Joby Catto
@cattotonic.bsky.social
Immersive media, extensive interests. Sporadically opinionated, mildly cynical, rarely offensive, always curious and hungry. Irreverent and critical thinker. Northern and proud.
Silent spring (and summer, and probably autumn too). The omission of public discourse is jarring and dissonant.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d agoWe are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
Marco Rubio on 23 June: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law."
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
Hope not hate
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2mo agoThink @robertshrimsley.bsky.social captures it... "Voters are drawn to optimism. They want hope for the future" Now how to do that realistically when national governments are constrained by globalisation, demographics, fiscal position, etc... www.ft.com/content/756b...
Troubling, powerful testimony from @otoolematthew.bsky.social and deep, level-headed historical parallels perspective in this Half Pint from the ever-excellent @passportirish.bsky.social Thanks for recording and sharing this.
Naomi O'Leary@naomiohreally.bsky.social · 2mo agoGrim new episode open to all. @otoolematthew.bsky.social describes sheltering families fleeing their burning homes in his constituency office during the horrific riots in Belfast last week. We discuss the broader societal and historical context: www.patreon.com/theirishpass...
Listen more, say less, lads… Wading in, full cowboy boot-deep into a complex part of the world with overlapping, nuanced, highly sensitive issues *really* is not a good look… Pure Trump 2.0 MAGA-centric vibes though, so no surprise…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...
Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
ft.com
🇭🇺 First visited in summer 1990, last visited in 2010. Time to go back for lángos, beer and a side portion of democratic retribution, methinks…
IP vs process knowledge. You can monetise/exploit the former (but also exist without it) , but you'll really rue the lack of the latter when you need it most. This thread reinforces what I've learned over my professional / creative lifespan. Intangible, accreted, contextual knowledge is king.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4mo ago"Intellectual property" was once an obscure legal backwater. Today, it is *the* dominant area of political economy, the organizing regime for almost all of our tech regulation, and the most valuable - and most controversial - aspect of global trade policy: pluralistic.net/2026/04/01/m... 1/
3D gaussian splat of Orchan Rocks near Todmorden. Data set from last year, but newly reprocessed using the new MRNF strategy in LichtfeldStudio v0.5.1. #gaussiansplat #lichtfeldstudio #3DGS #outcrop superspl.at/scene/23c50045
There’s an overwhelming amount of news (and noise) in these times… and this means some of the best and worst discourse gets submerged. If you read one thing today, it should be this; highlighting both ends of the spectrum, and underscores values we should collectively cherish and protect.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday's newsletter. Cheery topic!
Forget happy hump day, it's happy midweek Pellicle publication day, and this one's a doozy. A characteristically informative, thought-provoking and balanced piece by Tim Anderson 🍵💚
Pellicle@pelliclemag.com · 5mo agoMatcha is everywhere right now. But according to Tim Anderson, in Japan, matcha has *been* everywhere. So what is appropriation and what is culture? Are matcha collagen bars good? Did the matcha latte start all this? Who is Molly-Mae? Read on to find out: www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/3/...
This heritage Irish stout recipe from 1883 by @kernelbrewery.bsky.social and Boundary Brewing Co-op elevated a St Patrick's Day tea very nicely. Sláinte! ☘️
Ed Zitron's a fantastic journalist, capable of turning a close read of AI companies' balance-sheets into an incandescent, exquisitely informed, eye-wateringly profane rant: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl... 1/
The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious. privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
Richie from @weare1of100.bsky.social consistently collabs with incredibly talented (and tastefully-curated) creators. I've been pining for this one for weeks since it was first teased. Made up I managed to get my usual number today 🎛️🔥 I lost control, I sold my soul I sold my soul, I lost control
🟪🟦 Oh, this is great. Beguiling simple, frustratingly compelling. Congrats @chrisroguerobot.bsky.social Just lost a good chunk of my early morning getting lost in pastel-coloured futurist strategic gamesmanship. Extra points for the name too. Shall we play a game?
Chris Standley@chrisroguerobot.bsky.social · 5mo ago2001 inspired puzzle game. I built this game based on a deleted scene from '2001 A Space Odyssey'. Please give it a try. www.q-brik.com #kubrick #puzzle #hal #game #puzzlegame #q-brik
Remember Operation Rolling Thunder? This is Operation Rolling Bullshit. Excellent piece joining the dots between Surkov’s doctrine, Bannon’s gameplay, and the current US / Israeli strategy of shoot first, spin later, retcon always.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5mo ago🔴 Operation Epic Fury: A Mass of Shifting Objectives Dr Charles Kriel looks at the Iran War as an information operation and identifies what the West still refuses to understand about it bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/o...
Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve. @jamesgraham.theliberati.net 👏 www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...
The baseless innuendo of “family voting”
The extraordinary decision by Democracy Volunteers to shroudwave about “family voting” for the Gorton and Denton by-election has damaged both trust in the political system and harmed ra…
theliberati.net
🍊Third year making Negroni marmalade in the pressure cooker… and this is the best batch yet. Improving the recipe, technique & method* annually. Kaizen. *First time using Method 1 from the definitive Modern Pressure Cooking by @catherinephipps.bsky.social (takes longer but prefer it to method 2)
As Russia’s full-scale war enters its fifth year, the fighting is erasing art that was meant to be indestructible. Photographer Oleg Petrasiuk has captured not just images of endangered artwork, but evidence of a cultural landscape in the process of disappearing in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast.
Russia's war is erasing Kostiantynivka's Soviet-era mosaics — this is why it matters
The mosaics covering the facades of factories, cultural centers, and apartment blocks across eastern Ukraine were designed with a specific kind of permanence in mind. They survived the Soviet collapse...
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I suspect Trump's going to be more determined to lean into a major Iran-shaped distraction after today's SCOTUS tariff ruling. Compensating and misdirecting hard for a perceived lack of authority or power is his MO. He certainly doesn't want to be compared to the Duke of York, Grand or otherwise…
