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Reform PLC Conference Agenda 2025 9.00. Prayers for King Donald Trump 9.30. A message from our sponsor President Putin. 10.00. Working from Dubai, the advantages 12.00. Top tips from the Fagash Fuhrer on how to avoid constituents. Lunch. Pelmeni 2.00. Vaccines, who needs ‘em

I love how Nazis talk about their superior genetics when they are a bunch of inbreed examples of why Darwin was right.

OH COME ON

One of the things I've been working on this week is a set of maps of ancient greek cites, for a role playing game set in the post-Trojan war period. That's been a bit different for me, but lots of fun. Here's one of them.

Musk lying about everything is being flooding in the right wing echo chamber all these debunked stories about money being spent For condoms dead social security recipients Chelsea Clinton Wedding Etc It’s all bullshit but go look at Facebook it’s being recycled over and over Tragic sad awful

I wonder how many poets confuse disenchantment with truth.

That sounds like a plan that I can get on board with! 🤭😅🤣

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." 1/2

🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of ​​America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.

Powerful & heartbreaking from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at extortion of Ukraine’s wealth. Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Ohh no, I have been asked to doggie sit floof-ball again... the horrors of a Saturday afternoon with a hound of evil like this !!!

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

A two minute poem (but only 50 seconds needed to listen)

Ohh no, I have been asked to doggie sit floof-ball again... the horrors of a Saturday afternoon with a hound of evil like this !!!

It's time to tax the rich.

Mr. Musk and the Old Jar were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

#Caturday

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Got to run down to Bath next week and it is ridiculously cheaper to get the bus down, stay over and come back the next day than it is to get the train. Wtf happened to train ticket prices ????

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

🔥 Finally!! Starmer ready to offer Youth Mobility Scheme. 🙌🙌🙌

I was right. Trump is getting played by everyone. Russia played him, then Zelenskyy baited him… … and now he’s increasingly isolated. Video —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1TkXa1/

“Britain must choose between an unstable alliance with Trump or aligning with a resilient, unified Europe”

"In Norway, Tesla saw a 38% sales slump, in France sales dropped by 63%, and in Spain by 75%. Tesla sales dropped 13% across the whole European Union last year and are expected to fall further... Tesla registered only 1,277 new cars in Germany in January, a year-on-year drop of 59.5%."

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. Any writer of fiction needs to be aware that the characters they write need dialogue to hide in like any real character they may meet on the street. Layers hiding layers hiding layers. #MyDayOff

This is interesting! My new book on Gráinne with @yalebooks.bsky.social will be out in 2027. Looks like the film is leaning into the folklore rather than the history. Bet it won’t be anywhere NEAR as funny as the podcast episode we did on her on You’re Dead To Me. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Once a upon a time Americans fought Nazis, not pretended to be really lame geeky loser versions of them.

The Republican Tax Scam could take a machete to slash 230 billion from SNAP and 880 billion from Medicaid. #DontCutMyMedicaid

What are these odd looking scraps of gold sheet you may wonder? Well, they are fragments of two LBA gorgets belonging to objects found >200 years ago, originally in the collection of @ria.ie but now in @nmireland.bsky.social Meant to fully check them out years ago. A curators work is never done

Castle Hill and it's IA hillfort, Wittenham Clumps.

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Motoring towards 2%- a total beyond my wildest dreams www.justgiving.com/page/nolero?...