Captain Haddock
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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
A good thread on the slow rollout of GLP-1s to low-income Australians. It increasingly feels like one of the most effective health interventions of the 21st century is being slow-rolled because many people in public health across the world simply don't like its vibes.
Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 7h agoWegovy was recommended for listing on the PBS for people with prior serious adverse cardiovascular events over seven months ago. Now the landmark deal has stalled www.theaustralian.com.au/health/medic...
The VDV living up to their reputation by losing their last man.
Darth Putin@darthputinkgb.bsky.social · yesterdayA Russian paratrooper jumped at Airborne Forces Day celebrations outside Moscow. His parachute failed to open and he crashed to his death. Making a perfect analogy for this war.
Am reminded of a Bergerac Xmas special about a grim reaper character that was actually rather scary when I was about 12 years old
Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 8h agoFirst, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
I know she's incapable of ever admitting she's wrong about anything, but even I'm surprised that Kemi Badenoch has chosen this particular hill to die on
Badenoch is willing to have anyone stand as a Tory provided they’re anti ECHR and anti Net Zero
Not to go all Joxley, but the utter collapse of a sense of community pride and social responsibility within the Conservative party is at the heart of their current woes.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 10h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
Exclusive pictures of the SpaceX rocket hitting the moon have just been released.
Badenoch tripling down in defending a Nazi on the Today programme. I genuinely think she should be forced to step down over this. It’s fully, fully revolting.
It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
This is Reform's criticism of providing free travel for 11 to 16 year olds in GM. These people only know the politics of division and grievance.
Pretending that the Navy taking back migrants would be a humanitarian mission and therefore legal, is a bit like pretending that a £5 million bribe is nothing to do with politics and therefore doesn't need to be declared.
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Edward Stourton is a much more meaningful loss to journalism than Rod Liddle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Edward Stourton: Broadcaster and journalist dies aged 68
Stourton hosted Radio 4's Today programme for a decade and was a founding member of Channel 4 News.
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Tldr: "we only select *contrite* neo-nazis"
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
RFK Jr.: “You probably don’t understand this as you’re not a scientist.” Dana Bash: “You’re not a scientist either.”
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
The same Russian outlets that regularly dedicate significant attention to falsely claiming that ‘Ukraine is refusing peace’, today took a break from that narrative and returned to very openly discussing the ‘erasure’ of Ukraine as a state.
A reminder that Russians may be slow on the uptake where conventional military tactics are concerned, but there's plenty of evidence that they are extremely agile on the disinformation front, and know just where the European pressure points are.
Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 4d agoUkraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
Trump is just going to recreate the $1.8 billion “weaponization” slush fund after Blanche is confirmed, you idiots. #DonaldTrump #ToddBlanche #slushfund #kaching #DOJ www.jezebel.com/weaponizatio...
Trump Is Just Going to Recreate the "Weaponization" Slush Fund, You Idiots
Trump and Blanche will simply call the weaponization fund something else when it's brought back a month from now, and we're all powerless.
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Bloke who wrote racist screeds and punched his pregnant girlfriend died.
A Ukrainian drone shot down by Russian air defenses crashed onto a crowded beach near Gelendzhik, killing 3 civilians and injuring 13. Krasnodar region's governor said the casualties were caused by falling debris rather than a direct strike. #Russia
We have been saying for many years that the only way to fix care is by all of the main parties agreeing on the same plan. We have a responsibility to work together and a real opportunity to fix it.
We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
