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Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people Hundreds of texts over almost a year show Maga influencer Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein workshopping legal and media strategies to protect Epstein from the legal and publicity quagmire that enveloped him in the last year of his life. The texts, released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, show that as early as June 2018, the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics, and academia. Continue reading...

Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show

Your periodic reminder of Epstein’s response to this question.

Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity

🇺🇸 Jeffrey Epstein said to Larry Summers that he met very bad people, none as bad as Trump:

"Recall I've told you, I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump, not one decent cell in his body. So yes, dangerous"

You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...

An x y axis chart showing which muppets would be good vs bad at piloting a gundam and which would enjoy vs not enjoy piloting a gundam. Miss Piggy is highest for enjoying and being good at piloting. Gonzo is highest for enjoyment and lowest for pilot skill.

I needed a second axis for this question.

Genius!

I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3

Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist

Go full 90s and use "posse" 😄

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.

This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.

Except... it's bollocks.

Kind of familiar.

Isn't it.

Huge thanks to everyone who has donated wood to our woodchuck enclosure. We have reached an undetermined percentage of our goal.

Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

Clicked the replies just to see how many used the Brass Eye reference pic 😄

Vapourising the voted-out would bring something new to Traitors!

There was a press conference about how Trump was making Americans healthy, and a man standing close enough to smell him collapsed and the picture cut to a test card.

SACK THE WRITERS. TOO RIDICULOUS.

ULYSSES 31 - THE KINGDOM OF HADES (1981): CBBC Broom Cupboard-era favourite, famous for its sing-a-long theme tune, had more than its share of dark moments. Here, the dead of Hades literally turn their back on the living, their touch decaying everything in their path...

The case study that popularised the concept of 'cognitive dissonance' has been debunked.

Presumably psychologists will take this information and reframe it, allowing them to maintain their belief.

‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list “Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025. Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including social media, to create the annual list of new and notable words that reflect our ever-evolving language. Continue reading...

‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year

ITS A COYOTE! CHASING A ROAD RUNNER!

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Nighthawks 2025

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Incredibly, people still take this bloke seriously when he tells them he'll be terraforming Mars by easter. He's an inveterate liar, a child.

He’s so close but you know he’ll never get there…

Rules forcing trans people to use birth-sex facilities delayed The Equality and Human Rights Commission set out statutory guidance on how gyms, clubs and hospitals must judge single-sex spaces based on biology

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

TOTTIE - THE STORY OF A DOLL'S HOUSE (1984): Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms, home to Bagpuss and The Clangers, gave us this charming series about the inhabitants of a doll's house. Young viewers weren't prepared for a favourite character's death by immolation...

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Animal costumes are banned from the zoo after last Halloween’s tranquilizer dart incident.