two bears one cup think I’ll pass

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

I wonder what the replies were like on Threads? Because this guy seems to inhabit an alternate reality.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

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.

HERE WE GO 1. book you've reread the most times? Got to be the Lord of the Rings, which I reread constantly between the ages of 9 and 16

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

When did they kill Stanfords??? 😱

Well this is a lie

mad props to this king who just walked into the Baker Street 5 Guys and took several non-5 Guys burgers out of a plastic bag, unwrapped them, and put mayo & ketchup on them from the 5 Guys dispensers

another max 😎 www.maptap.gg August 4 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000

I’m (re)posting this from the Mu.social web app, not Bluesky, and my account is hosted by Eurosky, not Bluesky. TLDR: you’re probably reading this on Bluesky (unless you’re reading my bridged Mastodon account), but it isn’t Bluesky. edit - and guess what else?? 🤩

François Berjon@fberjon.knigget.net · yesterday

It’s already here (as web app, phone app is under development): mu.social

JUST IN: Staff reportedly increasingly concerned that companies are hiring them for the value of their output, as opposed to their wellbeing and development.

Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

Many EU leaders are collapsing under a moment’s pressure on Ceuta but the hypocrisy of Meloni is particularly sickening. All those demands that Europe help Italy out on Lampedusa, and no-one asked for Italy to be excluded from Schengen. But as soon as a Social Democrat faces problems….

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

once upon a time, we cut off the trolls’ oxygen and they got bored and wandered off. that’s how this place became the so-called “bubble” they hate so much. the end.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

I’m intrigued by the recent resurgence of the ‘Long Covid is not real’ nonsense we saw back in 20/21. The refusal to learn is one thing, but the dismissal of reality is another. Long Covid is too painful, too common & too present in many people’s lives to be denied. The story is hard to rewrite.

Yup. Eurosky, Blacksky, Northsky, there's a lot of skies out there, and hopefully more to come. This is why the architecture is so interesting, and why I think this instance of federation might (eventually) break out of containment.

Chris Kendall@ottocr.at · 2d ago

and indeed many of us have already done that, seamlessly transitioning to eg @eurosky.social from which we continue to post but from and to non-US servers

Resigning a chair is one thing, but the Cody Butler is also leaving the party - I think his statement that chasing Reform's voters with Reform's politics does Reform's work for it, is extremely insightful <side-eye to Labour's Red Wall and Blue Labour tendencies>

Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Aww, this is worth 10 seconds of your life!

John O'Connell@jdpoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.

My wish came true, I am still in my job, and the guy who wrote this is dead. 😎

rip 😔

He might be right though not for the reasons he thinks

Get Me Zarniwoop@martinmorrey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh, did I not mention the CEO of #SpaceX is the biggest bullshitter (still) on planet Earth? But go ahead investors, hand over your money 🤪 moneywise.com/news/top-sto...

Roast slowly and painfully in hell Liddle you piece of shit

Can I have a ruling? When I say “I’m going up to London” my wife thinks I sound like a PG Wodehouse character whereas I think that’s totally normal.

If you see this, quote it with the energy you bring to Bluesky

Thomas Tuchel mad

ALT: Thomas Tuchel mad

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Tim Morton@timmorton2.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you see this, quote it with the energy you bring to BlueSky

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

***ALERT ALERT THIS POST IS NOT MADE BY AN AMERICAN*** Is Bluesky going to give non-Americans an extra 54 characters for every post to allow us to meet our new statutory obligations?

annenews@annenews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, pardon me to hell for not knowing you’re from another country since Bluesky is HUGE in USA. Would have helped if you mentioned your country instead of “this country”. Still, I referred to US figures clearly as denial reigns here too! I could’ve shared your country too had you mentioned it.

It’s hard to hold my 8yo’s attention for a whole film but I’ve found his sweet spot with Shaolin Soccer. Cantonese audio track notwithstanding, he’s so into it 😂

Shaolin Soccer: Kung Fu Football Match

ALT: Shaolin Soccer: Kung Fu Football Match

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Randomly plucked out of thin air, my top ten ‘black and white’ films (as of this precise point in time): The Seventh Seal 100s of Beavers Wings of Desire Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Way Out West Young Frankenstein Jane Eyre (1943) The Seven Samurai Heimat His Girl Friday