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Just a bear. LGBTQ+ being. Cars, music, retrotech, alternative. Makes stories, poems, and questionable life choices. Help me learn Mandarin!

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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

09.03.2026 12:50 — 👍 4227    🔁 1484    💬 56    📌 48
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Think Streeting is even slightly left wing? 40 things you should know about Wes… Streeting is pro-privatisation, pro-Israel and his donors include hedge fund managers, big banks, private health investors and arms firms.

Did you know Wes Streeting is limiting the number of NHS training places for doctors, despite the chronic shortage of GPs and hospital doctors in the NHS?
He's a danger to the UK in so many ways.
Here are the receipts 👇
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/t...

09.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 29    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 2
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The Corporate Carve-Up of Britain: 12 Actions to Fight Back Against Enterprise Zones What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones

What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones
Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones are accelerating the transformation of British democracy into corporate fiefdoms. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do about it.

open.substack.com/pub/european...

09.03.2026 13:26 — 👍 32    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 0
Cardle Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

I was closer than I realised then went totally wrong!

Cardle 5/5
Total Score 1641
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09.03.2026 10:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feel free to swing by J29 on the M1 and grab some pi(a)zza mats...

09.03.2026 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inchcape wins Service and Parts and Fleet Retailer at Mercedes-Benz Awards Inchcape has won the Service and Parts award for the second year running, alongside Fleet Retailer at Mercedes-Benz Awards.

Small things, silly things...

When I had my SLKs, A-Class, 500 SEC, 300CE etc. my go to parts supply was online ordering from Inchape. Pretty sure it was run by Andrew Loft & they made DIY-maintaining Mercs so easy.

I owe them thanks. It is not so easy now...

www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/manufac...

09.03.2026 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was hoping for playful susuwatari invasions or at the very least all the makkuro kurosuke departing the exhaust with a skittering noise.

08.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What happens when you push the sootsprite button?

08.03.2026 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Cardle Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

Easy when I owned one

Cardle 2/5
Streak 6🔥
Total Score 1640
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08.03.2026 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A pair of Mercedes C320 SportCoupes. The foreground car is obsidian black and sold for £800 on eBay. The background car is emerald black and was advertised for £2700 on Car & Classic. I haggled a bit...

A pair of Mercedes C320 SportCoupes. The foreground car is obsidian black and sold for £800 on eBay. The background car is emerald black and was advertised for £2700 on Car & Classic. I haggled a bit...

The black car already had an Android head unit. Both cars have 107,000 miles on and have the upgraded perforated nappa leather rather than artico interior, and heated seats.

The black car already had an Android head unit. Both cars have 107,000 miles on and have the upgraded perforated nappa leather rather than artico interior, and heated seats.

I bought the second car thinking it was good value for spaces but it's got a longer MOT, the sunroof works apart from the rear blind, and it has cheaper tyres. So I'm using it rather than the green one, which I'll fix the roof on.

I bought the second car thinking it was good value for spaces but it's got a longer MOT, the sunroof works apart from the rear blind, and it has cheaper tyres. So I'm using it rather than the green one, which I'll fix the roof on.

The 1100 litre boot with seats down is why I didn't just buy another SLK. It has a wide and fairly flat area for loading things.

The 1100 litre boot with seats down is why I didn't just buy another SLK. It has a wide and fairly flat area for loading things.

I get it, I do. If I wanted a nice coupe in 2026 I'd totally pay £8000 and £450 a month to drive a Honda Prelude, to escape the indignity of an £800 banger like this 3.2-litre V6 Mercedes and shoving the PCP payment off the mortgage...

It even has leather on the back seats like some sort of relic.

07.03.2026 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At the very least the MP salary should be prorata for nige.

But I doubt he'd notice.

07.03.2026 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is the DVLA dragging out sending V5s so cars end up taxed in April, or is the post office just not bothering with letters now?

So annoying that changing a cherished number is online all the way but the V5 I'm waiting for post to get a reference to tax a car. You used to be able to do all 3 at a VRO

07.03.2026 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cardle Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

Cardle 3/5
Streak 5🔥
Total Score 1628
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07.03.2026 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Somewhere in there is every answer I gave

Cardle 4/5
Streak 4🔥
Total Score 1619
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06.03.2026 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Link preview failed so here's a screenshot. Scabby wing and headlamp washers without xenon raise eyebrow, but bumpers and wheels are correct if it had AMG option, and it's pre-facelift interior, grille and lights seem right.

06.03.2026 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pardon our interruption...

Don't need a trailer:

2004 Mercedes C320 SportCoupe - AMG Sport Panorama, 86,000 miles - one of 199 remaining, of less than 540 sold new, in the UK.

Currently £500 and no reserve...

ebay.us/m/wPpJMi

06.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...

Signed - but @zackpolanski.bsky.social - we need to tackle the way the media is used to manipulate opinion and smooth the way for these deals without outrage - please get this one out there?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

05.03.2026 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

05.03.2026 08:50 — 👍 3405    🔁 1557    💬 136    📌 72

MAJOR BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee just VOTED 24-19 to issue a subpoena against AG Pam Bondi in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

04.03.2026 20:44 — 👍 4110    🔁 1054    💬 204    📌 65

"I will prevent WW3 from happening to us, by starting it myself..."

05.03.2026 11:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Two C320s with faded badges

Two C320s with faded badges

A close up of the flat Mercedes bonnet badge used for sports models. Almost smooth-worn and no blue section remaining.

A close up of the flat Mercedes bonnet badge used for sports models. Almost smooth-worn and no blue section remaining.

The C320 in the foreground is the cheaper one but it's behaving itself. The fancy one can just watch the 'spares car' get the nice things

The C320 in the foreground is the cheaper one but it's behaving itself. The fancy one can just watch the 'spares car' get the nice things

Black cars are hard work to clean, but it looks good with the new badge against polished paint. Shame I can do one panel a time before pain wins.

Black cars are hard work to clean, but it looks good with the new badge against polished paint. Shame I can do one panel a time before pain wins.

The one that behaves gets the rewards...

05.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cardle Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

Year fail...

Cardle 2/5
Streak 3🔥
Total Score 1613
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05.03.2026 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 1953 Soviet propaganda illustration depicting "War" served at a restaurant table while other social needs are ignored by Yuliy Ganf.

Published in 1953 for Krokodil magazine, it satirizes Western, particularly American, prioritization of militarism over social welfare.

04.03.2026 15:29 — 👍 48    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 0

OMG I got one vaguely right!

Cardle 2/5
Streak 2🔥
Total Score 1601
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04.03.2026 15:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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a green car is in a red dumpster with the word red on it ALT: a green car is in a red dumpster with the word red on it

Bring a...

03.03.2026 20:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, some humans seem to be.

But yes.

03.03.2026 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

03.03.2026 12:51 — 👍 1058    🔁 253    💬 27    📌 53
Cardle Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

Cardle 4/5
Streak 1🔥
Total Score 1589
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03.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
The rear right hand light of a 2004 Mercedes C320 SportCoupe with an AMG logo that may be there because it's an AMG Evolution model or maybe someone stuck it there.

The rear right hand light of a 2004 Mercedes C320 SportCoupe with an AMG logo that may be there because it's an AMG Evolution model or maybe someone stuck it there.

The right hand rear tail light of a Mercedes C320 SportCoupe with a chrome badge that reads "Improbability drive" next to the symbol for infinity. Who knows, perhaps this one is from another universe where an infinite number of options created a C320 with a Heart of Gold. Unlike the other car, the chap that sold this one to me is a real Hoopy Frood.

The right hand rear tail light of a Mercedes C320 SportCoupe with a chrome badge that reads "Improbability drive" next to the symbol for infinity. Who knows, perhaps this one is from another universe where an infinite number of options created a C320 with a Heart of Gold. Unlike the other car, the chap that sold this one to me is a real Hoopy Frood.

Choose your aftermarket performance upgrade:

03.03.2026 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A Mercedes C-Class panoramic roof opened to vent position. Easy to recover from, just close it, walk away...

A Mercedes C-Class panoramic roof opened to vent position. Easy to recover from, just close it, walk away...

A Mercedes C-Class panoramic roof opened all the way, indicating great bravery

A Mercedes C-Class panoramic roof opened all the way, indicating great bravery

But the roof closed as these two C320s show - one of the sellers is getting all the good karma vibes, the other, their next three takeaways will be cold and disappointing, and their favourite food in them will be wrong.

But the roof closed as these two C320s show - one of the sellers is getting all the good karma vibes, the other, their next three takeaways will be cold and disappointing, and their favourite food in them will be wrong.

My C320s roof was a big reason I wanted it and it doesn't work. Why are some car sellers so... stereotypical.

Some, not all. The one that sold on eBay then didn't, so I got it, was from a lovely bloke who made no grand claims for it and said he hadn't touched the sunroof in years.

The button calls

02.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0