I believe talking is going on, but how can he even believe his own words? He says serious negotiations 'are now taking place' - so what has all the talking for weeks now been about?
It is not even worth commenting on frankly. America is no longer a serious country.
I believe talking is going on, but how can he even believe his own words? He says serious negotiations 'are now taking place' - so what has all the talking for weeks now been about?
It is not even worth commenting on frankly. America is no longer a serious country.
I wonder how things would be if Trump was a serious person.
This is fun. An important ciongressional race. Trump has spent a fortune trying to keep this man out. The most expensive in history. Some of his tweets have been unbelievable in their vileness. It seems to have caught everyone's imagination Massie's crime; trying to get the Edleson files out
I believe talking is going on, but how can he even believe his own words? He says serious negotiations 'are now taking place' - so what has all the talking for weeks now been about?
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. https://x.com/FT/status/2056356147376865625
***EXCLUSIVE*** Andy Burnham fully rules out changing Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules if he becomes PM
At the weekend his team had left it open whether he might change them in future
But tonight his spokesperson tells Bloomberg he is explicitly ruling out any changes to the existing fiscal rules
AND crucially Burnham is now also ruling out exempting defence spending from the fiscal rules to spend more on the military
No change with the EU relationship and no change to the economy, exactly what is Burnham going to do differently?!
His one policy of significance is regional devolution of power. The extent of that is unclear, but it goes against forty years of centralisation which was economically disastrous for the regions, so I'll give him credit there for a policy of some significance.
No doubt PB's London residents will be sceptical, but that's their problem.
No, I love the place but I do think the country is too London centric.
You're an old lefty prepared to make concessions. I suspect some of our regular will differ.
As I recall, even the much lamented Alistair Meeks believed London investment came before everything.
The problem is the cost benefit analysis isn't it? when the beancounters run the predictions investment in London results in higher bang/£ whether that is correct is another thing
It's because 1% growth in London is equivalent to 7% in the NE of England, in how they contribute to overall UK growth. So any project in the NE needs to demonstrate much higher returns to attract the same kind of investment.
The first thing I would change is how we report economic stats - give politicians the opportunity to crow about 10% wage growth in Teesside.
“No serious person, these days, pays any attention to GDP, in any form”
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
OK. I lied about the Nigel Farage thing.
Ok. So you will be sending the 5 Bernies in crypto back, then?
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
Do you not have access to any of the edge servers located in the UK or Ireland?
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
We've been on this treadmill for so long now and still the Strait of Hormuz is not open.
Hormuz won't be reopened unless and until it's in Iran's interest to do so, which means money to put it bluntly. All the havering is the Trump administration refusing to accept this reality.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
When he puts his hands in his pockets and flaps his jacket at the start, I can't help but thinking:
"Ain't Makerfield BRILLLLLLIANT!!"
(And idly wondering if they got approval to use Elbow....)
Am I right to think the only policy pronouncement that we've had from him so far is that he intends to get rid of VAR? Admittedly, I haven't listened as closely to what he has to say as some, my tolerance for vacuous platitudes being strictly limited.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
We've been on this treadmill for so long now and still the Strait of Hormuz is not open.
Hormuz won't be reopened unless and until it's in Iran's interest to do so, which means money to put it bluntly. All the havering is the Trump administration refusing to accept this reality.
They have a case for money given the damage caused by the bombing. And any recompense would be more than covered by the $$$ benefit to the world of the Straits reopening. So there's a deal there just begging to be done by Donald 'Transactional' Trump.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
***EXCLUSIVE*** Andy Burnham fully rules out changing Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules if he becomes PM
At the weekend his team had left it open whether he might change them in future
But tonight his spokesperson tells Bloomberg he is explicitly ruling out any changes to the existing fiscal rules
AND crucially Burnham is now also ruling out exempting defence spending from the fiscal rules to spend more on the military
No change with the EU relationship and no change to the economy, exactly what is Burnham going to do differently?!
His one policy of significance is regional devolution of power. The extent of that is unclear, but it goes against forty years of centralisation which was economically disastrous for the regions, so I'll give him credit there for a policy of some significance.
No doubt PB's London residents will be sceptical, but that's their problem.
No, I love the place but I do think the country is too London centric.
You're an old lefty prepared to make concessions. I suspect some of our regular will differ.
As I recall, even the much lamented Alistair Meeks believed London investment came before everything.
London investment comes before everything else because the Treasury's Green Book is written to make it that way.
We really need a concerted effort to transform Manchester / Leeds / Birmingham / Nottingham into the equivalent of Munich / Hamburg / Frankfurt / Cologne so that the UK isn't focused purely around London.
Two easy options:
1) Go back in history and split England into a multitude of kingdoms, dukedoms, free cities etc for a few hundred years.
2) Partition England into a free market, democratic Midlands/North and an oppressive, communist South for forty years.
3) Give regional mayors some actual tax raising ability so they can build the Metro lines every other city with a population over 1 million has.
Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and the West Midlands all have metro / tram systems
I don't think our current problems can all be caused by Leeds being overly reliant on buses.
The only one of those with a light railway is Newcastle and that is a single tunnel attached to existing lines that were repurposed.
A lot of our problems relate to number high quality jobs / employees (depending on what side you are looking at) within a reasonable commuting distance.
Underground systems solve that issue by vastly increasing the number of people within a sensible commuting time..
Two double tunnels, intersecting at Monument. Or three if you account for the fact there are tunnels at each end of the bridge across the Tyne!
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
One of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
***EXCLUSIVE*** Andy Burnham fully rules out changing Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules if he becomes PM
At the weekend his team had left it open whether he might change them in future
But tonight his spokesperson tells Bloomberg he is explicitly ruling out any changes to the existing fiscal rules
AND crucially Burnham is now also ruling out exempting defence spending from the fiscal rules to spend more on the military
No change with the EU relationship and no change to the economy, exactly what is Burnham going to do differently?!
His one policy of significance is regional devolution of power. The extent of that is unclear, but it goes against forty years of centralisation which was economically disastrous for the regions, so I'll give him credit there for a policy of some significance.
No doubt PB's London residents will be sceptical, but that's their problem.
No, I love the place but I do think the country is too London centric.
You're an old lefty prepared to make concessions. I suspect some of our regular will differ.
As I recall, even the much lamented Alistair Meeks believed London investment came before everything.
The problem is the cost benefit analysis isn't it? when the beancounters run the predictions investment in London results in higher bang/£ whether that is correct is another thing
It's because 1% growth in London is equivalent to 7% in the NE of England, in how they contribute to overall UK growth. So any project in the NE needs to demonstrate much higher returns to attract the same kind of investment.
The first thing I would change is how we report economic stats - give politicians the opportunity to crow about 10% wage growth in Teesside.
“No serious person, these days, pays any attention to GDP, in any form”
Didn’t say that, did I?
Still content that Mississippi is richer than the UK, or do you want us to demonstrate how demented you are once again?
Or how you don’t understand what the point of HS2 was?
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
One of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.
Don't let the Welsh or Irish hear you say that...
Edit: turns out I was wrong here... Need to go to Hungary to move away from it.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
That's all well and good, but will it make Burnham sound sincere ?
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
One of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.
Don't let the Welsh or Irish hear you say that...
Edit: turns out I was wrong here... Need to go to Hungary to move away from it.
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
One of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.
Don't let the Welsh or Irish hear you say that...
Edit: turns out I was wrong here... Need to go to Hungary to move away from it.
Or northeast Spain. The Basque language is unrelated to any other language.
The founder of Ukrainian drone and missile manufacturer Firepoint claims that Ukraine could enforce a naval blockade halting Russian oil exports in the Black and Baltic Seas.
Geopolitically that would be a lot easier for them to do if the Strait of Hormuz was open. I think Ukraine might be even more keen on the Strait of Hormuz reopening than any of the Gulf States.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
You'll all have to learn the language. It's easy: no future tense, no he or she, no subjunctive, few prepositions. But 14 cases including the important partitive ..., pronunciation is as written, but take care over double consonants and double vowels ...
One of the few European languages that is not Indo-European.
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
If there is a leadership contest, your first preference: Burnham 47% Starmer 31% Rayner 8% Streeting 4% Miliband 3% Cooper 3% Mahmood 1% Carns 0%
Head to heads: Burnham 59% v Starmer 37% Burnham 80% v Streeting 10% Miliband 58% v Streeting 28% Rayner 70% v Streeting 19%
What this means is that Burnham can concentrate 100 per cent on a pitch to win over Makerfield. He has no need to shift his pitch to better appeal to Labour members (eg.on Europe in response to Streeting) because the evidence of this poll means that Makerfield is now the only significant hurdle on the way to becoming PM).
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
OK. I lied about the Nigel Farage thing.
I thought you meant you'd won bigly (e) on Reform at the local elections.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
Response times from St Petersburg should be much faster now.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
Well they stopped doing real weddings after the first few series, so it is no longer a legal wedding, but a sham pretendy wedding. Consequently there was one series that ended with one of the husbands proposing to his wife (they have two children now).
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Jesus: he's really going after Trump.
And if not, can you apply to take the money off Vance?
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.
Have we always been in California until now?
No.
First we were in the UK for about five years.
Then we were on the East Coast, initially with Amazon, then with Rackspace.
Then about three months ago I moved PB into my server closet*, but we had issues with Vanilla (and other things) flagging it as suspicous.,
So, we've moved to a reputable hosting company that -as far as I know- has no FSB links. And the PB server is now in Finland.
* Because Rackspace were charging me a ridiculous amount of money
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Jesus: he's really going after Trump.
You know, that's how the media should report it.
"Today Vice President Vance unleashed a stinging attack on President Trump..."
And then do vox pops: "with Vance now clearly supporting impeachement, do you think this will sway Republican Senators?"
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
I thought the point was tha5 they are NOT actually married, but pretend to be.
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
I thought the point was tha5 they are NOT actually married, but pretend to be.
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Jesus: he's really going after Trump.
You know, that's how the media should report it.
"Today Vice President Vance unleashed a stinging attack on President Trump..."
And then do vox pops: "with Vance now clearly supporting impeachement, do you think this will sway Republican Senators?"
Not so much a reparations fund, but rather an upfront payment so that they can do it all again in November.
When you play the game of lawfare, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Do you think this was "lawfare" rather than prosecution of rioters assaulting the US capitol?
Lawfare ? It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Not just theft of taxpayers funds, but using it to reward insurrection.
The USA is a banana republic now.
Vance: There is a simple principle I have: If you are committing fraud against the American people you ought to go to prison. If you are a public official not fighting against fraud, you ought to have your money taken away because you should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters. https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Jesus: he's really going after Trump.
You know, that's how the media should report it.
"Today Vice President Vance unleashed a stinging attack on President Trump..."
And then do vox pops: "with Vance now clearly supporting impeachement, do you think this will sway Republican Senators?"
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department. https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
I thought the point was tha5 they are NOT actually married, but pretend to be.
When they started the show the couples were legally married, but then they changed it to more of an entertainment/drama thing and only pretended to get married.
The first few UK series had a vicar involved, while later series had a sex therapist, which gives some indication of how the emphasis changed.
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Married at First Sight always seemed a deeply dodgy premise for a TV series. How did they ever find a Registrar willing to conduct the ceremony?
I thought the point was tha5 they are NOT actually married, but pretend to be.
When they started the show the couples were legally married, but then they changed it to more of an entertainment/drama thing and only pretended to get married.
The first few UK series had a vicar involved, while later series had a sex therapist, which gives some indication of how the emphasis changed.
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot · 1h Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department. https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
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Or for Reform:
"The money was just resting in my account"
..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8PBQg28u2A
https://x.com/haggis_uk/status/2056419905692418287?s=46
It's mass larceny.
Trump, and a number of his coterie, including Blanche, should be in jail.
Hmmmmm
Ah yes
https://x.com/FT/status/2056356147376865625
WARNING: SERVER MIGRATION INCOMING
PB is about to move from California to Finland. Load times should be faster. Vanilla errors should cease. Starmer will depart Number 10. Nigel Farage will be contributing to costs.The USA is a banana republic now.
Sulfur prices soar 184% YoY on geopolitical supply cut 🇨🇳
https://x.com/minenergybiz/status/2056325609983299992
Jewish man 'kicked like animal' in Golders Green attack
Backbencher: "You're in a different party.... you used to be there." 🤣
https://x.com/haggis_uk/status/2056419905692418287
Proper banter from the Lib Dems
"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
Where are the same quality of memes from the last ten years say?
Comedy is largely dead.
Am I alone in thinking that is a bit of a shitty reward?
Jessica Elgot
@jessicaelgot
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1h
Extraordinary launch video - never seen a by-election campaign which is such an explicit pitch to both the place and to the country
https://x.com/jessicaelgot/status/2056455091847057762
"Ain't Makerfield BRILLLLLLIANT!!"
(And idly wondering if they got approval to use Elbow....)
He could be a Spanish George Galloway.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8pz1k4r2lo
Two women have told the BBC they were raped during the filming of one of Channel 4's biggest shows, Married at First Sight UK, while a third has described an allegation of a non-consensual sex act.
Still content that Mississippi is richer than the UK, or do you want us to demonstrate how demented you are once again?
Or how you don’t understand what the point of HS2 was?
Edit: turns out I was wrong here... Need to go to Hungary to move away from it.
I'll die in a ditch over that one.
IIRC, there are (or were) huge mounds of blocks of sulphur in the Canadian oilsands as there is/was no use for it.
Down and up again with no more than about 60 seconds downtime.
That's a new record.
Thank you Proxmox and Cloudflare.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2056437336498684018
Geopolitically that would be a lot easier for them to do if the Strait of Hormuz was open. I think Ukraine might be even more keen on the Strait of Hormuz reopening than any of the Gulf States.
All that remains is for them to suck the joy out of the CL final
And thus we wipe out the past 250 years and return to out Tory/Whig roots
First we were in the UK for about five years.
Then we were on the East Coast, initially with Amazon, then with Rackspace.
Then about three months ago I moved PB into my server closet*, but we had issues with Vanilla (and other things) flagging it as suspicous.,
So, we've moved to a reputable hosting company that -as far as I know- has no FSB links. And the PB server is now in Finland.
* Because Rackspace were charging me a ridiculous amount of money
"Today Vice President Vance unleashed a stinging attack on President Trump..."
And then do vox pops: "with Vance now clearly supporting impeachement, do you think this will sway Republican Senators?"
I mean... so I heard...
Trump news at a glance: president enlists JD Vance as his ‘fraud czar’, targeting Democratic states
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-news-at-a-glance-jd-vance
At least 100 dead in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, official says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6pz60p996o
A year ago (the lab is still closed).
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
The first few UK series had a vicar involved, while later series had a sex therapist, which gives some indication of how the emphasis changed.