Toy Soldier Tom

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

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A miniature wargame using 10mm miniatures and the Warmaster Revolution rules. A mixed brigade of horse archers and winged lancers threaten a brigade of cold ones in front of a large cliff as a Dragon Riding dark Elf looks on.

A miniature wargame using 10mm miniatures and the Warmaster Revolution rules. A Red War Wagon id laagered against a field with crossbowmen and infantry arrayed to the side.

A miniature wargame using 10mm miniatures and the Warmaster Revolution rules. Dark Elf spears and crossbows occupy a large hill. Two units of Witch Elves advance

A miniature wargame using 10mm miniatures and the Warmaster Revolution rules. A mixed brigade of horse archers and winged lancers pours arrows on Dark Elves cowering in a field.

After many years in the leadpile my Kislev army finally hits the table.
#WarhammerCommunity #Nerdlings #Warmaster #Kislev
#Wargames

I see that a) The National Trust is selling "Christmas Curd", and b) my Photoshopping skills are as sharply honed as they ever were

Quite.
If you *have* to play a 13 as an extra prop in every match it does rather imply your other props aren't up to the job.

However he does he's not going to turn into a superstar - best is another NRL journeyman for the squad.
NZ, and Tonga have a few who'd challenge for selection for Australia.

Samoa has Haas and we've got Herbie

Very interested to see how he goes on a return to Oz. He looked good in patches for the Raiders but hasn't looked of that standard since coming back.

I'm well aware of possible alternatives - my point was that the report failed to offer any of those.
If you are going to say "membership of nature organisations is not an indication of nature connectedness" you need to explain why that is the case.
And I agree that's their job, not yours.

The article is citing a university piece of research, so I'm expecting something a little more rigorous in support of it than your personal circumstances.

Trees in autumnal colour at Longshaw in the Peak District

Trees in autumnal colour at Longshaw in the Peak District

Longshaw
#NationalTrust #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict
@midsandeastnt.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk

Farnsworth never got the ball with space or time to do anything.
Other NRL and ex NRL players looked like what they are, NRL journeymen.
Super League players apart from Knowles, who looked good, are all either past it or not good enough.

All the superstars in Green and Gold.

#Ashes #RugbyLeague

And the one try was scored in what they'd refer to in the NFL as "garbage time"

Never really looked like scoring when there was a live match at stake.

One thing in England's favour is that Kevin Walters is a fraud of a coach.

He was awful in charge of Brisbane and only has the Australia gig on the strength of his playing career.

#RugbyLeague #Ashes

That stadium does look great
#HillDickinson #RugbyLeague #Ashes

Good article this.

No surprise at the revelations but good to see some actual journalism going on

If you, or the authors have any evidence to support that theory presumably you can point me to it?

Close up of the Hull FC crest (three white crowns on a black background) on the chest of a garishly patterned rugby league shirt inspired by the lights and colour of Hull Fair.

"Lucky* England shirt having proven to be no such thing let's see if a bit of Hull Fair works its magic
#HullFC #RugbyLeague #Ashes

Either way very much feels like the agenda was "putting Britain at the bottom"

I'm not clear why though, or what benefit it has or to whom?

Why is he not available to my #FPL team?

Big lad up top, even bigger lad in goal.
Proper football.

"Although Britain is believed to have one of the highest levels of membership of environmental organisations in the world, this apparently pro-nature indicator was found to have little impact on closeness to nature."

Or "We've ignored this evidence as it doesn't fit our theory"

Sounds to me like about 1 in 4 white Britons are racists.

Amongst the mad costumes on display. On our street tonight a portly man with well trimmed beard in full cricket whites including pads.

I didn't have Slutty Mike Getting on my bingo card, but here we are
#SluttyMikeGatting

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

A wargame using 28 miniatures.several units of medieval infantry and cavalry are converging on a road junction.

Splendid game of Wars of the Roses era Lion Rampant tonight with General Ballroom.
Nail biting 'Meetings the Neighbours'
#Nerdlings #Wargames #WarsOfTheRoses #LionRampant

Beard and glasses man yawning in modern office BuzzFeed Doctors Warn This Common Daily Habit Is Making You Feel Exhausted All Day 18 hours ago. By Leigh Weingus

Saved you a click: it's performing the charade of life in a spiritual wasteland

What's the biggest leaf?

Friend of mine just made this banger LMAO:

Are these people five years old?

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

“Granted, day-in-the-life TikToks or unboxing videos won’t poison your soul to precisely the same degree as gooner porn. But it’s hard not to see goonerism as just an intensification, almost a burlesque, of prevailing cultural trends.”—@danielkolitz.bsky.social

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

"Ladies and Gentlemen will you welcome to the stage the North West's number on adults only tribute act - he's not Elvis the Pelvis he's Denus..."