Look, I'm a simple man, I just don't think we should have party spokespeople arguing that some British people shouldn't be allowed to run for election because of their ethnicity.
Daniel Ostrowski
@froakiebloke.bsky.social
Vive Napoléon! Vivent les saucissons!
If the right is like this, what conversations can possibly be held with the right?
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2mo agoMatt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...
Objectifying women, peddling conspiracy theories and calling for violence: Makerfield Reform candidate’s SECOND deleted account exposed – HOPE not hate
By Paul Kershaw and Sarah Hadley On a deleted social media account, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Makerfield parliamentary by-election, Rob Kenyon, made creepy...
hopenothate.org.uk
![[Scene is the Tudor royal court. ladies and gentlemen standing round. In the corner a very fat HENRY VIII is hunched over playing a lute.]
1
LADY:
Hey Anne Boleyn -
Who’s that lute player?
ANNE BOLEYN:
I dunno
[Determined face]
But I’m gonna find out.
[Title lettering panel]:
THIS SUMMER
[Scene is now two musicians - one with a harp, the other is Henry VIII again playing the lute]
HARPIST:
Yo Henry VIII -
Who wrote that sick lute riff yo’ jamming?
HENRY VIII:
Why...
[Looking around, modest, surprised at the attention]
I did…!
[Title lettering panel]:
SEE THE STORY
[Scene is now a tudor record producer with ruff and wearing dark sunglasses]:
PRODUCER:
Congratulations Henry
Your lute thing is a hit and your story is now one of uncomplicated musical success!
[Show a panel with lots of Beatlemania-style scenes of success for Henry the musician - swooning tudor girls, playing lute on stage, waving to fans as he descends from his golden carriage. In the middle of it in Tudor lettering are the words]:
“UNCOMPLICATED MUSICAL SUCCESS MONTAGE”.
[Another scene - a man is saying to Henry]:
MAN:
Say Henry VIII -
Are you doing anything outside this narrative that is very bad or weird?
HENRY VIII:
No.
[Title lettering panel]:
…OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
who definitely didn’t do anything outside this narrative that was very bad or weird
[Scene with Thomas Cromwell]
THOMAS CROMWELL:
Hang on Henry aren't you also a -
HENRY VIII [jumping in front of him with his lute held aloft]:
LUTE SOLO!
[Final film title panel]:
HENRY VIII:
Rock Biopic
[rated U]
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If the UK ever has a King Philip it’ll confuse people because he’ll be Philip II, but nobody knows about the Philip I, which was Philip II
‘Bye, bye, old friend’: Ted, the dog from Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, has died aged 13
‘Bye, bye, old friend’: Ted, the dog from Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, has died aged 13
As well as penning a Sunday Times bestseller, the terrier had been a regular in the BBC comedy series since 2020 Sad news for fans of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. Ted has died. The dog, a patterdale terrier mix, first appeared on the BBC fishing series alongside Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse in 2020 and had regularly joined them on their river-based adventures since. Continue reading...
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Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’
Orbán used to sink other people’s campaigns… the torch has been passed on
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’m incredibly obsessed with JD Vance sinking Victor Orban
So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea
came up in my Facebook memories last time I shared it... man, this SMBC @zachweinersmith.bsky.social cracks me the fuck up
wet_haybale joined PeasantChat. <puddlesipper> wellcome ye back <wet_haybale> ta <puddlesipper> hast tha seen the moon this eve <wet_haybale> nay be it ftrange ? <HimWhatEkes> tis red <wet_haybale> that be new ? <gleanmachine> Zounds man do ye ever look up? <wet_haybale> not unlefs it pleafe milord
He has been very unfair to Bowser, very unfair. Bowser is a very good friend of mine, Bowser. I call him Koopa. We golf together all the time, did a lot of deals together, collected lots of coins. His son went to school with Baron.
a blurred image of a group of cartoon characters standing on top of a green field .
ALT: a blurred image of a group of cartoon characters standing on top of a green field .
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If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
deadlanguagesociety.com
distracting us from corruption which is distracting us from January 6th which is distracting us from Trump-Russia which is distracting us from ivermectin which is distracting us from Access Hollywood which is distracting us from… I think at the very bottom of the list it might be Trump Steaks?
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8mo agoWell, see, he's gotta divert attention to Canada to pull it away from murdering people in the streets which he did to divert attention from embarrassingly failing to seize Greenland which is diverting attention from murdering another person in the streets, which...
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
mprnews.org
Top trivia!
The Mary Rose Museum@maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe first person recorded wishing someone "Merry Christmas" was Bishop John Fisher, in a letter to Thomas Cromwell #OnThisDay, 22nd December 1534. "And this our Lord God send you a mery Christmas, and a comfortable, to your heart’s desire." 🖼️ Wikimedia Commons
I heard there was a mighty fish With solitude its fervent wish When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder They're known to bite their prey in two They'd even have a go at you The silver and the salty Barracuda
DONALD TRUMP FIVE MINUTES AFTER MEETING ME: And, you know, the Game Awards, they gave Best Music to God of War instead of Xenoblade 3, and it was very unfair
tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
In fairness if you showed that picture to people 300 years ago they wouldn’t have known who those guys were
Dan Snow@thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 11mo agoNext time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy
