Yes! I can have the singular but not the plural. I'm also having trouble with 'bastardyness', which might not be a word but it bastarding-well ought to be. 🙏😊

Microsoft Word won't let me add 'c*unts' to my dictionary so now I've got the two blue lines of disapproval underlining it. I'm going to try the singular to see if that's acceptable. Don't go away.

"Let's get the record straight on some of the myths & disinformation going around about California. First off, California is not broke. It experienced a budget shortfall last year, due do a decline in revenue (after a $98 billion budget surplus), due to the economy shrinking. It is still the 5th largest economy in the world, the largest economy in the US, & contributes more to the federal government & the overall US economy than any other state. It even contributes $80 billion to the federal government over & above the subsidies it receives. It currently keeps $27 billion in reserve. Los Angeles did not cut funding for the LAFD. In the past fiscal year, firefighting received an additional $76 million over the previous year in salaries & $58 million in new equipment. Some parts of the department had cuts, but overall, there was a huge increase in budget. Los Angeles is not out of water to fight fires. The hydrant system was simply not designed to try to extinguish hundreds of homes at a time. The system was being drained faster than it can be replenished. It's a question of bandwidth, where the output is greater than the input. The system that supplies water pressure was not designed for a natural catastrophe of this magnitude. In fact, the experts who are calling for upgrades to the system are admitting that even with more water & more firefighters, these once in a century conditions that combined hurricane force winds with dry air, still would not have been stoppable. So for the people enjoying their moment of schadenfreude, & looking to scapegoat the politicians: First off, shame on you. We don't rejoice when our fellow states experience disaster. Secondly, for the finger pointing, chances are great that you simply have no idea what you're talking about, & we've never demanded that hurricane states change their policies when they needed disaster relief money. We just send help." Of course, nobody on BLUESKY needs to be told this shit. But there it is. Pass it on.

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A friend of mine posted this elsewhere.

Some helpful facts to counter, debunk & shame the dumbfuckery being spread by people who have no compunction about causing other people pain, as long as they think those people are on "the other team."

MAGA: The asshole dads we all hate in kids' sports.

It may be satire but this clip really sums up where we are on Brexit right now

With the always brilliant @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

I couldn’t resist this one.

Explainer: why austerity doesn’t work YouTube video by Theo Lester

Labour Ad: Why austerity doesn’t work:

youtu.be/_eJFb-r48Ys?...

Couldn’t help but think of all of the amazing people who have donated to the Sheen Fest fundraiser when I heard Michael say this. With every cent, every offer to help us in our efforts, you have all proven just how true his words are. So proud to be a part of this fandom 🥹🩵

Good morning! I've begun a starter pack for prose poets. go.bsky.app/EdpM3cb Please share.

CCTV footage shows WHO chief fleeing Yemeni airport amid Israeli strike – video The Houthis have been intensifying attacks against Israel in an effort to pressure it to end its war in Gaza

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization.

Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

But not as thick as the man who spoke them.

CHARLES, STOP FLEECING BRITAIN YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing

(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)

youtu.be/pocnThE3nHc

Launch of Oxford/42 New Writing Prize: now open for submissions

New Writing Prize here with some fabulous judges - includes writers from UK & Ireland and is for novel, play or screenwriting.

Please share :)

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge.

International.

Please share:

weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

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There's something very dodgy going on at ABBA Voyage. I've been waiting outside the stage door, autograph book and pen poised, since the end of yesterday's matinee and they still haven't come out.

https://x.com/wtpBLUE/status/1866301210061590914

Creating the conditions that promote voter apathy is a very effective voter suppression tactic to keep incumbent self-dealing "do-nothings" reelected locally & monsters in office at the federal level.
New Jersey is a case in point.
#DemVoice1 #DemCastNJ #wtpBLUE #DemCast

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Illegal - a sick bird of prey
Latent - French for tent
Milky - the key to the mill
Trouble - northern spending money for Russian hols
Train - rain in the North
Trump - backside in the North

Crap - shitty rap

A small plastic figure - a footballer - resting in the branches of a Christmas tree.

The footballer is in the tree.

Talking Tales is back
Quarterly in2025

New year, new venue but you’ll do just fine as you are ❤️

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Well that made me tear up.

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

Originally it was done to prevent too much paint collecting in the slot and making it difficult to unscrew.

Thank you so much. That's very kind of you to say.

Take note. Don’t get into it with them. Don’t argue for fun. Don’t give them oxygen or attention.

Block early.

Edinburgh Young adult Fiction Prize — Scottish Arts Trust For writers and illustrators of novels and graphic novels created for readers aged 12 years and older. All genres including humour, romance, drama, horror, queer, contemporary, realist, speculative f...

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