The Blacksmith Union is telling us to strike while the iron is hot and I'm not sure if I should go to work or not

The BBC forced out Gary Lineker, a far more successful and appealing sports presenter, over far less than this

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

Let's recall that Kezia Dugdale is a member of Starmer's tendency in Labour - you might have seen the kind of people Starmer goes to bat for in the news.

Let's also recall that Rowling allowed both Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Windsor to hang around child actors working on her shows.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

20 April 1921 | A Polish man, Tadeusz Himstedt, was born in Łódź. A student.

In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940.
No. 2246
He perished in the camp on 6 September 1942.
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🎧/📖 Registration photos in Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/4adWOeJ

The Small Faces - All Or Nothing (1966) YouTube video by Beat-Club

The 35th crappaversary of us losing Mr. Marriott and nobody's posted "All Or Nothing," the requiem at his funeral?

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Tap

okay my feature script is DONE done it’s been through producers’ notes and directors’ notes and notes notes notes now someone send me $12m so I can film this bad boy

Keir Starmer actually put this in a briefing to Labour MPs of 'useful questions to ask' today. The PM knew of Mandelson's relationship Epstein when he appointed him.

And yet thinks he can still exploit the grief of the victims. This is why he is not fit to be Prime Minister.

A cartoon of an interview of a wealthy man by a fancy fireplace. The man says 'The best political system is the one where almost everyone works hard all their life, so that people like me don't have to work at all.' The interviewer says 'Fascinating'. The wealthy man then says 'Anyone who disagrees with this is a dangerous woke socialist who hates their country.' The interviewer says 'Indeed.'

The best political system #cartoon

It's very telling how facism can't compete in the marketplace of ideas without significant government intervention in that marketplace

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.

Great work to all the transphobic pickme gays because you're next on the menu

Set aside all the things briefcase cunts can claim are "bad inheritances" and "tough decisions"...letting Palantir anywhere near our health service is unforgivable.

caricature of tim curry as frank n furter with a red background

Wonderful Tim Curry is 80 today! RHPS was one of my faves growing up, he made a BIG impression. This is a caricature I did back in 2012 of him as Frank

If you vote for, or provide rhetorical cover for, any politician that allows Palantir permission to even speak to your government, then that politician is a nazi and so are you. This is as true in Britain as it is in America.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

19 April 1902 | A Polish man, Rudolf Rosner, was born in Bielsko. A Catholic priest.

In #Auschwitz from 8 January 1942.
No. 25319
He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942.
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Learn about the fate of Christian clergy & religious life in the camp: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_18_duchowienstwo/

An enamel pin of a white goose holding a silver folding knife in its yellow beak against a plain white background. The goose is standing upright with its wings slightly tucked and has orange webbed feet.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Knife Duck Pin. I asked my father what the duck would be saying. Here's his ideas:

-What's on the menu tonight? Not duck.
-I'll slit your wrist, I'm a crazy duck.
-I already came up with two ideas. What more do you want me to come up with?
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After 200 years… I present the first chapter of my new comic “It’s You Who’s On Fire” on madsmiyun.neocities.org. New chapters each month with small gaps if needed!

Sharing because though 'cult' things are nice this book needs to be read by loads more people because it's brilliant and strange and will live in your head for a while, popping up occasionally, especially if you find yourself on a Dorset beach. The bookmark will be gorgeous too.

A fractured jaw doesn't sound much fun, wishing you a speedy recovery!

Everything Will Swallow You, with an owl bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a Green Man bookmark.

Everything Will Swallow You, with a chicken bookmark.

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo.

Repost & reply to enter.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

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Rosenthal 1993
McAllister 2001
Kuyt 2007
Mané 2016
Origi 2018
van Dijk 2026

Last minute winners against Everton.

"Officers behaved thuggishly, with consistent and serious aggression and violence — overwhelmingly directed at antifascist counter-protesters... This included numerous punches, kicks and violent attempts to remove masks" npolicemonitor.co.uk/uncategorize...

All together now #LFC

Unicef pauses operations in north Gaza Strip after contractors killed The Israeli military killed two Unicef-contracted truck drivers at a water point in the northern Gaza strip, forcing the UN agency to suspend its operations in the area, Unicef said. Two other people were also injured in the attack that occurred at the Mansoura water-filling point in Gaza City, Unicef said in a statement. Unicef said the point is being used multiple times a day to provide hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza City with clean water from the Mekorot water supply line. The agency said it suspended onsite activities until security conditions in the area are restored.

All the people who're extremely upset about Molly Shah or individual Palestinians desperately begging for help insisting that there are ~legitimate~ channels to help people never seem bothered about stuff like this:

Slept in my 'I Love The Blues' t-shirt and I woke up this morning....

Defence attorney: Oh! You have a woman’s mouth, your honor! I’ll wager that mouth never had to chew through the side of a ship to escape the dreadful spindly killer fish.

Psych-out (1968) Official Trailer YouTube video by Psychedelic Cinema

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."

[Gift article]

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