Cathy Gardner

A sign with information about a play, that says a gun is shown but not fired

I'm calling Chekhov

president donald trump is giving a speech in front of an american flag . ALT: president donald trump is giving a speech in front of an american flag .

You know how every few months you read in the news about some abusive father whose wife & kids had fled, but he tracked them down, turned up with a bellyful of whisky and a shotgun and killed them all and himself because his male ego would rather the world end than be humiliated?

No reason.

Always love a Cards Against Humanity game

That's a good point. By bringing back Grammar Schools, you also bring back Not Grammar Schools.

Morrissey’s Fridge   Morrissey was filled with sudden self-doubt, as he shut his fridge door – did the light never go out? Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem called ‘Morrissey’s Fridge’.

CUP THE JUNCTION #squeezecoffee

‘please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. there are currently no United States evacuation points.’ — the recorded message you hear when you call the Office of Overseas Citizens Services hotline.

I'm not making this up. if you're an American stranded in the Middle East and you call the State Department help line, you get a recorded message pretty much telling you to go fuck yourself. thank you for your attention to my extremely angry post about it. link is here: bit.ly/409JSAA

Yup, Private Eye called it out in June 2025, but nice to see it followed up.

Rob Grant obituary Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red Dwarf

Rob Grant obituary

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.