Polly Fiona

yes. it is like the Holocaust in this way.

you have never seen a truthful depiction of either of those things on screen because it is impossible to accurately depict them. you could not do it to actors, to children, you could not make it as bad as it was.

Pity the beat cops now they’re banned from dancing at the Notting Hill carnival | Hugh Muir Britain’s top policeman seems to think violence will go unchecked if officers jig with the crowd. Risible, but hey, better to be stiff as a board than labelled woke, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir

This is rather tragic and pathetic but good piece by @hughmuir.bsky.social I feel really sad about it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes, riveting

Bit of a long shot here, but: a friend is looking for a wrist support that you can attach to a computer mouse so it moves around with you -- apparently this used to be a thing (possibly made by Fellowes?) but neither of us can find any evidence of it still existing. Ring any bells? Any ideas?

OMG! It's so vile in so many ways - yuk!

Last night's Perseid Meteor shower at peak captured over Stoenhenge. The best metoer shower of the year and this photograph proves it.

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omg omg omg it's happening right now:

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

A large sculpture in a park, possibly, or at least an area of grass by a road, in Poland. An enormous pale blue stand, with four prongs, holds up a gigantic (metal?) potato, complete with knobbles

Today, apparently, is National Potato Day in America, so if you’d like an absurdly long thread of root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content, you’ve come to the right place. We begin with the potato monument in Biesiekierz, Poland, because, well: look at it. Of course we do

We live in an age of wonders

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Ta, I was wondering x

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Parental Advisory stickers, brought to you by the people who put a sexual criminal into the oval office

The BBC has footage of masked Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian farm and burning vehicles and cars.

"Locals say this is happening almost every day now, and these are the tactics settlers are using to take the land, field by field." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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LIVE SOON: Front line Ukraine - with James Glancy Starting Aug 18 at 1:00 PM EDT

I'm going to be chatting later to James Glancy, who's on the Ukrainian front line about the rapidly changing nature of that war - do join us open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Do you ever wonder how deep the ocean would be if sponges weren't in there?

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Bon courage! 💜

Bless you 💜

Golly! So scary. xxx

Mosley for the 2020s. A posh bloke using knuckle dragging thugs for political advancement.

Has anyone on here ever managed to use the search function to find one of their own posts?

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Was very thrilled on your behalf to see this, got sucked into the history with the Netflix series. xx

Lavrov scares the shit out of me

Trump had this halfwit with him in Alaska whereas Putin had Lavrov in his corner.
Little wonder Trump achieved the square root of sod all.