Tell you what, there isn’t a rake Badenoch won’t stand on. Then stand on again, insisting she meant to the first time.

I see the mouthy weirdo American guy who thinks he knows everything but really knows very little has decided to weigh in on Vimes’ boots. What is it with these pricks? Do they have to have an opinion about literally everything? Can they not just shut up occasionally?

Can you all stop talking about that book question list thing? It’s clearly created - I suspect via a bit of AI assistance - by someone who isn’t really much of a reader and who doesn’t understand books. Possibly an American.

*Renewable energy *Racial attitudes (despite recent backsliding) *Football *Football hooliganism *Violent crime *Rail travel (yes, really) *Air quality *Cancer survival *Deaths on the road *Car safety *Dog mess on pavements *School results *University access *Teenage pregnancy... Etc (2/2)

Things that are better than forty years ago: *Double glazing *Fitted kitchens *Central heating *Mixer taps *Hand-dryers that work *Power showers *Coffee *Unemployment *Inflation *Reliable cars *Passive smoking *Lung cancer *Drowning *Suicide (tho not so recently) *Mental health drugs (1/2)

Nominative determinism candidate of the week

Reuters@reuters.com · 14h ago

Reuters U.S. Business of Space Correspondent Joey Roulette breaks down SpaceX's first earnings report since going public, which showed the rocket company transforming into an AI infrastructure provider, with Starlink's soaring revenue funding ambitious plans for data centers in space.

On Berlin public transport there are announcements asking you not to play music/video out loud. And people don’t. Could we have that in London please - just re-establish the norm!

Almost all of them excellent too

IGN@ign.com · yesterday

See the first official cast photo for Game of Thrones: The Mad King stage play, featuring King Aerys II, Rhaegar Targaryen, Young Ned Stark, and more. bit.ly/4hd5Jki

No human social group has ever been “everyone.” I know that’s bad business, but suck it up.

The new Spider-man movie is an emphatic reiteration of an age-old superhero truth: Spidey is the best one

I have no other way of expressing this as someone who has lived with MECFS (Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome) for 17 years, but fuck you Goodall Ableism is bigotry, no less so than racism or homophobia. I have zero tolerance for bigotry. Solidarity with those with Long Covid. Unfollowed.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.

This is, frankly, nuts

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Electoral system choice is one of those decisions that really isn't a great one to be made via mass electorates. It's genuinely hard! Better to do what British Columbia did and have a citizen assembly consider it, just don't institute a ridiculous supermajority requirement in the referendum after:

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 5d ago

We then asked about specific electoral reforms: proportional representation, fusion voting, ranked choice voting, and top two elections. All landed in the 20s/30s both for and against, with a high share of don't knows. RCV is the most polarized by party. PR has the least opposition and most unsures.

Yorkshire Day? Just a less impressive version of Lancashire Day.

AI slop, do not read

TheGamer@thegamerweb.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Mad King is unique as far as ASOIAF adaptations go, which makes its place in the canon a little more complicated.

Spoiler-free review of The Mad King: fucking brilliant, the best non-book take on Westeros yet. Special praise to the actors playing: Lyanna, Robert, Ned, Aerys, Rhaegar. Also, George-accurate throne

Second order elections. It’s not as important as a general election. Fewer people bother to vote. A long standing fact.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d ago

I don’t know about this one. I am really pro-devolution, but I don’t always vote in local or mayoral elections. Sometimes you’re just happy enough with all the plausible candidates, you know.

This is the only opinion I will accept on all matters Lasso

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 5d ago

There was only one season. As there was only one Matrix.

I get a little annoyed by the coverage of the proposed sell-off of the World Cup. They’re not just planning to sell it off. They’re planning to sell it off *to the Trump family*. That should be up front and central.

I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.

I tend to think the variance is a feature, not a bug.

This is a shame. Really enjoyed the first season

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

Marvel's Wonder Man TV series has been canceled and will not return for its planned second season. https://bit.ly/4fE07Nv

Worth doing to watch the meltdown all the “I’m a classical liberal” types would have

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 6d ago

I maintain that if Burnham made it legal to confiscate phones from people who watch video or listen to music without headphones, then called a snap election, he could actually increase his majority.

This is the best thing I think I’ve ever heard

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 6d ago

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Loads of idiots posting spoilers for The Mad King already. Wind yer necks in, you daft sods

These sorts of takes are debilitating. Altman and his like are not mentally ill. They're weaving BS and lies to further *their interests*.

London’s haters can’t stand our success. The picture they paint of a lawless dystopia is a gross distortion of reality. And now, neighbourhood crimes are down significantly too, with 35,000 fewer offences on our streets.

Neighbourhood crime plunges in London as mayor slams 'dystopian hellhole' narrative

‘Neighbourhood crime’ falls 14% with 35,000 fewer offences in a year

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The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system.

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · last mo.

Enact the Final Provisions. Dissolve Fifa.

Misguided culture policing? Right here on Bluesky?