Tangentially related to the 'Perfectly Plausible' Crooked Timber post, a good game for long car rides is 'how many __ does A think?', where A is asked some q like 'how many golfers are there in America?', thinks of an answer, then B & C try to guess the answer A has thought of. Closest wins.

The specifics of this situation are not in themselves funny, but you do have to pinch yourself sometimes to recall that the most successful party in the history of western democratic politics is happily allowing itself to be led into oblivion by this thundering moron who won by accident.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11h ago

Conservatives challenged for selecting a man who formed a far right group + was jailed for serious antisemitic harassment of former MP Luciana Berger.Badenoch says he has reformed sufficiently to have a local candidacy, but should not have a national platform www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kemi-b...

5th August 2026 05.33

I don't think any part of this is true tbh.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Am reading 'The Revolutionists' at the moment and loving it. Any recommendations for similar books that give so many 'oh shit, so that's why that's like that' moments in a roughly similar vein?

feels like a threat

If Newcastle don't replace him with someone genuinely good, you fear they may be in for a long and perilous season.

David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨 Arsenal nearing total agreement with Newcastle United to sign Bruno Guimaraes. Desire among all parties to bring situation to close + deal now on course for completion; 28yo awaiting #NUFC permission to undergo medical & seal #AFC switch 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...

You can't make me

morrowind.txt@morrowind-txt.bsky.social · yesterday

Very funny. Now put some clothes on.

Ridiculous, he's only 4cm taller than Lampard himself

Just dreamed that Man United beat Burnley 15-4 on the opening day of the season. Burnley were managed by a dweeb with a high-pitched voice who was allergic to being at room temperature, and their goalie's name was Redtop Evans. Sad that Liddle gas passed away, think he'd have got a kick out of it.

This is the response I sent when my LinkedIn DM asking Don if I could be his agent was rebuffed:

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · yesterday

Didn’t realise Cheadle was a closed shop

The British political system working exactly as intended:

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · yesterday

Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members

I'm the guy in the Reform party policy team who was tasked with planning if we could win a war with France. I just told Zia Yusuf that we have more independent nukes than they do, just for a laugh, but I'm not sure he got it

I guess he's just lucky there's no record of him supporting Net Zero

Everyone will have their own favourite moments; naturally mine is when it emerged he had an account on the Millwall fans forum and used it to post racist content that had the locals going ‘fucking hell mate, that’s a bit ripe’ and similar

Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

What an appalling man he was.

Also notice here now this response was autonomic and universal, white blood cells swarming en masse to reject the foreign contamination. Not just the MPs but the assorted miasma of journalists, columnists and think tankers. The Court, basically, protecting its own.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sure, but it was never a question of whether she was right or wrong. All the MPs and the press knew very well she was correct, because they see it all the time. The point was that some insolent upstart tree-hugger had no business running her big yapping mouth, where the public can hear. The end.

Well, we’re in no rush

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Questions about [my] money could go on for years," says Nigel Farage, when asked about the secret deal he struck with the convicted fraudster George Cottrell before agreeing to return as leader of Reform UK.

Finally Trev has joined the protests against the Guardian’s transfer interactive

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dear me.

Nobody doing it like him

Reading Jason Arday’s PhD thesis and there does seem to be some evidence of plagiarism. Alarm bells started ringing for me when he claimed that between the Manchu conquest in the mid-17th century and the peak of the Qing dynasty's power in the mid-18th there occurred an ‘administrative revolution’

mostly grateful that the average bluesky user totally lost the argument on covid after vaccines were rolled out & had a roadmap for returning to normality and living with covid they refused to entertain (while vilifying anyone who tried to ask for one) imposed upon them by those they had sneered at

good to see more and more people refusing to accept the fall of the qing dynasty

It's incredible to go on Twitter and see how they're basically all convinced that lab leak has been 'proven right', mostly because scientists were mean about some of the protagonists on Slack as far as I can see

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

Learning via the Pitchfork review of the new Strokes album that their most streamed track is not Last Nite but The Adults Are Talking because Gen Zers like its message

????

David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 BREAKING: Chelsea working to sign Jordan Henderson from Brentford. #CFC top contender among multiple PL clubs eyeing England midfielder as #BrentfordFC ready to grant free transfer. Amicable situation + healthy relations between 36yo/club @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...

Enjoyable to think about how awkward this kind of comment must be for Delcy Rodriguez

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump to press on Airforce One: “We are taking billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. “That will happen with Iran too.”

Form undermining message in this instance thanks to a correct use of semi-colon that is almost certainly beyond most native English speakers

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last wk.

motherfucker I am French and I mostly read 20th century European fiction; my sentences are going to keep running on and on and on and there's nothing any of you or indeed any of us can do about it

JICYMI #Clacton by-election ballot paper

It's got to the level where the debate should be whether we just ban it in the UK and cancel all Musk's contracts with the UK government, or whether we also seek a warrant for extradition.

Important to object to and correct every single use of "remigration." The word is a euphemism designed to make respectable its users' project, which is ethnic cleansing.