Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats

Oh, yeah, you know, all those Somali and Pakistani and Sudanese and Congolese flags you constantly see, everywhere, on every lamppost in fucking Filton? Honestly, these fucking babies. It's just the Highways Act. You can't hang your shitty bedsheets off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Rob, you twat.

@westonantifascists.bsky.social · 2d ago

To the flag shaggers, maybe because they're illegal to put up in the first place? Always a crappy narrative they need to lie about 😆

Well, thank goodness they kept this information to themselves for five years so that he could go on to continue those business practices from the White House. Great job, Capital One.

Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'

Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.

abcnews.com

You see, it's shit like this - running scared of *just stating the obvious* - that boils my piss about Labour. Throwing away every teachable moment, always ceding the information ground to their opponents. In short, offering no leadership.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Asked whether the third drought in five years is a result of the climate crisis, there was no direct attribution from No 10 at lobby earlier, but the PM's spokesman said: "You've got ministers on record as speaking to the impact of climate change and the impact it has on the country and on services"

A committed racist, he reached a senior level in his profession and then, protected by a culture which fails to appreciate the human impact of its work outside its own narrow social circle, spent twenty years seeing what he could get away with.

I'm starting to detect pattern... 🔎 'Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation he failed to declare an interest. Reform UK have been approached for comment.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog

Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.

bbc.co.uk

As a teacher with an immunocompromised wife - fuck you! My partner wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for school closures. We were fortunate enough to continue teaching from home. The disrespect to colleagues we lost and the students who were never able to return bc of long Covid - sickening.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

No need for anyone to agree with me - but some of the responses to this on here reminds me just how stifling and absolutist a period in our national discourse Covid was.

It’s damn annoying to watch him lie lijr that. Bash pushed back some; but I‘m waiting for „with all due respect, your are either purposefully lying or you’re grossly misinformed. I don’t know which is worse but in both cases you are unfit to serve please STFU and resign right here right now.

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.

There can be no let-up now. Infantino must stand down or be removed: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed | Nick Ames

Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader

theguardian.com

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

At one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.

May all the Celtic gods & ghosts gather and focus their fury onto these vile thieves.

Arthur Brand@artdetective.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bad news. Yesterday, a golden Celtic torque was stolen from Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, France. I know this museum well: in 1973, thieves stole a Roman Bacchus statue there, which I managed to recover in 2022. Now it happened again. The hunt is on. #artcrime

As an archaeologist of ancient Greece, I finally saw the Odyssey yesterday All I can say is "Fucking WOW" I could nitpick for hours about the armor and architecture. I could praise with detailed comparanda the jewelry and pottery and a range of interior decoration 1/4

The stories are basically paced perfectly for a couple of hours of drunken arm waving, then "alright I'm fuckin tired, we'll pick it up tomorrow night" and I think we're MURDERING THE AUTHOR by pinning it down to any recorded medium

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

The world would be a better place with more bookstores, bakeries, greenhouses, libraries, gargoyles, cat rescues, museums, and Oxford commas.

Your regular reminder that crypto has no genuine utility and exists primarily to facilitate money laundering, fraud and speculation.

Barry Howard 🔶h@barryhow2c.bsky.social · 2w ago

The link between Farage and George Cottrell and ‘donations’, looks dodgier by the day. Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage www.ft.com/content/b74c...

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

#LateNightThoughts ...

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

Spot on. The damage done to this country by the 'lobby' can't be underestimated. Turned journalism into a gossip ridden reality show & done nothing to inform the public. Social media maybe a hive of misinformation but mainstream media has dumb down politics to the point people don't watch.

100% The gang of 4 (Mason, Peston, Rigby & Keunssberg) are now embarrassingly out of the briefing loop. They might now have to do some journalism. Not one of them predicted Healy. It passed them by like the news of suitcases of wine passing through security during lockdown. As if....

The fact that *this* Spain — a team where kids whose parents are from Africa are some of the best in the squad — won in front of Donald Trump is kind of poetic. Spain still has huge problems with racism, but this team reflects a new beautiful reality that deserves to be celebrated.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 2w ago

Nico Williams Jr. presenting his World Cup medal to his mother She crossed the Sahara while pregnant with his older brother, Iñaki, to make a better life for her children

We're less than a decade away from turning into a third world country. The sort of country where corrupt politicians are bought for £5 million and have all their expenses paid by convicted criminals.

The Argentina team won't be having any trophy Paredes after that performance last night send tweet

Gianni Infantino is one of the greatest stains on the sport of football.

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.