I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC
America is on Russia's side. It can't be doubted anymore. They are our adversaries, not our allies, now.
Luke McGee@lukemcgee.bsky.social · 5d agoTwo most important facts: 1) since Trump became President, attacks on Ukraine have grown substantially in volume and scale. 2) Since Trump became President the US has committed zero (yes, zero) new dollars to support Ukraine.
Thinking back to the noise I made when this went in 🕊️
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
The term British originated in the concept of empire (initially with the subjection of Ireland). It survived both in the fiction of the British Commonwealth and the postwar "British Subject" (as distinct from the Citizen of the UK). It has long functioned as a way of avoiding ethnonationalism.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2w agoAside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms??
It's incoherent because it's a backfill. They haven't sat and worked this out from first principles. It's just: the conclusion I want to reach is "it's ok for me to be racist," so what chain of reasoning do I need to put in front of it to get there?
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2w agoAside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms??
Jim fucking White calling Czechia Cechnya all fucking morning. Now we move on to Simon Jordan's take on whether Britain is being colonised by immigrants. Fuck all the way off, talksport.
Here, right. I live in a flat in a big, edwardian, redbrick building. It's 3 flights of stairs to get out, 2 to pass the ground floor bar that shares the staircase to get to their cellar. You can't see who's coming up or down the stairs, each flight is its own space...
What the fuck has happened to the guardian?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoThe hunk shortage: where are England’s handsomest men hiding?
I've listened to a good few hundred episodes of In Our Time, and I can tell you this: if there's an American contributor, they'll be a complete douchebag and you can tell nobody else there likes or respects them that much.
It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...'
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 3w agoPersonally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
Really enjoying this series where the excellent @eleanormorton.bsky.social and @misterabk.bsky.social revisit or simply visit classic children’s books (and sometimes get stuck in the door on the way out cos of hunny). It’s surprisingly addictive. You know. Like hunny. pod.link/1786648408
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That
Listen to Eleanor & Alasdair Read That wherever you get your podcasts!
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this is the guy i reposted the other day who interviewed meta employees with pervert glasses - meta have taken his video down for “harassment”. which makes it one of the most effective pieces of satire in recent memory
Roel Maalderink@roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 3w agoDe video waarvan Meta niet wil dat je ‘m ziet
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this is fascinating. You might even say, I found it illuminating! Haha bit of fun there
Illuminated - Izabela in Peru - BBC Sounds
Polish field-recordist Izabela Dłużyk, born blind, guides us into the rainforest of Peru.
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Six Degrees of Jim Leighton · 2026-09-23 Neil Lennon → Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Didn't finish · 2/3 lives Connections 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 Lives ■■□ 6dojl.co.uk
Six Degrees of Jim Leighton — EdgeScout
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Hey, look! It's a brand new species of cat, of which there is only one that we know of! Let's capture and isolate it! That's science!
Something about autumn that makes me want to watch Wes Anderson movies. Weird that, innit.
Listening to the Monday night club on 5live. Nedum Onuoha is far and away the best pundit around. Love to see it.
Watching g a bit more Jonathan Creek. Young Amanda holden is in this one, and it's a two-parter! Mad show for randoms popping up. Peak telly.
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
I’ve written about the terrible return of the terrible MobLand
MobLand season two review – why is Pierce Brosnan’s tedious crime drama so obsessed with testicle jokes?
This Guy-Ritchie-directed gangland drama is deathly dull. It’s a charm-free watch with awful characters and humour so genital-based that at one point Helen Mirren yells a penis joke at a sausage
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BBC News - "The Smith's Johnny Marr's guitars sell for almost £4m at auction...100% of the hammer price of 31 lots... donated to two charities: The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society" What a top fella. Achieving national treasure status (if he wasn't already)
The Smith's Johnny Marr's guitars sell for almost £4m at auction
One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.
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Me watching Chelsea for the last five seasons: who the fuck's this guy then? Today's edition: Chavarria