Holy shit:

[wellsitegeo@masto.ai]

@cstross
I assume that the armed police guy was occupied on the phone with his boss when the arrest team came to the door in marked cars.
And I bet he didn't get thrown in the back of a paddy wagon.

Trying to assemble a violin from raw gluons. The damned thing have no musical sense. But that's OK, neither do I.

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@Uilebheist
An odd desire, to keep the defrocked alleged sex criminal free, and lock up the best king we have had this century.
Having made your desolation, let's call it peace.

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@acb @cstross
His Former Majesty's Prison Sandringham?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@masek They got him on the *easy to prove* charge. Others may follow. I suspect he'll get the full Rolf Harris treatment, whenever the King needs to throw the proles another cookie.

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@cstross "Off to Tyburn for you, sonny Jim"

[deixis9@beige.party]

@masek @cstross

That is Trump’s biggest concern, losing the wealth?

He can just declare sex scandal as unreal.

Ever since they got Capone.

[eevaxtiina@mastodon.social]

@cstross Hell must be freezing over and definitely some horses disturbed.

[nibor4000@social.vivaldi.net]

@cstross
I can't help thinking he is being used as a distraction from people guilty of more/worse crimes mentioned in the Epstein files

[jonnybradford@mstdn.social]

@cstross a new resident for the Tower perhaps.

[linza@kamu.social]

@cstross is it even a monarchy if the people can't execute a monarch when they're total shit or the crops are failing (or both)

[dgold@goblin.technology]

@cstross bretaña, mañana, séra republicana

[steinarb@mastodon.social]

The case of the Crown vs Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor...?

Interesting times!

[tmcfarlane@toot.community]

@Nibor4000 @cstross fortunately we can deal with more than one bastard at a time.

[gf493d@theforkiverse.com]

@Linza @cstross I think crops would fail even worse if that Gobshite was offered up for sacrifice.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@dgold If the King handles this properly (for PR values of "properly") it'll keep England a monarchy for at least another generation. (Scotland is already majority republican.)

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@GF493D @Linza I view Randy Andy as a proxy sacrifice for Chuckles the Third. Minimum Viable Monarch to exsanguinate to appease the media gods.

[masek@infosec.exchange]

@cstross Love your optimism ️

[gf493d@theforkiverse.com]

@cstross @Linza Maybe all we really need is a barBq. Charles can bring his big fat pedo #sausage fingers.

[bloognoo@retro.pizza]

@cstross

I love that in the BBC report of the police statement, the police say that they are not naming the suspect and care should be taken by publications so as not to appear in contempt of court, immediately followed by the link you just posted in bold

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@abstractcode

Both.

Admittedly swift action over the Epstein business is the only way to save the British monarchy at this point in time. Anything Epstein is radioactive kryptonite to the King, and the monarchy was already in big trouble as the halo of deference conferred by his late mother's longevity dissipated. (*She* was a national institution and symbol of unity: he's just a stuffy old billionaire in a fancy hat.)