Not sure people are grasping this. Israel and the US were too chicken to send warships through the Strait of Hormuz so they begged Europe, expecting our warships to be bombed instead of theirs. They wanted our sailors to die on their behalf in the war they fucking started.
You could have just stopped at "BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer"
Can we please stop with the "Israel has a right to exist"?
Let's put aside for a moment that countries are legal fictions and no country has a "right to exist" because rights are for PEOPLE. Right now, Israel exists. It exists so much that right now it exists in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran.
Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"
Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃
Say hi to Paul Di'Anno for me.
You have to wonder about the mentality of people who assume that anyone who disagrees with them must be some sort of Russian agent.
I don't think anyone has thought this war through. If Dubai collapses, our countries are going to be flooded by influencers, tax dodgers, and fucking idiots.
In fact, here's my favorite cover. 2008.
"Yeah, I read the New Republic
Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too
If I vote, it's a Democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to terrorist Arabs
There is no one more red, white, and blue"
Sound familiar?
When I was a charity benefits adviser I would see new clients every week who had 2 or 3 jobs, yet still qualified for Universal Credit because their income was below the UK poverty level.
Basically taxes are being used to subsidise the companies who pay the lowest wages.
Remember when Lab members critising the Israeli govt got accused of antisemitism?
When Mandleson, Hodge, Mann, Ryan, Woodcock, Austin, Berger, Watson etc worked to lose the election?
When the Forde report got moth-balled for showing antisemitism had been used as a factional weapon?
That went well.
This is from 1975.
We have an album out in just under two weeks - music x ocean science, with @helenczerski.bsky.social and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social very kindly providing the science.
We're in Lowestoft and London this month, and at Latitude with @cosmicshambles.com this summer - more info in profile. 🌊
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
Roland TB-303
Jason Daniel.
Is that the big hand or the little hand?
I don't know - I think I'd prefer a zombie show with the personal stories of the zombies. Maybe bizarre zombie love triangles, simple yet tasty brain recipes, rotting flesh make-up tips...
Obviously there would have to be at least one Tiger.
Found this little beauty in an old diary. I didn't make it up. Don't know who did.
Remember there's nothing to stop you living your dreams, apart from thousands of far more talented people working much harder than you.
There is something Bowie-like about that cat.
Born #OnThisDay in 1937 was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times in the Vostok 6 space capsule. Tereshkova is the only woman to fly a solo space mission. #WomenInSTEM
Now that I've watched that, I might just go check out the latest about the war in Iran to de-stress myself.
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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Maybe audiences discovered that anyone can sing teenage poetry with a clothespin pinching their nose, and that it's not a particularly special skill.
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
He actually thanked the accountants at one of the gigs I was at.
this photo leaves little to the imagination
That's my best life.
It's been a year since we released "Our Last Summer", our multi-award nominated Kids on Bikes series
It's one of those things that will stick with us forever, and we couldn't recommend it more highly.
A proper triumph in table chemistry, it will make you cry.
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