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From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog

This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.

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Another great cover from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

The sentencing remarks for someone Kemi Badenoch is allowing to stand as a Conservative candidate.

Samantha Asumadu@samanthaasumadu.substack.com · yesterday

The sentencing remarks are quite something

Not that I approve of the new terror/proscription legislation, but if the government has those powers, this seems like a prime use case. This is terrorising local government employees, FFS.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders 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.

Someone should ask Michael Gove if his comments mean he wants to shag 14 year olds (& “dabble“ a bit with even younger children)? If so, with his history of creating a corrupt VIP Lane to profit from mass death, is he thinking of joining Trump’s team in Washington?

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Putin is a shit leader but one hell of a talented KGB agent-handler.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · yesterday

Donald Trump stands out historically in one way. He has demilitarized the US military more quickly than any other political leader in US history. A full blown pacifist would have struggled to throw away weapons faster than he has.

Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550. Looks to have some really beautiful art in it and a lot of very interesting thought. Paperback released recently and is affordable at around 20 pounds or so depending where you get it from.

The micro bulletin on 6 Music leads with Farage followed by vox-pops with boomers saying the hot weather is glorious. Anyone defending this trash because it's the BBC is in love with their childhood.

Johnson’s propagandists have to go. And ‘journalists’ who believe the click-bait credo can follow them out the door.

Neil Brand@neilkbrand.bsky.social · 2d ago

What the hell is the BBC 6pm news doing leading with Farage's clickbait about using the Royal Navy to stop immigrants? An absurd soundbite from a tiny party with a disgraced leader and that's the most important news in the UK today? Dear God. The rot has truly gone deep.

Now that we have the PM/King of the North in power, it’s nice to see Sainsbury’s taking some of Lancashire’s exotic ingredients into their ‘World Foods’ section

The story in here 👇 is that, protected by tariff & non-tariff barriers, US carmakers are making big profits on their gas-guzzling pick up trucks & SUVs. Well, thanks for burning our planet, y’all. #BoycottUSA #BoycottUSBrands www.ft.com/content/bf6b...

US gas guzzlers see off Europe’s EVs in latest round of car wars

Detroit carmakers had a strong second quarter, while their European rivals remain downbeat

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A lot of interesting info on the Ceuta situation here.

Simon Nixon@nixonsimon.bsky.social · 3d ago

Events of the past few days in Europe have been some of the most disturbing in many years - and not for the reasons given by much of the mainstream media. My latest open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

Are you paying attention 🇮🇪 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿?

Naomi O'Leary@naomiohreally.bsky.social · 4d ago

The wildfire outside Bordeaux showed the risks of highly flammable pine plantations - the native tree growth was much more fire resistant

Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

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I have never trusted eBay. Not sure why. Glad I don’t use them: www.ft.com/content/06ec...

‘Crush this lady’: how eBay harassment campaign led to $56mn payout

Employees’ cyberstalking of Boston couple involving macabre deliveries ended in jail time and financial settlement

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“There may never be a moment when we're 'out of the woods'. We have to accept that fascism is a cold sore. It never goes away. It just waits for our political immune system to weaken. So, this may not be a battle that ever ends. That was our mistake in recent decades. We thought the fight was done.”

Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

💥 LIVE SHOW part two feat. COUNT BINFACE is out now 💥 We discuss what the UK can learn from the US to avoid "Temu Trump" with @therickwilson.bsky.social and @mayaonstage.bsky.social, hosted by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social. 🎧👇 🔊 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🍏 open.spotify.com/episode/2KKZ...

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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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...

"I'm not voting for some crazy right-wing nationalist organisation calling themselves a Tory government" "The party is now more right wing and nationalist than at any time in my lifetime" "It’s the Brexit Party rebadged" Ken Clarke, one of the longest serving MPs in history, purged by Johnson

The BBC coverage has not yet used the obvious at a glance headline - most returned to Morocco - after dramatic scenes sparked humanitarian & political/ diplomatic crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/...

Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.

Get a Heat Pump, folks. I will if one of the suppliers finally recontacts me when they said they will. (Looking at you British Gas/Infinity- renewables)

Eric Idle@ericidle.bsky.social · 5d ago

Someone told me to stop complaining. This is the view from our house last night towards several villages on fire. Never stop complaining! This is not normal.

Today marks the first day when civil servants have to make spending decisions for all government departments because our Executive has failed to approve a budget. Meanwhile the TUV is arguing about tiny plastic flags.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

A timely reminder to me that after our library finally reopened, it is A Good Thing to use it.

Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦@rebeccablood.bsky.social · 5d ago

@doctorow.pluralistic.net I picked this up from the library last night. Looking forward to it!

A clear and detailed analysis of a highly offensive predatory pricing technique. Well worth reading. Making money is not the sole purpose of human life!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.

Isn’t this what Unexplained Wealth Orders are meant to be for? Make them prove they came by it legitimately or forfeit it. Farage’s greed and exaggerated sense of impunity might be finally doing us all a favour.