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a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

The POSTIE? Wow that is a world I do not know about

Green MP Hannah Spencer with a ton of post, smiling in front of a brick wall

New Green MP Hannah Spencer just picked up her post in Parliament - there's a lot of fan mail (judging by the postcards). She has her maiden speech on Thursday.

How on earth have they been allowed to raise bills by this AUTHORITY? Who the hell is standing up the the billpayers????

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

Domino meme Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices Large domino: higher food and energy prices

This is going to get really old

Learned from Prof Louise Archer’s Presentation that there’s an excellent sociological phrase for the new male “traditional” backlash against women & EDI. It’s called patriarchal melancholia. What Freud would describe as a narcissistic wound or injury.

A fish decided to walk, and now I have to use pivot tables.

NOBODY IS IN CHARGE WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

Pushing in a pull door world

People have been insane for a long long time

All too often the characteristics of autism are attributed to moral failings - of "oversensitivity", lack of resilience, lack of effort.

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

Basically, adults need their social media use restricted

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s fucking enraging about this is that every lovely turn of phrase the AI churns out is human-authored. Google each fragment of the below - “forged in dying stars,” “created in stellar furnaces,” “the universe is not indifferent to us,” “implicated in something vast” - and you’ll find a source.

Phone wallpaper if you want it

Why is every day his first day having hands?

Hey, neurodivergent freelance folk: tomorrow at 12pm I’m hosting a lovely (and, crucially, tax deductible) online workshop on freelancing while neurodivergent. Here’s an outline of what we’ll cover. Would love to see you there if it would be useful!

Tickets: www.many-hats.org/events/freel...

To be FAIR, sometimes if they are matched/paired, because another party has an MP who cannot vote for health reasons or other absence, it shows as not voted. It's possible that she didn't vote AND that she's telling the truth. (Unlikely but possible.)

Exhausterwhelmulated Adjective 1. The feeling of being exhausted, overwhelmed, and overstimulated all at once. tinybuddha.com

Cute little girl: “I wish I was a cat, no school,no work,just meow meow”

Monday morning

illustration with blue background, a character with antenna is looking at the camera, summoning sparkles from her hand. A text says "This year I will grow not because I'm not good enough, but because I want to be nicer to myself.

Fiiine, guess I’ll be nice to myself then

ADHD resources help.adhd-alien.com

And like every recession ever, they didn't see it coming.....
You've got to wonder.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

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...

Born Sexy Yesterday YouTube video by Pop Culture Detective

And this will be my last link, about gender, or more accurately a terrible trope about women, in film www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thp...

This Is What a "Second-Person" Video Game Would Look Like YouTube video by Nick Robinson (Babylonian)

And I enjoyed this too, how unusual it is, and I think about it at least once a week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC8Q...