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Hope everybody who voted for Israel has left the telly on to watch the news.

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the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Ballroom dancing last Monday (May Bank Holiday):

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Sonic has woken early and come out to steal the cat’s breakfast before retiring back to bed for the day Adorable ☺️

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

This is turning into such an important project by @chrischirp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal. Plus sacrifice the NHS, food and environmental standards, worker rights. Who governs? No thank you. Don't want to be the 51st state, or US slaves. Better to join the EU and Single Market.

submitted 36 days ago • 187 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 48 days ago • 563 comments

Dancing at Britannia Dance Championships on Saturday:

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 58 days ago • 3120 comments

Me in the national security team group chat

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Ozymandias

submitted 65 days ago • 695 comments

Russia and China desperately trying to hack X/Twitter to get it back online so they can continue destroying America.

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

This reads very much like the White House being angry they didn’t get a signed deal on rare earths, after which they could pull away any vague security guarantees. But Zelenskyy was able to look down the game tree. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 81 days ago • 27 comments

Spring is creeping into Dublin, as I retreat to my flat to recover! In order to cheer myself up & inspire more drawings I found some Irish daffodils & Dutch red tulips. The colours & shapes inspire my drawings as you can see in this thread!

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 88 days ago • 38 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 91 days ago • 451 comments

I went to see this yesterday and there were some very impressive photos, including those from very young photographers

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Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan Manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire. The house was built circa 1583 and incorporates a mid 15 century timber framed house. The hall is featured in Charlotte Bronte's novel "Shirley" as "Fieldhead".

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Can someone from the farming lobby explain why Farage is being allowed to be a lead figure in their protests, given the Brexit harm he has inflicted on them?

submitted 99 days ago • 85 comments

I watch the USAID, NIH and NSF face severe budget cuts; it's a self-destructive strategy that undermines all our futures. The problem is, although some outcomes can be severe in the short-term, the damage long-term is even more disastrous. 1/3

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Suspension Bridge xkcd.com/3048

submitted 103 days ago • 543 comments

Keir Starmer previously congratulated climate campaigners after Heathrow expansion was ruled illegal, saying "there is no more important challenge than the climate emergency" Now his government says expansion is "badly needed"

submitted 112 days ago • 63 comments

Record jump in number of UK firms in financial distress. Nothing is done to control cost of essentials - rent, energy, water, transport. These impact every business, can't shop around. Govt must check profiteering, use public ownership to help businesses and people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 118 days ago • 12 comments

“Actually, it was a Roman salute”

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

I see Mark Zuckerberg is ‘embracing masculinity’. How delightfully homoerotic.

submitted 123 days ago • 6 comments

70+ people killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire was announced and before its implementation on Sunday. That is some sort of sick. It didn’t NEED to happen!

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