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Proud father, retired twice, Gloucester Rugby, motorcycling, war bore, books, beer, politically motivated and always trying to look on the bright side of life. šŸ’āšŖļø
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What is particularly impressive is that while the managing agents wouldn’t help with food delivery over the 7th floor during the lift outage, they would walk up to the 15th floor to threaten people who publicly complained. www.londoncentric.media/p/high-rise-...

This is a complete misrepresentation - @johnswinney.bsky.social heads the only party in the UK that wants full EU membership Fishing is devolved and Scottish fishermen have been sacrificed by the Westminster government to help repair the damage to our economy, caused by English voters ā˜¹ļø

I could Not love this dog more 🄰 #Reddit #DogSky /NextFu**ingLevel

Defying Gravity!šŸŽ

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee. Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

Well, there goes my morning.

Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

Sad to see so many of this team go next season šŸ’āšŖļø

The Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this incredible life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as ā€œcut pictureā€), the traditional art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and contrasting it against a dark background.

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

ā€œNAD founder Karl Rosander is blunt: Europe has a defense problem, and it’s wearing a ā€œMade in Americaā€ label.ā€ļæ¼ No paywall wesodonnell.medium.com/swedens-kreu...

Palestinian Red Crescent demands independent investigation into deaths of Gaza paramedics www.itv.com/news/2025-04...

Fantastic result on the road for the šŸ’āšŖļøšŸ’ŖšŸ‘šŸ‘Bath up next

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

Our new webapp lets you see how some UK companies use tax haven holding companies to hide their true ownership. There are, you'll be unsurprised to hear, thousands.

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. šŸ‡¹šŸ‡· #Turkey

As part of my own processing… erm, process? I have clipped up all 10 england tries vs Wales to try and find any trends 🧵 1) curry bumps morgan, anscombe against 2 forwards, itoje beats rowlands in race to try line

šŸ”“Conservative Peer Helped Firm He Held Shares in Land Ā£58 Million Covid PPE Contract Newly-released documents reveal the peer also helped a ā€œgenerous and loyal supporterā€ of the Conservative party secure another Ā£93 million PPE contract bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/c...

If you elect a criminal you get crime!

Share this video with someone who isn't aware of what's happening in the US - it's not covered in the UK or even US media anywhere near enough. This conversation neatly sums up the shockingly fast rise of small-government authoritatianism in America.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Fantastic result for The Circus, congratulations Gloucester Hartpury

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

šŸ“£ I’m very pleased to give you all a sneak peak of my new book, Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945. Follow me for more info over the coming weeks!

Stellar post.

Gladys Sandford #Australian #NewZealand pioneering driver & aviator #WWI ambulance driver 1925 1st woman in #NZ to earn pilot's licence. 1927 drove car 10k miles Sydney to Perth, Darwin, Adelaide & back, Sold cars & taught customers to drive b. 4 Mar 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_... #WHM2025

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be ā€œtediousā€ and ā€œcompensation is zero" now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

Former šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø ambassador to Russia šŸ‘‡šŸ½