Veronica

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Former archaeologist and web developer. Cook, photographer, francophile, now hispanophile

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Good news: the Nazi wing of the GOP is disappointed in the Vance pick because he’s allegedly owned by Zionist overlords in Israel

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Me: Maybe I'll just pop over to a news site and check the headlines. The headlines:

Interesting article on a superb photo. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/trump-rally-shooting-photographer-evan-vucci-story

‘The job is all about anticipation’: behind the lens of the defining photo of the Trump rally shootingwww.theguardian.com Photographer Evan Vucci has been covering Trump for eight years. When he heard gunshots at a Pennsylvania rally he ran towards the stage

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Paris using the pretext of the Olympic games to accelerate the green transformation of the city is impressive and inspiring. A leap from the abandoned, brutalist concrete structures left behind at Athens and Rio.

Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?www.theguardian.com The Paris Olympics vowed to build as little as possible, using the city’s landmarks as a backdrop instead. Has it worked? We check out the bold new venues, upgraded old ones – and the athletes’ candy-...

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I think we should all feel proud of the male Lionesses tonight. It's not that long ago that reaching a final was pretty much inconceivable, so it's great to see the men finally catching up with the women.

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Welp here we go...

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Oh this is superb… via Moog on the other 🤣 ‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’

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He needed the left that he was demonizing until last Sunday to do so. He's asked too much too often of people that despise him.

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The Telegraph wants you to feel sorry for a retired couple who made a £1.3 million profit on a £300,000 home.

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Interesting thread about procedural issues with electing a new Tory leader now that there aren't so many MPs left : (a) It now only takes 19 Tory MPs to trigger a leadership contest. (b) There aren't currently enough Tory MPs to nominate more than one leadership candidate.

This.

Some initial thoughts on the UK elections. 1. It confirms once again that when a center-right party veers to the hard right to weaken the far right, it ends up doing the opposite. After purging moderates and going full-on wingnuts and fever swamp, the Tories got decimated by Reform, not Labour. 🧵

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There are some things that still unite people on social media. #UKElection

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This is quite incredible 👇🏼

Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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Your typical moderate centre-right party asking for the navy to be used to ensure that migrants drown. www.elmundo.es/espana/2024/...

El PP pide desplegar buques de la Armada para impedir la llegada de cayucos a Canariaswww.elmundo.es España debería desplegar buques de la Armada para impedir que los cayucos lleguen a las costas de Canarias. Ésta es la postura del PP. Así lo ha dicho el portavoz de los...

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Enjoy today. We deserve this. Savour it. There won’t be many days like this during our lifetimes. youtu.be/Pa5cRIYZv-M?...

VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT - The Spooky Mens Choraleyoutu.be To help keep Parody Project alive and functioning, please visit https://parodyproject.com/supportusParody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shopTo bec...

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I was in Mercado Maravillas yesterday in Madrid, still a thriving real market - largely thanks to immigration. The rest are being turned into food courts.

Spain’s traditional food markets are fading away – and with them, a whole way of life | Stephen Burgenwww.theguardian.com At my local market in Barcelona, I see how few young people have the time or inclination to join the queues for a friendly chat, says writer Stephen Burgen

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Bellingham and Kane 'Quick, get Carter-Ruck on the phone.'

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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.

An (incomplete) list of every terrible policy the Conservatives have inflicted on Britain since 2010 | Jonn Elledgewww.theguardian.com Readers, brace yourselves, says the writer Jonn Elledge

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The PP doesn't do this because Vox are forcing them, they do it because they want to.

La Generalitat valenciana de PP y Vox elimina la formación en violencia de género para los policías localeswww.eldiario.es El Instituto de Seguridad Pública y Emergencias, que depende de la Conselleria de Justicia que gestiona Vox, cambia las asignaturas de los inspectores, intendentes y comisarios e introduce conceptos c...

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+ 1 for France please USians, stop

All-purpose social media post: Dear USians, the British lot are posting about our *own* elections. Which are happening this Thursday. Do stop descending upon the comments and going on about November, you're only embarrassing yourselves.

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We probably ought to have a conversation about a partisan court declaring Trump above the rule of law that is at least as intense as the one we've had about Joe Biden being very old.

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tbh I think the explanation is much closer to the second than the first - people vote fascist when the fascists are the only ones who are even pretending to listen to them. the big thing that the political class has forgotten is that not being listened to is absolutely intolerable for humans

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“Hungary takes the reins” - “Hungary at the helm” - etc etc - once again please I beg you stop confusing ‘presidency’ ie chairing meetings with actual executive power. Hardly any of the EU’s many, many presidents or presidencies actually involve any executive role, they chair meetings, THAT’S ALL

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If you’re wondering if Ed Davey’s antics pay off in terms of positive media coverage for the Lib Dems, Sky News just cut away from a discussion of England’s Euros prep to show Ed bungee-jumping.

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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Fixed it

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You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed

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Just last year, Sunak wouldn’t rule out welcoming Farage into the Tory party. The Tories have pandered to the far right, absorbed the far right, become the far right. Obsessed with forced deportations, demonising immigrants, whipping up hatred and division. They fed the monster.