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Story that keeps happening 1. Scandal breaks out involving someone with obvious bad vibes 2. Colleagues and admirers circle the wagons 3. Another revelation 4. Doubling down intensifies for some reason 5. Damning no-way-back career-wrecking revelation 6. “But how could we have known?”
The song The Wheels On The Bus was written in 1937, but motorised buses date back to the 1890s. So there was a 43 year period where people were just getting on buses with no idea of what was going to happen.
The boundless ignorance of right-wing gobshites
Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · 2d agoFrench forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
Hard to keep track of the number of times he's declared victory in his illegal war-of-choice. #86-47
I can’t believe it. All my childhood punishments have become my adult goals. • Eating vegetables • Staying home • Having a nap • Going to bed early
If you see someone online ignorantly claiming that entry into Ceuta entails entry into mainland Spain/the Schengen area, here's the text proving otherwise. (Plus almost everyone who entered Ceuta returned within a day)
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5d agoHere are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Alarming but credible explanation of how hotter drier conditions form a positive feedback loop for even more heat and aridity
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3d agoHighly informative article about the recent record-breaking heat and wildfires in Europe. It dives into the science about the causes, quoting several experts. Worth reading! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
This is important. Shell knew about how its products were driving climate change even before Exxon. And they covered it up, deceived and misdirected for decades
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 5d agoIn June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑
but reposting a picture, 18 in a series of 20, of a T-shirt with a caption that doesn't even specifically name Farage, isn't OK
Disillusioned With Conservatives@neverevertory.bsky.social · 7d agoA Reform councillor in Sunderland has been charged with posting a grossly offensive comment after posting in 2024 that Nigerians should be melted down to fill in potholes. #NeverVoteReform
It's hard to think of a bigger idiot with a public platform in the UK right now
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d agoNighty night.
Seeing the President fall asleep in the middle of public events should be a major story, yet somehow it isn’t.
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
When wildlife and insect populations disappear, ecosystems collapse. When ecosystems collapse, our food, water, climate, and human survival are all affected. Species extinction arrives with silence. Protect habitats. Restore forests. Save rivers. Because a silent planet is not a living planet.
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2019 - Boris Johnson announced his 'ready made plan for social care'. 2019 - No tax rises in Tory manifesto. 2021 - Johnson to increase NI by 1.25% to fund social care 2022 - Truss cancels NI increase 2024 - Tories leave social care problem to Labour to sort out 2026 - Tories whine over cost.
Bye bye Reform. Now we just need Binface to beat Farage and he can go in the real dustbin of history too.
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · last wk.I see The Times is yet again running an anti-renewable energy story on its front page, backed by another story of climate change-induced wildfires in France and Spain. I wonder if anyone there can spot the irony, or does the Will of the Proprietor overcome any such thought?
The innovation is in how much extra they can get you to pay for a vehicle that's oversized, overweight, and a threat to both the environment and other road users
Susan🏴🍁🇨🇦🐶@bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 2w agoBecause I’m looking at cars at the moment, I notice details. One thing: All the SUVs look the same, regardless of manufacturer. Like a cookie cutter model. Where’s the innovation?
It's funny how the more right-wing trolls and disinfo bots shout about 'fallen' England, the less true it is
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 2w agoBut... surely the UK is a war zone under Sharia law, full of no-go areas run by grooming gangs and nobody can wear a watch or carry a phone in public..?
As Bob Seger sang, “you can come back baby, rock and roll never forgets”
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w ago22 years ago, I played bass in a band. We released one album called Cassette, and we released it on vinyl and CD. 😂🤣😂
Clear explanation of the real issues behind The Times’s apparent Net Zero scare story
Adam Bell@adambell.bsky.social · 2w agoIf I can, let me explain today's Times story. This is less to do with renewables and much more to do with where generation is located and how it shows up at a system level. /1
