Cathy Gardner

If you are interested, there have been some stealthy additions to the tour show album on Bandcamp.

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Jeez. The near 100% rise in UK wholesale gas prices in the past 48 hours is now the biggest two-day rise since comparable records began in the 1990s. Bigger even than any two-day period in the early days of the Ukraine war...

Been thinking about this on and off all day, I think if Jesus did come back his first job should be to turn the water inside the bodies of everyone who has started a war, hoarded wealth and caused suffering into wine.

Hope you're feeling better.

It was a good one, with some interesting additional songs (including the poem that Tom used in his application for Harvard).

flashback to over two decades ago hearing Mitch Benn on Radio 4 singing He Was Mean To My Daddy, about how GW Bush wanted war with Iraq because of the previous Iraq War, and just wondering how to escape from this cycle of "military intervention"

Did you go / enjoy the show?

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

They must be exhausted.

I find it astonishing that part of the discussion around this war is whether a a leader who started it will get bored with it or not

Up in the moneysphere, things look calm, profitable, stately and stable. Down below, where we live, it’s a scrabbling mess. Nothing actually working. But always changing. Not for the better, just for the sake of it.

It’s like being colonised by an alien species who breathe our discomfort.

This infinity… and I feel so sorry for kids who want to do these kind of things…

Mitch is not party political, but he is progressive, so the level of Conservative thinking in evidence from Starmer's government is not going to get them very far.

If they are seeking Mitch's support (and support from those like him) I think that they are currently way off their mark...

The director used to work at Hanna Barbera. 🙂

I guess that depends if you consider Starmer to be a centrist.

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

Shabana Mahmood will continue to pitch-roll for Reform and to try and ban legitimate protest against Israeli genocide. Wes Streeting will continue his war on trans youth whilst lying about it. Bridget Phillipson will continue with her new section 28. And Labour will continue to haemorrhage votes.

Jasper Carrott's The Mole.

I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

And after all that time and effort spent on Muslim outreach by Reform UK.

White marble statue of a fat man with a beard riding a tortoise. His left hand is on his hip and his right hand is held out, palm-forward in a “hold up there, buddy” kind of gesture

met this dude the other week, feel like his has a very bsky vibe

I'm hearing reports that Muslims may have voted in Gorton & Denton. A sad state of affairs, if true, and a sign of the dangerous radical sectarian extremism that Labour politicians, through no fault of their own, must contend with.

Bit harsh.

Jacaranda trees in bloom lining Fairfax in South Hollywood, CA I consider this a very mediocre picture but I’m posting it today in contrast to yesterday’s amazing pic as a test. I paired yesterday’s with Malcolm X and those pics never do numbers. Methinks the folks on this platform need a lot more Malcolm in their lives. Ninnys.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. - Alice Walker

Pic of the day
#photography

Still from the Simpsons. Homer standing up at the family table and pointing to the distance. Homer: You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college.

Gen Z be like

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will Based on the true story of amateur sleuths appalled at the dumping of sewage in our rivers, this drama starring David Thewlis is a blast of controlled fury – and could become the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will