Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

Are there, perhaps, any recent examples of dubious characters with obvious security risks being appointed to the House of Lords?

Not bothered by people who want Starmer to go. I agree. My reasons are selfishly practical - he lacks the vision and charisma to lead the UK through impossibly challenging times. What bothers me is when people cosplay moral outrage to not just oust, but destroy him, because it gives them a thrill.

Ed Miliband Says He Will “Double Down, Not Back Down” On Clean Energy Ed Miliband has said he will “double down, not back down” on the government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change ...

Ed Miliband has said he'll “double down, not back down” on government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course

The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

Smoked eel is nice. Surprised me cos I’ve tried jellied eel.

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It is a good thing there is nothing else important going on the world.
What we really need is political instability and enforced crises, cause by pearl-clutching over who knew what when at a time when we are a isolated, economically suffering former world power facing a crises easily as big as WW3.

We have ("we": our ancestors, a lot of vested interests, the British Empire etc) a governance/government culture in the UK which is bound up to some extent with being some kind of horrible arsehole. We select for it. We incentivise it. We punish the gentle and the unguarded by public shaming.

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

England wildlife watchdog ‘has stopped designating special sites for protection’ Exclusive: Report finds Natural England has created no new SSSIs, which protect areas from development, since 2023

Natural England failing to protect valuable sites. Our report for @wildjustice.bsky.social shows that nearly 2/3 of sites waiting to be designated as SSSIs were under threat from development. One site in Thurrock will be directly destroyed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This

America, let me hold your gun hand in one hand and your trucknutz in the other while I say this, with love; you need to start being a real country.

I know, I know, as an English person I see the irony, and the flaw in our plan to ship all our nutters there in the 1700s, I’m sorry.

This. I wrote about how Michael Phelps's sport-advantageous physique is celebrated, while that of Black and brown athletes - especially if they are women - is often pathologized in the Performance chapter of HUMANS: A Monstrous History (link in bio).

But who's next on the monstrification list?

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

I have no doubt that part of the narrative from Labour organisers on May 8th will be that some of us didn’t knock on enough doors or deliver enough leaflets. This is bollox - if we want to save our party we’ve got to address the reasons we are alienating our core voters, not just badger them.

Related to the UK's EU debate and in particular the national delusion that is exceptionalism like we're going to have the world's best regulations when we don't understand the world.

I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.

It's 10 years today since Prince died.
So a reminder of this, that happened on the other place, because sometimes sadness can still bring laughter.

Dr Steve Taylor
@DrSteveTaylor

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Come on, look up, and see that Keira Bell, the GC movement's primary "detransitoner," has Christian Right legal representation, and is big fan of Far Right icon Tommy Robinson, and yet is being laundered to the UK press and the public as "caring about children." Heard that one before, right?

This is all part of a dismantlement of gay and women's rights in the UK. You can see how the EHRC was stacked with transphobes, and now we can see the same process beginning in Stonewall. Trans rights are small potatoes, they want a repeal of marriage equality and criminalisation of abortion.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

You can lead the Daily Telegraph to an NHS story, but you can't make them report it accurately.

Sorry like, but overseeing massive piss-ups and your own fucking birthday party (with cake) during a national lockdown wasn't resign-worthy so therefore pretty much nothing else ever can be.

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

what I can not stand about these tertiary institutions attacking their own students is the complete absence of evidence that pro-Palestine students are a physical threat to anything or anyone. The “threat” is to status quo white supremacy and war machine money.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

To anyone complaining - make sure you confirm within 60mins via the link sent to the email you gave or the complaint is junked. x

God he's so much fun youtu.be/A48oR4Zc9ik?...

kash patel wizard

im never gonna let the world forget this about kash patel

"His main qualification, in Trump’s eyes, appears to have been a series of children’s books he wrote as thinly disguised fiction praising Trump and promoting conspiracies. Patel even inserted himself in the books as a wizard character."