Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w ago
What's the alternative, only watching one screen?!
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w agoDon’t know how you lot can post and watch, aren’t you just in tension the whole time?
Kind of refreshing to have some politicians getting into scandal for proper sums of money, it does get a bit embarrassing when British MPs keep selling out for the equivalent of a dozen ps5 games. Have reform bought 1000 ps5 consoles, I'm not sure but they could if they wanted to is the point.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Metropolitan Police have launched a criminal investigation into a £500,000 donation to Reform from the mother of the convicted fraudster and Farage donor, George Cottrell www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Singapore on Thames finally came true in a genie granted Boris Johnson's wish kind of way.
Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 4w agowe were discussing installing ceiling fan earlier because my sister in law had one in Singapore and it was lovely. and Singapore simply shouldn’t be a term of reference for London heat!
This game was so good I might actually like wonderwall now
I can't imagine how hard this match was to watch at altitude, watching at sea level was exhausting
neal is the closest thing to a kaiju we get
Rob Arnol@robertarnol.bsky.social · last mo.Neal continues his war on bollards.
Starting a block list for luddites who are wrong about the exciting new technology of xenomorph genetics
So if a quarterquell is every 25 years, 250 is a decaquarterquell then I think...
While aircon itself is of course a significant factor in energy use and carbon production, posts about aircon are now accounting for 50% of grid capacity. We cannot afford to keep posting about aircon at this rate.
Situation like this calls for The Eggotiator, they'll handle these yokels.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.Couldn’t come up with a better eggs held hostage joke than this. I am sorry to my friends and family.
People call it Mad Posters Disease but its scientific name is actually Poster's Spongiform Encephalopathy
And the royal train is being taken out of service next year because of costs. Are you happy now socialism? The king is going to have to take the royal bus replacement service.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.King and Queen will not live at Buckingham Palace after £369m refit
convinced ac discourse has been introduced by one of: a)heat exhaustion b)a cursed algorithm that optimises for making good people have bad takes c)someone leaving their laptop on a funny table they got at a thrift shop that is actually a demonic altar d)a hostile state disinfo op via tufton street
Andy Burnham: so should I keep Shabana? LaboursOneSanePoliticalAdvisor:well the green voters will never come back to you. Nor will reform voters while a cabinet minister is telling them they're right about migrants. And she is one of the most unpopular ministers with labour members and the public.
Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · last mo.There are no words to describe how much I want Burnham to sack Shabana Mahmood. Though I’ll imagine I’ll find them for a column if he doesn’t.
Heatwaves making nipping to the shop for snacks feel like dying historic on the fury road.
All praise be to our new Prime Minister, the heatwave.
Waiting for Reform to champion bringing back the child death penalty so we can close the child prisons.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTherapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison
This would never have happened in the 2000s because we had real culture like Charmed.
JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 2mo agothey are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!
Keil Starmrong is going to the moon? With Bames Nond?
Forming a new labour faction who's only priority is selecting a leader based on charisma, but specifically low charisma.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2mo agoEXC -MPs loyal to Starmer have said they will rally round Darren Jones if the PM decides to resign - to prevent a Burnham coronation. “He would have the numbers of the PM does not run,” one MP said. The coordination has been done with those who signed a loyalist letter in May
Got a rabid dog to bite me so that my madman strategy is credible. But then the dog injected itself with syphilis so I gave it my house. He is a tremendous landlord and I am happy to pay his medical bills.
Private equity 🤮 want to buy up Brixton Market. We can't let them - sign the petition to #BuyBackBrixton you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
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A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
bbc.co.uk
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
democracyforsale.substack.com
Listening to Starmer, and wondering why (for the nth time) no govt has pressed for regulating algorithmic recs and "infinite scroll". Says they are taking "world-leading action" on gaming and video-streaming services and that they will "have to adapt their approach as technology changes".