Helen McCarthy

Are the cheapest and most secure handcuffs sized for five-year-olds imported from the USA, the UAE or Israel? Asking for a friend in Government procurement.

Nigel Farage thinks Donald Trump should run the UK (as a front for Vladimir Putin.) So he's just making it clear what will happen if he is ever elected Prime Minister.

Was listening to these again recently.

Made me think that maybe the reformations and the wars of the three kingdoms form, like, the two master keys for explaining England which suffer from the greatest gap between importance and general knowledge.

Maybe?
www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/se...

Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks

Forcing half a million people to leave their homes and then destroying their homes is ethnic cleansing.

Why are you just sat here watching?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Was someone wearing Meta RayBans?

Thank you!

‼️BREAKING

Hungary detained two Ukrainian Oschadbank cash-collection vehicles in Budapest.

Inside:
$40M
€35M
9 kg of gold.

7 Ukrainian employees were escorting the cargo.
Their location is now unknown.

The transport was fully legal under an international banking agreement.

In better news: #SlavaUkraini and glory to Team Human 💙💛👍👏👇

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

It's always time for this anti-fascist moment from Casablanca.

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Chef’s kiss for the title

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

"I have usernames older than you" is the new "I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice"

The Leather Souls - There's No Use [USA, Garage] (1966) Acetate

The Leather Souls - There's No Use [USA, Garage] (1966) Acetate
https://redd.it/g4xyrj
https://youtu.be/OTtFlvIM3vk

Thank you!

Selectasound '88 & The Bob Boon Singers -- Tabou [Belgian Freakbeat Library Psych With The Ghost Choir Vocals] (1972) Arthur Lyman Cover Possibly Made For TV

Selectasound '88 & The Bob Boon Singers -- Tabou [Belgian Freakbeat Library Psych With The Ghost Choir Vocals] (1972) Arthur Lyman Cover Possibly Made For TV
https://redd.it/6dn5b7
https://youtu.be/M8rORVkcUQ4

War has its uses. Nobody is discussing the Epstein files or Netanyahu's legal problems, so job done, only irrelevant civilians and a few service people killed, and loads of dosh for military profiteers.

"the rich “really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it”." Immorality on show - heaven forbid the rich should have to pay tax and contribute to the UK like the little people.

Reeling from loss, Niigata’s animation festival refuses to fold After losing key organizers and the death of its founder, the festival wasn’t sure it could go on. Instead of going dark, however, NIAFF rebuilt from scratch.

While anime booms around the globe, Niigata's animation festival provides a platform for new talent despite facing serious challenges. Matt Schley's latest article outlines the problems, aspirations and determination to keep Niigata on the anime map.

www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

Really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it!

Is it just me or does the one with the sleek hair and edgy jacket look just a little like the younger brother of @jmswallow.bsky.social ?

Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates - In The Midnight Hour [USA, Rock/Funk-Soul] (1977)

Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates - In The Midnight Hour [USA, Rock/Funk-Soul] (1977)
https://redd.it/o0yzr2
https://youtu.be/YhOCj5h0qkk

Barbara Newhall Follett (1914-1939?) was an American child prodigy. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in 1927, when she was only 12. Her second novel was a betseller when she was 14. In December 1939, aged 25, she disappeared. She has never been found. #CelebratingWomen

Eye candy is political - but it's also personal, and ultimately it relies on more than geometry. For me, the beauty of Peter O'Toole, Terence Stamp, Sidney Poitier, Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Jones, was brought to life and given meaning by their spirit, intelligence and experience.

The Manga Bible, UK edition out today, with German and French editions. Hot pink covers overprinted with black graphic imagery by Baron Yoshimoto. Block capital lettering in yellow for the title and white for author name.

Happy New Book Birthday to me! #TheMangaBible is in the shops today. I can't go into town and seek it out on the shelves because I have to stay at home until my shoulder heals, so please help me see how it looks in the wild. Pls post any sightings - photos if poss! - and link to reviews you see.

A $1.5T company just turned 7 million bedrooms into training data. Last week, Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten published a joint investigation. Meta contractors in Nairobi…... A $1.5T company just turned 7 million bedrooms into training data. Last week, Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten published a joint investigation. Meta contractors in Nairobi ...

Jatin Modi's LinkedIn report on an investigation by two Swedish newspapers into RayBan's AI glasses output. Turns out that your personal life is being scraped to train #GenAI. You are sharing intimate photos of your children with no idea how they'll be used.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Budweiser Malt Liquor Vocal and Instrumental Theme [US, Theme, Soul] (1971)

Budweiser Malt Liquor Vocal and Instrumental Theme [US, Theme, Soul] (1971)
https://redd.it/el0e93
https://youtu.be/WW6kM0sATII

"UK taxpayers should not be footing the bill to bring home tax exiles who were not contributing to the domestic economy and in many cases had moved there specifically to avoid paying tax." What do you think? I think they should pay the cost of their rescue and all social costs while in the UK.