I kind of expected Burnham turning into Starmer, but not Healey turning into Reeves www.ft.com/content/fc92...
Healey to shelve his own defence spending target of 3% of GDP by 2030
Chancellor resigned as defence secretary in June over what he saw as inadequate ambition for military spending by Sir Keir Starmer’s government
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Sir Fatuous Pauper@fatuouspauper.bsky.social · last wk.Slowly morphing into Starmer 2.0
Downgrade a movie: Mandatory Online GDPR Training Day
Dustin Du Cane@dustinducane.bsky.social · last wk.Downgrade a movie: Sovereignty Day
Not My Cat brought me a mouse this morning and promptly lost it under a cupboard. Now I have a mouse.
Man's Exasperated Facepalm
ALT: Man's Exasperated Facepalm
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Me watching the Netflix doc on Boeing with back to back long haul flights on 787's coming up
Ralph Wiggum: I'm in Danger!
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and for the love of everything that is holy on earth, do not breastfeed the bats
Recently learned about this scene from a British Anti-Bullying PSA. Idk why my British moots were hiding this from me bc this is peak reaction gif material.
Ur Willy is Rubbish
Alt: Animated school boy is running fast down the street. He pulls out his phone and he receives a text from his bully that says "ur willy is rubbish". The boy looks up and sees the spirit of his bully grimace behind him as he continues to run.
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This is a fantastic thread in case you've missed it, although I'd not say the campaign in Sicily was particularly efficient - Neither Patton, Montgomery, nor Alexander's finest hours
Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 10mo agoAnd work they did. Sicily was captured in an incredibly short and efficient campaign.
Me: Trying to get on with my life Someone else's cat:
⚠️BREAKING NEWS IN AUSTRALIA - BOLLARDS FLIP A TESLA⚠️ #WorldBollardAssociation
Pancreatic cancer is so tough. But in an early trial, 7 of 8 patients (87.5%) who responded to a personalized mRNA vaccine + immunotherapy are still alive 6 years after surgery. It's designed to train the immune system to fight remaining cells. Promising, and worth attention.
He was best mates with John and Paul as well, The Beatles even named one of their songs after him....
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 4w agoI understand why people think the Arday story is receiving disproportionate attention but what I think they are missing is that it’s extremely entertaining.
This man had a long history of sexually assaulting women on nights out, on the tube, even in prison. The fact he was released on bail and out in the community, where he was able to kill these beautiful ladies, is proof of the deep misogyny inherent in our justice system.
Serial sex offender Simon Levy guilty of double murder and rape
Simon Levy was a serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police.
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Even air travel has got better in many respects. Sorry but A380, A350 or 787 are all far better aircraft than 747's or older 777's, and in flight entertainment is incomparably better than the old 'one movie from a projector that everyone has to watch' type set up
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · last mo.Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
I see we're back to "French rearguards holding allowing out to allow the British to evacuate" levels of simplistic ideologically motivated historical discourse again
Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean: So What?
ALT: Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean: So What?
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What the fuck, water is falling out of the sky 😱
Can't stand Chardonnay, so I'm having a lovely glass of Chablis instead
Christ those French fire bombing pilots are something else entirely
Can't believe Burnham made Haigh a Secretary of State after she sent millions of young men to their deaths on the Somme
The flip side to this is that the withdrawal of Allied escorts from normal convoy duties to protect the TORCH force meant that this was the single worst month in the whole war for sinkings by U-Boat (730k GRT).
Peter Ricketts@lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn the night of 5/6 November 1942, a vast Allied convoy passed undetected through the Strait of Gibraltar, carrying the assault forces for the Torch landings in N Africa. It was a major feat of military planning, but its success hinged on the diplomatic skills of our man in Madrid. 1/7
In general everything that’s accomplished in a private capacity is enabled by the infrastructure, security, and stability of functional governance. You live in a society. There are no millionaires on a desert island.
