It's my mum's birthday today!!
This is from the time she begged me to take her to see Björk and then 5 mins into the concert turned to me and said 'oh no, Joe, I meant Kate Bush...' 🙈
He is openly gay. And that is still remarkable in leadership positions in world politics. If the UK got a gay PM, there are at ~2 previous we might be erasing by calling them "the first gay PM" and it's in gay people's interest to challenge the idea that history is heterosexual.
Happy to admit that £250 is inflated for the lol. But if you think £120 - £220 is a normal amount to be paying on trains with no guaranteed seat two weeks in advance, you're doing yourself a disservice.
The guy who called me a 'salty cow' for not wanting to travel from Leeds to London instead and the guy who assured me it was £60 if I booked more than 2 weeks in advance but then wouldn't help me find one for that price have both now blocked me 🙏🤣
@davidaak1991
I tried, but I struggle to get anything done on the new moon unfortunately. I set an alarm for 07:00 but I always wake up in a forest naked and covered in other people's blood.
It's so telling that it was the international press agencies that rejected the image. The British press just published the press release exactly as they were asked. It's embarrassing.
I suspect this was not the headline Kensington Palace was hoping to get from the normally supportive
@Telegraph
on Monday morning:
“Photo from Palace was doctored, say agencies”.
I get it feels nice to argue against the word "openly" but there literally have been times when it hasn't been possible to be open about your sexuality in politics and there literally are countries where it wouldn't be possible now. It's not helpful to pretend that isn't the case
@blockthecoup
@2primates
Genuinely might be cheaper to pay for me and my parents to meet up in Hamburg tbh. But I was hoping to see their dogs too and pet passports aren’t cheap 🤔
Just smiled at a guy in the street and once past, he tried an over-the-shoulder second look, but he walked straight into a lamp post with a loud *bang*
🚨NEW JOB DAY🚨
I started a new job today at the absolutely glorious Kew Gardens 🌱🌵🌾🌿🪴
Really excited about learning the names of a few more plants, feeling an enormous sense of wellbeing, lunchtime walks and contributing to something environmental - it's very now.
I'll be annoyed if when George comes to the throne, they call him the first "openly gay king" because James I was very open about it and it's good for us to acknowledge that attitudes change in both directions at different times in history.
@sigirides
Yesss, I literally did the same last year. Did all the planning, plotted a lovely 3-day route through Cambridge, Lincolnshire, up the east coast etc. Wish i'd gone for it.
Woke up with a guy who couldn’t remember my name. He guessed Adam so I just went with it and now I’m in his phone as Adam. How will I keep track of all my lies?
This meme format is almost exclusively used to express boring middle of the road heteronormative, conservative, shaming views that say more about you than they do anyone else.
Primark has been closed for most of the last year. The Pollyanna restaurant doesn't exist. That Beautiful Brows company dissolved in 2018.
There's more scandal here than is so far being addressed.
📰 FACT CHECK:
It is wrong to claim the Home Office expenses that have been circulated today are the Home Secretary's.
They are department wide and for vital equipment like PPE.
It is completely false to say the Home Office has spent money on beauty products, it was PPE.
Gay people shouldn't go into straight venues. The music is terrible and it's only a matter of time before someone asks you what you've been watching on Netflix.
@sammcinnerny
That's 2 weeks away. The following weekend is worse. The weekend after is a bank holiday. Not sure why you're jumping to the defence of the railways tbh
I am now sitting back on a comfortable sofa in 11 Downing Street with rather sore legs!
Not the fastest time in the world at 5. 40 but an incredible afternoon, the crowds kept us going and it really was London and Britain at its best. So many people raising funds like me for
I don't know who needs to hear this, but 'Yes, Prime Minister' is on BBC4 and it's somehow even more relevant than it was ~5 years ago last time I watched it all.
@sammcinnerny
Find me a £60 ticket in August that doesn't require me to take time off work to travel or involve a 7 hour night train and I'll book it immediately. Thanks for your help.
Just inadvertently eye-fucked a hot moustached muscle daddy at a traffic light. He saw me looking and said in a really fruity but matter of fact way “your legs are amazing”. Then we both just kinda stared at each other smiling but not breathing. Then the lights went green.
I don't often go to restaurants on my street because they're ££££, but there was an offer on oysters today and in the time I had half a dozen, half a dozen guys I've hooked up with walked past and stopped to make friendly chat. I love community.
This is embarrassing reporting. There is no backlash. The voxpops demonstrate that the entire debate is confected and real people just want to get on with their lives and be left alone by terfs and journalists.
Parkrun is facing a backlash over its decision to scrap all-time records after a row over transgender athletes taking female records.
Sky's
@mattuthompson
has been speaking to runners in Clapham this morning to get their reaction
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
I dont know who needs to hear this, but you absolutely can take pleasure in the Tories' defeat while also worrying about what comes next. Don't deny yourself joy.
@liam43102
Salty cow? Excuse me. I was looking at advance fares on specific routes in late August from London to Scarborough. I'm really not sure what you're trying to achieve by being rude.
I don't understand how James Cleverly can say he supports a two-state solution in one breathe and then that he doesnt recognise the state of Palestine in the next.
(I also don't understand lots about this situation and probably never will)
I can't believe it took me like 4 days to realise that the fit lad with no shoes on incapable of sitting on chairs like a normal person and genuinely the stand out performance of the show was my future husband, Colin Morgan.
People don’t give Hollyoaks credit enough for how funny it is. Sienna just dropped a throwaway line: “Kim, come and help me choose one of these baby kimonos” BABY KIMONOS
Done a pilgrimage to the site of the very first lido, invented by Kylie Minogue in 2003 and made famous in her music video to the song 'Slow'. Prior to that, outdoors pools were just unfinished buildings lacking a roof. Very Padam Padam.
@kylieminogue
This idea that they can't answer hypothetical questions is bullshit. Hypotheticals are the only way to understand how a person might act. If they refuse to answer hypotheticals, we can only (?) assume they would do the right thing in a live situation, but with no evidence.
NEW: Boris Johnson’s official spokesman refuses to say whether No 10 would reveal if the Prime Minister is fined for breaching Covid laws. He suggests it’s “hypothetical”.
@_mrseras
So would you rather they ignore the 'first' and just don't mention it or ignore the potential that previous PMs might not have been able to be public about their sexuality? Gayness becomes a modern phenomenon.
(I completely agree outside for the context of a first btw)
Capitalism rots brains. You don’t live in London because it’s near your office. You live in London because it’s fun and people are hot and you can eat food from anywhere in the world and you might bump into Kate Moss.
Working from home is heavily concentrated in the SE and London, Inner London especially. Interestingly this suggests that many people are paying a lot to live in central London despite not needing to do so for length-of-commute reasons.
It's mad to me that 3 performances are completely sold out and the others are very limited availability. You'd think the second revival in 10 years of a very challenging, potentially niche interest show would have diminishing interest. But this is wonderful to see.
Phelim McDermott’s Olivier award-winning production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns 11 March ☀️
With very limited availability across the run, hurry and book your tickets now 👉
#ENOAkhnaten
@openspacer
@A_R_Costanzo