This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
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Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.
Harsh. Very harsh ‘Bedtime Rhymes’ (1946) Writer: Geoffrey Lapage Artist: George Brook
I wonder how much of this image is lost to time, I hope none of it it’s my favorite image to describe modernity
Trump: - Starts war without consulting allies - Screams at allies for not joining the war - Creates oil crisis - Crisis damages allies’ economies - Insists allies release strategic reserves because this is all unfair to US farmers. 🤔
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
Her face says, “We are absolutely not doing whatever you think this is.”
If you want a picture of the future, imagine getting terminated by AI HR for hitting on your AI coworker
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d agoNew GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
wow. just wow. and more wow on top. Protestants in Northern Ireland are queueing up to sign an open letter by Rev Karen Sethuraman appealing to the Orange Order and Chris Bryant (SoS for NI) to stop the nonsense.
Agree. 1. It's not "internal data", it's "someone did some maths based on public numbers". 2. It doesn't suggest *how* they're doing. Just what they'd need to do. 3. Persuading one in three Labour voters to switch and still being 4pt short is not close! 4. That's a very blunt knife.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d agoQuite an odd choice to brief this out
NEWS! Airlines furious after government closes lucrative ‘pay us or your toddler sits with a stranger’ business model newsthump.com/2026/10/02/a...
Airlines furious after government closes lucrative ‘pay us or your toddler sits with a stranger’ business model
Airlines have condemned government plans to stop them charging parents to sit beside their children, warning that the changes threaten the ability to profit from making a three-year-old cry.
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Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik having breakfast in a Newcastle B&B, 1986, photo by Homer Sykes.
The sheer figure of 20% blows my mind. Experts are probably well aware of that. That seems to be a little higher than the chances for russian soldiers to die within one year on the front. And we talk about scaring them away by depriving them of money or putting them in camps. And people think it's
Klaus Pforr@klauspforr.eurosky.social · 2d agoThis working paper looks at the effect of success beliefs among rural Gambians about successfully reaching Europe if they tried to. People *overestimate* the probability of dying en route with 50% instead of the estimated 20%. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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"I know 90 pound female drone operators in Ukraine with more confirmed kills than smallpox. Your post goes hard if you don't know jack shit about modern warfare."
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoHegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
This week's Bearwood Bin Cat of the Weekᵀᴹ is Secretive Barry. Barry's favourite food is crisps. One day he hopes to be a tree surgeon. He has a fear of trumpets and a bolsy Tortoiseshell called Big Karen.
