Claire
@clrthrn.bsky.social
🇬🇧in 🇳🇱 Tea, music, Dutch stuff, UK/EU politics, crochet, and parenting. Currently battling a cheese addiction.
You know you’re middle aged when you willingly wear an all rubber suit but because it’s raining and not for a kink.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
You know you’re middle aged when you willingly wear an all rubber suit but because it’s raining and not for a kink.
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Jesus Christ, from the papers and this site, you would think the Budget was today. It's on 26 November ffs, another TWELVE DAYS of this. Gilts, stocks and everything else are going to be somersaulting all over the place in the coming days. Everyone needs to calm down.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Jesus Christ, from the papers and this site, you would think the Budget was today. It's on 26 November ffs, another TWELVE DAYS of this. Gilts, stocks and everything else are going to be somersaulting all over the place in the coming days. Everyone needs to calm down.
I am very very much looking forward to this.
FALLOUT! This trailer has me itching to dive back into Fallout 3 and New Vegas for a full back-to-back run. I’m absolutely jazzed for Fallout Season 2!
Fallout Season Two Official Trailer | Prime Video
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November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I am very very much looking forward to this.
See, Grok might be the personal AI of MechaHitler but he seems to have the measure of JD Vance.
Since JD Vance says Grok is the best, least woke chatbot, I asked Grok why he has low approval ratings.
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
See, Grok might be the personal AI of MechaHitler but he seems to have the measure of JD Vance.
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“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.
I will never stop laughing but also, I hope Hilary Clinton has a parade with her in an open top car, flipping her middle fingers and shouting "I fucking told you in 2016"
If Donald Trump is taken down by emails and a child sex ring...
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I will never stop laughing but also, I hope Hilary Clinton has a parade with her in an open top car, flipping her middle fingers and shouting "I fucking told you in 2016"
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November 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The fact that Donald thought he had all the dirt on himself and Jeffrey is just amazing in it's naivety. Any thought that Epstein ended himself voluntarily has entirely gone. Epstein was many disgusting things but he was not a stupid man.
When Jeffrey Epstein, a pedophile and human trafficker, says that you are the worst person he has met and that you are dangerous, you must be a very bad person
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The fact that Donald thought he had all the dirt on himself and Jeffrey is just amazing in it's naivety. Any thought that Epstein ended himself voluntarily has entirely gone. Epstein was many disgusting things but he was not a stupid man.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
That well know government data source of Door Dash.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
That well know government data source of Door Dash.
This is easily solved. Over here, if my child has time off without permission from school, I get a criminal record and a 5 figure fine. My kid goes to school every bloody day and is always on time. Because a 10k fine properly focuses the mind. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is easily solved. Over here, if my child has time off without permission from school, I get a criminal record and a 5 figure fine. My kid goes to school every bloody day and is always on time. Because a 10k fine properly focuses the mind. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Absolutely nothing on this earth would make me prouder to be British than the BBC giving Trump the old Arkell vs Pressdram response.
Donald Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit – latest updates
US president claims broadcaster has ‘defrauded the public’ and reiterates his threat of launching a $1bn legal action
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Absolutely nothing on this earth would make me prouder to be British than the BBC giving Trump the old Arkell vs Pressdram response.
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NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
emptycity.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC
The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak
By me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack)
(Non-Substack link to follow.)
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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writing it "f*ck" sickens me. a coward's curse. say fuck or find a different word. get that nasty starfish asshole out of my sight
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
writing it "f*ck" sickens me. a coward's curse. say fuck or find a different word. get that nasty starfish asshole out of my sight
The brass neck on this bloke. Standing there like Brexit was not his idea.
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live
Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The brass neck on this bloke. Standing there like Brexit was not his idea.
I think the biggest issue for business right now is that employee are waking up to how underpaid they are. Taxes should rise for everyone but also, wages have to go up too. I am sure wages are high in NL because our taxes are high. Pay properly or people move in a free market...oh wait...sorry UK..
Higher taxes may be necessary given demographics. But I would argue this has to be grounded in an economic context where no serious growth can be assumed, and accompanied with a serious question as to what the role of government as provider should be.
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I think the biggest issue for business right now is that employee are waking up to how underpaid they are. Taxes should rise for everyone but also, wages have to go up too. I am sure wages are high in NL because our taxes are high. Pay properly or people move in a free market...oh wait...sorry UK..
On an app dominated by America and American culture....it must have really gone tits up this weekend for Leeds
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On an app dominated by America and American culture....it must have really gone tits up this weekend for Leeds
He wanted a coup but I am not sure that the one coming is the coup he ordered.....
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
He wanted a coup but I am not sure that the one coming is the coup he ordered.....
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
The face you pull when you realise that money can’t buy charisma, or make people like you. What it can do and is very successful at, is make people despise you, and Musk never considered that for a single second.
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The face you pull when you realise that money can’t buy charisma, or make people like you. What it can do and is very successful at, is make people despise you, and Musk never considered that for a single second.
Mr Socks has been missing for a whole week. I’m gutted, pretty sure he’s gone for good but got a little tiny bit of hope in my heart still. He was a very good boy 💔
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Mr Socks has been missing for a whole week. I’m gutted, pretty sure he’s gone for good but got a little tiny bit of hope in my heart still. He was a very good boy 💔
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM