Arundelith

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Autistic nonbinary disabled northern leftist. They/them.

Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and the Labour candidate in a photo opportunity at a local business during the 2021 Hartlepool by-election. All three are wearing weirdly muted blue "hi viz" vests, safety helmets and large ear protectors. Starmer is staring awkwardly into the distance, while Rayner side-eyes him contemptuously. The candidate is in the background, staring in a different out-of frame direction to the others, with one hand on his hip in a pose somewhat reminiscent of a teapot.
Octarine Octarine is the colour of magic on Discworld, also referred to as the eighth colour. Octarine is strongly indicative of magic and can only be seen by wizards and cats, who both possess "octagon cells" in addition to the normal cones and rods possessed by humans. This is an effect akin to tetrachromacy. Rincewind, a wizard, describes octarine as a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple. — from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)#Octarine
Screen capture from the early Day Motions tab on Noah Law's page at the UK Parliament website. https://members.parliament.uk/member/5302/earlydaymotions Full text: Early Day Motions List of Early Day Motions (EDMs) supported by Noah Law. This list does not show Early Day Motions that were tabled by the Member, but subsequently withdrawn. To view these, or to perform a more comprehensive search of Early Day Motions, use the Early Day Motion search. Total results 4 (page 1 of 1) Protections for Cornish produce 15 Signatures EDM 2895: tabled 3 March 2026 The Bereavement Journey programme 24 Signatures EDM 707: tabled 27 January 2025 Support for endometriosis care 22 Signatures EDM 376: tabled 11 November 2024 National Express coach services to Launceston and North Cornwall 7 Signatures EDM 127: tabled 2 September 2024 Total results 4 (page 1 of 1)
Official portrait of Olivia Bailey MP, with the text "Fuck them kids." overlaid in the style of the meme.
Your premiership has truly been remarkable – I can't think of any other Prime Minister whose aptitude for the role has so visibly matched their empathy for their fellow human being. You have united British people across the political spectrum: all hold you in equal esteem.
Jerome Cowan, Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. The scene is the office of the Spade and Archer detective agency. Astor is seated in the foreground with her back to the camera as she relates a story to Bogart (as Samuel Spade, also seated, holding a cigarette and staring at Astor in an intense appraising manner) and Cowan (as Miles Archer, leaning - almost sprawled - most of the way across Spade's desk and paying far less attention to the case than to the woman).
"2020s Political Compass" test results: 83% Woke / 17% Chud 33% Techbro / 87% Neo-Luddite 28% Hopepilled / 72% Doomer 87% Davos / 33% Dubai Your closest match: Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist
Screen capture from an article in The Economist, with the text "series of blunders" highlighted. Full captured text: … "asked Ukrainian civilians where they were, their positions were promptly reported. This was, in part, a failure of intelligence. Russia’s vaunted spies made a series of blunders. Many spoke only to those Ukrainians who agreed that the country was ripe for conquest and would fall without serious fighting. Contradictory intelligence—and there was much of it—was not passed up the chain. Spy agencies in authoritarian countries often tell their bosses what they want to hear. The invasion also revealed a deeper rot in Russia’s armed forces, including endemic" …
Screen capture from an article in The Economist, with the text "series of blunders" highlighted. Full captured text: … "The first ten years of the Syrian civil war produced video footage running to 40 years, notes Matthew Ford of the Swedish Defence University. In the first 80 days of the Ukraine war, there was ten years of footage—an order of magnitude more. For armies seeking to maintain operational security, this profusion of data is a nightmare. In 2019, after a series of blunders, Russia passed a law banning soldiers from uploading sensitive photos or videos. It began shutting down railway-tracking websites shortly before the war began, removing a valuable source of data. It has also attempted to obscure patches on soldiers’ uniforms and vehicle markings, to avoid giving away the position of whole units. In" …
Screen capture from an article in The Economist, with the text "series of blunders" highlighted. Full captured text: … "renovations on a country house, neither of which he owned. In an investigation which recouped over $5bn in stolen money, there were far more “vulgar” and “flagrant” crimes, notes one Lava Jato prosecutor. But Lula was its biggest fish. Then the net ripped. A series of blunders had already undermined Lava Jato, which had long stretched beyond its capacities. Leaked messages released by the Intercept, an investigative website, revealed that Sergio Moro, the judge, had been collaborating with Deltan Dallagnol, the prosecutor, against Lula. Mr Moro’s impartiality had already been thrown" …
Percentage of British Prime Ministers who are alive, 1721-2025 03/04/1721 100% 16/02/1742 100% 02/07/1743 50% 27/08/1743 67% 18/03/1745 33% 06/03/1754 0% 16/03/1754 25% 16/11/1756 40% 26/05/1762 50% 16/04/1763 57% 02/10/1764 43% 13/07/1765 50% 30/07/1766 56% 14/10/1768 60% 17/11/1768 50% 28/01/1770 55% 13/11/1770 45% 11/05/1778 36% 01/07/1782 27% 04/07/1782 33% 02/04/1783 38% 19/12/1783 43% 10/03/1792 36% 05/08/1792 29% 17/03/1801 33% 07/05/1805 27% 23/01/1806 20% 11/02/1806 25% 04/10/1809 29% 30/10/1809 24% 14/03/1811 18% 11/05/1812 12% 08/06/1812 17% 12/04/1827 21% 08/08/1827 16% 31/08/1827 20% 22/01/1828 24% 04/12/1828 19% 22/11/1830 23% 12/01/1834 18% 16/07/1834 22% 10/12/1834 25% 15/02/1844 21% 17/07/1845 17% 30/06/1846 20% 24/11/1848 16% 02/07/1850 12% 23/02/1852 15% 14/09/1852 12% 19/12/1852 15% 06/02/1855 18% 28/01/1859 14% 14/12/1860 11% 18/10/1865 7% 27/02/1868 10% 03/12/1868 13% 23/10/1869 10% 28/05/1878 7% 19/04/1881 3% 23/06/1885 6% 05/03/1894 9% 19/05/1898 6% 12/07/1902 9% 22/08/1903 6% 05/12/1905 9% 05/04/1908 11% 22/04/1908 9% 06/12/1916 11% 23/10/1922 14% 22/05/1923 16% 30/10/1923 13% 22/01/1924 15% 15/02/1928 13% 21/05/1929 10% 19/03/1930 8% 28/05/1937 10% 09/11/1937 8% 10/05/1940 10% 09/11/1940 7% 26/03/1945 5% 26/07/1945 7% 14/12/1947 5% 06/04/1955 7% 10/01/1957 9% 19/10/1963 11% 16/10/1964 13% 24/01/1965 11% 08/10/1967 9% 19/06/1970 11% 05/04/1976 13% 14/01/1977 10% 04/05/1979 12% 29/12/1986 10% 28/11/1990 12% 24/05/1995 10% 09/10/1995 8% 02/05/1997 10% 26/03/2005 8% 17/07/2005 6% 27/06/2007 8% 11/05/2010 9% 08/04/2013 8% 13/07/2016 9% 24/07/2019 11% 06/09/2022 13% 25/10/2022 14% 05/07/2024 16%
5m ago 11.03 BST There was one notable absence in Downing Street today, Jessica Elgot reports. Interesting that Rachel Reeves was not outside Number 10 today Reeves and Keir Starmer used to be very close, and until now their political fates have been entwined. One of the decisions that did most to make Starmer unpopular with voters was Reeves cutting the winter fuel payment early after she took office. But Reeves is now reportedly hoping that Andy Burnham can be persuaded to keep her on as chancellor.
Screen capture of deleted post: Geraldine Coggins @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social • 27 May 2025 I don't agree with his interpretation of 'credibility. We can't just aim to make a very small segment of the population very excited about us - they don't all live in the same constituency. We need a broad appeal, not just amongst a post-Corbyn niche.
Screen capture of Bluesky post: Geraldine Coggins @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social I'm voting for @elliechowns.bsky.social and @adrianramsay.bsky.social in the Green Party leadership election. They're a team of proven election winners who can connect a really wide range of people. #TogetherWeWin Graphic text: "Ellie and Adrian have shown they can reach voters who never voted Green before - and win! Working together, they've got the experience, ambition and passion to bring our message to a really wide range of people. To take our party to the next level we need a team who knows how to win seats, and also how to win hearts and minds." Councillor Geraldine Coggins Trafford Green Party Ellie&Adrian Together We Win 08:54 • 27 May 2025
Bertha, from the eponymous childrens stop-motion animated series. She's a three metre tall green metal head with magenta arms each bigger than a human, festooned with large multicolored gears and with a conveyor belt for a tongue.
A still from The Phantom Menace: Yoda sits in a chair.
Elon Musk on X: "This is the way" – quoting Rupert Lowe MP: "A Restore Britain Government will aim to prosecute officials and politicians who knowingly placed dangerous third world savages in our communities. This will apply retroactively. …"
The lectern and backdrop for Keir Starmer's last-ditch attempt to keep his job. The lectern is the usual press conference type deal with a platitude and two microphones on top. The left hand side of the backdrop is a uniform red, and the right hand side is the right hand side of a union jack flag, leaning about 5 degrees from an upright position. In the centre of the backdrop is the Labour logo. The heads of three or four audience members are just visible at the bottom of the frame.
Who's got a piece of Wes Streeting? (Updated for 2026) £113,000 OPD Group £55,000 (NEW) OPD Group £95,000 John Armitage £84,900 MPM £40,000 Peter Hearn (also owns OPD Group and MPM) £20,500 Sir Trevor Chinn £13,000 Kevin Craig £5,000 Red Capital £296,713 Other Nearly 60% of the registered donations accepted by the health secretary come from people & companies linked to private health. Data: Parliament, Electoral Commission [logo: Good Law Project]
The "You wouldn't …" anti-piracy meme, with the text "You wouldn't question the integrity of the institutionally racist Metropolitan Police"
Starmer’s five-year term running the Crown Prosecution Service between 2008 and 2013 is critical here, because it means he’s actually had a big job before. Starmer can chair a meeting. He can draft a minute. He can lead a team. He can hold a press conference. He can liaise with different offices. He can stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they’re vital to the air of “concerned but kindly manager” that he projects.
Dr Lawrence Jacoby leans back in his chair with his hands behind his head. He's wearing his trademark glasses with one red and one blue lens, a garish tie, and a red long-sleeved top under a white short-sleeved shirt. The soles of his shoes are prominent in the foreground, and behind him on the wall is a large picture depicting palm trees at sunset.
Guardian headline – "Aid cuts: Spending more on defence and less on aid does not mean walking away from our values and responsibilities - here's why" – Yvette Cooper
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Screen capture from The Guardian website: "PM vows to 'keep fighting' after Greens sweep past Labour and Reform to win byelection"
Spongebob "Later …" graphic
Screen capture of poster replying "David Paulden" over and over again to different posts by different people.
"His Majesty King Charles III", by Jonathan Yeo – a portrait commissioned and approved by the elder brother of disgraced Epstein associate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The painting is overwhelmingly dominated by a near-uniform vivid red, giving the unavoidable impression of a man consumed by the flames of hell, drenched in the blood of the innocent, or both.
Edited version of the original Labour advert. The colour wash has been changed from green to red, and a union jack now flies from the needle of the syringe. The text has been altered so that it now reads: EPSTEIN. TRANSPHOBIA. FLAGS LABOUR PARTY SAYS YES
Edited version of the original Labour advert. The colour wash has been changed from green to red, and a union jack now flies from the needle of the syringe. The text has been altered so that it now reads: EPSTEIN. TRANSPHOBIA. FLAGS LABOUR PARTY SAYS YES
Sceen capture from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Hinsliff Gabrielle Seal Hinsliff (born 4 July 1971) is an English journalist and columnist for The Guardian. Early life and career Born in Chelmsford she is one of the daughters of the actor Geoffrey Hinsliff. She attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree in English.
The iconic photo of heroic soldiers raising the soviet flag over the Reichstag at the end of the Battle of Berlin.
A map of the world, showing all the countries the US has invaded, bombed, colonized, overthrown in a coup, or otherwise fucked with (in other words, most of them).
Emily Maitlis and Peter Mandelson laughing together at the Spectator Awards Dinner. Both are dressed in elegant evening wear and surrounded by wine glasses, and are clearly very comfortable in each other's company
Still from The Simpsons: a prone Lenin raises his left arm with clenched fist, smashing the glass of the glass display case in which he lays, as tourists visiting his mausoleum react in shock.
From The Guardian: Starmer has 'full confidence' in McSweeney - No 10 Keir Starmer has full confidence in his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, Downing Street has said. There have been calls by backbenchers for the sacking of McSweeney, whom many blame for his ally Peter Mandelson’s appointment to the ambassadorship. Asked if the prime minister agreed with calls for his chief of staff to be sacked, the prime minister’s official spokesperson said: "It’s full confidence". It comes as Downing Street said it was talking with the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) about the process of releasing documents related to Mandelson’s appointment. The spokesperson said: "We have begun discussions with the ISC about the process for releasing these documents. When we’ve agreed a process with the ISC, the government will then update the house. The government will take steps to ensure that document release does not compromise the Met’s investigation". Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/05/peter-mandelson-keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-labour-updates-latest-news?page=with%3Ablock-6984b0d48f08f529bdb85e50#block-6984b0d48f08f529bdb85e50
Navid Negahban as Amahl Farouk (aka the Shadow King) in the TV series Legion, shown from the waist up, seated, drinking from a small turquoise and gold cup while holding the matching saucer with his left hand. He is wearing his typical dark glasses and knowing smirk.
A pile of two books on a coffee table: Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young, and Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Serway and Jewett. The Physics textbook is about four times the volume of the graphic novel.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced that the modules will take less than 20 minutes to complete
Email from Monzo: Protection for more of your money Hi [redacted], From 1 December 2025, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) protection for your eligible deposits increased from £85,000 to £120,000. This means the FSCS’s Deposit Guarantee Scheme can repay you up to £120,000, in the unlikely event that Monzo goes out of business. You don’t need to do anything - the higher FSCS protection is already in place over your eligible deposits
Text from the linked article: In an interview with Sir Tony Blair last month, she said: "AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space. "When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
The graphic from the original post, edited so that "UNDER 22s" is replaced by "EVERYONE". The original alt text is: Graphic with a dark green background showing an illustrated white double-decker bus at the centre. Above it, the text reads “REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.” Below the bus, large bold text reads “FREE BUS TRAVEL FOR UNDER 22s.” At the bottom is the Green Party logo and small promotional text.
Tony Blair with longer than usual grey hair and a demonic facial expression.
Cropped and edited version of "The Many" logo and slogan, so that it reads: HE MAN and the Masters of the Universe
Nobel Prize contact form submission. Text: The recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado, has purported to transfer it to the President of the United States of America, Donald John Trump. Mr. Trump has, among other serious crimes against peace, recently: 1. Abducted the sovereign head of state of another country in an illegal act of war, killing many civilians in the process. 2. Transformed his country's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency into a vehicle of state repression, inflicting organised violence (including murder) on his own citizens, both on the basis of their ethnicity and as an attempt to crush political opposition to his rule. In purporting to transfer the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her by the Nobel Foundation to this violent felon, María Corina Machado has not only violated the spirit of the Prize, but also abused the honour bestowed on her by the Nobel Committee. I request that the Nobel Committee rescind the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado, and publicly declare that as a result of their actions, both she and President Trump have rendered themselves ineligible for life to be considered for the award of any prize by the Nobel Foundation. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Screen capture from the Holocaust Encyclopedia: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state Highlighted text: "The new government removed anti-Nazi police leaders". Full text: The Nazification of the German Police, 1933–1939 Beginning in 1933, the Nazis took control of and subsequently transformed the police forces of the Weimar Republic into instruments of state repression and, eventually, of genocide. They did so by Nazifying policing. The new government removed anti-Nazi police leaders, reorganized Germany’s police forces, and reoriented police culture towards Nazism. Key Facts 1: Nazification changed the organizational structure, leadership, training, and values of Germany’s police forces. 2: The Nazis expanded police power and used the police to target people they considered their political, racial, social, and criminal opponents. 3: Although the new Nazi government fired or retired many police leaders, the vast majority of German policemen kept their jobs and served the Nazi state.
The original Fabian Society logo: a yellow shield, on which is depicted a wolf on its hind legs with a dead sheep strapped to its back.
A low resolution 1-bit black & white line drawing of two identical, mirrored side-by-side views of the same configuration of twelve triangular prisms, arranged in four interlaced sets of three such that they enclose an unseen void in the shape of a rhombic dodecahedron.
A line drawing of a guillotine (unoccupied, for the time being).
A picture of the article's author Ben Walker, with the biographical text: "Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman and writes extensively about elections and UK public opinion. He is the co-founder of poll aggregator Britain Elects."
A post by @aardgoose.info labelled by a moderation service for transphobia, falsely claiming that sex is binary and describing intersex people as faulty. The text is: "There are corner cases, but faults don't alter the fact that sex is binary. A car with a wheel missing isn't a new type of car, it's a faulty car. Some people have faulty bodies. And intersex has nothing to do with trans issues."
“Most people could find a private conversation they’ve had in the last decade, whether in the pub or on WhatsApp, that would be distasteful or embarrassing if it were published"
Ed Miliband