I am back in the U.K. This is not the best of news. Holiday was wonderful and reinvigorating, but waaaay too short 😕😕

It’s 2025. The worlds richest man has landed a target based pay deal of $1trn, despite Nazi salutes and ongoing white supremacy. An obvious racist is president of the USA, he’s also a nonce and a rapist. A career racist is leading polls in the UK. I mean, fucking hell people 🤷‍♂️

Labour are to politics what Status Quo are to rock music.

@pippacrerar.bsky.social Jesus Pippa, you’re the political editor of the Guardian, not the Express! Is this the benchmark for quality journalism we’ve come to expect now? There’s much to criticise about this government - surely we can do better than poppy policing?

Some good news at last.

Which one is more English?

Excellent tune from an outstanding album. 👍

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a Scottish Highlands cottage during a pouring rain whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

What a sad loss to the acting profession, and to the world in general. Rest in peace, sweet lady. 😢😢😢.

It’s great to wake up to the news of Zohran Mamdani winning the NY mayoral election! Hope springs!

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it. We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life. We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!

"What binds Polanski and Mamdani is not only their left-wing credentials, but their rejection of political cynicism." Let's go! 🎉 www.europinion.uk/post/how-zac...

I’m away on a short holi-break, so I’m a bit out of the loop, but is it true the Cambridge train knife attacker was a white Brit, and the LNER employee who came to the rescue of passengers and ended up injured himself - is a FOREIGNER?? Well, Mr Frog-Faced-Fascist, how are you going to exploit THAT?

I have a very bad feeling about this...

‘This doesn’t feel like justice’: mother of Jaysley Beck accuses army of empty promises

He'll be singing for his supper with👇

#Musicsky After watching this you can understand why he is such an icon. 👍✌️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Halloween from Down Under I love Kangaroos Just had to share (sound up) 🎃🤣

So ask yourself... Why the concern for women only when the perpetrator is a migrant?

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Worked in fundraising a lot of my career and truly believe this. Under-taxation is the issue.

I remember the website "Is Piers Morgan still a cunt?" clicking on and the answer was always yes 🙂

I just wanted to post this, just in case someone reads this and reads about Jaysley Beck. Just so her name isn't forgotten. It'd also be nice to remember (for a different reason) the name of sex attacker MICHAEL WEBBER who drove the poor young girl to suicide. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Keep mocking, keep laughing… meanwhile the @greenparty.org.uk just keeps growing and growing and going from strength to strength. 💚 ✊

Man in grey humiliates Matt Goodwin after his anti migrant rant #BBCQT "Do white British people not also commit these violent crimes? Is your narrative not that these crimes are only committed by asylum seekers and refugees"

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Kemi Badenoch is so supremely arrogant & thick she wouldn’t believe she’s out of her depth even if the water was 2 feet above her head❗️ She says intentionally hacking into a Labour Peers Website adding Tory PR in it (carries up to 2 years in prison if caught) isn’t as bad as not buying a permit🙄🤷🏼‍♂️

@ralphfarrugia.bsky.social hey Ralph. I recognise your name. Do you/did you work for a certain organisation which involves flashing blue lights, big yellow trucks and daily frustration?

When the Government ape the language and the rhetoric of the right - such as Starmers island of strangers speech - there are real life consequences. Huge solidarity with @mothinali.bsky.social and everyone facing racism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We're just getting started. Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires. If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment. Join.greenparty.org.uk

What iPad apps to you folk use for Bluesky? I’m finding the Bluesky app is glitchy as buggery on my iPad - the keyboard is all over the place. How about Skeets - any better? Recommendations?

Most people are *good*, and it helps to remember that when - like I have to - you often spend your life dealing with some of the worst that humanity can throw at each other; that actually most people are good and kind and want to help each other.

How much profit is enough? How much money is enough? How much fucking greed is enough? As I said on another post recently, greed and selfishness are the cancer at the heart of society.

I’m pleased to announce that my shift today in A&E, unlike the weekends, did not involve scrotums/plums. Lots of burn blisters, but thankfully none of them were in the plum region.

Dear Buddha - when this life is done and I rest and reset again, please can you make sure I don’t have to do 21st Century Earth again? Anything up to the end of 1999 is OK, but please - don’t make me do anything after 2016. OK thanks.

Tell you who REALLY needs to be blocked: @reeveselonmusk80.bsky.social YKWTD!

Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋 Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK. The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.

I give this website a mention every year but it's worth it. You can run it on mobile or a PC with a mouse in any browser. You can see weather systems in real time and globally. This show details at 500ft. In this clip I scroll from the UK over to Barbados. 😳 earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

I don't know who to credit this image to, but anyway, they got the price wrong. That 2/9d should read £122 million

Led By Donkeys doing the good work yet again.

Brilliant letter, please share with anyone moaning about the hotels

Found a half-baked sci-fi book idea from a fair few years ago. Never wrote it, but it's kinda writing itself now in the real world. Feel free to use it for a novel if you're stuck for an idea #WritersCommunity x

Hello. I am still awake. Thank you to the patient with the singed plums for making me finish two hours late. A 14-hour shift was JUST what I needed after a missed nights sleep. Thanks SO much, smouldering plums.

Apologies to anyone who reads any of my posts today. Not that anyone ever does, but I’m very sleep-deprived and I might say things which make no turnips.

Ah, right. So it’s profit before principles, just like all the other retailers then. And they charge obscene amounts for basic food items. Fuck them.

@claudiawinkleman.bsky.social Come on Winkles, you’re a living legend. Get some posts done. We’re waiting, twiddling our fringes in anticipation of your words of wisdom. (I haven’t had enough hair to have a fringe since about 1995, but you get my point. I’m twiddling my ear hair instead.)