Look how simple those questions are and it all falls apart. Now look at the questions media outlets usually opt to ask, instead.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 3h ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

Gertie girl My little dark-eyed junco friend with her fluffs on our fence before she put them in her nest. #BirdOfTheDay #RedOrDead #ColorADay #RedWed #AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEphemeral #SensoryArt #small #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #birds #photography #OM-3

5. a song from the 1990s with a colour in the title #DavidsMonthOfMusic #music #musicsky "Goldfinger" - Ash In 1996, Ash frontman Tim Wheeler was quoted as saying that "Goldfinger is the best song we've ever written, and the best words I've ever written".

ASH - Goldfinger (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by Ash

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Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026. Result of profiteering and govt policies. Sufficient to increase frozen personal income tax allowance by nearly £2,000. Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.

Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026

Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures

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Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

When the floor is lava...

🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦@joycomes.bsky.social · 7h ago

Yellow Bittern 36cm belongs to the heron family, it blends into its marshy and reed-filled habitats, making it a master of camouflage Live in the mashy rice paddies, reed beds across Asia, India and Japan, Indonesia Diet: small fish, frogs aquatic insects Large feet allows it to walk on plants

No, this exactly the kind of “free speech” they have always believed in: special Freedom Plus for themselves, and PC Plod banging on your door to finger wag you for impertinence, while they phone your boss and try to get you fired.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 15h ago

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

We wasted the opportunity to build public wealth from oil and gas. Let's not make the same mistake with renewables.

This isn’t actually Jeremy Vine, it’s Chris Morris.

Dan@danofthewibble.bsky.social · 23h ago

Reminded of elsewhere, but here you’ll find Vernon Kay getting as close to calling Jeremy Vine a stupid cunt as you’ll ever get on daytime BBC radio.

The “cowardly French” and the “incompetent Irish”, at its heart Brexit was the last gasp of imperial British exceptionalism. In their minds Britain was being held back by its small minded, feckless, cowardly partners and would thrive once it was unshackled from the EU and “forged its own path”.

#BurnhamWatch latest...

Please Disperse - Nothing to See Here

ALT: Please Disperse - Nothing to See Here

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h ago

It does seem odd that Epstein was able to directly suborn at least one serving government minister, while flying his private plane in and out of military bases in Britain and visiting e.g. Buckingham Palace and one of the royal family’s private retreats. Presumably nothing dodgy going on there.

Monsters

I think the best way to read this obvious propaganda is as a determination by the party right (through its Guardian-friendly mouthpiece, Labour Together) to keep the membership small and reliably anti-left. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour members ‘have tougher view on welfare than you might think’, poll suggests

Survey finds party members see health, the economy, cost of living and climate crisis among biggest challenges

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Well that's a vote of confidence for all Tory councillors.

The old bait and switch is alive and well and living in UK Labour...

Rorza8472@rorza8472.bsky.social · 11h ago

ending neo-liberalism by; - supporting illegal wars for vested interests - jailing peaceful protesters - persecution of minorities - more fossil fuel burning - more cuts to welfare & services to fund said wars - watering down climate change targets y'all fell for the oldest trick in the book.

To mix my characters, and there's more...

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d ago

Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.

"When it comes to the very obscenely rich in America, I take an aggressive zero-tolerance attitude. Break their monopolies. Seize their estates. Confiscate their wealth. They have built a system by which to steal our freedom as well as our money. They are criminals. We should treat them as such."

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 23h ago

Zero-tolerance for oligarchs www.editorialboard.com/zero-toleran...

Looks like Father Ted will get a lot of exposure on here...

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h ago

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.

Absolutely 👊🏻

Mr Brown@mrbrownetc.bsky.social · yesterday

Yep. The idea that a platform has to have everything, and everyone is odd from a user perspective. We go to pubs, restaurants etc which not only serve the food/drink we want but also have the clientele like. There's no reason why we suspend that online.

Golden Girls: Bea Arthur & Betty White - Good News!

ALT: Golden Girls: Bea Arthur & Betty White - Good News!

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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ@chrisstein.bsky.social · yesterday

Subject yourself to tons of me ranting, photos etc, archived from the old Blondie website Stuff starts around 2000 archive.blondie.net/blondie_chri...

Lovely woman on the only checkout open in “Moscow” Morrisons (a 70s shithole supermarket with no food). A nasty, miserable old bastard growls at her - rudeness personified. Never trust anyone who’s rude to waiters, barstaff, anyone who works in retail. Shithousers one and all.

Bloody hell...

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Liberal England: Finlay J. Macdonald visits the Flannan Isles and their lighthouse I once had bed and breakfast at Breasclete on the west coast of Lewis, and the owner was the grandson of one of the men aboard the Hesperus when it went out to the isles in 1900 to see what was amiss with the light.

Finlay J. Macdonald visits the Flannan Isles and their lighthouse

This television film about the Flannan Isles , their lighthouse and the mysterious disappearance of its three keepers in 1900 was made by Fi...

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4. the first song on an album from the 2000s #DavidsMonthOfMusic #music #musicsky "Everything in Its Right Place" - Radiohead From Kid A (2000) The lyrics were inspired by the stress felt by the singer, Thom Yorke, while promoting Radiohead's album OK Computer.

Everything In Its Right Place

YouTube video by Radiohead - Topic

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A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

I am grateful to the people here who are committed to posting beauty - visual art, music, poetry.