Dave Robertson

When is your break coming to an end? Really missing you on my feed 😢

Travelling to Eurodisney by car from the Channel Tunnel, you pass Parc Asterix. No need to go further.

One of the best renditions of “Two-headed Expert” I’ve ever seen #improv

It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years.
It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.

Brexiteers are hailing the 10% UK tariff rate (vs 20% EU rate) as a 'Brexit win'.

1. Brexit wiped out far more GDP growth & tax revenue than UK will save from 10% vs 20% rate.

2. Potential US trade deal won't compensate for lost EU trade.

3. Brexit won't insulate UK from a full global trade war.

A cartoon by James from the latest Private Eye magazine depicting the scene of US soldiers at Iwo Jima raising a white flag, with the flag of Ukraine laying discarded beside them.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

A screen grab from Google Maps that has the label “Gulf Of Mexico (Gulf Of America)” on the map

This is what’s on Google Maps in the UK right now. Cop out?

True :)

Given the palette of colours, I think “Stabilo Boss coalition” (www.stabilo.com/uk/products/...). A German company, too!

Given the power of social media to incite people to wreak havoc in their own neighbourhoods, then I would say they don’t need to invade

Life imitating art ❤️ bsky.app/profile/mate...

A painting of a wolf looking at a full moon. The image is on black paper and the wolf, ground and moon are made with white paint.

My cousin's daughter, Charlotte (aged 10), is following the family tradition of being artistic. This simple but engaging painting that she created is called "Moonlight".

HALF-PAST MONSOON

Subscribed this morning. Listening to this on the train. I am in the quiet carriage and will have to move as I am laughing out loud too much 🤭

Glad you’re here. Proof positive that The Other Place is fading now, fading now

This account - now blocked - started following me today. A) I’m not important enough for most people to follow, let alone Elron. B) I left the other place so I didn’t have to read his guff. So, I presume this is a phishing account or just fishy

My guess for Trump’s pick to lead the US Treasury: Sam Bankman-Fried 🙄

I agree. It has quickly become my main politics explainer. I was particularly enlightened with the discussion on the research into “cross-pressure” with Luke Tryl on this week’s edition. Explained a lot about how the right form working coalitions and the left struggle

Having listened to the latest @quietriotpod.bsky.social about accident prevention, I can reuse this recommendation, methinks

Howdy!

You should Sue

Probably how ‘they’ sound pronouncing “bollocks”

Charley Says... and Other Classic Public Information Films (Video 2018) | Documentary 4h 30m

You may be onto something. Best get the youngsters in our lives to binge-watch this compendium of PSA films - www.imdb.com/title/tt3348...

I support this move. I am effectively forced in to an iCloud paid subscription as I use Apple Photos for organising my photos. There’s no way to point it to an alternative storage service.

In the mid-70’s we lived opposite the Street family in South London. My mum was friendly with Adrian and his brother (also a wrestler) and some of their wrestling mates who would visit. I was in the same class as his daughter. Always lovely to us.

Fair play 👏

Am I seeing this because I subscribe to Clinton Baptiste’s Paranormal Podcast?

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

This is a very bleak read. I fear Carole has called it right, again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I.M.H.O.* it has the best theme music in the series and it’s reprise makes the action sequences even better (* - see what I did there!)