Sad Triffid Just Wants to Dance

Excellent post about Judge Dredd and his relevance to the current world

Happy birthday 2000ad. Incidentally, if you're in Manc today there's a signing for 2000ad's 40th birthday.

Tweet of the week

Labour absolutely do not condone these test messages saying "vote Labour or go to hell"

OfC, if failing to vote Labour means going to hell, well… "Don't need reason Don't need rhyme Ain't nothin' that I'd rather do Goin' down Party time My friends are gonna be there too" ;)

Petition the government not to abandon the Dubs scheme for child refugees

please.

Interesting post on the potential realignment in British politics

OfC while Andrew is right in everything he says here, I think it's worth bearing in mind it's ALWAYS women, LGBT folk, BAME folk and the disabled that get thrown under the bus. Its almost like the kyriarchy will use any excuse to reassert and reinforce itself. It's a good point he makes about us all being multi-faceted and multi-identity, but I suspect that's not going to make a difference, sadly.

Boris Johnson urged UK to continue Saudi arms sales after funeral bombing

can't understand why so many people STILL think this man is a buffoon, and not an evil opportunist who's worked oor that pretend buffoonery lets him get away with it

Vote Leave director admits brexit was won by lying to the public

not that Gove isn't still clinging to the same lie

Journalism needs to fight this century's battles, not last century's.

a follow up to yesterdays article by Martin Belam

BBC takes down Trump claims of lack of coverage

I dunno. Maybe they're learning?

Very detailed nationwide brexit voting data

the report itself is interesting - although watch out for some fluent bullshit from Dominic Cummings - but politics geeks will want to download the raw data (link at the end)

Election Data has done a clickable map of the brexit voting data.

4 wards where remain won in Calderdale; Brighouse depressingly leave :(

Smart Glasses work out what you're looking at and focus on it

they're not the prettiest, but doubtless this will change

Misogynoir in full effect at Harrods

FFS

97 companies suing Trump over Muslim ban

and in along all the hip trendy tech companies is dear old Levi Strauss ♡

Cards Against Humanity collapse under the weight of their own hubris

In a lot of ways Cards Against Humanity are to tabletop gaming what Brewdog are to beer: astoundingly interesting and creative marketing retirement attached to a desperately mediocre product.

Saatchi & Saatchi to head up government anti racism campaign

"The advertising giant M&C; Saatchi is working with the UK government to tackle racist myths perpetuated online by the far right." … and the Tories. And Labour. And most of the mainstream newspapers… I think this might be a bit beyond an advertising campaign TBH

So glad I paid off my Student loans when I left daughter's dad

Iranian lady motorcyclists are total badasses

No, really. Am utterly in awe here.

Well done Bercow

:)

Opposition accuses Trudeau of 'betrayal' as Canadian Liberals abandon promise of electoral reform

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo Justin *cries*

jducoeur | A Half Second

This for when you are feeling helpless

Foreign policy insider: ‘No readout of Trump-Putin call because White House turned off recording’

Crikey.

Did Neil Gorsuch Found a High School 'Fascism Forever' Club?

tl;dr - apparently not

Farage campaigning to rejoin EU just to be a pain in the arse

#DressLikeAWoman: Twitter backlash over reports of dress code for Trump staff

*sadface* they didn't use my "Ripley or Vasquez?" tweet :(

Trump and Bannon's coup in the making (contains autoplaying video)

The article below is what you want to read, though. It's written by a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.

How to Taste Gin

A helpful guide. Works for other drinks too.

Imagine Dragons Parking

this post had me cackling muchly

To:
LDHQ
Gt George St
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From:
(type your name and address here, for example:
IB Whiny
Twatt
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Date:________________

Dear Person In Charge of Internet Lib Demmery,

I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about my treatment at the hands of your minions who moderate the comments on the Lib Dem Voice Website. This is because (please tick all that apply):

◻ I wanted to call the person who wrote the article names and they wouldn't let me.
◻ I wanted to call other commentors names and they wouldn't let me.
◻ I wanted to call the maintainers of the site names and they wouldn't let me.
◻ I was trying to drag the thread off into a discussion of my pet topic, rather than the topic the thread was on, which I find frankly boring. My pet topic is much better.
◻ I was pretending to be Nick Clegg for a laugh. They just can't handle hilarious banter!
◻ I hate the Lib Dems and I should be able to say so repeatedly on a Lib Dem website because that's what liberalism means!
◻ While I have no problem with most of the people who run Lib Dem Voice I have this weird aversion to Caron and Mary; I can't explain it. I'm definitely not a misogynist though!
◻ While I have no problem with most of the people who run Lib Dem Voice I have this weird aversion to Mark; I can't explain it. I'm definitely not a racist though!
◻ I don't understand the concept of a privately-owned unofficial website, and actually believe there IS a person in charge of all Internet Lib Demmery who can crack down on people
◻ Frankly I am just butthurt about somebody not catering to my every entitled whim.

I hope that you will give this matter your fullest attention, and if I have not heard back from you within 24 hours of me sending this letter, I reserve the right to piss and moan all over twitter and/or facebook.

yours sincerely,

IB Whiny

To:
IB Whiny
Twatt
Orkney

From:
LDHQ
Gt George St
London

Date:________________

Dear IB Whiny,

I refer you to the answer given in the case of Arkell vs Pressdram;

love from

The Person In Charge of Internet Lib Demmery

Why there were two protests in Glasgow last night

How Torture Works

Very Pointed Cartoon

I, for one, welcome our new fishy overlord

It'd be less disastrous than the humans, I suspect

White House drops its 'h' in misspelling of Theresa May's name

The Grauniad's theory on this is they were thinking of mother Teresa. My suspicion is it was more likely Teresa May the porn star…