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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

I now have the Poirot theme stuck in my head...again.

I know the subject of the 10 shirt for Ireland is a tired one but...c'mon, Prendergast is just not starting XV material. Ireland woke up as soon as he was taken off. We need quick recycling of the ball and Prendergast is just too slow. #Ireland

Elect Farage, get Putin.

One of the things the movies, and especially Cate Blanchett's performance, captured was that slightly unnerving vibe that Galadriel, and by extension Lothlorien, has. You get the sense, even before the mirror scene, that she's one bad day away from going berserk on everyone.

This is a common myth. The UK's nuclear deterrent was dependent on the US pre-Trident. The Trident missiles are US-made but command and control is entirely independent of the US. Essentially: yes they are American missiles, but the UK has control over whether to use them.

They also had *zero* landing craft. They were lashing together river barges to try and do the job. They couldn't establish air superiority and an airborne invasion of that scale would likely have been a disorganised mess.

I'm going to be totally honest: I forgot she was in government.

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

Anyone else angry about this?

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

I'm not happy about being placed anywhere near Chelsea FC Supporters, I'll tell ya hwat.

Somewhere on the periphery of 'UK Anglican Church Community':

Japan is a typical, developed democracy. Elections take place in an environment where the general public have a range of political parties to choose from, operating in a pluralistic media landscape, with totally free, secret ballots, after which the LDP win.

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Thanks be to God.

We're going to get nilled here. Absolutely shocking. #Ireland

It's going to be a long night. #Ireland

The added benefit of seeing it this way is that it punctures the pseudo-historical nonsense you hear in certain parts of NI: 'AnTr1m wAs pArT oF SCotLanD oNcE...WE're aCHtUallY PiCTs'

Appointing Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the US against explicit security vetting advice is the resigning issue that the press spent an absurd amount of time trying to convince us that "he had a beer and a curry" was.

'You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire' by Queens of the Stone Age.

a man with long hair is saying destroy it . ALT: a man with long hair is saying destroy it .

Increasingly my attitude to AI:

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

Among the MANY reasons preachers should not be using AI to write your sermons or teach your classes, you’re baking our planet. AI does not help us love our neighbors.

www.wired.com/story/data-c...

Fun fact: in Northern Ireland we still call these 'German Biscuits' and they might be my favourite biscuit in the world.

Two polities whose historical military strengths are overrated by armchair generals everywhere?

Yikes. I had no idea he defended Wakefield, I didn't mind Hislop before but now...

I'm starting to think the history of the Anglican churches on these isles is much like the history of the nations themselves: intimately intertwined with, yet shockingly ignorant of, each other.

'Code-switching' I believe it's called these days.

Lord have mercy, that's a dire turn of phrase, equal to 'The English Kirk' when referring to the SEC. My wife is Scottish and *every time* we discuss the future prospect of moving to Scotland someone says 'Oh so you'd join the Church of Scotland then!'