Mike Tonge
@miketonge.bsky.social
Engineer, photographer, astronomer, and bad typist. Many men at my age start moving towards fascism. I've decided to embrace absurdism instead. What do we when want?
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com I'm currently looking at the CILIP "Warm Spaces" report you funded in 2022. There is now an urgent need for "Cool Spaces" in our communities. I've been bothering my local County Councillors and MP, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere. Any suggestions?
Has anyone else noticed that Count Binface never looks any older? He must have a really good tincare routine.
@garytcoles.bsky.social My apologies for speling yor name rong. Fuck off Gary.
It's amazing how easily supposedly intelligent people will fall for a naf marketing gimmick. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos AI model
Experts say Mythos potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity weaknesses.
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What is the Capital of England? Even a fool know that the answer to that question is 'E'. But I just asked an AI, and it insists the answer is 'London'. Useless!
Brilliant phrase by a US friend of mine to describe the defence of a prolific paedophile by Trump, Bondi, Patel, Thiel, Musk and Bannon et al ‘The Creep State’
I love this insanity. Reminds me of Devo... ...and for some reason, the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis shit rocks and the comment section on the YouTube video is, somehow, extremely funny.
It made me laugh, out loud. Hope it makes you smile.
Pete@baldiepete.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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I was in hospital yesterday. A friend visited me. His father had been brought into the same hospital the day before. "How's your dad", I asked him. "He died yesterday. But don't worry, he's alive again now." A That really happened. B I'm charging £50 a person for a full explanation.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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Sebastião Salgado died this week. I never liked him. But hee was the greatest photographer in my lifetime. So far.
WHAT?
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · last yr.if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women. and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women. not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...