Ruin a book by adding a word. Serena Joy in the Morning.

Rev Peter W Nimmo@peternimmo.bsky.social · 13h ago

Ruin a book by adding a word Neil Oliver Twist

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

Donald Trump wants you to believe that Chicago is facing “unprecedented” crime. But his own website says the exactly the opposite. Trump’s own staff can’t keep his lies straight.

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

The principal outcome of the Green Party conference is that despite the longest and hottest summer on record, no-one is talking about climate change right now. Well done everybody.

Denis Healey on David Owen

Just an awful lot of words for what should be a simple statement: these are a bunch of anti-semites and we'll have nothing to do with them

holy fuck

Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · last wk.

NYT/Siena Senate Polls (9/21-9/30) Texas: 🔵 Talarico 51% – 🔴 Paxton 45% Alaska: 🔵 Peltola 50% – 🔴 Sullivan 43% Ohio: 🔵 Brown 49% – 🔴 Husted 46% Kansas: 🔵 Hamiliton 45% – 🔴 Marshall 45% Iowa: 🔴 Hinson 48% – 🔵 Turek 47% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper

Ignore the sceptics and haters. Today is the day the red lines have been scrapped and new future in Europe is possible. Don’t sit this one out and let those people take away our hope by being silent - share and join @labour4europe.bsky.social today building a new Europe with us and with Labour.

Farcical for peds & cyclists to learn, in response to my Cllr Q, that no conflict monitoring took place on Leith Walk (esp bus stops), despite a statement implying there was. How can anyone have confidence CEC is taking Leith Walk #ActiveTravel seriously?

Blind Edinburgh man warns new road layout makes daily walks 'stressful and worrying'

'You’ve got no control over what cars are doing, and I can’t see whether people are going to stop, so I’ve really got to trust them.'

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Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

Incredible Daily Express story (archive.is/SGo0K) about Sandie Peggie's upcoming action against the RCN, in which she continues to hound Dr Beth Upton who literally moved to the other side of the world to get away from Peggie's harassment, and which includes this frankly baffling paragraph:

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3w ago

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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First the real extremists are the actual Nazis you fucking idiot. Secondly how is "radical right" more "Orwellian" than "far right"? That doesn't even make sense.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 3w ago

For Matthew Syed, we’ve been looking for German extremism in the wrong place. Not the AfD, the real extremist was…Angela Merkel.

"The USA experienced declines in Free Political Parties, Effective Parliament, Access to Justice, and Judicial Independence, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, and Economic Equality. US scores on most of these measures are at their lowest levels since 1975" www.idea.int/publications...

Hello, Good Morning, and welcome to another episode of What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?

Sophie Heawood@heawood.bsky.social · 3w ago

This one’s for you @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3w ago

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

As often seems to happen in September after the Festival - litter bins in our part of #Edinburgh get neglected - #Broughton @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social @ntbcc.bsky.social

Enten: "Trump is breaking records. Yesterday the Marquette Law School poll came out -- Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61! That's the worst Trump has ever polled on inflation, & not only that, it's the worst any president EVER has polled on inflation. Worse than Jimmy Carter!"

JD Vance - "Give us another chance. Give us another 2 years." What about this past 2 years would you let them do again to you and your family?

One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.

Bunker dance night organiser in bizarre emu attack dispute The organisers of a dance music event in a disused military bunker appear to have been caught up in a bizarre emu attack dispute with the council....

Bunker dance night organiser in bizarre emu attack dispute

The organisers of a dance music event in a disused military bunker appear to have been caught up in a bizarre emu attack dispute with the council. Subterranean Sound were forced to postpone a sold-out dance event in the Second World War-era Barnton Bunker, in west Edinburgh after issues arose with the event’s licensing. The organisers claimed that police had outlined a number of concerns with their applications for events and alcohol licences, including concerns about an attack by an emu – two of which are kept on site – at a previous event.

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Scenes in the Telegraph newsroom where an additional ’h’ finds its way into the word ‘peasant’.

Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes