Joe St Clair-Ford
@joestclairford.bsky.social
Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-christian, anti-american.
Westminster council are the absolute worst but the whole licensing system needs wholesale reform.
Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing
Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’
theguardian.com
Best Bond villain, wrong answers only.
Martin Nutbeem@martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 10h agoBest Bond Villain, wrong answers only
Until he bins the punitive conditions and removes Mahmood it's all just nice words. I hope he's biding his time because he didn't want his premiership to be defined by the press as soft on immigration from the get go.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4d agoBurnham inherits & must resolve a stand-off on the settlement reforms. He also inherits a low profile commitment to a controlled refugee route + to a new phase of community-led welcoming & refugee sponsorship bsky.app/profile/sund...
Have any podcasts thought about doing an episode about The Odyssey now the film's come out? Could be a good marketing tie in.
Bobby Jenrick - "A man with nothing very much to say, who still needs a teleprompter to say it."
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football
Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?
theguardian.com
Net Zero might lead to blackouts.
Low Danube river levels force Romania to shut down both of its nuclear power reactors
Romania will shut down its second nuclear reactor on the Danube river, the energy ministry said on Wednesday, three days after decades-low river levels forced it to shut down the first.
reuters.com
While Europe and North America burn, Asia is underwater.
‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown
theguardian.com
This man does not deserve to go to jail. I hope he makes a killing with the book and movie rights.
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
euronews.com
Won't this just put all the Bodegas that New Yorkers seem to love out of business? Surely a state owned distributor that allows all the independent stores to offer these reduced prices would be a better solution.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.
And they say British food is bad.
The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 2w agoSo the bread has glass in it, the lettuce has diarrhea-causing bacteria, the eggs have salmonella, the beef has screw worms, the produce is somehow bad all the time now, AND everything is more expensive. What the actual fck is going on?
An incredible cover from @thetimes.com What's next? "Solar is unreliable because smoke from climate change caused wildfires is blocking out the sun"
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Can we do this to the Amazon of everywhere else?
CaffeineIsLife@caffeineislife.bsky.social · 2w agoHopefully some are heading to another Wildberries facility! Estimates of theirs sellers is 500,000 to 800,000. Russian fashion designer Viktoria Terekhova says she shipped virtually her entire summer collection of children's clothes last week to the giant warehouse in Elektrostal, east of Moscow.
I'd like to make a complaint to the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social regarding the latest Q&A episode of the Supermassive Pod. It was stated that Pluto lost its planet status 20 years ago, I'm sure everyone on Bluesky will confirm it was only a couple of years ago, maybe 5 at most.
Internationally the messaging from the right is coalescing around variations of "be grateful you're not dead"
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoLook who’s taking the side of explosive diarrhea
My phone's news feed has started showing links to Threads. These truly are the end times.
The Tango Twat has made it much more expensive to fill up the car again.
Some fun Lego stop motion from one of the boys. No AI needed.
Look how happy she is that she gets to keep demonizing foreigners to appease the racists.
Are those giant flags knitted by Usian prisoners?
Not only is US Mexican food superior to British Mexican food, it also helps you lose weight.
Taco Bell withdraws lettuce from menu after links to explosive diarrhea
Lettuce from one supplier is being removed indefinitely "out of an abundance of caution", the company says.
bbc.com
Nice to get some shade during this hot weather.
Henry Zeffman@hzeffman.bsky.social · 3w agoKeir Starmer's official spokesperson: "The World Cup might not be ours but the Falkland Islands definitely are” Asked who the PM would be supporting in the final, the spokesperson said: “The PM wishes both teams well for the final, especially Spain.”
At least having no hope for a Burnham government means I can't be disappointed.
I just took my t-shirt off and it felt like being waterboarded. #heatwave
