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Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK, saying he doesn’t “have what it takes.” This is genuinely funny.

Nigel Farage threatening to sue somebody for lying. It's the satirists I feel sorry for.

Nigel Farage, who leads a constant revolt against the metropolitan elite and foreigners, is a multimillionaire former city trader, whose kids have German passports, and who works as a brand ambassador for a gold billion firm.

I remember the rolling tide of Blake Lively hate that took over my socials when her movie came out, and was a little confused by it at the time. Joke’s on me for not realizing an angry man was behind it all. Naturally.

The richest man on the planet could probably solve child cancer himself using less money than he burned destroying Twitter. Instead, he used his influence to strip $190 million from the budget for pediatric cancer research. What a fucking asshole.

In March 2023 Sabs made a shocking discovery – a fox buried alive underground in a sack . It’s the focus of day 6 of my (b)advent counting down the top 20 worst fox hunting crimes with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . #RealBanNow

Brexit thread (from 2020) UK: We don't like our trade deal EU: Why not? UK: We only get 95% of what we want EU: It only gives us 95% too. That's how negotiating goes UK: We want a new deal that gives us everything we can think of EU: But you signed a deal UK: We don't care, we hate you 1/21

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

Example: Trump voters exhibit alarming signs of sequaciousness

Sometimes I wonder what motivates non-coffee drinkers to get out of bed. Probably some sort of pulley system.

Photographer Annet de Graaf captured Israeli Maccabi fans’ violence in Amsterdam. She tells Mehdi Hasan how media like CNN, BBC, and the New York Times used her video to twist ‘the whole narrative’ to portray Maccabi fans as innocent and ignore their anti-Arab racism: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

His insane nominations... His promises to deploy the military on home soil... His threats to go after anyone who opposes him... Now, there are messages going out to specific communities threatening deportation and "re-education camps". It's by design. His objective is to fill you with fear ...

For someone who is so outrightly English, I have such an enduring love affair with Wales ❤️ Picture of Llyn Elsi above Betws-y-Coed. And an apt blue sky pic for today

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

Cat pics incoming!

A photo a day to brighten up yours. Snowdon summit on a Winter’s day, Wales

A recent trip where beauty was everywhere. Hello Bluesky peeps 👋

Starting again somewhere new, away from the compromised platforms. That’s what’s happening here. So far so good.