@cabbagesandkings
Muslim. Irish. Female. Immigrant. Tells you something about the other place that I hesitated to put these facts in a profile. Yeah, I follow too many. Went a bit mad with the starter packs. Winnowing slowly.
Dunno. I'm used to UK articles which tend to stay on the point. I find US journalese wandering, wordy, self undulgent, and almost unreadable. I give up before half way. Same with US podcasts. Slow, repetitious, boring. I guess each to their own.
Genuinely don't understand how some people with no research background or specific expertise on Iran write an article on Iran and get it published in a newspaper of record... Better to read those who have worked on Iran for years and write with real insight.
I wonder what the livestock eat
Tvm
Not like they grow anything but buildings
Trump take global economy
The gulf kingdoms also import all their food, mostly by container ship. So it's either still floating about or being offloaded wherever the ships can find docking. Even assuming you can get enough refrigerated trucks where needed in time, there's going to be a real problem soon.
this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal
This is bad for Israel, bad for the US, bad for regional/international security, & yes, my fellow American Jews, bad for us, too. One can be pro-Israel & say all these things. In fact, it actually requires it.
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
That was 'I hate Manchester anyway' by Matt Goodwin and the White Supremes, from his Bitter Loser album.
Sent to me by one of my brothers
Ya Allah! I'm getting RSI just from looking at it
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
Good point well made
This is Bluesky so I'm coming in with the proverbial
'It's either St Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day. Never St Pat's or Patty's'.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
(smh and muttering something about ignorant americans with 4-leaf shamrock nonsense, etc, etc, etc)
We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.
You don't have to if Congress won't look
> @covie93.bsky.social
Of course, it is unlawful.
Even the "pre-emptive" justification is half-hearted guff.
Of course, it is stupid.
Wise US politicians once realised a rules-based international order was in their interests. That is being thrown away.
And most of all, and regardless of the above, it is wrong.
I say unto you, wearily, if labour make me vote green I may never forgive them
Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.
Chris Mason: “Losing in Gorton and Denton is a big win for Farage”
Blimey! It's a kindle!
"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner
Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men
This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!
The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.
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Also, always carry a piece of printed out paper as you wander around the office. People will think that you're busy going to or coming from somewhere when you're really just having a skive
That's the difference between offences against the state and offences against a person. One is taken much more seriously than the other.
