Music FACT: Placebo were originally a Cure tribute band.
Lucy Abbotts
@lucyabbotts.bsky.social
Words and humour. Not medicine but a tonic at least.
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
Duelling plague sufferers choose pustules at dawn (the duel is a belt-and-braces precaution).
Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️@brachinus.bsky.social · 2d agoDueling biologists choose protists at dawn
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, has urged Nigel Farage to make a Reform-Restore pact "for the good of the country". The so-called 'good': - Mass deportations - A referendum on the death penalty - Brutal welfare cuts It's not a pact. It's a threat to the future of our country.
Rupert Lowe urges Nigel Farage to work with Restore Britain
Lowe says the two should put ‘personalities and our past disagreements aside for good of the country’
theguardian.com
"Hands up if you threw your mayoral candidate under a bus by making all their canvassers go to Clacton to help you fight a bin"
1. Many school support staff were at very high risk 2. Your argument assumes the virus somehow behaved differently in schools 3. debate should never have been about schools closed/open - as we argued it should have been about making them safe www.independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
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Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy
The silence from Sky and BBC about the woeful performance of the Tories in Manchester is deafening.
The chances of him having attended any kind of surgery are somewhat remote... ask his constituents.
My own view is that Boris Johnson doomed the Tories when he purged them of all the even slightly talented MPs. Sorry, I mean disloyal MPs. 😉
This, after the Republic of Ireland was disqualified over the now infamous “fake arms” scandal. #NiceThings #FootballsComingHome
England over-75s Captain 'thrilled' by world cup win
The over-75s team had the first male tournament world cup win for England since 1966.
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Actual headline: “Yes, even we here at Daily Telegraph think Nigel Farage is a dick and a charlatan. I know, we were shocked too…”
Got stuck on the M1 for 2 hours, because of a really wide fairground lorry carrying the Waltzers. Everybody was screaming but he wouldn’t go any faster.
Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
Alt: Raccoon's Evil Smile: 'Good, Good'
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People talking about 1976: "we weren't dramatic like these days, we just got on with it" Also, 1976: "we have appointed a Minister for Drought and are forcing him to dance for rain"
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · last wk.oh my god
The bonfire of the second/third/whatever homes is beginning to focus minds.
Richard Tice Last Week: “Why don’t the police give us a running commentary on the details of their investigation?” Richard Tice This Week: “Why are the police admitting that they are investigating me?”
My unstoppable march to power contin… WHAT THE FUCK?
This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.
Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose. Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have also been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. Continue reading...
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