Also my local Green Party attracted my membership long before Zack's leadership because they have been tireless on local water issues and also unwavering in support for Palestine. Zack's just taken it up a gear and letting everyone know.
Our tiny independent business just had a £400 water bill for a *quarter* and the town we live in that relies on tourism has sewage in the sea. Do I care what Zack Polanski did 10 years ago or do I care that he wants to nationalise an actual shit show?
Interestingly, their speed also made them decent minesweepers of fixed minefields. But for slightly stupid reasons:
They moved so fast through the water at full speed that it would cause enough water turbulence to make the mines get tangled on their cables and explode.
High risk/high reward!
Yup. Absolute speed demons.
So they'd use the same trick to run supplies to Tobruk etc.
Idea was that by the time Axis planes/ships realized they weren't actually Vichy French, HMS Manxman or HMS Welshman (her sister that got the same glow-up) would be well away.
"weee weee mez mates italian. Les sea mines? Zey were there-ay when nous got 'ere, like."
The captain looks happy.
Black and white photo of a british ww2 minesweeper, who looks like she could pass as french with a bit of posh makeup and a nice dress.
As mines are in the news:
Meet HMS Manxman. Spent a chunk of 1941/1942 laying mines off Italy in WW2.
Why wasn't she sunk?
Looked like a Vichy destroyer if you squinted. So they did a "paint me like one of your French girls" on her.
Extra funnel. Fake bow.
"Bonny jour mez ameees eye-talians!"
Dammit, I hated The Phantom Menace but he’s right
The President of the United States wants to sweeten a voter suppression bill with a bit of that sweet, sweet trans genocide.
@alyssaur.bsky.social takes on the SAVE act, this morning on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Myfanwy, fetch the matches
You could put Thatcher strangling a miner on there and they'd just complain it wasn't big enough.
As a Labour MP put it to me, Wes Streeting looked around and said, 'well, not everyone can be on the boat.'
The proposed measures would affect, at best, 2 percent of all court cases. TWO PERCENT.
The reason we have criminal case backlogs is the last government closed OVER HALF OF ALL COURTS in England and Wales and slashed police numbers by over 20,000.
It's not rocket science.
Richard Osman blocked me when I suggested that on International Women's Day it might be nice to champion a woman or two and not just Richard Herring
Rosie Duffield blocked me & a load of her constituents even though I had never said anything rude to her (& sent her some really nice tweets back in the early days before she got radicalised). Still not sure why besides me being moots with other local LGBT+ ppl & posting I was at Canterbury Pride
This is a shocking report. Staff at food banks have told GMB that some users are now so desperate, they're ripping open food parcels to eat as soon as they get them.
In the last year, Trussell has distributed more than 2.5 million emergency packages
(Yes before anyone fucking starts I know we're halfway housing it in a way that pisses everyone off anyway, such is pure distilled Starmerism)
Remember how the whole British Establishment Right spent like a week* screaming for us to Leeroy Jenkins into the mad emperor's completely unplanned-for 'let's bomb some schools, they'll never retaliate' campaign based on nothing but twitter & vibes
*Kemi might still be at it, who knows
"We are trying to reach you about your car's extended warrenty"
""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
Minesweeping is woke.
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Side note: Media outlets that refused to cave to Pentagon press rules have been coming up with scoop after scoop from military sources. So much for Hegseth’s attempt to strangle journalism
Shabana Mahmood, the pound shop Priti Patel, strikes again
Cruel, heartless, outright disgraceful
Earlier I implied that I escorted yo' momma through the Strait of Hormuz. I apologize for the misinformation. Yo' momma's too fat for such a narrow passageway and whatnot.
Time to suspend Hungary.
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
From the comments: “Only transgender healthcare has been singled out for an evidentiary hurdle so extreme that it effectively guarantees denial of care.”
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
