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I REALISED the other day that you don't actually wash your hands'. They wash each other while you stand there staring at them like a serial killer. Gustav Fox, Choddington

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I must say, it's been great catching up with FF this weekend 😄

A mediocre beer perched on a fence at the pygmy goat enclosure at The Beech Tree Inn near Balmaha.

A lovely beer enjoyed outside at our accommodation in the Scottish countryside. We turned the speaker off to enjoy the quiet, and met the owner's cat and dogs.

Flora feeding broccoli and carrots to the pigmy goats at The Beech Tree Inn.

Bottles, pints and pygmy goats.

This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.

"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"

Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.

Stop calling it a war, you spineless fucks.

These House Dems are having an AIPAC-funded smiling vacation in a country currently bombing and starving millions of people with weapons they voted to send to that country.

Truly sickening. Stomach-churning. Ghouls.

I didn’t talk about my experiences of GBBF 2023 as my book had just come out and I didn’t feel it was appropriate. But I wasn’t allowed into the building because the volunteers thought I was ‘a hawker’ even though the book was published by CAMRA. I kept getting stared at and one guy said 1/2

Lammy is a weak, power-obsessed, amoral cunt.

Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schools, councils, childcare, public transport and social security - have been decimated after a decade of cuts. And now, the Government could be looking to cut them even further. At the same time, extreme wealth is growing. The average wealth of the top ten richest people in the UK is now £20.5...

Inequality in the UK is obscene.

The richest 1% now hold more wealth than the bottom 70%.

Whilst ordinary people struggle with the cost of living, and crumbling public services, the super-rich are hoarding wealth.

It's time for a #WealthTax.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Just crossed the border - weirdly emotional 🥲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

the Tom Toro “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders” New Yorker Cartoon. https://www.insidehook.com/culture/story-tom-toro-new-yorker-climate-cartoon it has been reworked so that Keir Starmer's head is in it, replacing the narrator's head. the text has been changed to: "Yes, Britain got destroyed. But for one beautiful term of office the trannies, Palestinians, and disableds got the dignity and respect that they deserved..."

A collection of his majesty's orange penises.

I watched last night's episode in our hotel room as there was fuck all else on, and it did pull me in. I find watching the machinations of truly awful people compelling.

I'm absolutely astounded that a sleazy politician has resigned.

They live in gold, we live in rust: why we must destroy the new Gilded Age

Inequality in the west is now at the same level as Rome during slavery. We can’t go on like this. Unless we change peacefully, we risk violence

My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

That's Virgil away to the cattery 😥

I've been awake since 4.30 (thanks cat). It's less than ideal preparation for part 1 of a car journey to Glasgow, but at least I have a week in Scotia (and just as importantly, a week of no work) coming.

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

Great.

I'll be having a healthy breakfast before spending a few days in Scotland getting in aboot the square sausage, fried egg and tattie scone rolls 😜

I can smell that bacon and I am thoroughly jealous.

The book is great and the programme should have ended where that did, but they just had to milk it. I gave up after season 3 or 4.

I'm up in Scotland from Friday - the storm better be nothing more than a memory by then.

I defrosted the freezer today and when I first turned off the power and opened the door, Virgil proceeded to take a seat on the middle shelf, still covered with ice.

Only two years ago, the average Palestinian would fill their trolley with meat, veg, fruit and snacks, give their kids a choice for dinner. Just like you and I do for our families. Now they have to risk getting shot to get a morsel of stale bread from a box. Meanwhile across the border...

Chip sandwich with a cuppa then open the wine?

Nothing to see here (literally).

They're both two cheeks of the same arse.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

ACTION: Sign the petition and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators. The UK’s pollinator numbers are dropping heavily - we need the UK government to step in and protect them.

UK bee and other pollinator populations are dropping rapidly. This is partly due to how many pesticides we use – but it doesn’t have to be this way. Join me and tell the UK Government to follow in their footsteps and protect our pollinators: act.gp/3ZExhpi