'...is as close as a pacifist...'... Is that even English?

NIGEL FARAGE PROUD TO CALL DONALD TRUMP 'A FRIEND

"A whole civilization will die tonight."

When corrupt Tories get found out
there's always a home for them
as "carefully vetted"
Reform Ltd MPs & councillors

meme via William J Dovercourt III

'What a piece of work is a man...'!

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching new carnage. But how could you know, brave as belief as you boarded the boats, singing? The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air. Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love you gave your world for; the town squares silent, awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next? War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore; for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea. Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.

-Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War.
#everynightapoem

Daily Mail headline says "Drill, Ed, Drill"

Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

To be clear, we totally can pretend it's not our war on the simple basis that it isn't.

Seems to me ( looking across the Atlantic) that you got what you voted for. And now you need to deal with it.

"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?"

-- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934

They did!

What a lovely bunch of relatable rogues they are..not!

Sickening sycophancy

Reform: the natural home for the Deplorable

I don't care if this makes me a dinosaur. If I found out that a writer had used a solitary line of AI I would never read them again. If I thought someone had used AI in an email to me, I would never respond or indeed respect them again.

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏

Mesmerising!

Aaagh

Ideological drilling.

Britain has stopped believing in freedom of protest Recent police raids show the authorities are clamping down not just on protest, but the very idea of it

Cops have twice raided Quaker meeting houses to arrest people- and seize their phones/laptops - without so far charging anyone. Are we seeing pre-emptive policing to make the very idea of protest impossible? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...

Especially good in pairs

Well done, @lushcosmetics.bsky.social
Wish more companies would do this.

Boran was a Sasanian queen of Iran from 630 to 632. She is the second of only three women to rule in Iranian history. Though her reign was brief, she brought stability to Iran by creating just laws, rebuilding the infrastructure, and by lowering taxes and minting coins. #CelebratingWomen

I assume she thinks a large slice of the electorate is gullible enough to take this at face value. She's probably right.

Perfect!

GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing

If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.