people with guns who shoot you are not gunmen they are “shooters”, Salmonella doesn’t poison you it “sickens” you - a normal country, populated mainly with adults, that is not afraid of words
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Where does the West end and the East begin?
Much as I’d like to be 18 again how does this guy think most of us have been earning a living for the last couple of decades…
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.
I once knew someone so Brexit they declared they would never watch Alan Partridge again because Liddle didn't like Steve Coogan.
Thinking about adopting this man’s Waiting To Answer Questions power pose
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I know its not the most pressing point but who agreed a system that has both a Yellow and an Amber alert, which each mean different things…
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoBBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
Fry & Laurie remain undefeated for memes, I have this and many others in a folder ready to go
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d agoMedian UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)
Trying not engage with politics but it’s hard to break the habit of a lifetime.
I just wrote a book about fascism and I thought this was a joke, but it’s real!
Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 4d ago
I will keep bringing it back to this, because it's wild not to. British journalists are wildly right wing because they are selected by a system overwhelmingly run by wild right wingers. Their conception of normal is horrifically skewed.
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
theguardian.com
I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers
Podcasting is Praxis@praxiscast.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's weird, because a whole discourse happened where we were all told drinking was super normal and anyone asking questions was a gross communist who didn't understand? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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I was woken this morning by three foxes having a barney in next door’s back garden, I had a great view but I was not awake enough to grab my phone. So it won’t be me filming climate change getting closer to you, unless it does it during office hours.
Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.
If you ever sit through Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man I commend to you the final episode, filmed in his 1970s California home.
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 7d agoIf I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”
