The EU is sitting on €6.4 *billion* in grants for Hungary
With a likely constitutional majority enabling Magyar to govern with a freehand, I suspect that money will flow quickly
Ukraine's €90bn loan will also be approved
Hungary will now move into the European mainstream
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:
Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially
The Trumpite-Faragist methodology of constantly feeding an electoral bloc with grievances and cruelty can be defeated.
So excited about JD Vance campaigning for himself and for the Trump administration in November!
oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry
went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted
Oh WOW! I can’t believe being supported by JD Vance didn’t swing it for him!
BAGA level 3 🤸
Two horses frolic around on the skyline in their field. Above, huge white clouds are framed by blue skies
Beautiful day to be taking horses out to a field so they can then do handstands
Earlier, I became genuinely emotional about how good the crab costume was because it demonstrated ACTUAL MONEY being invested in British comedy, and also because I really love to do the bubbly watery crab voice while talking about that sketch.
Have been getting so obsessed with SNL UK anyway, but the Giant Crab Man sketch was so good that it has now entered “light argument” speak in my house and my husband just skittered off sideways. youtu.be/OuSzG_DzVNo?...
Exactly as it sounds but with a golden retriever staring happily out over her long snoot and her best beloved ball, some lower teeth peeking out
why does she look so like a fat great white shark
A golden retriever relaxing on the grass in the late afternoon sunshine and scronching on a chewy tennis ball
Having just the best time with her squeakiest ball
I sent the posts to cheer up a friend yesterday. This morning, she sent me one back showing all the newspaper coverage of the cake, and that the actual cake sales are significantly up!
Money! Eurgh, so horrid to talk about, it’s not as if anyone needs it, surely 🙄
Her own posts are just filled with comments made up of the cake emoji. Absolutely appalling behaviour from her team.
oh no - looks that this post got pulled (the one that named Binky Felstead). You can have this one instead, which I don't think does. But it's Binky Felstead. And clearly she's done some rapid instructing. GLWT! www.instagram.com/p/DW6z10Fje02/
In which things do not go well for Binky Felstead, and I fall in love with a cake maker www.instagram.com/p/DW8XOFjjSK...
My heart has been genuinely warmed by the response to Binky Felstead’s team asking baker Reshmi Bennett to make a free birthday cake for her child in two weeks in return for *one* IG Story. A proper old-fashioned roasting as such grifting deserves.
This is how naps work: dog on the large sofa, and me, scrunched up on the tiny sofa so that my precious baby girl has enough space to conk out for her deranged dreams
Spot on 🧵! Anxiety at getting your head kicked in was such a part of growing up and starting to go out in small town England in the 90s & seems to have been forgotten. London has always felt safe but now people in said towns tell us it's a violent hellhole. Just preposterous & much of it is racist
An incredibly bright, vivid red cordial in a little bottle. The ingredients are magnolia petals, sugar, citric acid and water if you want to try making your own.
My clever friend Rachel has made magnolia cordial. She has been drinking it in gimlets and G&Ts but it is so delicious - gingery and rhubarby without containing either - that I will quite happily drink it on its own.
I think she was the one who pushed it under there tbh 🙄
A golden retriever lies in her furry basket next to her furry bear toy. She has destroyed many toys but she has a collection of preciouses who remain unchewed and are just for snuggling and carrying purposes with some gentle nibbling.
Sybil and her beloved bear have been reunited after a harrowing day during which bear was accidentally lost under a cabinet.
I love it so much. It's picked up again in this new series, some great storytelling and more show don't tell about how they work with the dogs in the kennels, too
Oh my GOD, just look at him! (Very glad he's able to rest and relax after what must have been a deeply stressful few months being a cat.)
me: time to get stuff done
🧠: ok but what if we just got mad at ourselves instead
I watched three episodes of The Dog House last night with my phone off, while eating an easter egg, stroking the dog and sobbing extensively, then was asleep by 10.30 and that SEEMS to have done a reset. For today, at least.
I see Rob Anybody has had a modern update!
