Odi et Amo

I’m on the telly.

Guernica.

David Byrne on the future of AI, global conflict and US politics YouTube video by BBC Politics

"That's a kind of dangerous situation" | David Byrne on AI, creativity and isolation

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrXYNBhRW0

Alffi & Roci’s take on the global shitshow.

Asking random locals in Tehran to hang out.

These are the friendly, social people we are bombing for no reason.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

I’ve never been a royal watcher so much of this brilliant piece is news to me. Decades of taking the piss.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A woman dressed in black

Qatar Minster of education Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater to the US: “…we just need you to leave us alone. To stop igniting wars so that weapons’ companies can make more money. We need you to Stop Bombing Schools, to stop trafficking and raping little kids.”

Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.

String ‘em up I say.

#USEmbassyUK #Bastards
How quintessentially English!😂😂🔥

Man walks past the US embassy in the UK shouting 'bastards'!

Cow No.19
6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

Absolute waster - can’t wait.

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President Zelenskyy: In three days, Middle Eastern countries have fired 800 missiles for Patriot systems - a number Ukraine has never even had.

Spot on

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Without giving too much away, I live in a Welsh village - Dinas (‘city’) - and residents call themselves Dinasyddion (‘citizens’). Recently I learned a bilingual pun on Dinas - din=bum; as=ass - so, I live in Bumass & I’m one of the dinasyddion, the bumasspeople.
Which is nice.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

London landlord begins evictions ahead of new renters’ rights law Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital owns several apartment blocks in capital as well as Trocadero centre in Piccadilly

Asif Aziz evictions story is going mainstream. Telegraph and Independent have covered in recent days. Now the FT has done a brilliant piece - including finding another property affected, where a Ukrainian refugee and their disabled son are being evicted by Aziz. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

who made this

Ooof

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!

Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds

But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣

Right, let's get started...

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Michael Sheen backs Plaid as he describes Wales as being at a political crossroads Welsh icon Michael Sheen has declared his support for Plaid Cymru ahead of May’s Senedd election, saying the country is undergoing “huge transformation”. Speaking to Times Radio’s Adam Boulton, the Po...

Welsh icon Michael Sheen has declared his support for Plaid Cymru ahead of May's Senedd election, saying the country is undergoing a ‘huge transformation’

Operation Epic Fabrication

Jacques Tati as a postman

18 days to send a parcel from north Wales to Brittany.

Brothers. A longitudinal study of hair.