Update on the most moral army in the world. Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and 'promised to investigate!

This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.

Fox sitting down

Fox biting the handle of my street-sweeping barrow

There are 3 that are always waiting to help me at work in the morning!

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.

But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Send the Evergreen down the Strait of Hormuz

The people of Gorton and Denton have voted overwhelmingly to give heroin to Sir Keir Starmer’s son, and I hope the prime minister will now do the decent thing.

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose

BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

One of my few real opinions is that you shouldn't be having kids if you aren't ok with the possibility of them being one of the types of person that exist

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Me, dying of a disease that was considered eradicated in the United States in 1937:

"I... I don't understand. I... t-took my Hu-Huberman s-sstacks... I... s-s-sunned my b-butthole..."

Doctor, on other side of plastic tent, through intercom: "but did you fap? Did you fap?!"

[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE]

Watchdog’s silence after removing figures that showed social security spending is not ‘spiralling’ The government’s “independent” spending watchdog has refused to explain why it removed figures from its crucial budget forecast report that proved spending on social security is not spiralling out …

The government’s “independent” spending watchdog has refused to explain why it removed figures from its crucial budget forecast report that proved spending on social security is not spiralling out of control.
#OBR #Treasury #Budget25
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

Donald Trump looking the happiest I’ve ever seen him talking to Mamdani, with a Reagan portrait hanging in the wall behind them

The classic distracted boyfriend meme

help

"tough decision" = a decision made by someone in authority to hurt someone vulnerable or abandon a basic moral principle in order to appease bullies, bigots or donors. Often someone taking a "tough decision" will be commended for their "moral courage" by a newspaper columnist

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

Normalise calling people who are obsessed with bringing trans people up in every argument “weirdos” and “perverts” instead of debating them

Kavin came to the UK legally on a skilled worker visa with hopes and dreams. His manager—who sponsored his visa—took his phone, passport, and documents. Forced him to work endless hours. Paid him £100 for a month’s work. Beat him. Threatened deportation if he complained. 🧵

Hi, my name is Rachel Reeves. I've got it into my head that a government should spend absolutely no money at all, and that's what I'm working towards. It can't happen all at once but I am going to take it from the disgusting poors first, especially the ones that have things wrong with them. Ugh. Ew.

They were handing out free Tim Tams in Camden yesterday - trying to muscle in on the penguin market??

Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs Dozens of Chagossians have flown in to Heathrow Airport this week, putting pressure on housing services.

Oh, FORFUCKSAKE, BBC. The headline "Surge in Chagos arrivals prompts row over housing costs" is a masterclass in racist, anti-migrant bullshit. You absolute wankers. These are people whose islands we stole, whose families we ethnically cleansed.

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this isn’t funny portlanders only turn into inflatable frogs when their neighbors are being kidnapped by a fascist secret police force

Job Cops in GP surgeries will simply make people who need medical help & treatment less likely to seek medical help & treatment

In memoriam...

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gets even messier if i add in luigi

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

Watched Suchet's version of Death on the Nile the other night, and Frances de la Tour was an absolute delight