Grinchelle Bells Soph 🇺🇦🏆 Ho Ho No
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Proud Manc in Nottingham (and Cómpeta when we can). Cricket tragic. #NottsCCC #TheBlaze #SlavaUkraini
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Harold Larwood bowling during the 1932 season. It was his most successful summer - he took 162 wickets at 12.86 - and was picked for that winter's Ashes series as early as July 30th
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Harold Larwood bowling during the 1932 season. It was his most successful summer - he took 162 wickets at 12.86 - and was picked for that winter's Ashes series as early as July 30th
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The sky is slowly changing from it's deep blue hue to a brighter, more optimistic shade, and birds are gently bickering amongst themselves.
On a faint breeze the sound is carried from afar, an ancient yet seemingly very recent song.
"It's Black Friday. Why aren't you buying more of our shit???"
On a faint breeze the sound is carried from afar, an ancient yet seemingly very recent song.
"It's Black Friday. Why aren't you buying more of our shit???"
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The sky is slowly changing from it's deep blue hue to a brighter, more optimistic shade, and birds are gently bickering amongst themselves.
On a faint breeze the sound is carried from afar, an ancient yet seemingly very recent song.
"It's Black Friday. Why aren't you buying more of our shit???"
On a faint breeze the sound is carried from afar, an ancient yet seemingly very recent song.
"It's Black Friday. Why aren't you buying more of our shit???"
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
CC fixtures out, and of course, Notts don't get an away fixture at Glamorgan because the cricket gods hate me.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
CC fixtures out, and of course, Notts don't get an away fixture at Glamorgan because the cricket gods hate me.
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“A Saniflo 33 chemical toilet - it can cope with anything - earlier on I put in a pound of mashed-up Dundee cake”.
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“A Saniflo 33 chemical toilet - it can cope with anything - earlier on I put in a pound of mashed-up Dundee cake”.
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Deeply worrying sight in the corner of the office. Wondering if I can report it as an unattended item and get it blown up?
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Deeply worrying sight in the corner of the office. Wondering if I can report it as an unattended item and get it blown up?
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Right-wing men love testosterone replacement therapy for when their hormones aren't quite reich
Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-trans US health secretary, is currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
www.thepinknews.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Right-wing men love testosterone replacement therapy for when their hormones aren't quite reich
I do love it when Wordiply calls me "Smarty Pants".
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Play the Guardian's new daily word game, and share your score with your friends. You have five goes to get the longest word including today's starter word.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I do love it when Wordiply calls me "Smarty Pants".
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I read this so you don’t have to.
It's a 5 bed 1930s house. Behold my tiny violin. Hand me my bow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a 5 bed 1930s house. Behold my tiny violin. Hand me my bow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I read this so you don’t have to.
It's a 5 bed 1930s house. Behold my tiny violin. Hand me my bow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a 5 bed 1930s house. Behold my tiny violin. Hand me my bow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
None.
However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.
Mad-for-it In Manchester
brainless in braintree
Sleepless in Seattle.
Clueless in Cambridge.
Harmless in Harwich.
Peerless in Paris.
Topless in Torquay.
Clueless in Cambridge.
Harmless in Harwich.
Peerless in Paris.
Topless in Torquay.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Mad-for-it In Manchester
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
"You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
What? Give away an early penalty?
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
What? Give away an early penalty?
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
What? Give away an early penalty?
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel"
What? Give away an early penalty?
I think I can summarise the responses to this as "Some people who drive EVs think they've done the Lord's work for the climate and think they should therefore be exempt from paying for road repairs."
Approach to replacing fuel duty revenue over the longterm is about right, I think: still have an incentive to switch from ICE to EVs, and will just be the new normal as drivers transition.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I think I can summarise the responses to this as "Some people who drive EVs think they've done the Lord's work for the climate and think they should therefore be exempt from paying for road repairs."
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Going to rewrite Kevin Bloody Wilson's "Hey Santa claus you cunt, where's me fucking bike" so that it now goes "Just shove your fucking flags, up your fucking arse".
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Going to rewrite Kevin Bloody Wilson's "Hey Santa claus you cunt, where's me fucking bike" so that it now goes "Just shove your fucking flags, up your fucking arse".
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Sorry I haven't been active on social media today, I've been flat out making sure everything goes smoothly on my first day as website manager for the OBR.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sorry I haven't been active on social media today, I've been flat out making sure everything goes smoothly on my first day as website manager for the OBR.
There's something deeply depressing about being in a meeting with people mostly on £75K+ (some 6 figure) moaning about the Chancellor's plans to change tax rules on ISAs and pensions, salaries etc.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
There's something deeply depressing about being in a meeting with people mostly on £75K+ (some 6 figure) moaning about the Chancellor's plans to change tax rules on ISAs and pensions, salaries etc.
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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This is, even by recent standards, astonishingly blatant.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is, even by recent standards, astonishingly blatant.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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"We hold all the cards"
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"We hold all the cards"
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group