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OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!
Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds
But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣
Right, let's get started...
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DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago
www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
I'm worried that the FIFA Peace Prize is having its reputation tainted a little.
Obscene.
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care not for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
[dreamye lute arpeggio]
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
Lavinia Fontana (1552 – 1614) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as her family relied on her career as a painter. Her husband served as her agent and raised their 11 children. #CelebratingWomen
When you see the wind stir the greenwood, or when you turn the pages of a book made from a tree’s still-blameless flesh, lean close and listen. You hear my voice.
~Ellen Datlow, The Green Man
🎨Brian Froud #PhantomsFriday
Staff are leaving in their droves and aren’t replaced, leaving classrooms overcrowded and pupils without the support they need.
On 28 Feb, our indicative ballot on pay, funding, and workload opens.
It’s time to act – get ready to vote to #SaveEducation
Check your details are correct👉 myNEU.org.uk
Matt Goodwin lost to a white woman and a party led by a Jewish man — and somehow he’s blaming Muslims?
No, mate. This one’s on you: your misogyny, your shallow, divisive tactics, and your empty obsession with “us vs them.”
Gorton & Denton saw right through it. Hopefully one day you will too.
Reminder that the British far right is led by men who are terrified of women and are desperate to control them
Manchester says no to hate 🤍
A Britain First demonstration in Manchester was met by a larger counter-protest of local residents and over 30 grassroots organisations opposing racism and division.
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
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WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK IT WAS USING TO BEGIN WITH?
Doesn't anyone remember that math has to come from numbers?
Percentages and graphs have to come from data. Where's the data?
AI doesn't "show its work" because it can't!
Everyone is going to fail their audits.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Hey folks! Street Medics in Minneapolis have reached out to us asking for help boosting another wishlist!
Everything on this list is going straight to Columbia Heights.
(If you hate amazon, please visit www.standwithminnesota.com and find a different way to help! just help, that is what matters)
We're all trying to get by, in our own way.
And if your way involves ancient books of magic, dark spirits, and secret meetings with the old gods in the forgotten end of the forest, so much the better.
Ich koude wynne a gold medal at the olympics yf ther was an olympic sport called worryinge about everyethinge all the tyme
Do take 15 minutes out of your day to read this @andrewprlevi.bsky.social 🧵 The signs were there for decades
It isn’t possible for PMs to be expert in all fields…or indeed in many. Which is why having the judgement to identify very high quality advisors and really listen to them really matter..
Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.
This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
