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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Remember when we thought that covid would make people more responsible when it comes to spreading illness? Friend heading to the pub. Full of covid.

It's weird watching democracy die without much of fight.
I know that sounds dramatic, but that is what's happening, right?

We don't just want 9 river walks, we want access to all rivers. 96% of rivers in England and Wales have no rights of access. Landowners have blocked public access to rivers for centuries. Labour's promise is just 9 new river walks. We say that's not enough.

I've got one in the fridge I keep putting off. I NEED to know if this works.

Has anyone ever successfully trained their puppy to wipe their feet?

One of my favorite Japanese terms is borrowed from English, but I love what they did with it. Their term for a comb-over is “bar code”

Laurent Mekies is my #F1 crush.

Lol, should all #F1 radio messages start "I know you're busy..." 😂
#AmericanGP

Thanks. He's only nine weeks old so I'm just teaching him who's who.

Black puppy doing a sit and looking at the camera.

I think Bob likes the #F1. He turns around to watch the TV when he hears the engines.

Lucky puppy paw (puppy attached)

My main objection to sprint races is that they have the potential to massively ruin the actual race due to damage caused. #F1

Imagine if the sentence for paedophilia was giving up work but continuing to live in luxury for the rest of your life and just call yourself one name.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

He is, which is why it just took me a day to reply!

Will the power of the Joes triumph? #ThrTraitors #BigDogTheory

Someone is definitely not into #TheTraitors

I love Big Dog Theory. Bold, hilarious and true. #thetraitors

There should be some sort of counselling hotline for puppy parents. All the needs of a baby but mobile with teeth. 🫩

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are

'by my estimates, if we count consistently over time, then the current level of out-of-work claims is NOT any kind of record; it’s similar to 2014/15 levels, and noticeably lower than 2013.'
Great piece by @benbgeiger.bsky.social
inequalities.substack.com/p/real-out-o...

Yeah, he's a full time job at the moment. We're already on three poos and a million wees for the day but at least he already knows to go outside.

I'm trying not to spoil him but it's hard! It's a shame you're not a bit closer for puppy cuddles. He likes a snuggle once he's expended his biting energy.

Eventually. He's 8 weeks so just had his first jab yesterday so no walkies until probably end of November.

I don't know how he finds the time for so much stupid. Gotta hand it to him, truly impressive.

Quite a few people I followed came over here but weren't prepared to wait for it to grow and left again. I think because I was on twitter early (back when RT was a manual user thing that involved copying and pasting a tweet!), I've already seen how good social media takes a while to get going.

It really was. I miss that level of engagement. I've not found it elsewhere.

Yeah, same. I ended up meeting a lot of people offline but there are many others where that's where the relationship lived.

Infographic on fly agaric mushrooms, with an image of the mushrooms in the middle (red with white spots). The chemical structures of the mushroom's pigments are shown, including muscarufin, the primary pigment responsible for their red colour. The compounds behind the mushrooms' psychoactive properties, ibotenic acid and muscimol, are also shown. These compounds imitate neurotransmitters in the brain to exert their effects.

It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

#ChemSky 🧪

I'm really missing Twitter today for some reason. And I don't mean X; I see that as an entirely different thing.