Sean McGeever

Tom Crean (explorer) - Wikipedia

I think most people have a favourite Wikipedia page. I love this biography of Tom Crean, come back to it whenever I need something inspiring to read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cre...

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

Another excellent piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social - the answer to the title's question appears to be "carry on making obviously false claims and promises nationally, while struggling to deal with reality locally". Let's see if or when their target voters twig ...

@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social in Reform's case, isn't politics (or at least campaigning) largely about which 'side' you're against, much more than whose side you're on - at least until voters find out after the fact what Reform actually do, once elected?

Perhaps a minor point given the scale of the Send system’s out of control costs, but these were the sorts of “hidden” things that went first when councils began cutting budgets post 2010. It’s taken 15 years, but the consequences of local govt cuts are increasingly a national problem

I know nothing matters but it’s absolutely amazing that Musk has suffered zero blowback for providing starlink to Russian until like three weeks ago. Like, this is really illegal not to mention morally depraved. That’s before we get to the part where he’s a US military contractor.

hands up all those who only saw this in black & white until decades later?

The Banana Splits began airing in the UK on this day in 1970.

Oooh, lovely retro reference there for the 80s kids. Imagine Altman thinking "burn a million quid?" - that's just so small-time... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Found...

The contrast with memories of 80s Militant-run councils is instructive.

This is indeed an excellent piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social ; not least for capturing Reform's surprising ability so far to square the circle of (national) populist tub-thumping with the reality of (local) politics-as-postponing-bankruptcy. How long can they keep getting away with that trick?

a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room . Alt: a man and a woman are jumping in the air in a living room .

Not half

that was the most relatable Celtic goal celebration for a long long time 💪😂

Seriously, only twats would protest against the RNLI: the crews are volunteers drawn from the local community, who put themselves in danger to save lives at sea. I can think of few things that make me prouder to be British, frankly.

*taps the sign*
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allllll together now:

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

A money box in the shame of a bust of Karl Marx, with ‘Das Kapital’ written on the base

I am *extremely* pleased with my new Karl Marx money box

@felicityhannah.bsky.social that is outstanding!

The biggest upheaval in UK science policy since the 1980s is currently underway, with the creation of a much more direct & explicit link between UK government priorities & £9bn/ yr of R&D funded by the agency UKRI

My attempt to explain & set in historical context
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Remembering King Curtis on his birthday with a tasty helping of Memphis Soul Stew

everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight

Which is all so mind numbingly … cheap?

Yes, @pickardje.bsky.social and colleagues deserve all the plaudits going - among other things, for doing the security services' / PMs' jobs? I mean, 'multiple-scandal-Mandelson' wasn't exactly hiding (much) in plain sight?

I’m Mandy - Jail Me

er, qed?

Without wishing to divert justified outrage at this particular episode of "Mandelson: clearly a wrong un" - is it too much to ask of several PMs now - exactly how did this guy pass even the most trivial security clearance, let alone enter government several times?

A lot of discussion of Ukraine's military contribution to a united Europe, but there are also a lot of lessons to be learned from Ukrainian emergency response and civil defence

Gestapo - Wikipedia

(quote from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo)

"He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (Geheimes Polizeiamt), but the German initials "GPA" looked and sounded too similar to those of the Soviet State Political Directorate (Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie, or GPU)."
embarrassed by a three letter acronym, you say?

Rutte:

-slaps top of existing arrangement relating to US presence in Greenland-

"This bad boy can fit so many US military bases and whatever the fuck Golden Dome is in it!"

Trump:

"I'll take it! Art of the deal, baby!"