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Superannuated consultant, energy co-op director, lapsed politician, recidivist old house restorer, reader, food, wine, arts, humanitarian wokerato, fulminateur

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Alright, I confess. The artist who made this lives across the street. It really is life size.

13.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

May we take it the wine was out of shot?

13.03.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

13.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 991 πŸ” 486 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry we have no balconies here, but here’s a real unicorn, crept up on.

13.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called β€˜mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

38d.gs/CapOnPolitic...

13.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And while we’re at it, fuck Trump, fuck Putin and fuck Netanyahu. Try civilised living for a change instead of attacking people.

And we haven’t forgotten the Epstein files.

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13.03.2026 09:37 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œBut father! This used to be such a healthy land. A prosperous land. A happy land. How did we come to be in the terrible state we’re now in?”
β€œOtters, son. They put otters on our banknotes

13.03.2026 11:13 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, if I get this right, AI is looking at answers to different questions from the past, making up survey answers as if they were real, and telling huge corporations what real people want next. That’s going to work innit?

13.03.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Heartbreaking

The Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region-before&after Russia’s war.

More than 67,000 people lived here,&nearly 80,000 including the surrounding suburbs.It was one of the major industrial cities in the Donetsk region

Kostiantynivka was known as the glass capital of Donbas

13.03.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 462 πŸ” 198 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 13

Autocarrot wins the prize.

13.03.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Routinely unfair. Grey, wind, rain. Du vin.

13.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Selling out creative industries to big tech rather than protecting artists is a huge abdication of responsibility and leadership by Westminster.
Our copyright isn’t theirs to give away, loan, diminish, or otherwise tinker with, and we should all be pushing back as hard as we can against this.

08.03.2026 11:11 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform UK is MAGA light.

Nigel Farage has tied himself to Donald Trump, and can’t escape it.

From DOGE, to Orr, to ICE, to Iran, where Trump goes, Nigel follows.

13.03.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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β€˜The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by β€˜emergency visa brake’

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

13.03.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 310 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 97
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Anyway, here's Wonderwall.....

12.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 1097 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 8

Very much to the point

12.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The feeling's mutual

12.03.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 1313 πŸ” 156 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 5

This is absolutely fucking nuts,.

12.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh

12.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tail tucked in to avoid the cleaning.

12.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

While USA does its best to start WWIII, trying to divert attention from the Epstein files, UK politics obsesses about animals on banknotes.

Kemi Badenoch (who’s she?) has even been forced to say she quite likes animals, if only for lunch

12.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starbucks Billionaire Howard Schultz Leaves Seattle for Florida the Same Day Democrats Pass Income Tax Bill Starbucks founder Howard Schultz decided to move to Miami from Seattle after Democrats passed an income tax bill for Washington to levy a 9.9% tax on households earnings $1 million annually.

The most selfish people on the planet, have zero interest in helping anyone other than themselves. Stop giving these people your money. (Starbucks, Amazon, etc) They hate their customers and make it clear every day. www.ibtimes.co.uk/starbucks-bi...

12.03.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Grandiloquent word of the day recently was scurryfunge. Defined as what you’re doing.

12.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thankfully, Palantir does not have a contract with NHS Scotland. Thank you Scottish Government!

English people should be up in arms about the disgraceful contract Westminster has signed with Palantir. Streeting is a bought man.

12.03.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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British police declined to investigate trafficking claims against Prince Andrew for a decade.

Giuffre reported it. Maxwell's trial confirmed it.

The UK looked away.

Andrew appears 2,000 times in the files.

12.03.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thing is, the β€œflavour” is just chemicals. Yonks ago I worked in a building with a chemical lab upstairs. One day someone dropped a bottle of β€œcheese and onion” in the stairwell. We couldn’t use that end of the building for two weeks. Only plain crisps for me, ever.

12.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Send limequats AND sparrow grass.

12.03.2026 11:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0