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I'm really starting to wonder how many times Mike Johnson's name appears in the Epstein Files.

YouTube video by EL PAÍS Daft Punk en el desfile militar de Macron y Trump | Internacional

In the weird world of american-franco international diplomacy, this seemed to be a defining point.
youtu.be/dHmgh-dzmbE?...

I can confirm this.

Against debate Debating our opponents is pointless, and often dangerous.

I had this by @chrisdillow.bsky.social open in a tab, after @pauliewaulie.bsky.social‬ had mentioned it, and now I finally read it. It's from 2018, but as true now as when it was written:
chrisdillow.substack.com/p/against-de...

Mark E Smith released this as a B side during his stint as the Salford Advertiser's restaurant reviewer in the early 90s.

TBF, I doubt anyone dropped one through his letterbox in Dubai.

Nick Clegg climbing the greasy pole to facilitate Tory immigration policies was the main reason I left the UK. I've not really heard anything about Gonzalez in any Spanish media so far, so maybe it's another UK media fantasy about our chosen home country. 🤞

Christmas is cancelled in Reform UK Ltd Kent. Turns out you can't put up Christmas lights if there are flags on the lampposts!
www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...

Going to watch the American football on Channel5 shortly. There's something very soothing about watching a sport whose rules I find barely intelligible played by two teams from vaguely familiar cities with commentary that is, as far as I can tell, six or so people reading from James Joyce's Ulysses.

Gonna have you, you wanker.

Buy me in September, ignore me, eventually get around to use and abuse me as a pumpkin substitute

Does Sandringham have a dungeon? Knuckles could get visiting rights.

Poor old Matthew. Ever the groomer, never really in the gang.

Andrew will move to the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk

He's got to pick up a tent and sleeping bag at King's Lynn Argos when he steps off the Royal Train at 11:00. Then a a motorcade will whisk him off to Sandringham. No sweat.

2016-2021, I certainly felt that all our protection was coming from EU negotiators, and absolutely nothing from the UK government, who were quite happy to hang us all out to dry for tactical reasons.

I got mine in 2023. Walked in with my new Spanish birth certificate. ID card first 12€ on the RH side of the room, then the passport 29€ on the LH side. Pay by cash or card. Left with both in my pocket. In and out in ½ an hour.
#SpanishBureaucracy

"see less like this" only appears for posts in my Discover and News feeds.
"hide for me" is in all of them.

Tuba girls meme: users getting blasted with “AI”

Software in 2025

Imagine being a British one who can send you to a detention centre until they can sit down with a coffee next time they're on shift and decide they shouldn't have detained you after all 🤪

World beating, great British jobsworths.

Wrongly-released migrant 'tried to return to prison 4 or 5 times', witness says The driver says Kebatu returned to the prison 'four or five times' and was eventually sent away in a 'stressed' and 'upset' state.

Apparently he went back and asked them several times. They told him to get a train to London 🥴
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Being a fkn idiot is way up there

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Which one? Nigerian, US? Obviously her British one would be useless under the circumstances she's promoting.

They wanted me to provide a certificate to prove that I could speak English to B2 level, and getting it apostilled because of Brexit. They were OK with fucking off.

In the UK
At 16 I got asked to present my exam certificates for an apprenticeship.
I did a degree, never got asked for any certificates for several jobs.
In Spain
At 42, a neighbour suggested I'd be perfect for a part time job at a refugee hostel where they were desperate for English speakers. ....

There is one sure fire solution:

Give people with ILR the right to vote. This is the model in New Zealand. Anyone with permanent residency gets to vote.

All of a sudden the incentives toward othering and performative cruelty are gone. There are millions of votes in compassion and inclusivity

It's a Trump construction project, so they'll still be trying to get paid by the time the next one comes along.