John Pindar

Pardon my ignorance, but Mookie used to play outfield. When did he start playing short stop?

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

👉 EU membership made Britain and Britons better off

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧. 𝗪𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗧.

#Brexit #EU #rejoin

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Now we know who is the second best sewer after Kit. #sewingbee

Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican The lightweight tech is custom-made, with drones swapping in and out seamlessly to create halos of light—and the hand of God.

This is what they call #publicart ! Looks fabulous! All done with #drones
#droneart #lightart #lightdisplay #art #Vatican #VaticanCity #Michelangelo #CreationOfAdam #ElonMusksYoungerBrother #Pieta #PopeFrancis

A very large realistic mural by Smug of Auntie Suriya Begum, Rochdale legend and community champion

Very large mural by #Epod3000 called #TotalEWired after #TheFall 's track #TotallyWired

Very large mural by Rochdale-born artistic director of Common Walls #Aylo called #DreamsNeverEnd inspired by #NewOrder 's track recorded in Rochdale's #CargoStudios The mural is about women's suffrage and women's rights

A mural by #SecaOne about Rochdale's role in the ##Madchester music revolution of the late 80s and early 90s

Back from #Rochdale #GMTownOfCulture and their #CommonWalls International #Mural festival. Some fabulous work created, together with 'old' work from a similar previous festival. Read Alt text for details
#streetart #Manchester #graffiti #GreaterManchester #GMTownOfCulture2025

I wonder who will be crowned "best" sewer (though we know they'll second best!)

Who is this quote from from?

The Ardwick art school putting Manchester back in the picture ‘Good things are going on here, if only someone would notice’

A look at the #Manchester #Art Scene and #Apollo #artschool in #Ardwick in particular.
#painting

One bad week! Should have won! Easily the best! The problem with the elimination format.

I thought this was way cool. It’s a fire hydrant painted in Starry Night by Van Gogh in Kirkwood.

Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37...

Science Sunday. A very easy read filled with facts.
#Science

“Although clean water, sanitation, improved nutrition, and advances in neonatal and perinatal care have all played crucial roles in this progress, the greatest single contributor has been the development and widespread use of vaccines.”

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.

Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.

They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

If you want 'realism' then I suggest using a camera. Where is there anything of the artist in this?

I'm not a farmer or any sort of expert on agriculture, but to me the blue bar for 2025 on the barchart is just a continuation of the downward trend of the previous few years.

What utter dickheads we are…

Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal

Farage and his MPs voted it down

Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty

Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on

The mega wealthy win again.

This is so true

#Farage #UK

I remember our son employing the rigid strategy in the supermarket. My wife tucked him under her arm and carried on. That wouldn't have worked if he'd been floppy.

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Two speeches, 20 years apart, show Starmer how to tackle Farage Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly

#thenewworld #farage #fargetakedown #toad #toadface #stopfarage #stopreform #wakeupstarmer

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

Gift link: lovely appreciation of the astonishingly talented Tina Modotti (1896-1942) by Grace Linden for the NYT. #skystorians www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.

#psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychology #avengersassemble

📈 “We are looking at 60% of people saying we should change the voting system... for the first time, we have majority support amongst the supporters of all parties in the country in favour of changing the voting system”

🎓 Professor John Curtice on record support for fair votes

Keir Starmer’s legacy could be electoral reform – or Farage as prime minister | Polly Toynbee MPs are voting to get rid of first past the post in mayoral elections. Doing the same at a national level would be an antidote to Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

“If the elections bill lands with no promise of a commission on electoral reform a great many Labour MPs will sign an amendment to include it – that would be a serious rebellion on a fundamental principle. Better by far for Starmer to seize the initiative”

✒️ Polly Toynbee

National Commission on Electoral Reform: Terms of Reference APPG for Fair Elections

📜 We're pleased to publish a Terms of Reference for a National Commission on Electoral Reform

⚖️ This is a ready to go plan to independently review how Parliament is elected, promote a national conversation, and build consensus on a way forward

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He can shuffle all he wants, but while McSweeney is there, nothing will change!

Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission - Politics.co.uk A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair e...

🚨 NEW: Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission

— FPTP “threatens to undermine the resilience and stability of our democratic system”, @appgfairelections.bsky.social MPs say
— The group is calling on ministers to greenlight its plan

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Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.