This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If every person who has attempted or plans to attend a No Kings March votes Blue in the midterm election Congress can be retaken. Think about what this simple act can accomplish. Be sure you double check that you are registered to vote well in advance. This is a very patriotic act .
DOJ Releases Jeffrey Epstein Fragrance
DOJ Releases Jeffrey Epstein Fragrance https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jeffrey-epstein-fragrance/
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
how far is Davos from Dignitas
HEARTWARMING: these 450,000 children living in poverty saved up all the benefits their parents got and game them to three pensioners with £2m houses in fulham so they don’t have to sell them and settle for a £1m house
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
😁 #Jamaica
Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise from Back to the Future II
Checking in on the White House renovations…
has Leonardo di Caprio starting dating Tilly Norwood
Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government
This is a huge story.
Don't let him get away with it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Finally, a sensible article.
Gap Year Land opens near Tenby buff.ly/JQ7bFUS
#BookSky
This year the 150 billionaires operating in the UK will get 12% richer.
While almost all of the 19.8m people who work for them and their private companies will get poorer.
The two are connected in exactly the same way that a seesaw is.
It is time for them to suffer, not you.
Pup cup compilation to nourish your soul
I was thinking this morning about a mate of mine who once turned up to work wearing sunglasses, 2 hours late, straight from a night out, and announced to his manager "Collette, I ain't feeling this. I'll be back tomorrow." Wonderful x
If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
played at my dads funeral last month xx
"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.
Kent News newspaper cutting - 'Dartford rockers' the Rolling Stined
"Dartford rockers"
#localbandnews
Legend
Screenbrab from the Telegraph, 6 March 2025: "Alexander Armstrong: ‘I’m really angry about Starmer’s private school tax – and extremely poor’ The comedian and presenter on the fate of classical music, his burgeoning career as a children’s author and why he loathes tribal politics Ed Cumming BBC, Children, Radio 4, Keir Starmer, Celebrity News, Inheritance tax 06 March 2025 7:15pm GMT" Photo: Comedian and presenter Alexander Armstrong
Will nobody think of the <checks notes> multimillionaire TV personalities?
A reported £1.1m every year, from license fee payers. But why not tell the Telegraph "over lunch in Soho" that you resent paying your tax? What could go wrong. 👀~AA
Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.
