Just as one country gets rid of a pro-Putin puppet in Hungary, another pops up in Bulgaria.

As the saying goes, you can't argue with an idiot as they'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

There are useful idiots everywhere. It'll take the others to come out and vote to stop them.

I was waiting in a queue at Gare du Nord for the Eurostar back to the UK and chatting to two blokes who'd been over in France for a conference, both said: "All politicians are the same". I replied, "They aren't, really, are they?" They didn't know what to say after that.

Similar types are in the Rassemblement National party, Le Pen's lot here in France; useful idiots for Moscow and for far-right US tech-bro paymasters.

Bluesky is playing up and seems a bit funky today. I hope they sort it out soon.

Now this is funny.

two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse . ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .

You mean like this?

I think you owe a lot of backdated child maintenance.

Because they believed people who said it was fake, and it didn't sink at all, and it was all a government conspiracy.

A lot of people are replying to say they’ve read one word in my “tweet” slightly wrong, which prompted me to create this and I can’t stop laughing

He'll probably deny he said that.

They didn't stay there; soldiers moved on and formed the core of the Polish II Corp who fought the Nazis in Italy. The civilians; most went to other places, and after the war, ended up in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and other parts of what is now the wider Polish diaspora.

May be time to stop that bollocks, otherwise there'll be stories about you in ten years' time on here.

Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos

Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate

A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos

France, mate, re-read the post.

You may not like her. No love is lost on her from my side either, but the same argument used against her on language, accent, etc., is the same used against hard-working people who've made a foreign country their home by Brexity/Reform/MAGA types.

I know of people who've been in France for 15 years and still shit in French, it doesn't matter how many lessons they've had. Some people aren't good at languages.

That's scary that someone of so little knowledge can get to such a position.

And your point is?

They're only a vocal minority with some rich backers who see neo-feudal economics as a way of the world. They'll never back climate action.

It was back in the 1990s. I didn't put that on my CV, but I probably should have. Good luck today.

I remember years ago, I did a temp job straight out of Uni like that. I was brought in to run the IT section of a call centre; they had new software, and nobody knew how to use it, so I had to read the manuals.

We know where Vance can shove his accusations. What a cheek.

More people should be aware of the attacks on our infrastructure.

The pope added a message to his fellow Americans: be in touch with your representatives in Congress and demand that they act to rein in Trump and his war-making.

Have folks in Wisconsin gotten out today for the state Supreme Court election?

Polls close at 8.

Go vote!

Read the whole thread, it's good, but also very worrying.

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

The most lucrative positions as an academic come from being either very good or very bad at it.