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Latest according to Bev Stohl "Noam has not made significant progress, I’m sorry to say. I doubt he will be able to return to the public eye, as he is not communicating much if at all. At 95, his natural aging process is also a factor. His body is tired. I will continue to keep you posted as I learn more. Thank you all for caring. Bev"

Glen Holden Sr. (Wiki), United States Ambassador to Jamaica dead at 96

Cause of death - anti-freeze in the wine.

Going to be manning the company stand at an exhibition in Telford for the next two days. I will still have my phone but it would be bloody typical if the pent up backlog of deaths hits whilst I am otherwise engaged

Had to dig through Facebook and look through hundreds of tributes to work this out but this is him: Births Mar 1968 (>99%) SUTTON JASON FREDERICK GREENFIELD PORTSMOUTH 6B 831

George Lopez is 63. Here's his weirdest role:

I've seen speculation that Sunak's recent insistance that planes will be taking off to Rwanda by 15th July means he'll wait until at least then to call the GE. I disagree. I'm still optimistic about the chances of a GE being called shortly after the LEs. The results of the LEs are going to be horrifying for the Tories. Penny Dreadful and Kemi Badenough and Honest Bob Jenprick and Suella Depraverman and Granty Twelvenames are all weighing up a leadership challenge after this, to which Sunak will bravely respond by calling a GE immediately. That would be timed so that the election is in early summer. 4th July, most probably. If the election is called this soon, he can still just go hell for leather on the "Vote Tory and planes will definitely definitely be going to Rwanda next week, I promise" line. It'll fail, but Dr Death cares not a fuck; he can piss clean off to Cali with Mrs Death and little junior Deaths and enjoy their billion quid in silicon valley. We won't see him again. If he threatens his MPs with an election purely in an effort to stop a leadership contest, tbh I still think at least Braverman would go ahead and challenge him. I've heard her recently on LBC; she actually sounded quite gleeful at the prospect of a heavy, heavy GE loss; she knows her seat is one of the safest, and she knows this would clear a path for her to grab the Tory leadership and mold what's left of the party to her tastes while they're in opposition. There are too many landmines for the Tories further down the road. Foreign leaders are already starting to ignore Sunak as they know he's a dead man walking, and that'll get worse and worse as the year goes on. They won't want to be about for the Hallet report, either. And if the Rwanda planes inevitably don't take off on 15th July and they still haven't called an election, that'll fuck goodbye the very last shred of credibility he has with that awful, heartless contigent who wants to see the scheme happen. Calling the election so it happens just before all this would frankly be damage limitation.

Oh go on, give us a company name, then you could be stalked by anyone who's ever done that thread hereabouts. I'd give myself a laugh as it's not that far from me, but I have less than zero interest in 'furniture componentry'. I suppose there might be two concurrent exhibitions, but this is Telford not the NEC....

Cecil Williams was born in San Angelo, Texas and died in San Francisco, California, was an American pastor, civil rights and LGBT activist, community leader, and author who was pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. He suggested that gays should use their votes to gain political power and effect change https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/glide-co-founder-rev-cecil-williams-dies-at-94/

Irish heroin dealer, HIV+ and child abuser Tony Felloni reportedly dead: All his kids ended up on heroin as did many Irish citizens because of him. Edit: https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/tony-king-scum-felloni-dies-32651984

Was due to be in a pantomime this Christmas according to tributes I’ve seen.

23/Apr/2024 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 44 Adele — Chasing Pavements +2 27 Taylor Swift — Love Story -2 26 Rihanna — Russian Roulette -2 20 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 09 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody +2 06 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind -2

23/4/24 84 Jeff Buckley — Hallelujah 38 Adele — Chasing Pavements 29 Taylor Swift — Love Story 27 Rihanna — Russian Roulette  17 James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado — Broken Strings 14 Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys — Empire State Of Mind +4 13 Kings Of Leon — Use Somebody -6

Silas Soule died on this day 159 years ago, aged 26. - Soule was a direct descendant of Mayflower passenger George Soule; his 5x-great-grandfather. - Soule would move to Kansas in 1855; his family (particularly his father Amasa) were abolitionists who came to assist Underground Railroad efforts in Bleeding Kansas. Silas himself would help bring escaped slaves from Missouri to the north (possibly towards Iowa). - Following John Brown's arrest in 1859 following the Harper's Ferry raid, Soule would plan to break him out of jail- Brown refused due to wanting to be a martyr for the antislavery cause, and remained in his cell when Soule did manage to convince the jailer to let him out of his cell for a bit. - Soule would move to Colorado in 1860, and would join the Colorado Cavalry upon the outbreak of the Civil War. He would remain within the group after the Confederates retreated from New Mexico (where he fought). - Soule was one of the American soldiers who participated in the Sand Creek massacre of 1864- but refused his superior's orders to kill any Native Americans and told his unit to hold their fire. Soule would whistleblow details of the attack, and testified against said superior in the federal investigation of the event. - Soule was killed by a gunman a few months after his testimony (while working as a provost marshal), and his death is believed to have been an assassination.

All I want is for the country to be run by honest, competent grown-ups who put the country's and the people's interests before their own. Yes I know it's too much to ask now.

His daughter, Anouchka, posted a new picture of him (apparently taken last Friday) on Instagram.

Times Obit for Sir Peter Hordern, former Tory MP for Horsham (sometime Horsham and Crawley) aged 95 (if he made his birthday on 18th April that is): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-peter-hordern-obituary-tory-mp-who-was-thatcherite-before-thatcher-70b7hswjs Last picked by @Gooseberry Crumble for his Apricot Crumble team in 2021, so he's one for the List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_H.html#horderpy19

Kikue Taira reportedly dead: https://longeviquest.com/2024/04/kikue-taira-younger-sister-of-the-worlds-oldest-ever-pair-of-siblings-dies-at-113/ Centenarians DP pick @chilean way

Anthony Williams, prominent campaigner and victim of the Windrush scandal, reportedly dead: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bm3vvs-anthony-williams?attribution_id=sl:e7434f48-018b-4506-9e18-d3c6045bc6a7 A former soldier who served this country, he was left destitute, eating sardines from a can and keeping warm by visiting his local library. He had to pull his own teeth after being barred from NHS treatment. He returned to Jamaica where he died on 29 March. Despicable legacy of this Government. Edit: https://www.itv.com/news/central/2024-04-16/former-army-officer-and-windrush-victim-dies-after-quitting-uk-for-jamaica

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Is it ?

Hey, at least you're not sitting at zero hits, like I am . Oh, wait a minute...

You know at this point I'm getting tempted to go down the Trump route and claim fraud in order to save face.

I've been advised against it my entire childhood but I'd be willing to get a train down to London to meet a bunch of strangers I've met over the internet, who are more than likely triple my age.