Incredible

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 50m ago

My boyfriend shouts "And away" from Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing after he ejaculates inside me and pulls out. I dread it every time we have sex.

More hardline immigration crap from Sweden, it’s such an inflexible, bureaucratic place. My son had a Swedish passport, I am married to a Swede, but it’d be incredibly tricky to settle there (not that I am gasping to lol, I can’t afford the pints) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Briton facing forced separation from baby son after Sweden orders his deportation

Exclusive: Photographer Simon Montgomery told ‘state’s interest in regulated immigration’ outweighs his family concerns

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it's unfortunate they made the term 'slutshaming' sound so fucking hot

Odd Mercury Prize dominated by already massive pop artists… which sort of wasn’t the point of the thing? When the leftfield struggles against collapsed sales and algorithms it’s a shame a 100k/Gold/No1 gets the boost, especially after Sam Fender won last year www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

With albums under threat, Raye’s Mercury win is a triumph for grand statements | Alexis Petridis

Her winning album has its longueurs, but there’s something heartening about its risk-taking – and the Mercury prize needs big bold records like this to stay relevant

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Patrick Wolf looming in from the American desert at the Q&A after the premiere of Wolf at Doc & Roll Film Festival tonight. A poignant film about recovery and rediscovering creativity after terrible lows, but most of all the connection and love between a mother and a son.

Despite the rain Epping Forest is still bone dry. I’ve never seen the V-2 crater completely empty before but it is after the past summer - I wandered in and not even a squelch of oomska in the middle. Pic by Dave Ma.

Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 2y ago

V-2 crater, South Woodford / Hale End area of Epping Forest, softened by autumn.

Peaches at ATP Nightmare Before Christmas 2004 (the best ATP) and further evidence of my twink era (for all the talk of indie sleaze etc that I don’t really believe existed, this was sort of the pre-American Apparel look, wristband, jeans, often studded belt, ripped sleeve t-shirt)

Fascinating and important thread/research! See also woodland management, as seen in areas of Epping Forest that haven’t been pollarded for years losing biodiversity vs the abundance of grasses, wildflowers, insect life among recently pollarded trees

Forrest Fleischman@forrestf.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've gotten into arguments with ecologists here and elsewhere about the contribution of human land management to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Many people believe that people=bad news, I think the story is much more complicated, and this new paper provides strong support for my view

Green traffic lights all the way through the Crooked Billet roundabout (turning right too) while Radio 3 played John Williams’ theme from Superman

Please read my lil exposé of what AI is doing to property listings. Estate agents are jazzing up the photos without declaring it so now they all look identical - these three ‘photos‘ are of entirely different properties: heawood.substack.com/p/its-the-de...

The Communist authorities in Poland used a very similar argument to deport my Jewish heritage mother-in-law in 1968.

Andrew Sparrow@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reform UK MP Danny Kruger suggests Muslims may find it hard to be loyal to Britain due to their faith - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

In case you're wondering, the message half way down the right side of the flyer reads "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 3d ago

More of this horror, from the once amazing Gardeners Arms in Loughton (my dad drank there in the 60s, amazing views over east London). This is indeed a “secret supper”, but perhaps not quite how they intended

More of this horror, from the once amazing Gardeners Arms in Loughton (my dad drank there in the 60s, amazing views over east London). This is indeed a “secret supper”, but perhaps not quite how they intended

Watched this last night and, yes, it is even worse than expected. It not only shows the far-right X-brain fash meme theories parroted by Reform members and officials behind the scenes, but also how there’s a deliberate policy to not state the extreme policies they would enact in power

Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU@steven-hughes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Undercover: "A year in Reform" Warning: Vile people. Vile language. Exposé of Nigel Farage's Reform Party, it's Tory defectors, and it's acolytes. (Underscores the ugliness of the BBC in relentlessly platforming Reform throughout the Brexit campaign and beyond) #UKPol

And as if by magic a few days after the post below this is introduced, a pox on these parking scammers www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

Andy Burnham outlines new rules to outlaw ‘rip-off’ private parking fines

Drivers to get five minutes to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after their session ends

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Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · last wk.

Automated camera-based no-quarter-given car parking systems are the enemy of the flighty-minded / neurodivergent – the morning I successfully appeal a fine after not realising a payment hadn't gone through I overstay a session by ten minutes by not realising that my time was up argh.

Today is the first anniversary of this very special DJ set I played with @dan-bean.bsky.social It was the first time we presented music music in this way and we were overwhelmed by the joy it generated. on.soundcloud.com/ZHPM00EigVHN... More of there coming. Love Will Save The Day ✨🚀

Surgeon and Dan Bean at Bleep43 Inclines - 11th October 2025

Every so often a plum opportunity presents itself. The best ones are timeslips - for a few hours things can be turned on their heads and anything is possible: Ecstatic dancing at an immersive deep lis

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as a Suede fan rather than a cosy crime fan I thought "bloody hell, wasn't expecting a new 'biting head off of flying creatures a la Ozzy Osbourne' direction from Haywards Heath's finest"

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oh the irony of this badly constructed headline in an article about editors not spotting mistakes. No, Osman did not eat a swift in error.

YES! Are they going to be shot? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport

Passengers urged to ‘share the carriage, not the noise’ as guidance sets out £100 penalties for nuisance behaviour

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Not a fan of the framing of this or other forms of inequality as a "postcode lottery" or (next post) "how postcodes shape lives." Place/geography matters. But it's *overwhelmingly* about income/education/SES. The lottery is about who your parents are, not where you're born.

Rachel Sylvester@rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 5d ago

Children’s commissioner @childrenscomm.bsky.social declares “state of emergency” on young people’s lives - my report for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the “childhood lottery”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Clever idea except the areas are too broad, especially for London which is muddle of deprivation and extreme wealth in any case, as it has been ever since Charles Booth's maps & before. Also Hertfordshire is up among the "best' but you couldn't pay me to live back there again.

The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 5d ago

The childhood lottery: see how your postcode fares Use our tool to explore the best and worst places in the country to grow up https://bit.ly/4i49Q0G

Free weekend update is out. This was the week when the USA-Russia alliance was made formal, to even the most ardent skeptics. And its reality was signed in Ukrainian blood. Hopefully now Ukraine, and Europe, will understand what they must do. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Weekend Update #207: The US-Russia Alliance Is Signed--In Ukrainian Blood

Ukraine Seems To Get It This Time; Ukraine Keeps Steadily Progressing In The Land War

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He’s so good at this

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

@harrysword.bsky.social two quid

Someone’s following the Russell Brand trial and thinking “aha there’s a gap in the market!”

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 6d ago

Hahaha oh god so this post pushed me to go “ok, everyone’s shouting at a screengrab, let’s actually check what was on air”.

Yes! Folk wars! @paddyclarke.bsky.social can be the referee

Simon Spanton@simonguy.bsky.social · 6d ago

Once again I return to my favourite daydream of Fairport Convention beating up Mumford and Sons in a pub carpark.

The banjo-wielding ex-Mumford numb-nut born in Wandsworth, educated at £30k/year St Paul’s School, New York and London resident, in touch with the needs of the North there. Why is he doing an impression of someone doing a bad impression of Travis Bickle here?

Matthew Holehouse@matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 7d ago

The "red wall" is not a term you hear often these days

The tankies looked to the Republicans, and the Republicans looked to the tankies

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Ron Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"

Phil Collins and Ali Campbell should’ve released a collaborative album in 1989 under the name COLLINS/CAMPBELL and all the song titles should’ve been sheer 1989, things like ‘Never been one for talking’ and ‘I’m no good (with names)’ and ‘keys to the city’

Automated camera-based no-quarter-given car parking systems are the enemy of the flighty-minded / neurodivergent – the morning I successfully appeal a fine after not realising a payment hadn't gone through I overstay a session by ten minutes by not realising that my time was up argh.