Richard Penny

Treasury minister leading budget plans spent £900 on desk Torsten Bell, who is working with Rachel Reeves to fill a £30 billion hole in finances, also used his parliamentary expenses to claim £600 for three chairs

Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts:
- There is no “£900 desk”
- my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs
- we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Music by Mount Fuji: the Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel performed the traditional Waldbühne programme at Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater yesterday – with music by Ortiz, Ellington, Márquez and more.

📷 Stephan Rabold

If I had to write ‘How They Broke Britain’ all over again, Nick Clegg would get at least a chapter. An agent of immeasurable harm.

This button does not seem to work @bsky.app, any ideas?

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

Google AI claims: "Nicolas Cage and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson appeared in the 1996 film The Rock."

Google obliterated their search function for this

This satirical post seems to have caught the mood overnight, with heavy likes, and with many seeing it as all too plausible.

One worry is that it will now become an urban myth and believed to be true.

A greater worry, which cannot easily be dismissed, is that it is actually true.

I wish I had the bike lanes that bike lane haters think I have

You can imagine my crushing disappointment when this piece failed to include any specific examples of *how* our precious Brexit freedoms have been squandered. Not even anything about how we could have avoided the move to USB-C cables.

Very nice!

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

The followup to “don’t confuse my medical education with your use of Google” is “don’t confuse that one lecture you attended when you had a violent hangover with my decades of living with this condition”

Gisele Pelicot should named as the Time person of the year. For bravely waiving her anonymity in one of the most horrific rape cases the world has seen, to take a stand for survivors and shame the perpetrators.

Instead they’re featuring Trump, a rapist, for the second time. Obviously.

I think this is what one reason why so many wealthy men are currently trying to burn the world to the ground - that the only authentic reaction that a lot of them can receive is rage. They can pay for the simulation of everything else, and they’re doing it, and it still makes them unhappy.

My Year Inside Britain FIrst A first-hand account of infiltrating Britain First, revealing their hate and hypocrisy.

A remarkable piece this.

A @hopenothate.org.uk activist Infiltrated Britain First... and... well it's even worse than you might think
hopenothate.org.uk/britain-firs...

Screenshot from the Telegraph saying: "Philip Pilkington The euro could break Europe yet The single currency hinders member countries from tackling the spiral towards an inflationary crisis"

It's the year 5 billion 2024 and the last remnants of the human race have turned into radioactive mole creatures, yet still somewhere in a burned out building a Telegraph columnist is scratching "This is why the EU is doomed to fail" into the wall with their fingernails.

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From farm to fork, in the road.

Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation We believe that lies, fraud, and media toxicity threaten our way of life. We think new mechanisms are needed to preserve confidence. How else can people know what to trust?

Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

40% of UK Farmland is owned by billionaires.

Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.

i had a look because i couldn't resist and the first "fancy woke filling" mentioned in the article is chicken

Analysis of why Trump won which ignores the fact that the far right have been pumping algorithm-fuelled hate through Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube for years is deeply unserious. We have QAnon politicians in office, for goodness‘ sake. Many people’s connection with reality has been shattered.

It finally happened. I've been permanently suspended on Twitter without explanation. It appears that I've been caught up in a purge of prominent journalists & left wing accounts. A lot of friends I've made over the years were also banned.

Elon Musk has never been for free speech, despite his claims

Do not go gentle into that good night

Can't be stressed enough. If you've built up a strong network on X and value some of the previous content you've produced/shared, then this is important. As is not deactivating your account. Better to keep it dormant and in your control, than deactivated and in the hands of Elon and friends.

I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.