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BREAKING: Israel says it had no choice but to kill Anas Al-Sharif after finding undeniable evidence that he was guilty of practising journalism x

O do not ask if I am beach body ready O do not ask if I am beach body ready.   Observe how the folds of my stomach ripple like the wind-pulled waves.   Rub your hands over these pale buttocks, sand-smoothed by time.   Note my milk-white limbs like washed up whalebones, stranded and useless.   Consider these tufts of hair on my back and shoulders sprouting wildly like sea-grass.   And listen to the lapping of my socks at the shores of my sandals.   And still you ask me if I am beach body ready?   Brian Bilston

I’ve been in training all year - and I’m glad to now finally declare myself beach body ready.

Ukraine conflict could be ‘frozen’ sooner rather than later, says Poland’s Tusk after talk with Zelenskyy – Europe live Ukrainian president says ‘reliable peace essential for all’ after speaking to Polish PM on Friday morning, Trump’s deadline day for Russia to move towards a ceasefire

BIG NEWS Germany, the most influential state in the EU in relation to Israel, has announced it is halting military exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza until further notice.
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I watched the Kemi Badenoch interview so you don't have to Soon it all be over. But for now, the embarrassment continues.

I watched the Kemi Badenoch interview so you don't have to iandunt.substack.com/p/i-watched-...

Rupert Lowe has reported two groups of ‘fighting age males’ invading via the Thames.

Village indigo bird #birds #malawi

MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Rupert Lowe, absurdly mistaking charity rowers for "illegal immigrants"

I am the very model of a modern coast guard general
I've information migratory, nautical yet mythical
I know the fash in England and I invent facts hysterical
From migrant boats to climate too, in manner unforgivable

Excellent idea. Cheap Practical easy nutritious food. Thank you Stonkers

IS WATER A GOOD OR A BAD THING? Pros: - Makes baths more enjoyable - Quite useful for baptisms, I suppose Cons: - Facilitates 100% of shark attacks - Less delicious than apple juice - Culpable for the Titanic disaster CONCLUSION: As we can see, there are three cons and only two pros. This proves that water is a bad thing. This does not necessarily mean that we should get rid of all the water but we should certainly consider it if we are serious about reducing maritime disasters.

For centuries, people have wondered if water is a good or bad thing. Now, thanks to data, we can finally make a definitive assessment

Everyone needs to see Bert living his best life and bringing smiles and joy

Thank you English Oak for sharing 😊

For those who do not know Bert the Blackbird

-He likes to fight cats
-laugh at squirrels
-launch kamikaze air strikes at pigeons
-bathes like a Cossack dancer in an explosion
-taps on the window when HIS bath or feeder are empty
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36% of Britons, 24m people, cannot afford the basics of Food, Housing, Clothing and Heating/Power.

And have to sacrifice one or more of them regularly.

While the richest 1% have £2.8tn.

The richest must be taxed or the system will collapse.

Black and white photo of two black cats by a window. On our left one sits in loaf position on a window sill scratching pad. He is looking out through the glass. On our right the second lies on her side on a curved shelf roughly in the middle of an 8ft cat tower. She is looking off to our right and has her paws extended out over the edge slightly.

Good morning and happy Cats Noir Friday!

#CatsNoirFriday #Cats #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky #BlackCats

He's going inside again 🤣😂

Perfect words to honour the life and loss of a good man.

Not martyr, not metaphor. Just breath made unbearable. The dust held his shape a moment longer than justice allowed. A stillness not born of peace, but of a rifle's decision to rewrite the land in silence. Some men walk with a tenderness that unsettles walls. They name the trees. They listen to ruins as if they still speak. He was one of those, the kind who believes the horizon can be taught like language, like memory. But this is a place where belief is punished with precision. Where names are erased before they echo, and grief must pass through metal gates. So now, one fewer voice to tell us what the stones remember. One more grave in a field that still waits to be whole. And still, we do not forget how the air once bent around his presence. Or how even in dying, he made them afraid of gentleness.

In memory of Awdah Hathaleen, a teacher, activist, and voice of peaceful resistance killed by an Israeli settler while defending his village.
He was not a symbol, yet his life and death speak to the cruelty of occupation and the quiet strength of those who endure it.

Political cartoon. Gazan woman holding a skeletal baby tugging on Trump's jacket from behind. Trump is wearing blinders that say "ME". He is saying, "Please I'm focused on a more important issue."

From a friend who doesn't do SM.

I wonder how many tankies will see this and respond appropriately? And how many will block me immediately?

I got 0-30 on the office pool.

I thought social media sites weren't allowed to publish pornography these days, but here's a picture of two massive cocks so I guess the censors aren't robust enough.

Night night sweet dreamies

Most of the time, what we fear is tiny—it’s the shadow it casts that feels enormous

Starvation. The children of Gaza:-

“It’s not peaceful. It’s not quick…it’s not a natural death. It is a man made one”

A gosling with the first hints of flight feathers, flapping pointlessly

Fledgling goslings. They are a very odd shape and their wings seem far too big for them

Goslings with a mix of fuzzy baby feathers and adult feathers

Fuzzy Bird Month is pretty much done in the north. Ugly Baby Month is go.

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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. After Dan Pelzer died this month at 92, his children uploaded the handwritten reading list to what-dan-read.com, hoping to inspire readers everywhere.

Dan Pelzer read at least 3,599 books since 1962. After he died this month at 92, his family made his handwritten reading list public, hoping to motivate readers everywhere.

A political cartoon by Ben Jennings for The Guardian. It shows two obviously starving children sitting on a pile of rubble that features a limply-draped Palestinian flag, each holding an empty pan. The child on the viewer's left pats the child on the viewer's right on the shoulder and says, "There, there. Apparently it's all rather complicated."

A screenshot of today's headlines from The Guardian. It includes: ‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade UN agency for Palestinians says ‘entire humanitarian system is collapsing’ as ceasefire negotiations fall apart and BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip

If starving children don't cut through it for you, how about aid workers starving while they try to help starving children? Journalists starving while they cover the starving aid workers trying to help the starving children?

Israel has become a terrorist state.

“It’s getting to be that time” — Trump gives Israel carte blanche to brutalize Gaza

Your Bretwalda is surprised to learn that he has the power to pardon wrongdoers.

Your Bretwalda is currently working on the price list.

Happy birthday Robert De Niro!

Meta allows ads crowdfunding for IDF drones, consumer watchdog finds Paid ads hosted on Facebook, Instagram and Threads seem to violate Meta’s stated policies yet remain active Meta is hosting ads on Facebook, Instagram and Threads from pro-Israel entities that are raising money for military equipment including drones and tactical gear for Israeli Defense Force battalions, seemingly a violation of the company’s stated advertising policies, new research shows. “We are the sniper team of Unit Shaked, stationed in Gaza, and we urgently need shooting tripods to complete our mission in Jabalia,” one ad on Facebook read, first published on 11 June and still active on 17 July. Continue reading...

Meta allows ads crowdfunding for IDF drones, consumer watchdog finds

Powerful words, and powerful New Statesman article, by former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumpton, on the horrors being administered in Gaza.