Springwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.
Alan
@guinness-alan.bsky.social
Antifascist. Supporter and member of Rothes FC 🧡🖤 & Athletic Club Bilbao ❤️🤍. Love Euskal Herria. Old punk - The Clash, Banda Bassotti, RATM, SLF, and others
Club Atlético Boca Juniors 🥁🎺 ¡Boca es carnaval, papá!
you’re all showing your arses in the quotes and replies. Nice to know your anti-racism doesn’t extend to people whose music you like. Bet some of you still make excuses for Eric Clapton “because he loves Black music”. Pathetic
Just seen that Burnham is an avid Morrissey fan and has put up a gold disc of The Smiths’ “The Queen is Dead” in No.10 North the guy who has a whole section on “racial comments” on Wikipedia Yeah this dude doesn’t care about racism in the slightest.
Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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This is the entirety of Labour's social media comments. Just people going "what about the foreigns?" and Sensibles replying "joke's on you, labour hates those cunts, egg on your face". And then I get shit for voting elsewhere.
Can't help but notice that all the people who told us Keir Starmer would be stability and competence for Britain are now telling us that Andy Burnham will be stability and competence for Britain.
Burnham says he'll end 40 years of neoliberalism and undo the damage of the 1980s... ...and we're asked to believe that the Chancellor who'll do it is a 'class of 97' New Labour figure who 6 weeks ago demanded more cuts to public services to pay for the military. I have my doubts.
UK Prime Minister Updates@downingstreet.bsky.social · 2w agoJohn Healey has been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Just to save journalists from doing research and checking facts, here's a handy table of distances I made a while ago: bsky.app/profile/blue...
Andrew Sinclair@bluesprints.bsky.social · last mo.Manchester > London - 204 miles MCR > Edinburgh - 222 miles MCR > Aberdeen - 343 miles MCR > Inverness - 372 miles MCR > Portree - 430 miles MCR > Kirkwall - 523 miles Manchester in the North of Britain? No, not even close.
Scotland's best message back to Trump is still the one Janey Godley gave a decade ago. She spoke for millions.
Paul Hutcheon@paulhutcheon.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Donald Trump issues 'we love you Scotland' message as he claims Andy Burnham will back new oil drilling.
In Dundee North End Social Club for post match pints with the Rothes Evertonians, who were at the game along the road from the one we were at...
Foundation Park, formerly Gussie Park Dundee United U19s v Rothes
It's well known that the 2 "big" teams in Dundee have stadiums on the same street. They rarely, if ever, play at home on the same day. Tomorrow, Sat 18th, there will be 3 football matches, in 3 different football grounds, on the same street. Details below 1/2
Apparently there's a big football match in America tonight. I'm not watching it, but...
Oh well, back to work tomorrow after 12 weeks off following surgery on my hand. At least I'm working at home for the first few days so it shouldn't be too bad...
In memory of Arthur 'Killer' Kane, bass guitarist of the New York Dolls February 3, 1949 - July 13, 2004 NEW YORK DOLLS - Jet Boy (1973 UK TV OGWT Performance) #punk #punks #punkrock #protopunk #arthurkillerkane #history #punkrockhistory #otd
It will soon be christmas... Spotted in Sainsbury's Garthdee store today. It's July FFS!
So it might just be Binface v Cuntface in Clacton. Even if Cuntface Farage wins, it won't be the great vindication he thinks. All it will mean is that SOME people in Clacton, which is only 1 of the 650 constituencies in the UK, don't care what he's done...
So Reform are wasting taxpayers' money because their Führer has a petted lip. Someone will need to remind him where Clacton is. Which of his 5 houses will he declare as his primary residence? And who paid for it? 🤔
Memorial to the more than 2000 Spanish Republicans used as slave labourers in the construction of the Nazi u-boat base in Bordeaux between 1941 and 1944. Many died in the appalling conditions to build this key piece in the Atlantic Wall Photo kindly sent to me by David Marsh
Infantino has 3 options here: 1. Call Trump a liar and say it was entirely a FIFA decision. 2. Immediately suspend the US from all international football for government interference in the sport. 3. Admit that FIFA is corrupt. If he doesn't do 1 or 2 then it is confirmation that 3 is true
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."
To all the people who are, quite rightly, going on about the decision around the US red card, why are you all still watching the most corrupt sporting tournament ever? I haven't watched any of it, because I knew before it started that it would be corrupt
If the USMNT had any integrity they would at least start the game with Balogun on the bench. If they don't, it will show they are happy for the rules to be bent in their favour
Peter Smith@redpeter99.bsky.social · last mo.Only Trump could make the entire footballing world want a decent team with a likeable manager to get absolutely battered by Belgium.
To all the people who are, quite rightly, going on about the decision around the US red card, why are you all still watching the most corrupt sporting tournament ever? I haven't watched any of it, because I knew before it started that it would be corrupt