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James Cleverly takes on Kemi Badenoch over decision to ditch net zero targets | James Cleverly

[News] James Cleverly has taken direct aim at Kemi Badenoch’s decision to ditch net zero targets by criticising what he called “neo-luddites” on the right who seem scared of using green technologies to protect the environment. The senior Conservative MP, who lost to Badenoch in last year’s Tory leadership race, said it was a false choice to believe the UK had to choose between economic growth…

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A Cleverly Curated Apartment Full of Calm

Hej kompisar! Welcome to your mid-week breath of fresh air—and a masterclass in creating a sitting room and bedroom in one! This light and airy 51-square-metre (549-square-foot) apartment in Gothenburg has been beautifully curated in a soothing palette of white, cream, amber and brown to create a calming oasis in the heart of the city.The main living area seamlessly combines a cosy social zone, a home office, and a sleep space—all while maintaining a wonderful sense of serenity. And guess what? There's even plenty of storage! The spacious kitchen is another highlight, with just the right amount of warm wood.While it’s undeniably styled and curated, there’s still plenty of inspiration to take from this delightful Swedish apartment. Välkommen in!

The bedroom area is tucked into a small alcove off the sitting room. For added privacy—or simply to avoid making your bed every day!—you could hang a curtain. Don’t have an alcove like this? No problem! A wrap-around curtain or canopy can also help define a bedroom space and create a cosy feel. There’s a great example of this in this Swedish apartment. 

The wooden floor is likely the original from 1900, when the building was constructed. Many people choose to sand off the varnish and treat it with a special soap or wax for protection and a natural look. Of course, it helps that shoes are never worn inside a Swedish apartment—one of the secrets to keeping floors in such great condition!

I love the soft bedside table! Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the lamp is actually from H&M Home (they do great lamps!). 

What a great starting point! Now all that’s left is to add books, art, and all those personal treasures you’ve collected over the years to make it truly yours.What do you think of the bed solution? Would you have done it the same way? Personally, I find these smaller sleeping areas so cosy—there’s something wonderfully cocooning about them.You can see more sleep zones / smart bedroom zone areas in the small spaces archive - there are some really beautiful homes in there! Thank you for your warm wishes for my daughter (who is now back at school - yay!) and Per - who is hobbling around one of those boots (for the next 6 to 8 weeks) but also getting on with things. The sun is shining in Malmö today - so everything feels brighter! I hope the sun is shining where you are too. See you Friday, friends!  Read the full article

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CleverlyBox Review- Maximum Delivery of High Email with system

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The nice Mr Cleverly

Back in the 50s, my family drove through the rural backwaters of Middlesex in our Old Ford Anglia (the model before the one with racy styling that Harry Potter trashed, built like a set of boxes on wheels. The sort of thing Childe Boris might have constructed out of cornflake packets and painted as black as his heart). We were headed to the village (you heard me) of Kenton to visit my surviving Great Uncle and his two sisters.

The sisters were ���maiden aunts”. I should explain for the younger audience that a “maiden aunt” was, in those days, an aunt who had the good sense to avoid, or lacked the qualities needed to attract, a husband. I don’t know if there was an actual equivalent descriptor for an uncle who had had similar good fortune, but there were numerous examples of brothers and sisters living out their lives in platonic mutuality. This was before social media and any aspersions cast upon such people were left to village gossips.

But I digress. The point I was headed for when I rudely interrupted myself was that, of the two ageing ladies, one was known as “the nice Miss Colbert”. And the reason she was thus known was because she wasn’t always unpleasant to people.

What a great accolade! To be regarded as nice simply because from time to time you curbed your waspish proclivities. Even as a child, hearing my usually reticent Dad (he would have said “diplomatic” or “discreet”; he was a lifelong civil servant) describe her thus, I felt that this was not something to take pride in. My Mum’s take on “good manners” was “never offending other people” (which I also came to question in time. Some people are so offensive that you cannot help offending them. Just be nice about it!).

But that is just the background to my point, which I will now attempt to make.

James Cleverly, probably the most inappropriately named member of the present government now that Chris Pincher has left, has acquired a reputation for being – yes an idiot – but a benign idiot. But hearing him acting up to the populist draw of his recent appointment as Home Secretary (which, let’s face it, had more to do with making room for that pink-faced PR liability, Cameron than with any ministerial merit on Mr Cleverly’s part), I can’t help drawing comparisons with the “nice” Miss Colbert.

In short, do we only think of him as the “nice” Mr Cleverly because he is not always a viscous Tory arsehole? Looking at his most recent positional takes, I am beginning to think that we do.

I accept that, unlike my maiden aunt, Mr Cleverly has the excuse that despite, or possibly because of, his legendary stupidity, he retains an astonishing ambition, not merely to remain a member of the gross insult to the Conservative Party that the nasty racist rabble current holding the party to ransom have made of it, but to lead it. Why is beyond me to reason. I could better understand the egregious Matt Hancock’s desire to participate in “I’m a Celebrity”. Maybe he is short of the readies but frankly prostitution, or writing for the Guardian, would be a more honourable way of filling his bank account if so.

But I find it hard to believe that James Cleverly is happy with the level of unprincipled wickedness he is espousing. He’s got the job, he doesn’t have to try to outdo his two morally repugnant predecessors.

You don’t have to be left wing to see that the Rwanda concentration camp model that the Home Office has been wedded to under Braverman and Patel as a “solution” to the refugee crisis is utterly devoid of merit even as a bit of electoral PR. The figures alone do not add up (one jumbo jet’s load of refugees for £400 millions: £1.8 millions per refugee, according to the NAO). And the want of humanity is staggering.

And now he is limbering up to place further curbs on political protest. “Political protest” is, of course, a tautology. All protest, other perhaps than a child’s protest at having to eat up all his greens, is political. Politics, as my old constitutional law lecturer tried to drum into us, is about power. Protest happens because the people with the power are not listening to the people without it. It may not be textbook democratic, but, pitched against that standard, it beats the office of Home Secretary hands down. Or any of the other ministerial and sub-ministerial unelected appointments, for that matter.

The present Administration of All the Shysters has made catastrophically damaging inroads into our age-old right to protest and done so on the most specious of grounds, threat to national security, for which there is no, repeat, no, evidence. Their true motivation is to control the message – in other words, to exercise a monopolistic command over what we hear each other saying - which, let’s face it, is all they have. But, and I wish there was a less dramatic word I could use here, that is a core fascistic ambition. Straight from the playbook of the worst examples of tyrannous depravity.

It is no use trying to persuade us that if we don’t like our government our answer is through the ballot box. This is not a democratic nation. The main parties have, across the centuries, made sure of that. And even if the electoral system did enable the making of free and informed choices, which it does not, once in four or five years is just not good enough. As we have seen with “austerity” and brexit and the environment and the economy and public services, a lot of lasting damage can be done in four years. A government is not just for Christmas. It is supposed to act in the best interests of the nation, and be accountable to the nation, at all times. Protest is a part of that. A legitimate part of it.

So, back to the “nice” Mr Cleverly. What we are getting from him just now is not at all nice. It is, in fact, authoritarian, manipulative and downright shameful: anti-British, if you like. Is that who he is, or just how he thinks he has to pretend to be? And if it is the latter, can he just think it out again, please? I really don’t think he is a bad man, but it would be “nice” if he didn’t think he has to be.

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From London with Love💕 UK invests over £3 Billion in Zambia

The UK will invest £2.5 billion in Zambia's mining x renewable energy sectors x also inject a whooping £650 million into Zambian SMEs, bringing the total investment to a dazzling £3.15 BILLION🥳

This financial infusion will generate multitude of jobs in Zambia while also flourishing the economies of both our nations🇬🇧😍🇿🇲

This exciting progress comes on the heels of the recent visit by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to Zambia.

His visit marks a historic milestone in the enhancement of UK-Zambia relations, as Cleverly becomes the first foreign secretary to visit Zambia in 37 years.

A heartfelt round of applause goes out to the UK, Cleverly x President Hichilema, whose collective efforts have orchestrated this grand x monumental undertaking.

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NPC Tulpar crew

+ Pre-crash Curly under the cut

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zhak vo’n’ash duj, source of my bruises

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Go you funky little SecUnit! Go!

(One of my favorite scenes from the newest Murderbot novel: System Collapse)

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@endbie’s DTIYS!

This took an unholy amount of motivation and was on and off for a couple days BUT ITS FINISHED SO WOOOOO

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Hermit-a-Day May, day 15: Jevin + shadow box (wip)

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Minecraft YouTuber iJevin. He is walking through a forest, arms swinging at his sides. The drawing is arranged in layers of solid silhouettes in different shades of brown, with dark umber tree trunks, roots, and branches around the edges representing the foreground. Each subsequent layer of trees is inset from the previous one and a slightly lighter color. The trees eventually fade into solid white, giving the illusion that the scene is being lit from behind. Jevin himself is silhouetted in the midground in golden brown. He is wearing loose pants and a hoodie. Through his head, a cracked skull in a lighter shade can be seen, making his flesh seem translucent. ./End ID]

Today's style/medium is a shadow box! Also known as a light box. Or a papercut shadow box/light box. In a shadow box, layers of paper with carefully cut designs are arranged so that, when a light is shone from the back, it creates depth and value. The areas with the most layers of paper are the darkest, and the areas with the fewest are the lightest. The process is actually a bit like creating that glass fog effect in Minecraft--layers separated by air, then lit up from below. Unfortunately, I didn't actually have time to cut out all those intricate details from paper this evening, so y'all get the digital version for now. Keep reading for a couple fun facts and some rambling!

Fun fact the first: his skull is cracked solely because it's physically impossible, in this medium, to have areas of a darker color suspended in a lighter one. You can have suspended areas of light just fine, by simply cutting holes in the layers closer to the foreground. But darker? Gravity prohibits it, because there's nothing to adhere floating dark bits to. So if I wanted the skull to have eye sockets, they needed to have some kind of anchor to the rest of that color's layer.

Fun fact the second: his skin was originally a lighter shade, and his skull was darker, because that's how light would actually filter through translucent slime. But that would mean the skull was a floating patch of darker color and that doesn't work either. And that's barely the tip of the iceberg of the logistical headache that this piece was. Good glory this thing was complicated. And I haven't even made it irl yet! I'm so happy with how it looks so far, though, you have no idea.

Thanks for reading! Happy arting!

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Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

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SO one of Sniper's character descriptions (either the one on the website or the wiki) claims that he spent his time before the gravel wars as "a tracker of dangerous game". On top of that, we know that comic 4 confirms he's about thirty in 1973, and so would have been hired at about 19/20 in 1962.

This almost seems to imply Sniper’s first actual assassination job was the gravel wars, and before that he only hunted animals. Thinking about it, that actually kind of explains stuff about his character!

In Meet the Sniper, Sniper is DETERMINEDLY professional, and won't shut up about how actually it's a Great Job and he has Ethics and a Moral Code and STANDARDS! Meanwhile in the game he's a lunatic who yells slurs at the enemy team and pisses in jars.

If we look at this erratic behaviour, one's first thought is "man they really went and retconned him for his trailer lol". If we look at it again, with the assumption that he only just started killing people like a month ago (the meet the team vids are Very Early on the timeline), it's giving

"gamer boy who has to say erm achtually gaming doesnt cause violence it improves motor skills and creativity every three seconds and then in the next breath wishes death upon whoever suggested gaming could possibly have negative effects on people"

Imagine. You are young and just got this pretty cool albeit questionable job sniping and this fuckass director and your dad have the gall to SUGGEST sniping is not in fact a good job mate?? LAY ON THE FUCKING CHARM! Tell them all the wonderful things about killing people for money, and erm achtually everything they say (youre not a crazed gunman and you dont have feelings!! Jeez).

And once they've buggered off go back to your regularly scheduled piss throwing. Who cares. It gets the job done. Get rekt.

CONCLUSION, he's sillay. And he's way more jaded in the lore comics because he's older and wiser and his parents are dead :( And he now has the maturity to genuinely stick to his moral code (as seen when he kills the classic sniper immediately and only berates him afterwards for not being professional - polite, efficient, plan to kill yadda yadda).

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Been replaying Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. I love Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

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Cleverly pulls it off again

The shiny private jet plane touched down and skidded to a halt. Almost immediately the door in the fuselage swung open and steps unfolded then out stepped a bulky, bearded, dark-suited man. He paused at the top of the steps and blinked at the vast whiteness of Antarctica that lay before him, then waved a cheery greeting to no-one in particular. If the wave had had a voice it would have called, “Look at me. Aren’t I wonderful?”

James Cleverly had been upset about giving up his Foreign Secretary role. He liked traversing the world in the luxury of his tax-payer funded jet, pretending that he mattered. Okay, Rishi’s taxpayer-funded jet, but he had got to use it a lot before the reshuffle. Now, as Home Secretary, he had had to settle for the PM’s helicopter when Rishi didn’t need it to pop out to the shops down the road.  So when the chance arose to head off around the world in search of somewhere to dump refugees he’d jumped at it. 

“Get me on a plane, now,” he’d barked at his private office, “and take me somewhere “safe”. Somewhere with no human rights problems.”

He was in luck, David Cameron was at the tailor’s looking at ermine swatches and Rishi was hiding under the desk so the jet was free.

Skipping down the steps, flashing his favourite scarlet Father Christmas socks, James approached the waiting crowd. It was a good turnout. He estimated possibly a thousand smartly dressed individuals all in close formation. This was his kind of audience, regimented and respectful, and, above all, paying him attention.

As he approached the welcoming party, he was struck by how alike they all looked. It was just like addressing the party conference. He walked confidently up to one of them and, in the slightly loud, slightly slow voice that he had perfected for talking to foreigners, asked, “Are you the Head of State round here?”

The figure in front him blinked and shuffled slightly, then replied amiably, “That’ll be Eric. He’s an emperor. I’m just a king. Name’s Charlie.”

Cleverly liked the idea of doing business with an actual emperor. It suited his sense of self-worth. A great man like him should be talking to the organ grinder, not the monkey. “Which one is Eric, then?” he asked. 

“The big ones, over there,” replied Charlie. He extended a wing in the direction of a small group of appreciably larger birds occupying a slightly raised hillock of snow.

“Lovely talking to you, your … your Majesty,” Cleverly gabbled and strode off towards the group. Talking penguins, eh? Of course! Another triumph for Mickey’s Levelling Up programme, I guess. He must have seen all this white powder and wanted his snout in the trough.

As he neared them he was again aware of how difficult it was to tell them apart, so, using his powerful intellect, he quickly came up with a ruse, one that justified his name, “Er, which one of you is Eric?” he enquired, boldly.

“We all are,” came the concerted reply, “‘Cept for the females. They’re Erica.” The ruse had, for some reason not clear to Cleverly, failed. 

“No,” Cleverly faltered, “I mean Eric the Emperor.”

‘Like we said, we all are, ‘cept for the females. They’re Erica.”

It’s just like being in the Tory Party, Cleverly thought. Everyone believes he’s in charge. He tried a different tack. “I was told by King Charlie that one of you was the actual leader.”

“Which King Charlie,” the reply again in unison.  “They are all King Charlies. ‘Cept for the females, they’re…”

“Charlottes?” offered Cleverly, eager to move things along.

“Carolines,” came the reply. Cleverly had the feeling he wasn’t getting anywhere.

“Look,” he ventured, “Cut to the chase, since the woke lefty judges spoiled our little Rwanda plan, we have an urgent need to find somewhere else to offload our illegal immigrants – you know the sort of thing, make their lives so uncomfortable they will want to go home. I have a treaty here,” he patted his breast pocket, “which would guarantee you millions of pounds if you could take a few hundred of them.”

“Not much use to us, mate,” said one of the emperors, “Even Amazon don’t deliver out here. Now if you was talking millions of fish we might be interested.”

Cleverly was stumped. He knew one of the upsides of Brexit had been the destruction of the UK’s fishing industry, as a direct result of which deaths at sea had plummeted to an all-time low but suicides had gone up, at a great saving to the public purse. Another win. But did the penguins know that? He’d be lucky to find 400 fish, let alone 400 million. Using all the skills of a Cabinet Minister, he lied. 

“Okay, 400 million assorted fish. We can do business. But first I need to check, you don’t have any human rights problems round here, do you?”

The penguin he had been addressing snorted. “No humans, mate. Not for miles.”

Cleverly felt a great wave of relief engulf him. Here was another success to chalk up.

“Great, well let’s seal the deal.”

At the word “seal” there was great consternation. The message quickly spread across all the penguins present. “He said seal! Where? Where?” and they all turned about and waddled off as fast as they could.

“Was it something I said?” Cleverly whimpered. “I thought we were having a whale of a time.”

A little while later, as they watched the shiny jet plane take off, King Charlie leaned over to Emperor Eric and whispered, “Whoever named that species “Cleverly” got that seriously wrong.”