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“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

I don’t know you but that’s a horrible thing to happen. If there’s any kind of anger room type place near you, maybe try taking a sledgehammer to some inanimate objects and let yourself physically rage by beating the crap out of something. Don’t try to contain all your grief. Good luck.

Ah, a little note there for Chalamet.

Welcome to the fight.

A bunch of puerile frat boys, getting off on killing people. I do not have the vocabulary to express my disgust for this.

Show me what a lack of exposure to the Humanities looks like in policy terms. The rest of the population aren’t actually real to them.

For pity's sake, this is how these losers choose to spend their time, like a bunch of 10 year olds making crank calls? Accountability really hits home I guess.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I was suspicious when Netanyahu was talking about Americans going back to the Bible. Like he's ever been into that. Were Jesus ever to deign to reappear I'm pretty sure he'd be brandishing a large cast iron skillet to hit every one of these guys over the head with.

Comments like that should be enough to remove you from your post. Insane.

If First World Problems had a social media account. Good grief.

WTF
“Round up the Muslims”???

Oh my god.

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

Rumer Godden - more than 5. For starters.

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

So wait, other 'civilisations' have not persisted for 1000s of years? The Islamic world that gave us maths & much science? Chinese, Japanese, Indian-subcontinental cultures that influenced the West? South American indigenous cultures more advanced than their conquerors who merely had weapons? Jeez.

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

The most emotional people right now across the world seem to be a bunch of men freaking out that they and their revelatory retrograde nonsense is not the entire centre of the universe for everyone and especially not sentient, self-respecting women.'Feelings become the arbiter of morality'? Please.

The light's just gone very yellowing bruise hereabouts. Very weird.

I haven't seen anyone reference Beverley Sills for years! I had a total obsession with her when young for some reason, think saw her on TV and was in my wanting to be an opera singer phase. Did a school project on her for grade school, cannibalising her autobiography for photos.

Scrap hospital parking charges now! Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...

🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up!

I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...

“I’ve said it time & time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

The ECHR protects us all. The rights within it – firmly implanted into UK law by the Human Rights Act – are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans