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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 5h

Someone should ask him what BRICS is. The idiot hasn't got a clue. About anything. And they let him sit there talking bollocks.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 5h

FFS. It's not "raising furthe questions". We already KNOW it's illegal. No questions necessary.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 8h

I really hope this is true, as it's a rather beautiful story.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this. Whilst it's obviously a very good thing that there's a ceasefire and a hostage exchange, this is a very long way from being a peace plan.

Who pays for reparations? Is there a true Palestinian state? Who's guaranteeing the peace?

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1d

The USA has temporarily paused pumping billions into funding genocide.

Truly we are blessed to live in such peaceful times 🤮

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1d

Usually see it say it sorted.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1d

You need Tunes mate.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 1d

He's there to bask in applause to satisfy his giant ego, that is all.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

US President Donald Trump will receive a hero's welcome in Israel's parliament as a fragile Gaza ceasefire he helped to broker enters a fourth day, with the expected release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4n59wzf

Gaza ceasefire live: Hostages to return as Trump visits Israel

The war in Gaza has ended, Trump said as he flew to Israel, which was waiting for Hamas to release Israeli hostages. Trump speaks at the Knesset and then gathers with other world leaders in Egypt for a summit on ending the conflict.

reut.rs

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 2d

It's clearly a war zone 😂

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

That plus people shitting in cat litter trays.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and says `` awesome job '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands and says `` awesome job '' .

media.tenor.com

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

Fraggle Rock. That is all.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure the Reynolds Girls don't spend much of their time jacking either, but what's your point?

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

Why would he care? There's no meaningful sanction beyond a slap on the wrist, and most people's opinions of Johnson are already baked in.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

I've no idea how he wrings a column out of pretty routine DIY jobs or domestic happenings every week. Most of just crack on with it. But the regulars in the comments treat him like Peter Ustinov instead of the tedious bore he is.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 3d

Give it a few years and there'll be a Trump golf course and a tacky gold plated hotel ☹️

Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 4d

Take it away, please.

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 4d

...until he had a crisis of confidence?

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Dave Brockman 💙💛 @davebrockman.bsky.social · 4d

Very few cover versions work, but Neneh Cherry doing I Got You Under My Skin was just brilliant. That constant driving bass, the dirty unpolished feel, just amazing. #TOTP