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“Most forms of legal tax avoidance are OK, but clearly some are not”. The mighty Spinal Tap are back! Just reading an interview with them. That quote was not from them, it was the next interview I read, said by Nigel Farage. Still turning it up to 11.

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Getting a Godfather 3 vibe about the hard right being triggered by the new pope. “The pope has powerful enemies”.

Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope The image — which first appeared on Trump's Truth Social — comes as cardinals are set to convene next week to begin the process for electing the next pope.

This is sick, to add to the others. Legacy media, stick with this story, don’t chase the next squirrel. I’m not religious, but wtaf!l insulting beyond belief to those mourning their spiritual leader.

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Sharing an excerpt of facebook screenshot of Amanda Gailey: As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen. Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality. If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone: Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch" Scroll down to "Add Members." Select one or more people from your phone's contact list. Click "Update" Confirm that yes, you want to add that member. This is impossible to do accidentally. Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.) At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem? Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.

This is art. 🤗

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

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Wow, that Starmer sugar rush didn’t last long.

Look at the outfits. It’s a cult.

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Dictator, 2012)

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Thrilled to share the cover of the ed. collection @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and I have authored! This book brings together a wonderful lineup of chapters, each offering a sociological lens on the complex issues surrounding violent extremism.

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Chapter 11: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Applying the ‘Hero’s Journey’ to Jihadist Propaganda (@ashkingdon.bsky.social and @craigwebber.bsky.social)

Funniest thing I’ve read in ages. Crying.

Fed up with dog and cat pictures? Here’s a puppy. Just joined the family. Now 3 dogs, 10 chickens and 2 frogs.

It's not about the same solution applied everywhere, but best practice encouraged if appropriate. It is actually something that the police are now doing quite well, through the NPCC conferences on different topics. But, even then, you can see different forces doing things 'as they always have'.

Police chief calls for biggest shake-up of England and Wales policing since 1960s Chair of National Police Chiefs’ Council says major changes needed urgently to make service fit for modern age

The idea of local accountability is important, but so is efficiency. Hearing about the same problem being differently solved by each group that encounters it, with varying degrees of success, rather than seeking best practice. I wondered how long it would be before this was said out loud.

The politics of the Trump picks, many of whom wholly unsuited to the role, is fascinating. He wins boths ways, eg if Gaetz is passed fit, Trump's will is vindicated, if he is rejected, it is the deep state stopping the will of the people. Etc for the others. Both outcomes suit the narrative.

Good thing someone didn’t give him all the best weapons in the world.

Trump probably lit it himself after realising he left some wads of confidential info up the chimney.

That fireplace hasn’t been lit since Trump was last in the WH. Look at the burn on that, some serious secrets going up in flames.

Close. Cavachon.

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Lucky I didn’t see they were called skeets before signing up. I’ll get used to it

Giant dog, a Leonberger in the garden on the grass. Looking magnificent.

And because Milligan got jealous that Pretzel got a post (and Pom Pom the chicken) here he is

Hello, loads of pics of cats on here, so here’s a dog and a chicken