I realise it wasn’t everyone and God my country has made some diabolical decision lately but my anger with the American People in the abstract for putting this guy back in charge AFTER SEEING WHAT HE WAS LIKE THE FIRST TIME is increasingly boiling.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump on U.S. weapons production: "We're building up ammunition very, very rapidly, by the way. We're keeping it for ourselves." "We're getting Patriots at record levels. We're getting Tomahawks at record levels. We're building very quickly."

It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that this has been rampant for years and they’ve only recently got the tech that can detect it (or started checking their logs properly).

Whiplash for tax purposes.

Koen@koepee.bsky.social · 3d ago

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Armageddon for Tax Purposes

The grimmest thing about this is it can be done well. The BBC did over 200 episodes on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and they are some of the best public service journalism it has done this decade. None of these are that www.bbc.com/audio/series...

BBC Audio | The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

Listen to the latest episodes of The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast on BBC Audio

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Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW | A serious trial repackaged as entertainment for your commute… THE ARREST IS ENTERTAINMENT On the grim spectacle of the pop-up Russell Brand trial podcast industry. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-arrest...

This is a really good post especially because it doesn’t just fall into the ‘AI is bad‘ trap (while correctly hitting on a lot of the problems) but points out that a combo of AI, Reddit and Martin Lewis has basically broken demand management via friction.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 5d ago

New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...

The fact that we are where we are. Trump is giving needless concessions to Russia and inventing ceasefires and there is no word of a congressional attempt to impeach is just complete breakdown of the system level failure.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last wk.

We're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:

This is the loss really and I don’t know how you get it back. Part of the joy of Radio 4 is (although in my case, increasingly ‘was’) hearing a documentary or show about something you’d never ever have clicked on. Will never forget one about barbed wire of all things I heard about 15 years ago.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2w ago

When I used to travel a lot for work, Radio 4 was a delight, constantly throwing up fascinating things that I would never have thought to listen to otherwise. No algorithm would pick that up.

Me with my Bluesky mutuals.

Reverse Clowngirl@axialagegamer.swifties.social · 2w ago

Me with my Bluesky mutuals

Glee. The first season (maybe just the first half of the first season) was sharp, fun and genuinely different (and as a gay teenager at the time, important). Then it absolutely bought its own hype and became very ‘message of the week’ and the writing fell off a cliff.

Nev Fountain@nevfountain.bsky.social · 2w ago

What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?

Kemi’s level of busking it has ascended to ‘not reading the press release she’s on the broadcast round to discuss’

Andrew Sparrow@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Badenoch claims 'we haven't called it Iron Dome' - despite Tories using phrase in their press release - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Maybe this won’t matter but the main takeaway I’ve had from Tory conference so far is the way it’s just a bunch of stuff with no through line. It’s the worst of @samfr.bsky.social’s random announcement generator concept, as well as fiscally incoherent.

Having a great first day running PR and comms at Total. Now to take a big sip of coffee and see what the CEO has been up to today.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w ago

TOTALENERGIES CEO SAYS I PREFER A WORLD OF DISRUPTION RATHER THAN A PEACEFUL WORLD BECAUSE IT CREATES MORE OPPORTUNITIES

Getting over this nonsense is my core ‘are the Tories serious?‘ test. Brexit involved reshoring a bunch of competencies we had, in effect, outsourced to the EU. Regardless of what you think of Brexit, a headcount increase was inevitable!

Euan Healey@euanhealey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hmm I wonder if Andrew has any idea of what might have happened in 2016 to trigger an inflation of the civil service headcount...

Apple’s Halloween playlist covers a lot of vibes doesn’t it?

I think the Bank of England is getting worried if they’re resorting to asking me to fix it

Amol Rajan: That's right, 8.5m people tuned in to see me!

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another 8.5 million for Celebrity Traitors last night. Astonishing.

My Instagram ads are getting weird.

I was once interviewing a grad for a job and they replied to a competency question talking about their time working on a reindeer farm at Christmas, and for some reason my brain didn't think "cute petting zoo" but instead blurted out "Did you kill them for their meat?"

1. Last week she was saying December. 2. For a woman who apparently genuinely believes she could be Prime Minister within the next year and has seen the consequences of trying to busk it play out before her since 2024, she’s not doing Much to prepare!

Go through life enjoying every day as much as Richard E Grant is loving every second of this.

Yes BBC, that’s absolutely the marquee event to be advertising on the iPlayer homepage at 8 o’clock this evening

It’s the fantasy football one I can’t get over. if you’re sufficiently bored by it that you’re outsourcing the work of picking the team to a computer then just… stop playing?

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 3w ago

I find this fascinating. Connecting up my bank account to an AI agent is just a hard no for me. But maybe I’m just out of touch? I can remember being baffled about how wary my parents were about online banking for a long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...

This was entirely legit, hence we went to extreme lengths to try and cover it up is an… interesting take.

City Xtra@cityxtra.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: #ManCity will attempt to prove their innocence by arguing that the government of Abu Dhabi part-funded sponsorship deals, rather than the club’s owners Abu Dhabi United Group - a private company owned by Sheikh Mansour - and as such, no rules were broken. [Mike Keegan, MailSport]

Real Kemiunism has never been tried!

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fundamentally, Kemi thinks the government she was part of was too left wing, and she thinks this largely because the government failed in its core aims of growth and deficit reduction, and rather than assessing why their policies failed, she has declared they will do those policies for real instead.

This is the thing that fascinates me about Kemi. She’s been visibly caught out on issues multiple times in ways that would cause me to change my name and move to Belize and it doesn’t seem to have impacted her at all

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is why I find her fascinating, it's not just that she's wrong, it's that nothing can ever cause her to readjust her priors. She effectively has created her own reality to self soothe and continues to try and assert it over the real world.

Yet again asking what the BBC thinks its news website is for?

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The BBC has permanently pulled a story that linked a trend for bare nails with “white supremacist standards of beauty”. It had kicked off a US/UK backlash... Bosses have concluded the article did not meet editorial standards. Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

*screams in Project Kangaroo* (the PSBs tried to do exactly this circa 2010 but it was knocked back due to competition concerns).

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Jeremy Clarkson urges British broadcasters to merge as one "Britflix", as they struggle against streamers and YouTube. Says there are still senior TV producers he knows "draining away" from the industry as work dries up. TV: An unfashionable crisis www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

Adam’s lifestyle is configured to be extra enjoyable at income levels of $1m per year or more.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3w ago

TACKETT SAYS ALASKA BUSINESS CONFIGURED TO PERFORM STRONGLY AT JET FUEL OF ABOUT $3.25/GALLON OR LOWER

Ive also read of people going to see Guys and Dolls and being sad to discover that the ‘We’re just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls!’ song isn’t actually in the show/

Glenn Moore@thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 3w ago

This sounds like an incredible argument.

ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · 3w ago

Air to Ground Message: THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE COFFEE MAKER. DO YOU HAVE A BETTER SOLUTION Area: Burlington, ON, Canada A: #a2ea0be3d3c F: #fc96c2264ab