That’s utterly mad! People gonna get cross…

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This! “Tunes like nursery rhymes, lyrics like razor blades.”

The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

Straight out of the Goebbels play book

Rather more because Farage owns the company!

Defo cassette tape when referring to a music unit. Tape cassette - for me refers to the outside shell with the tape in, usually when one is trying to repair or repurpose it

Yeah, Ireland!! Be prepared, always! Eternal vigilance is the price of dryness!

More like the Ministry of Love…

How did you find that out?? Or was it a result of meeting you?

‘I would not feel safe’: Americans on the sorrow – and relief – of leaving Trump’s US for Europe As relocation firms report a surge in inquiries, US citizens who have made the move talk about why they left – and what they think could happen back home

@monicabyrne13.bsky.social Great to see you in article, no mention of travel, books… was that in response to their “Has anyone…” request? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Haha yeah, first met that slogan in 1979 in an upstate NY state park, guy had it embroidered on his T in silver/gold thread, telling me that Canada’s problem was we let them take away our guns!

Good call… Collins dic says origin “[1325–75; ME enhauncen ‹ AF enhauncer, appar. for OF enhaucer, equiv. to en- en-1 + haucer to raise (F hausser) ‹ VL *altiāre (deriv. of L altus high, with h- ‹ Gmc; see haughty), though -n- is unexplained]” - note final puzzlement!!

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This is pretty much like the 5thC BCE Athens, where the most objectionable rich guy was “ostracised” annually - exiled for a year, on pain of death if he returned in that period. Works for me

It’s not like Ireland is a horrible place to live either!

That’s a fair statement! That was a deeply sh*t song… Ziggy onwards then?!

Surely “popular” is the antithesis of “cool”? But Bowie was always cool, and often popular?

I’m a governor of a PS, school has maybe 80% non-native English speakers, severe deprivation - the staff’s utter dedication to ensuring all students get the opportunity they deserve is incredible and I’m grateful for it every day

Sigh indeed. It’s absolute BS, I just can’t decide if she knows that or actually believes it! Neither is especially a Good Thing

Yeah, that was exactly my reaction! It’s all about choices…

So why don’t they do the same for CO2 emissions?! Because it doesn’t cost them anything, and doing something about it would. Maybe they should pay, except they would, counterproductive when the aim is lower/no emissions - “I’ve paid so I can”

This is the thing! Everything ends… everything changes. Why can’t they see this? Is it only about their personal now? Or is it some kind of bulwark against death? Good luck with that.

Of course!! Would you even start if you were pessimistic?!

That’s mad. Isn’t it a “newspaper”? Surely the most basic sub does that… except arguably NYT isn’t actually about news so …

At least we won’t be splitting protest resources…

Trying to work up something with “grassy knoll”… any parts of a theatre like “knassy groll” maybe? 🤣 But yeah!

I saw it in IMAX London, which was pretty full on. The live stuff is amazing, their chemistry is off the scale… like the cock rock lyrics 🤣. But Ten Years Gone is pretty different.

I found this book both gripping and inspiring, in the way the best science fiction is, painting a picture of other possibilities than the usual limited range of “we’re fucked” to “corpo-imperial lockdown”. It does more than that but that’s a great reason for reading it. Totally loved it!