OTHELLO
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OTHELLO
@othellofloof.bsky.social
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I observe politicians and journalists from the top of the bookcase. I have no mercy on them. I am a cat.
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There is no serious trade expert who thinks the UK's deal with the US is definitively better than that of the EU. There are lots of generalist commentators using them for their own stale talking points. The UK did OK. So did the EU. Neither were great.
The trade agreement Brussels reached with Donald Trump on Sunday wasn’t even hailed as a triumphant victory by Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president who negotiated it.

But post-Brexit Britain’s apparently superior trade agreement perhaps stings most of all.
Brexiteers gloat over Trump’s EU trade ‘disaster,’ but has Britain really won?
While the U.K.’s low-tariff agreement with America is a Brexit bonus, victory over Europe may not be what Keir Starmer needs.
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Perhaps they should hire Serena Wiegmann.
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Just because he pulled out doesn’t mean it’s over. Rapists never understand that

#NoWar #ImpeachTrump
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Gibraltar CM personally fact-checking the bad actors.
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We may be witnessing the most globally embarrassing thing ever to happen to the United States.
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I watched this rooting for the flower and this is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen
Feast, my boy, feast!
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As predicted, the front pages of BBC & CNN are full of Israel-Iran.

Nothing on Gaza or West Bank. Remember that all comms are cut in Gaza as they starve.

Exactly what Netanyahu wanted.

They can do anything they like now as the vapid MSM chase the new squirrel released for their distraction.
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I've been seeing so many posts about stuff that supposedly neutralizes tear gas and pepper spray. For goodness sake, friends, if you aren't putting milk/liquid antacid/etc into your eyes when they are healthy, you certainly don't want them in your eyes when they're already irritated. JUST WATER.
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping is back!

Remember Giuliani sweating hair die in that very lot?
EPIC response.
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California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessary
www.theguardian.com
Tbh only one person ever nailed him, and it's odd that she managed it 6 times.
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Rees Mogg nailed
He's the pretentious parvenu that all Austen heroines are trying to avoid marrying.
Maybe he can get a hat that fits better.
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Former Tory MP Nicholas Soames on Rees-Mogg:

"He is an absolute fraud, he is a living example of what a moderately cut double-breasted suit & a decent tie can do with an ultra-posh voice and a bit of ginger stuck up his arse."
People misread Rees-Mogg all the time. He's not an aristocracy story but a social mobility story: the grandson of a lorry driver who made it to pretending to be a lord. It's the British Dream.
The funny thing about Rees Mogg and his TV show is that he actually isn't upper class. He just acts like it.
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House in Bruges for sale, € 745.000.
Construction year: 1550

www.dewaele.com/nl/te-koop/8...
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People replying 'it's all ageing'... well ageing is not random. It's the product of innovation in healthcare, changes in knowledge about what causes ill health, changes in behaviour responding to that or otherwise, choices to spend on prolonging life or not.
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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
None of this makes any human sense.
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Polish PM Donald Tusk has won a confidence vote in parliament.
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The FCDO is by far the biggest loser in today's spending review. Day-to-day spending is down by almost 7% in real terms. Add to that the govt's decision to cut the ODA budget to 0.3% of GNI, and it's hard to see how the UK can be an effective foreign policy actor with such a major hit to its budget.
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CS tear gas is not an oil
It won't work, the tear gas is oil based and has to be dissolved.
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I welcome the conclusion of the talks on the future EU-UK agreement on Gibraltar.

It safeguards the integrity of Schengen and the Single Market, while ensuring stability, legal certainty and prosperity for the region.

Congratulations Maroš Šefčovič on successful negotiations.