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Blood tech: UK's use of Israeli spyware that helps underpin a genocide Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.

Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.

MIGHT HAVE GONE TO MORE LECTURES IF THE VENUE LOOKED APPROXIMATELY THUS.

The long 2010s are finally over

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

accurate. its training on the cheap (the days of in person group training long gone) & and worse, its presented as a benefit of your employment. Little true learning achieved, just a box ticked ('you've scored 100% in fire safety in the workplace'. Ace, if you say so).

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This is a really good debate format for like 50 different reasons, but especially at this moment. There's a lot of equivocating over stuff that is not that complicated.

This is super exciting!

A book cover with a print of a metal-clad building against a blue background.

Less than two weeks before the publication of my new book, 'High-Tech Britain: Buildings of the Space Age'! Here's the cover to get you all excited, and check out High-Tech Dialogues, the ongoing series at @c20society.bsky.social. Next up is Patty Hopkins. www.batsfordbooks.com/book/high-te...

And a very randomly placed, stunted growth, telephone box. Glory days indeed.

Etching of a man in 18thC clothing, sitting with one hand to his chin and the other holding paper and pointing to a book. The cat sits on the back of the chair, the bust is on a table to the left, with an artist's pallet beneath.

Today is the 200th anniversary of the death of the Edinburgh caricaturist John Kay. This is his self portrait from 1786, with cat and bust of Homer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...

INDEPENDENT Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

Belfast Floral Hall - David Wright Boyd, 1935-36. B1 Listed. Image © spatialpan - Flickr

Belfast Floral Hall - David Wright Boyd, 1935-36. B1 Listed. Image © Belfast Zoo

Good news Friday: Belfast's Art Deco Floral Hall is to receive £500k funding from the City Council, to install a new roof and make the decaying structure watertight.

Designed 1935-36 by David Wright Boyd and located at Belfast Zoo, the B1 listed building has been closed to the public since 1972.

and for a really wild time, that 1%.

Doocy the younger is so funny sometimes.

NewsNation graphic: DECLINED BOARD OF PEACE INVITATION -- Pope Leo, Macron, Starmer, Xi

choose your fighter

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

running through the streets crying, ripping my shirt open, screaming at the sky

they are such bores in their predictability.

for which we are very grateful.

tbf, in the modern era, I suspect the only one who genuinely liked most aspects of being PM was Thatcher.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

So strange and quite funny. Rachel is like, 'I can definitely get a win out of this'.

"Whether its economically, socially, culturally". Also politically in the sense of the sheer time and energy WASTED on Brexit - more than a decade and its ongoing, its so upsetting.
Also, why is ZP moored on a comfy chair? Strange furniture set up.

The letter

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)

Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

Whats the rationale for sky news giving him an unchallenged platform?Because he is rich and wants to push Farage? He isn't even resident here. Pretty shameful.