David Bibby

ilcuk.org.uk/wp-content/u... good chart.

Four parties within a 5 point swing of first place and five parties on 12% plus.

This would be pure chaos under first past the post.

Borough Market too I would argue

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

In my optimistic moments I think a disgusting policy like this would trigger the British instinct for ‘fair play’ and people would react against it; but then again I don’t have many optimistic moments.

The cover of a weird -ass book published in the seventies entitled "our mysterious spaceship moon- is our nearest neighbour a huge alien spacecraft?"

Did they arrive on the alien spaceship they left parked in orbit?

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If the situation described here is accurate it looks like an outrageous use of council powers over a fairly mundane planning issue! Anyone know more ? @chimpman.bsky.social @rhymerrigby.bsky.social

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What's infuriating is that the BBC will end up self-flagellating over this when in fact all it does is broadcast the show made by an independent company. I haven't seen Hat Trick Productions apologise for this, but it's their failure.

Did it not occur to you that this was clear bullshit? It was a line in a speech, not a worked-through plan, never mind a bill or legislation. How likely was it really that a company that doesn't even make software would have won a contract that was nowhere near being put out to tender? FuckSAKE.

Lateralized Sleep Positions in Domestic Cats bar graph. 192 cats curve left. 109 curve right.

Aw yeah that’s what charts were designed for

me when i lie my ass off

Thread.

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Two monkeys sit on a branch, one picks a hair off the other. Caption: "well well, another blond hair, conducting a little more research with that Goodall Tramp."

So, with Jane Goodall passing, I am reminded of a very fun incident where her institute sent a furious complaint over this cartoon on her behalf, only to have Goodall herself find it hilarious and go on to write the introduction to the collection it appeared in. A fantastic sense of humour.

In memoriam...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Along with everyone else, I call bollocks on this.

The median voter wants this crap called out, and won't be voting Reform in 100 years.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
1/3

Expel Glasman

Oh very good.

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

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Cc @reetspetit.bsky.social

Oddly short termist is in the eye of the beholder though. If we get a few more Teeside-style river die-offs or pollinator extinction crises, I am betting that the people who claimed that habitat regulation was a silly frippery will not be picking up the phone.

Oh good lord I had forgotten about the Euston Declaration, good times

Real saying the quiet part loud here

Kathleen Stock basically thought that she could be transphobic to her hearts content but still have Nice Liberal Views on other things, and is now realizing that her major political allies are all people like Harrington, a mentally unbalanced former diversity consultant

Footnote from a book: Elsie de Wolfe was sixty when she accepted a proposal of marriage from Mendl, a handsome and well-connected attaché at the British Embassy in Paris. He apparently liked the kudos of being married to a rich woman who could act as his hostess without any strings; she just wanted a title. On 9 March 1926 the New York Times ran a banner headline, 'Elsie de Wolfe to Wed Sir Charles Mend!'. The piece was full of innuendo since Elsie had lived openly and happily for over thirty years with the masculine-looking Bessy Marbury. 'The marriage comes as a great surprise to her friends,' it read. 'When in New York she makes her home with Miss Elisabeth Marbury at 13 Sutton Place.’ Gossips had long referred to them as 'the bachelors’. The Mendls agreed in advance on a mariage blanc. They each maintained their own apartment in Paris and lived separate lives, though sharing the Villa Trianon whenever they wished. This arrangement was completely accepted in their circles; the couple liked each other and were a wonderful foil at parties, so the unusual partnership worked well. Elsie, who now styled herself Lady Mendl, continued to live with Bessy Marbury until Bessy's death in 1933, and in her 1935 autobiography After All, Elsie entirely forgot to mention her husband.

Oh, I like Elsie. She sounds fun