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If laughter is the best medicine my jokes are placebos. Middling in the Midlands (UK)
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If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.

Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar. The only question is how long it takes.

Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife

Look, these messages could mean anything.

If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?

I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.

I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to

It’s important to note we don’t have a lot of information on exactly what happened here. But the petty, small America depicted here — intolerant of dissent and swollen with entitlement to be free of it — is very much Trumpist America, so it’s credible. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

This is criminal behavior.

On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

This is next level! 💥

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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You can have my handshake buzzer when you pry it from my cold, dead (ZAP!) haha lmao

This clip regarding historical precedent for the US/ Ukraine situation ie well worth 9 minutes of your time youtu.be/hn_-OUa2tuk

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the goal is to make it so unpleasant to work for government that nobody will do it unless they have no other choice. These requirements will keep getting dumber and more arbitrary because that's their purpose.

“We mustn't burn bridges with the USA. Because we have so many eggs in the American basket. But what the UK and Europe have to do, is to start moving our eggs out of that f***ing basket - and quickly.” @pimlicat.bsky.social

Bit harsh . I’m sure Trump had something similar for his bone spurs

So when monkeys and wild animals spit and throw faeces at you, it’s just their nature; but when I do it to them, apparently I’m spoiling it for the rest of the audience of the Lion King musical

BHahaha

My favourite episode is the one where Poirot gets a shoulder-mounted cannon.

Hey @unklerupert.uk Stop everything and watch this movie. Best thing I’ve seen in years.

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

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This is brilliant

I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!