Well yeah, because it was Starmer's opinion that Mandelson was an appropriate appointment. He wasn't.

It's perfectly obvious that he not only knew but that he (jointly) made the decision to override the security vetting recommendations. Civil servants advise and ministers decide. It has always been thus.

David Attenborough fans
This is what a baby swordfish looks like on top of a fingertip.
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A chunk of blue-grey fluff that is actually a very soft kitten sitting on a library desk. They are doing a very serious Kitten Face and have very intent yellow-gold eyes, and they would be so scary and fierce if they were more than six inches tall and not so hugely adorable when they tried to be judgey.

The news all sucks today.

Here's a kitten in a library!

No representation without taxation.

A mug of exactly what the post says, it looks gooooood

Who up drinking they Twinings swiss hot chocolate with Baileys whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

Male Red-bellied Woodpecker and male Northern Cardinal face each other from opposite sides of a feeder, appearing to converse.

Good gossip at the feeder today — photo thread 🧵
#birds

TNG is FALGSC the series.

Happy Neil day to all who celebrate

The morning of the 25th of April cannot come soon enough. Get him out!

#greenscreen This video is my opinion 🤓 #maga #trump #health

A drawing of a realistic dog wearing a tie saying; "I need to lock in and prove that I am capable. I need to be taken seriously." While a drawing of a cartoon dog says; "I need to stay silly and whimsical lest I lose the very essence of myself." Perpetrating an endless cycle

Endless cycle

Country borders and major cities are still there, all the smaller towns and villages are gone. Which is weird.

My neighbor told me air defenses keep eating his $200M drones so I asked how many $200M drones he has and he said he just goes to the manufacturer and gets a drone afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding $200M drones to air defenses and then his daughter started crying.

He has Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia combined with his Malignant Narcissism and Congestive Heart Failure (Which is causing Kidney and Liver issues too).

The guy is falling apart at the seams.

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

War criminal netanyahu is destroying towns in southern Lebanon without military reasoning, which is a punishable war crime.

A less than regular visitor came by this afternoon, a male Costa’s hummingbird with that amazing purple gorget! Also some nice squeaks and wing hums.
#birds #BirdBuddy cam

Sweet orange kitty rests leaning on the arm of a brown couch with a blue blanket behind him

Prim and proper orange cat lays on his stomach on a gray blanket with his paws crossed in front of him and his head turned to his right, your left

Orange kitty helps make the bed

Tiny orange kitten sleeps on blue blanket

Yes, it is a holiday…no, not that one. It’s Garfield’s birthday, he’s 8

Israel exists at the behest of the US and to a lesser extent the UK. In Joe Biden's words "If Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it". Destabilising countries in the region allows the west to exploit and control access to oil and gas. The US will never hold itself accountable for its crimes.

We did it! We saw a platypus in the wild!! We were both so excited to finally see one of these cute, funny looking critters in it's natural habitat.

#TravelAddicts #KangarooIsland

Happy Caturday!

I'm old enough to remember watching multiplayer DOOM on Gamesmaster on Channel 4 hosted by the inimitable Dominic Diamond.

I got some great news today, so here's a cat.

What would you think if I sang out of tune?
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

This is largely my experience with it too. We're using the paid-for ChatGPT at work. I asked it to wrap some functional sugar around a couple of AWS CLI commands which I explicitly defined. Not only was the functional code wrong, it had butchered the commands so they no longer worked either. Slop.