@tfwrail I left a grey easy pack soft wheelie case on the train travelling towards Pwllheli from Llwyngwril at 15:36 and wondered if the guard could be asked to keep it safe so I could collect it as the train comes back? It has medical equipment inside so I need it ASAP. Thanks

Wishing the absolute worst day to whichever soulless ghoul came up with the idea of using dementia to sell fucking Dairy Milk.

Sorry babe, that's just my northern white man genes at their most powerful.

*And Demons with Fatboy Slim which I honestly still think slaps. But yes total garbage person.

You're a very modern girl.

Musk is lying yes, but even Pie centres the relatively tangential issue of some social workers worrying about being perceived as racist and not the fact that our institutions treated these young women as undeserving of their protection because they weren’t “good victims”.

What’s infuriating (as someone who worked in Nazir Afzal’s office when these men were finally charged) is that the media continues to obsess about their rapists’ race, rather than how sexism and classism towards the victims is the real reason their exploitation was ignored.

Who doesn’t lock their car in Sainsbury’s car park at Christmas?

I love this song. I need to do a Joan Armatrading deep dive.

and industry, because for those making decisions it was the city and its financial power that was always the most important thing. The question that poses is at what stage of imperial dissolution is London's status as a significant financial centre endagered?

Read something in a book of Peter Turchin's recently about how elites never really change their core cultural ideology, which makes me think the British state is incapable of questioning the role of those foundational institutions. Which would explain our retreat from empire...

Rub together in acrylic mesh fabrics so sparks fly?

Every time a right wing grifter tweets I understand the Roman Empire more and more.

If ever there was a reason for this gif it is now.

Manchester is “party” as pronounced by Frank Gallagher at the start of every episode of shameless.

Hello Mabel! Aren’t you lovely yes you are yes you are!

As a fan of whorish antics I'm asking you to please show us your android blood?

One that’s completely passed me by but that comment and reading the blurb it’s gone right to the top of my wish list.

A slight weakness of this is that "Inter Ripam et Marsham" has no administration at all, although that would be quite funny.

Ant I meant to ask when CfC published this but I forgot: are all the authorities in the metro regions large enough to operate like the existing metropolitan boroughs, or would they need boundary changes too?