Niemöller's Hot Takes
@brentcrude.bsky.social
PhD Microbiology. London, via Notts, Basel & Manchester
America would be so much cooler if we had charged Nixon with treason
If uploaded AI-enhanced social media histories are given Legal Person status, and im certain they eventually will, it will be an inheritance tax dodge
Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10
I'm late to this - but it fucking *slaps* youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Stop Making Sense Tribute Album - YouTube
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In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.
The loudest voices online aren't always the most accurate. New data shows our homicide rate is lower than every US state, while murder rates are at record lows. The evidence is clear: our approach to tackling crime and its causes works. It’s driving down violence right across the capital.
Is Europe safer than America?
A novel dataset provides some surprising answers
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I think the single most poorly designed, unfit-for-purpose object in the entirety of human civilisation must be the domestic smoke alarm
Peterloo Massacre happened on this day 1819, est 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
Kudos to the Count: He's spent the hottest summer on record campaigning with a dustbin on his head. What a hero. Whatever happens today, I hope he has aircon in there
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2w agoBin Day cometh.
At last I can make my own 'bountiful harvest' post - goats cheese and fig tart (made with figs from my neighbour's garden)
Nothing says peace like building a... military base. Thanks Tony Tone, guess that means Baphomet will treat you to a bit of lube this week www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
Exclusive: Louisiana firm awarded tender to build rudimentary outpost to house Moroccan troops
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I know I shouldnt be surprised at the hypocrisy, but after years bleating about Nanny State Labour councils, and in the first summer in decades when you can comfortably stand outside a Soho boozer having a drink, the new Tory-run Westminster Council want to ban it www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.
Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 3w agoPresident Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Why does Kemi Badenoch always sound like she's putting on her posh voice for a school presentation? #R4
You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
every time i successfully connect two things via bluetooth it’s a complete accident. i couldn’t replicate whatever i did if you showed me video footage of it
New euphemism just dropped courtesy of Fraser Nelson: "Playful genius who poured petrol where others feared to tread."
Furthermore, the state the RN is in right now I'd fully expect it to lose in a battle against a few dozen inflatable dinghys
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 4w agoSorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.
Its like a Private Equity takeover of political parties speedrun
mimij9.bsky.social@mimij9.bsky.social · 4w ago
heard an interview recently with an anonmyous wall street bro who said his employer would not subscribe to the president's truth social insider trading scheme because they did not want to go to prison when the rule of law returns
i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press
Bought this as a birthday present for my nephew and its so good it's triggered my teenage son's first "why was I born too early?" existential crisis and doesnt want to give it away #donttrustfish
We could have had this 10 years ago and avoided the disaster of Brexit if the media had done its job right. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
