Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Nonesuch Records

It's a casual Sunday. The world is in torment - listening to Laurie: youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE?...

Important questions to ask your political canvasser With the 7 May elections on the horizon, residents across the east can expect a knock on the door from their local political canvasser

With the 7 May elections on the horizon, residents across the east can expect a knock on the door from their local political canvasser | Celina Błędowska

Pecksniff: Whatever the extra taradiddles, Britain prepares to return to Europe In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Britain edges back towards Europe, though no one quite says it aloud - well, no one except our erudite Mr Pecksniff.

Also under scrutiny:

- Reform’s candidate controversies go on & on
- May election turnout may decide whether extremes gain ground, &
- Lurking LibDems

Enjoy your Saturday read 👇

Create Ts with your supeerb images. They're wondeful.

Bravo!

Sun's out, it's time for #icecream. Read @nicmiller.bsky.social latest #TalesfromaTopographicKitchen to whet your appetite for these divine celebrations of frozen deliciousness.

Lunacy. So you, the aggrieved, are supposed to know when your bike was nicked - to the precise hour. I suspect an AI video prompt cld do this easily & quickly. What a pain.

Great lippy.

Trump’s America: land of make-believe Donald Trump may be a modern phenomenon but the ingredients that made his ascendancy possible have been around since the US was founded

Trump’s America: land of make-believe

Donald Trump may be a modern phenomenon but the ingredients that made his ascendancy possible have been around since the US was founded

westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Local elections in the East: candidates and battlegrounds The candidate lists are now confirmed for May’s local elections. Who is standing, and what are the current predictions?

Now we know who is standing, what can we expect from May’s local elections in the East of England?

Why are this May’s local elections different? They are unlike any before. Short-term councillors, five-way contests.

Will a surge from Reform UK reshape the region?

Very irritating.

An unusual slogan from a dishevelled man in the US. I like it.

Brave woman!

Map showing my blood's journey from donation at Westfield Shepherd's Bush to processing and testing centre in Colindale and thence on to a hospital in Hastings.

Honestly, NHS Blood and Transplant are ace. Worth donating just to see my blood's journey to Hastings.

Distraught woman, sitting on a bed, hands covering her face.

Norfolk's Sue Lambert Trust receives 85 calls for help per month from rape and abuse survivors.
Funding cuts will mean that only 10 new cases can be supported.
75 will be turned away.

Celina Błędowska explains.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/welfare...

With local #politics to the fore over the next few weeks @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social is the place to read a decent analysis interspersed with wonderful metaphors. #Farage as a "fairground barker" is a fave.

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Make it extra tasty with almonds (toasted) & sprinkling of sesame seeds & a squidge of lemon

Will you ship to UK or will I be stymied by tarrifs? For you to eat broccoli wld be such a majestic act.

Excuses for the typo - just so angry when I typed the post-'annihilation' was/is the noun.

Yet again #Trump ponces & pontificates on the world stage. He threatens #mayhem & annihalition & talks about destroying Iranianian #civlisation. Please #US impeach him now. @housedemocrats.bsky.social

The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity.

It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030.

Taxing the rich is a global necessity.

Imagine you’re a Hollywood producer or a TV executive in 2015 and a screenwriter pitches you a future where a President issues this message on Easter Sunday. The writer would never work again

Oysters?

My #residentchef @darylchef.bsky.social may have cooked me a superb lunch, but I created the mustard & marmalade carrots. Ha!

Thank goodness for prosecco.

This may might be the night you celebrate reibirth ;
& #Handel or even the wonderful #Bach oratory. Wherever you are, whichever religion - or none you follow - here's some flowers. I celebrate nature.

Enjoy!

Two peas does not a full veggie composition make. But - getting there. Was the meal tasty? That's what really matters. Hi to the kiddos & your good self.