Philip R Holden

Not a momentous announcement , but I'm going off SM for the next week.
A world revolving around the orange dumpster and his playing army, is too much for me.

Yup

I mean, if a trained team can extract Maduro...

Should have tagged @musicologyduck.bsky.social - credit for their journalism 🏆

"Herr Hitler is a reasonable man..."

I'm not so sure.

Oh, I get it. This is a parable.
The bus driver is the president, the bus is the USA.
Brilliant.

No. Piss off Johnson.
The last Johnson we had was bad enough.

I hear you and, up until now I would have described myself as pacifist.
...But if one could, one would...

They're the political equivalent of a bunch of blokes who pull up with a tipper full of asphalt and forcibly "do your drive".

They have no expertise, they rip you off, they bugger off.

Except that last point. Most of these RW idiots seem unflushable.

(Sorry, I stole a glance at Twitter just now)

Sure. As I've said elsewhere. Co-ordinated European action to sell 10% of this, this week.
Then 10% next week and so on.
Do demands, no ultimatum.
Let USA deal with it.

Seems fair enough. ICE don't seem to recognise the limits of their jurisdiction.

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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Totally agree. "Money markets", "financial instruments" and others are works of fiction.
I magic £500,000 into existence, then you give me your labour ALL YOUR LIFE so you can live in a house?!
During which time YOU pay for the money I didn't have and pay me for the privilege???!!!

Donald Trump Says Keir Starmer's Decision To Give Up Chagos Islands Was 'An Act Of Great Stupidity' The US president accused the prime minister of "total weakness" in extraordinary attack.

Trump himself signed it off in 2025 so I guess hat makes him unbelievably stupid by his own measure

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

Checking the news every morning to see if the WW3 has started doesn't help my anxiety.

I started experimenting with getting students to include a 'journal': all the AI apps they've used + the prompts + the results from the prompts. I tell them a lack of such an account and discovery of their actual use of AI is an academic offence.
Students are slowly understanding.

😊

So really, she's died at the age of 95.23. RIP

A bookseller in need of rehoming some of her books. How would you like the idea of £5 + post for a mystery bundle of a minimum of 3 books from my own collection? You can choose from middle grade, YA, or adult. Books pre-loved. Proceeds to my marathon fundraising for BookTrust! ❤️

Moses? Basket case.

Well, I understand it's complex. The trouble is Trump isn't.

I suggest no visas issued/allowed for travel from or to the US.

Then a concerted European sell-off of 10% of dollar bonds each week.

Plus, crucially, don't make any demands of the Trump admin. Just watch them spin.

Wasn't the 2A about the protesters resisting state power?

Mind you, if they were in the same room...🤔

🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY MADURO, IRAN NOR GREENLAND & STAY LOUD 🔥🔥🔥

🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN 🔥🔥🔥

🔥🔥🔥 TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared 🔥🔥🔥

? Autocorrect ? Nobel of course 🙄

Maybe someone can convince him that the REAL Novel prize is made of dynamite.

"Just hold this for a photo, sir"

NB if #USA forces can snatch and imprison the head of state of ANOTHER country, surely they can snatch and imprison their own?

There's barely time for the #USA to rescue its reputation.
That's removing #Trump immediately plus a very public trial and punishment as well as restoration, and committment to, national and international structures of democracy.
Otherwise, you're just telling China and Russia "anything goes"

Oh for a fire truck and a fire hose.
Less than a minute, that's all it would take...