Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋
@danielrigal.bsky.social
I am British and grumpy. Tories, Brexit and most other things make me grumpy. I'm a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand to be taken seriously! Born 1970s Unable to age verify so no DMs danielrigal.co.uk @DanielRigal@mastodon.social
Heard a weird intermittent buzzing in my flat and thought something electrical was on the blink. It stopped every time I tried to locate it. Turned out to be a grasshopper. Chucked it out of the window with the admonishment "Get out you stridulating shit".
The Democrats finally seem to be getting their mojo back a bit but they are going to need to defeat the Democrat dinosaurs who have been holding the party back before they can defeat the MAGA regime. BBC News - El-Sayed's victory sends tremors through Democratic Party www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Abdul El-Sayed's victory sends tremors through Democratic Party
His win in Michigan sets up a high-stakes contest in November, testing a left-wing candidate's popularity in a swing state.
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Once again. It's simple! The only reason that the Epstein files have not been published is that they incriminate the president of the United States, and those others who are in a position to stop them from being released.
I am beginning to be able to predict the productivity hours lost when a tool used in mine or a clients' production workflow gets bought by some fuckhead who is sexually attracted to debt.
Nick Gerakines@ngerakines.me · yesterdayOof. Bending spoons now owns Evernote, Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, and a handful of others. 1.2B is pretty substantial. Are those products better now?
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
There is no way to constue this as a legitimate act of war. Unlike Wildberries, this guy's vegetable stall was not part of a military supply chain. It's shamelessly criminal. BBC News - Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack
Ukraine said the video - showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely-controlled drone - amounted to a war crime.
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There's some types of people who are eligible for a "second chance" and there's other types of people who don't even get given a first one. BBC News - Ex neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine selected as Tory candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine selected as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed in 2015 after posting antisemitic remarks ahead of a protest.
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"All either declined to comment or did not respond." Would you? To reply is either to admit to insider trading or to implicitly accuse others of insider trading. BBC News - Why Trump Media's sale of fast access to market-moving social posts is controversial www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What is Trump Media's Truth API and why is it controversial?
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has set up a paid service to give Wall Street firms access to Truth Social's most influential accounts.
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When SpaceX crash their leftover junk into the Moon that's a "useful accident". They wouldn't use that framing if it was anybody other than Musk. Can we please stop trying to crawl up his arse? BBC News - What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
Our satellite has endured countless blows over millions of years - and astronomers think this one could be a useful accident.
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Distressing though this is, it's good to see it dragged out into the open. Nonetheless, the cynic in me is rolling his eyes for two reasons.🧵 BBC News - Rape threats part of misogyny Tyneside schoolgirls face www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rape threats part of misogyny Tyneside schoolgirls face
A group of teenagers make a film describing their experiences, ahead of changes to the curriculum.
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Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Here's some of what I said to @espn.com at the transphobia rally outside the Fire-Fever game on Friday espn.com/wnba/story/_...
What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back
Rod Liddle has died. Odious columnist for The Times & Spectator who hated on minorities including the disable, immigrants, and trans people. Here are Rosie Duffield, Kathleen Stock & Julie Bindel mourning his death, coupled with screenshots from two articles Rod wrote defending paedophilia.
He's rattled. He knows that the wheels are falling off. At the current rate of construction, he's not going to last long enough to die in that gilded Fuhrerbunker he's so keen on building. He doesn't even have a dog to poison.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.
The Tory front bench are such a bunch of useless nonentities that they need facial recognition software to remind themselves which twit is which. BBC News - Conservatives call for greater use of facial recognition from police - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Conservatives call for greater use of facial recognition from police
Conservatives have called for all images of suspects to be run through facial recognition software.
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What a fabulous collaboration between @shearwaterband.bsky.social and Laurie Anderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbyE...
Shearwater feat. Laurie Anderson - You And Your Dog [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by Shearwater
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okay apparently there are TWO wrong ways to eat pizza @foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from August 2019!
"Tim, it's Andrew, Andrew Lloyd Webber, I need you to knock up some songs for Evita 2" www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
'He was tasked with making the body disappear': The macabre kidnapping of Eva Perón's corpse
Argentina's iconic first lady died in July 1952. Sixty years on, the BBC looked back at her cadaver's bizarre disappearance – and its 16-year journey around the globe.
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These abusive schools are still the darling of the UK's far-right press but at least the BBC is turning on them. It's not enough. We need prosecutions. This is going to drive kids to exit education as quickly as they can. Futures are being ruined. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won
Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.
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It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
Strangely apposite (or equally cursed) posts in my timeline tonight
