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Jamie Lee Curtis owning the Oscars 2024 red carpet. Loving her energy. Just loving her full stop. ❤️

You’re going to catch your own bag…

@jonfavs @brigantia__ What do you mean tonight? It’s every day now..,

The President appears to be having some kind of a mental breakdown tonight, which is what you want from a Commander-in-Chief during war.

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

@junkateer Fab achievement well done you

First superhalf completed today in Lisbon. Cardiff and Valencia next in October.

@junkateer Would you like a card reading?

@TheSmoothBooth Witchcraft 🧙

I'm so shit at tech, my wife has just said 'look at you Bill Gates' for finding a Eurovision gif. 😂

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The @bbc great at protecting employees who are pedophiles less great at protecting individuals who have an involuntary tick causing them to swear. Insert as many swear words as you like here to express my feelings towards our national broadcaster

@Dani_Auso She’s worth it…

Gillian Anderson on L'Oréal Paris German advertising

A cow broke my back at my daughter's wedding. Not vegan since. Eat beef all the fucking time. Fuck cows.

@andrewswalks @slscottartist what do I see here…

Char Cottage Buttermere at different times

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For every turn in life there is a Shakespeare quote.

Also the sound of every Easter and Christmas since I was a child…❤️

Feet up, Springers snoozing, Silkmen still 0-0, deep into the weeds of my latest American political tome. If Carlsberg did February Monday nights I’d take this one but not their crap lager.

Pancake day eve, declaring this as a thing. Anticipation. Despite the known fact that my Mother will insist on making pancakes for me and the first 3 or 4 will essentially be slices of undercooked dough. Tradition people it’s a very British thing.

@mrcarl_woodward I just can’t bring anyone to mind who brings so much to everything she does as Dame Judi Dench. She is incomparable.

a cultural moment

@DOPreston Saw it at the cinema last week, if you can watch it without surfing a tear I applaud you 🥲

Really looking forward to Becoming Victoria Wood tonight.

#SmallProphets Put simply its delightful, nuanced, uplifting, funny and to top it all it is gifted with the incomparable genius of Sir Michael Palin. In a world that’s broken escape to the land of Small Prophets and just allow it to seep into your soul. ❤️

@StephenMear I can hear the music now, such a wonderful musical.

I’m over the moon to be back at @chichesterft this year Choreographing My Fair Lady. I have been blessed to have Choreographed 12 shows at Chichester and Directed one. But I haven’t been back since 2015, so this is really special to me. ❤️🎭❤️