like if restaurants started putting feces into every order. And when nobody wants shit in their meal all they wonder is "How can we market better to shit eaters? How can we sell it to non-shit eaters?"

Propelling the fatherstuff

You can tell the TV news media is in on the fight for the labour party because I keep seeing all these blairite cunt advisors on TV, saying how Keir needs to stay the course and not be blown left. It's very obvious.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Has your “city” made walking dangerous and illegal too?

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

It probably says something about Scottish politics that Sturgeon's three biggest "scandals" are - cutting contact with her friend and mentor when she found out he was a sex pest - having a husband who was a crook - not suddenly u-turning on trans rights like every other mainstream politician did

Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me

The problem lies in persuading councillors to hold their nerve in the face of often vile abuse. Once the change is made, people are usually happier. But in the meantime we’ve gone backwards on #ActiveTravel in five years.

They have to accept that some 'irate motorists' will always exist. But by doing the change well, it will quickly become the norm for most.

This has changed a lot since we were there in 2019. How can French cities have this sort of ambition and with some exceptions, we can’t?

there's replies here giving the (correct) answer that these things do not happen primarily because the democrats do not want them to happen, and i'm always amazed by how delusional some democrat voters are in arguing with that

Just found this photograph of a little boy and his mummy having a picnic - time to write a poem

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...