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Looking at the stars
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Pensioner, artist, antique collector, gamer, Green Party. UK needs a proportional voting system before the next general election. It may give Reform the largest number of seats of any UK party, but it won't give them the overall majority that FPTP will.
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Use only one art piece to convince people to follow you!
Baldur's Arrow, an artwork I made. The shafted of the arrow is a twisted, spiralling Mistletoe branch. The arrowhead is Viking. The arrow is fledged with faux Eagle feathers.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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What the hell is Large Marge doing with a Christmas Tree in the background? It's mid- November.
A still from Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation video, with a Christmas Tree behind her.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I'm selling my glass today at Ripley Antiques Fair, in the village hall; and tomorrow at Skipton Flea.
A display of antique Georgian and Victorian drinking glasses including several rummers. Among the oldest is a pair of George II bucket wine glasses, dating from 1720-40 A shelf of antique glass comprising, from left to right, a vintage german hock glass, a large c.1780 Georgian wine glass, an art nouveau c.1890 double bud vase by Wilhelm Kralik, an Art Deco spatter vase and an art deco Monart-style amber vase
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I'm sure the Daily Excuse will run with that as a front-pager
The final results of the Daily Express poll, showing that 85% of the people who voted agreed with Rachel Reeves that Brexit was responsible for the state of the UK economy
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The last few years have not been kind to Andy Windsor. He's on the verge of wresting the title of 'scrotum face' off Gordon Brown. I guess it shows how desperate he is for any title.
A photograph of Andrew Windsor looking old and raddled
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Netanyahu, his enablers in the Knesset, and the IDF have reduced Israel to the status of global pariah. It will take a complete change of government and decades of atonement to earn the state a place at the table of civilised nations
A screenshot of an article in the UK Guardian newspaper. The image shows a small child with an empty food container queuing for food. The headline above reads, 'Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates'.
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Why, it's Lucky Fanny Ficolax, the face of Ficolax laxative syrup! 2/2
The reverse of the charm in the previous post. Text in relief says, 'LUCKY FANNY FICOLAX'
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Who is the girl dressed as a nurse depicted in this brass charm dating from 1920? 1/2
A small brass charm depicting a girl dressed as a nurse, holding a medicine spoon
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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How older men regrow thick hair without surgery or pills?Photoshop.
An advertisement for a spurious hair loss treatment. The 'before' and 'after' images are clearly the same image, photoshopped.
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I don't think Nina Conti's got anything to worry about.
Robert Jenrick, a minor UK Tory politician, holding a judge's wig as if it was a ventriloquist's puppet
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Isn't this the loveliest thing? An antique lead figure of a hen with a bonnet and a parasol. I don't know why it exists, I'm just glad it does.
A photo of an antique lead figure of a hen with a bonnet and a parasol
October 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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For Tory organisationsl incompetence, this easily trumps the slogan letters falling off the wall behind Theresa May as she gave her conference speech.
A souvenir bar of chocolate from the Tory conference swag bag. The word 'Britain' has been misspelt as 'Britian'.
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg (right) and Thunderbirds' Brains sharing the same stylish eyewear.
A side-by-side image of Mark Zuckerberg wearing outsized 'Smart Glasses' and the Thunderbirds puppet 'Brains', wearing similarly absurd eyewear.
September 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Kash Patel caught at the exact moment a FBI technician inserted a listening device into his rectum without warning.
A terrible photograph of FBI Director Kash Patel, staring wide-eyed and blankly
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Rigby: This scandal must have hit you like a beumb
Rayner: A what?
Rigby: A beumb
A screengrab from the Sky News site, juxtaposing a photograph of Angela Rayner and Sky Political Reporter Beth Rigby. Rigby is wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style trench coat
September 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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An image with white and red text reading "PALPATINE ACTION", the 'O' being replaced with the hooded head of Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars franchise.
August 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Cartoon by Ben Jennings in today's edition of the UK newspaper, The Guardian. Jennings nails it as he so often does
A cartoon by Ben Jennings in the UK Guardian newspaper. Two emaciated Palestinian children sit on rubble. Each holds an empty food bowl. One consoles the other, saying, "There, there. Apparently it's all rather complicated".
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We all remember images like this from another genocide.
A Getty image of an emaciated Palestinian child in the arms of her mother
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Teenage Reform Councillor, Charles Pugsley (can that name be real?) Leicestershire County Council cabinet member for children and family services, bears an uncanny resemblance to Molesworth's friend Peason, as drawn by Ronald Searle

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What could possibly go wrong?
Reform UK councillors Charles Pugsley, left, and Joseph Boam, who have both been appointed to public services roles at the Reform-led Leicestershire county council Nigel Molesworth's best friend Peason, as any fule kno (an illustration by Ronald Searle of Geoffrey Willans' text in the 'Molesworth' books about life in a 1950s public school)
July 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A Gif from the UK sketch show Mitchell & Webb in which David Mitchell, as a member of the Waffen SS, questions whether the Nazis are 'the baddies'.
June 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine visibly wishing that the ground beneath him would open up and swallow him whole.
A photograph of Defense Secretary raging at the press and media during yesterday's news conference about the US airstrikes against Iran, while Air Force Gen. Dan Caine looks on with a downcast expression.
June 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Clicking 'Looks good does nothing.
A screen grab of Barclays 'pay in a cheque' function
June 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Great paragraph in Martha Kelner's Sky News analysis piece on the Elonald bustup:
A paragraph comparing Trump & Musk's breakup with a relationship breakdown, including the memorable line, "his son wiped his bogies on the resolute desk".
June 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Seems to me that arms are most of the problem in the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian citizen men, women, and children by Israel's armed forces.
A Guardian headline reads: 'Keir Starmer calls Israel’s recent actions in Gaza ‘appalling and intolerable’'. The kicker reads, 'PM tells MPs he is considering imposing sanctions on Israeli government members but is resisting ban on arms sales'.
June 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Fun fact: Pope Leo XIII endorsed the British beef paste product Bovril (still a favourite on the football terraces, made into beef tea).
An 1890 advertisement for the British beef extract paste Bovril, with the product being blessed by Pope Leo XIII
May 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM