Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes

"Shacking up with a Fijian Hunk - But will Our Captain Get the Whale of His Dreams?"

When it became clear that net migration was on a downward trend, the UK far right and its media pivoted to asylum seekers being the alleged problem population. Labour and the BBC did not have to follow that cynical pivot, but they did anyway.

Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

"The principle fudging occurred in the judging"

The Last Positivist is fallen. All hail the First Negativist!

I think the problem is there's too much bias and a lack of objectivity in who we're cruel to, and I think we should therefore bring in neutral observers to adjudicate on the matter

*Opens Lament Configuration*

Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?

Springer-Nature statement

“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”

How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?

Rallidae are my favourite family of borbs.

(I for one welcome Millwall, Leeds United and Southampton-but-not-Portsmouth being banned on these grounds)

I mean, if this was the standard for proscription, most of the Football League would be proscribed as terrorist organisations based on what their supporters get up to wearing their apparel.

so months after the original proscription, has anyone revealed any actually good reasons to describe anything they did as 'terrorism'? i was assured by very smart people that intel to that effect will no doubt be made available, because of course i should just trust the government on this

Hobby Lobby's Museum of the Bible isn't a bad start
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

"I'm familiar with the bands of the late '90s Brit pop scene, thank you"

"...not to be confused with Deicide's new single that coincidentally has the same name"

"Kemi, we're polling at 10%"

"Ah, my mortal nemesis, the soft bigotry of low expectations, strikes again! I demand a regrade!"

Monday's next job could be in ballet

(First= most recent, last= first gig; non-metal list but most gigs I've been to have admittedly been metal)

Introduce yourself with five (non-metal) concerts you've seen

- Swans
- Jimmy Cliff
- Bruce Springsteen
- Boris
- John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

The whole leasehold system is massively corrupt. Whilst their service charges weren't awful, my parents' old place before moving was run by a negligent company that only deigned, after years of complaints, to do essential pointing when masonry fell in the street that could easily have killed someone

The problem is always awful, immoral rich people who don‘t, in any meaningful sense of the word, *need* the money:

Israeli Domestic Politics since October 7 6.00pm Thursday 27 November | Alona Ferber, Yossi Mekelberg, Yair Wallach | Free event at LSE

I will be speaking tomorrow at this event at the LSE, with @aloner.bsky.social
all welcome

www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...

Simpsons clip of old man with respirator lying in bed in foreground with Homer Simpson lying on a bed in background with nurse standing next to him. Nurse: "He has a machine to breathe for him" Homer: "And here I am, using my own lungs like a sucker".

Outside the main family, maybe Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel - both formerly idealistic educators worn down to disillusioned cynicism by worklife and one Bart Simpson.

Tired: "Is this computer sentient?"

Wired: "Should we have first thought to ask the sand if it was OK with this before we tortured it into chip-shape?"

"Death by lightning, eh? Should have stuck in the slow lane, Garfield"

Unpasteurised and contaminated milk was also additionally historically a major vector for tuberculosis and typhoid (the latter of which killed my 20-something Sandhurst-trained great-grandfather Victor in the late 1920s, albeit probably from contaminated groundwater, not milk).

Ah, the Titular Bishop of Titiopolis if memory serves me right.

Here I was thinking the government had pledged to reduce animal experiments.

(Was going to correct 'conpany' but think it's apt to leave it given it accords with my views on the track record of water privatisation)

"Gold's gone, but we're fronting the strategic iron pyrite reserve and hoping the buyers don't notice"