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A screenshot of two breaking news notifications. Sky News has the headline “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested.” BBC News goes into further detail: “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC understands.”

Dear America,

It’s that easy.

Regards, Britain

This guy is incredibly lucky. Alex Pretti was murdered just because he had a (legally owned and holstered) gun. In this case ICE didn’t become judge, jury and executioner. Still doesn’t justify the arrest though.

I have a bone to pick with the English language. We have various SI prefixes (kilo-, mega-, giga- etc) but other than kilo- we pretty much only use them for data. Why is a light-year not approximately 9.46 petameters? Make it make sense

Periodic reminder that “trump” is British slang for “fart.” No specific reason I’m bringing this up.

Tumblr user transexualpirate: "at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda. unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator. this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.

Sick and tired of arguing with transphobes and anti-vaxxers on Facebook (which seems to be 90% of its user base these days) so hi Bluesky, I’m baaaaack

A map of Ukraine showing the regions currently occupied by Russia, with the caption “this is the size of the territory, stolen in an illegal invasion by a vicious enemy of the west, that Trump expects Zelenskyy to give up.” Underneath this is a map of the United States with the entire east coast highlighted. The caption here reads “this territory is a scaled size of the territory Ukraine is expected to relinquish to an enemy invader. In that same situation, should Americans just give it up or fight like hell to keep it?”

Feel like I’m probably preaching to the choir here but would Trump be willing to give up this much territory? Bear in mind apparently it’s also unconstitutional for Ukraine to cede land to a foreign country.

While this is very much true, we’ve ignored the last several dozen they committed, why should this be any different? (By “we” I mean the international community as a whole)

Gaza latest: Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike; IDF claims one headed terror cell A senior journalist is among those killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Confirming the killing, the Israeli Defence Forces claimed Anas al-Sharif was a "terrorist" who "served as the head of a terrori...

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Collage of various England Women’s football (soccer) players with the caption “European Champions 2022 and 2025”

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Absolutely cannot wait for the day I’ve logged into every site I ever use and they’ve all verified my age, this is getting old (and it’s only day 2)

Liverpool forward Diogo Jota dies in car crash His brother also died in the crash, which happened in Spain early on Thursday. Jota, 28, married his long-term partner last month.

YNWA

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It’s getting hot here in Britain, and I just fact-checked a facebook post I saw related to heat which seems to be true.

Anti-depressant medication, particularly SSRIs but also SNRIs, can increase your risk of heat-related illness. If you take any such medication, make sure you drink plenty of water

If we’re going down that route we should wait for the midterm results. Right now the entire line of succession is Republican

#magba seems the only way out at the minute

“Trump should be impeached” - hard agree

“JD Vance should replace him” - less convinced

Literally just a picture of a taco

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

👏🏻 Civil 👏🏻 War 👏🏻 2 👏🏻

FOTUS is an acronym I haven’t come across before. I assume it means Führer of the United States?

This coming from the dude that takes from aipac and voted for a felon for ambassador.

As a Jew, it’s insulting when people like you claim antisemitism for everything.

It is abhorrent and wrong to kill innocent people. Take your outrage to Netanyahu instead of funding the annihilation of Gaza.

1) not a man
2) as long as Russia is a member of the UN their soldiers are as accountable to the ICC as everyone else. Given Russia has permanent seats on various UN councils the only way they’ll stop being a UN member is if they withdraw themselves. Which they won’t.

I’m not sure if you’re right or not off the top of my head, but under international law these are Russian soldiers, not terrorists. I’m not arguing that they’re not conducting terrorism, just pointing out that the law sees them as Russian soldiers first.

I’m not talking about US law, especially since I’m British. I’m talking about international law. The kind of law that will get your ass hauled in front of the highest court on the planet.

It is in fact illegal to execute soldiers who have surrendered to you without a very, very good reason. Two wrongs don’t make a right. We are better than that.

Screenshot of a post which reads: “Yesterday a 69 year old man known as Robert his entire life walked out on a balcony and self identified as Leo. The entire world now calls him Leo without question. See how easy it is to accept and respect what an individual identifies as. Oh, and he was wearing a dress.” Below this text is a photograph of the new Pope in full regalia waving from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica.

Just gonna leave this here…

To answer Susan’s question: “alternative facts”

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Remember Brianna Ghey? I would love to be as privileged as you, with the absolute certainty that I can go wherever I want and not be murdered, but that just isn’t a reality for trans people in the UK

And that right there is exactly the problem. There are people who would love to see me dead who are celebrating this “victory” as a step closer to that end.

So much for Lord Hodge’s statement that “neither side should see this as a victory”