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Who pays the price ... mostly, by a huge margin, brown people in countries you have no business being in. In this particular case everything is the USA's choice and all casualties are the USA's fault. Any US casualties are just what you get when you start a war.

Text only Kid Rock makes music for guys so but they girlfriends personalised, bedazzled tobacco spit cups for Christmas. Note you might argue that's an inappropriate gift for a 13 year old, but sisters really are the hardest family members to shop for.

I'm so old, I was too old to want the Muppet Show wallpaper on my bedroom walls at the time when it was available. I only watched it "ironically" - honest, guv.

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Robespierre would've had a good idea of what to do with him.
And the rest of them, come to think of it.

Same shit with cricket - slightly less money - tests are being systematically devalued in favour of franchise games played for "clubs" that didn't even exist 10 years ago.
Lower league, like football, is the way to go. I'm now addicted to County cricket and mostly ignore the national team.

Being odds from 20:30 in the UK for the Gorton and Denton by-election. To win Reform UK 11/10 Green Party 13/10 Labour 9/2 Workers Party's of Britain 55/1 Conservatives 100/1 Liberal Democrats 100/1

Latest odds for the Gorton and Denton by-election from Ladbrokes.
The bookies tend to do their homework, they don't like losing money.
Currently they reckon it's close Reform v Green with the bad guys very slightly ahead.
Greens heavily backed which has shortened their odds, too.
#UKPolitics

"The UK has a gay Jew leading Muslims to vote Green"
I reckon that's brilliant. But it was written by Katie "racistfucker" Hopkins trying to show the opposite.

Long may gay Jewish people & enlightened Muslims & Hindus and whoever else be prominent in secular politics. A rainbow nation is great.

I can't bear shared spaces. Of course cyclists should have appropriate lanes and cycling should be encouraged, but nowhere near me and my guide dog, thank you. As for e-scooters, don't get me started ...
Who on earth came up with floating bus stops? Awful idea.

This is 100% true. This is always the only reason a house doesn't sell. If you ask 50p it'll sell (hyperbole) if you ask £2billion it won't. Just adjust those figures to reality.

Understand that after Nuremberg, many were not allowed to live. Jail was not an option. This was not just the highest ranking. This was for many, many of those who served the Nazi regime at all ranks, including administrators.

This can happen again.

Photo of Trump giving his speech at David with text superimposed over it. "Trump at Davos China makes almost all the windmills ... I haven't been able to find any wine farms in China ... they don't use them themselves." Fact check China has the world's largest wind fleet, around 521 GW installed by end 2024. In 2024 it generated 989 TWh from wind,10% of its electricity, which is more than three times the UK's entire 2024 power generation"

Not the only lie in his graceless, stupid speech today.

"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is." (Canadian Broadcasting Corp)

Too late. The USA can no longer be thought a reliable ally. Maybe in 4 or 5 presidents' time. If you've dealt with your societal problems that Lee to the rise of the far right in the first place, you might be allowed to speak to civilised countries again. Right now, just fuck off.

"America isn't the way it is because he's president, he's president because America is the way it is."
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 2026.

Canada appears to have seen the truth of the matter. It's deeper than one man.

3 panel comic Panel 1: A crowd is watching TV in a bar. The TV is facing away from the reader. The crowd ecstatically screams “YEAHHHH!” Panel 2: A new guy walks into shot from the left and says “You guys watching football?” A guy in crowd answers “Nope” Panel 3: The new guy looks at the TV screen and immediately screams “OH FUCK YEAH”

imagine if it happens on tv

Doesn't mean much - but going to have to give you a follow. I like people who think stuff through 👍.

I think you're overly optimistic, but I sincerely hope you're right.
I harbour doubts that there will be midterms. SCOTUS has Conservative majority until someone retires or dies, so not much a new gvt could do without changing the whole rule book.

It's not just Trump, though, is it? He'll be gone, yes. The US will no longer be a reliable ally unless it can guarantee root and branch reform that ensures no repetition. No possibility of a similar (or more competent) far right figure taking power. We can't ally with fascists.

Text only "Weak response from Starmer. Very disappointing. I don't believe he's a stupid man, but my goodness he does a very good impression of one. "Our allies" my arse. The only difference that I can see between Starmer today and Neville Chamberlain waving his famous piece of paper, is that Chamberlain was simultaneously building the UK's armed forces as best he could. Starmer has just further integrated the UK's with US tech, at a time when it's just been proven by France that the Pentagon is handing intelligence to the Kremlin. NATO is dead. A European/Canadian alliance is needed with great urgency. The UK looks to be landing on the wrong side. And we are going to have to pick a side, no matter what Mr Starmer says."

Thoughts on Starmer's speech. A bit too wordy for this format, so I screenshot it.

From Spring '27 former service personnel will be eligible for recall to until the age 65.

Reasons updated to include the government and military making "warlike preparations" rather than there being a declared "national emergency" or "state of war."

That's not just a minor tweak.
#UKPolitics

Please stop calling her "Kemi" - it makes it sound like she's your best mate. You don't say "Keir" or "Nigel." @maitlis.bsky.social @newsagents.bsky.social

I live in the UK.
To all US visitors who pretend to be Canadian because you're embarrassed. Mostly, we can tell you're lying.
There's enough Canadian accents on the internet that we generally know the difference.
Just own it.

Black and white image. On stage and in action. Joe Strummer is crouching stage front singing into a microphone with the stand tucked under his right arm. Stage left is Steve Jones playing a Gibson Les Paul double cutaway. Upstage of Jones is Paul Simonon, shirtless in white trousers hehe up with braces playing a Fender precision bass. Two members of the stage crew can be seen behind Simonon, off stage left. A small number of what appears to be a crowded audience can be seen crushed against the stage front, only inches from Strummer.

The Clash, July 1978. "The Only Band That Matters" played 4 nights at the Music Machine in Camden. The climax of their On Parole tour.
Guesting on guitar, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.
What a time to have been alive.
(Photographer unknown to me, apologies for lack of credit).

Guide dog user here. Remarkable how many wing mirrors I stumble into and accidentally rip off from cars blocking pavements. Can't see them, can I?

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Mealy-mouthed #BBC referring to Trump "acquiring" Greenland.
Try using that language if Putin was talking about a possible invasion of Estonia. Would Russia "acquire" Estonia or invade and annexe it?
Trump and the USA is threatening to invade and annexe Greenland.
NOT fucking acquire it. #UKPolitics

A Headline from, probably, the BBC website "Restaurant blames asylum girl for relocation" There is also a photo of "protestors" with union flags and St George's flags.

Text only This is why God invented irony.. to keep us entertained while civilization collapses. There is something almost poetic about a bar blaming an asylum hotel for its downfall while quietly sidestepping who the crowd was that it welcomed through its doors each week. The establishment was minding it’s own businees then one day, the hotel next door starts taking in asylum seekers. You know, people who've fled wars, persecution, that sort of annoying thing. And the restaurant owner says business started to suffer. Terrible shame, he says. These asylum seekers, creating all this... *tension*. I wondered what kind of tension these asylum seekers created. Did they stand outside the bar juggling scimitars? Did they practice their pickpocketing skills during the lunch rush? Nope. Turns out they mostly keep to themselves. Quiet as church mice, if church mice had PTSD and were waiting to find out if they'd be sent back to a war zone. But do you know what else happened every week, quite soon after that? The "Patriots" arrived on coaches with endless Chinese-made Union flags, Israeli flags and flags that said "Kill them all and let God sort them out". And megaphones. And an impressive capacity for lager. And where do you think these patriots went for their pre-protest lager? [Pause for dramatic effect] That's right. The bar next door. So here's the bar owner, gleefully serving drinks to a crowd who then march next door to scream at traumatized families through their bedroom windows. A nice little earner, I think they call it. One time, one of these defenders of British values threw a lit flare through one of tge windows. Because nothing says "we're the civilized ones" like attempted arson. And after months of this.. police cordons, and counter protestors forced to stand on the other side of the road (while the patriots were allowed to occupy the hotel forecourt) .. their regular customers stopped coming. Not just on protest day. Every day. Because they knew th…

Text only Note this is for all the text only photos This is why God invented irony.. to keep us entertained while civilization collapses. There is something almost poetic about a bar blaming an asylum hotel for its downfall while quietly sidestepping who the crowd was that it welcomed through its doors each week. The establishment was minding it’s own businees then one day, the hotel next door starts taking in asylum seekers. You know, people who've fled wars, persecution, that sort of annoying thing. And the restaurant owner says business started to suffer. Terrible shame, he says. These asylum seekers, creating all this... *tension*. I wondered what kind of tension these asylum seekers created. Did they stand outside the bar juggling scimitars? Did they practice their pickpocketing skills during the lunch rush? Nope. Turns out they mostly keep to themselves. Quiet as church mice, if church mice had PTSD and were waiting to find out if they'd be sent back to a war zone. But do you know what else happened every week, quite soon after that? The "Patriots" arrived on coaches with endless Chinese-made Union flags, Israeli flags and flags that said "Kill them all and let God sort them out". And megaphones. And an impressive capacity for lager. And where do you think these patriots went for their pre-protest lager? [Pause for dramatic effect] That's right. The bar next door. So here's the bar owner, gleefully serving drinks to a crowd who then march next door to scream at traumatized families through their bedroom windows. A nice little earner, I think they call it. One time, one of these defenders of British values threw a lit flare through one of tge windows. Because nothing says "we're the civilized ones" like attempted arson. And after months of this.. police cordons, and counter protestors forced to stand on the other side of the road (while the patriots were allowed to occupy the hotel forecourt) .. their regular customers stopped coming. Not just on pr…

Text only Note this is the same for all 3 text only photos This is why God invented irony.. to keep us entertained while civilization collapses. There is something almost poetic about a bar blaming an asylum hotel for its downfall while quietly sidestepping who the crowd was that it welcomed through its doors each week. The establishment was minding it’s own businees then one day, the hotel next door starts taking in asylum seekers. You know, people who've fled wars, persecution, that sort of annoying thing. And the restaurant owner says business started to suffer. Terrible shame, he says. These asylum seekers, creating all this... *tension*. I wondered what kind of tension these asylum seekers created. Did they stand outside the bar juggling scimitars? Did they practice their pickpocketing skills during the lunch rush? Nope. Turns out they mostly keep to themselves. Quiet as church mice, if church mice had PTSD and were waiting to find out if they'd be sent back to a war zone. But do you know what else happened every week, quite soon after that? The "Patriots" arrived on coaches with endless Chinese-made Union flags, Israeli flags and flags that said "Kill them all and let God sort them out". And megaphones. And an impressive capacity for lager. And where do you think these patriots went for their pre-protest lager? [Pause for dramatic effect] That's right. The bar next door. So here's the bar owner, gleefully serving drinks to a crowd who then march next door to scream at traumatized families through their bedroom windows. A nice little earner, I think they call it. One time, one of these defenders of British values threw a lit flare through one of tge windows. Because nothing says "we're the civilized ones" like attempted arson. And after months of this.. police cordons, and counter protestors forced to stand on the other side of the road (while the patriots were allowed to occupy the hotel forecourt) .. their regular customers stopped coming. Not jus…

Excellent analysis by We Have, I Fear, Confused Power With Greatness across on FB.
#UKPolitics

Jina Langu - Horses (2021) YouTube video by Jina Langu

Did this nearly 5 years ago. High time I released something new.
Might actually do so this year, there's a few projects about ready.
youtu.be/ekkRclutZns?...

Cartoon. Two job interviewers behind a desk question and interviewee who responds. "What do you consider your greatest professional achievement?" "In my last job I found a room I could hide in so no one knew where I was."

From the great Modern Toss.

X post reads "military mom here. My kid was involved in this. You have idea the pressure they were under by their CO. Disobedience was not an option. Either you do your job or get arrested. Kid is only 23."

Are people suggesting that your darling son is a war criminal?
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
They're saying it because he is. Not the worst, just a thick-as-shit grunt, but he carried out illegal orders and (from the sound of it) knowingly. No excuses. Jail them all at the 1st opportunity.