OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
LOL.
"my father was a toolmaker"?
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
My experience is that the main companies like Avis don't do electric , I guess in case people don't know how to charge them. Zipcar had a fleet of electrics (they were for short hops so the company kept them charged) but they're no more of course
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Once upon a time there was a ruler who made a bad decision. All the courtiers and servants knew it was a bad decision, but they put into effect the bad decision, for the ruler had already made and proclaimed the decision. And when it turned out to be a very bad decision indeed, those courtiers and servants were sacked by the now “furious” ruler.
The decision of a Prime Minister
Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson
The Empty City blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...
I know the difference between fiction and non-fiction too, but then I’m not sure that’s ever been Matt’s strong point.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Politicians act like normal people sometime
The Norfolk Greens are absolutely a NIMBY wing of the party and they will always find some way to object to anything being built there.
"Sometimes I just want to kick fuck out of a bin." - Mahatma Gandhi
It's been a day.
me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen
Beyond anything else why would the civil service or indeed Number 10 advisors trust saying anything to the PM at this point given he has fired 2 cab secs, Foreign Office perm sec, 2 chiefs of staff and 4,762 communications officers. It’s like he’s running his own DOGE unit.
Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can.
"I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"
If I were unsure whether AI is a bubble, now I'm convinced it is, and that it is utterly fucked.
Kids, a good rule of thumb in life is "do the opposite of what @lizforleicester.bsky.social tells you to do".
No10’s account is incredible.
I held Developed Vetting for nearly ten years and spent three years at the heart of the Cabinet Office. I have never heard of a Developed Vetting denial being overruled. Here’s why…🧵
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What if the Home Office had been told of the pitfalls of a digital-only eVisa system but it pressed ahead anyway, oh wait
How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?
This the key point. If FCDO did overturn the vetting without telling anyone it was because it had already been announced. Which was a ridiculous thing to do.
The thing about a life long civil servant - and one who has made their name in diplomacy - is that temperamentally they’re rule breakers. Mavericks. Not afraid to bend the law to get a result.
Russia forces Central Asian immigrants to fight “They are literally sent to be killed, no one considers them soldiers that need to be saved,” …”These soldiers’ life expectancy on the front line is about four months”. “Losses among them are catastrophic,”
apple.news/ACR-kLP_rSRu...
sure but you show up to work a little high and suddenly it's an hr issue
Another reminder that It is possible to run a politically successful centre-left government
The "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" meme
Civilization is a hell of a drug
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
