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Just when you think the political situation in the UK couldn't get any more bizarre...

submitted 530 days ago • 0 comments

What exactly does Suella need to do to get fired? Beyond a fucking joke now.

submitted 533 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so quite I can hear this fur baby breathing

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

submitted 551 days ago • 69 comments

As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.

submitted 551 days ago • 0 comments

Had an amazing vegan birthday lunch today at Mallow in Canary Wharf. Big fan of Mildred's, so this place has been on our list to try for a while. Didn't disappoint. I had a vegan burger and fries, my partner had a thalli, daughter had French toast, and we shared dumplings, kimchi and home fries.

submitted 552 days ago • 3 comments

Today was all about making olive leaf extract. This should last a while, although a fair bit of it will be given away.

submitted 563 days ago • 0 comments

Rio got into the catnip again and is now really interested in Strictly the Results.

submitted 565 days ago • 0 comments

I've been watching this surge ahead all afternoon, and it's been most satisfying. Sometimes it's not about achieving some end result, it's about sending a message. I really hope this goes on to break some records. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...

submitted 567 days ago • 5 comments

Is anyone really surprised? When a government leads with hate, then this is inevitable.

submitted 568 days ago • 0 comments

That stage in a father-daughter relationship. Daughter just about to leave for school. Me: I like your socks & tights choice. Daughter: I'm going to change my socks and tights. If you like it, it must be bad.

submitted 569 days ago • 1 comment

You couldn't make it up. (The Metrolink's airport line opened nine years ago.)

submitted 569 days ago • 8 comments

More archeological evidence that trans people have existed for thousands of years, this time from Anglo-Saxon burial sites in England.

submitted 570 days ago • 3 comments

I missed this one. That’s Braverman told.

submitted 569 days ago • 0 comments

This is even better today, and there’s enough for us all again tomorrow as well.

submitted 569 days ago • 0 comments

87 years ago today, the people of the East End of London fought the Met Police, protecting Mosley's fascists in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street. And here we are today, in Tory Britain.

submitted 570 days ago • 1 comment

Well, that Rishi Sunak Conservative Conference speech is over 😳 Condensing my many enraged tweets, it was beyond pathetic, but entirely in keeping with the wee gaslighting twerp. He concluded with, "It is time for a change and we are it." After 13 years of Tory? Roll on the GE ffs #GTTO

submitted 570 days ago • 3 comments

Joe Lycett’s letter to Cruella Braverman (can’t find Joe on here)

submitted 570 days ago • 11 comments

If anyone had any sense of humour, they would organise a zombie flash mob outside her house after the alarm test.

submitted 570 days ago • 4 comments

Sunak displaying big Jim Bowen "here's what you could have won" energy announcing the scrapping of HS2 to Manchester, in Manchester.

submitted 570 days ago • 2 comments