Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Where i was born: the Medway Where i grew up: the Tame Where i live now: the Deben

It's well known that if the police find out a nightclub is dealing drugs or having regular fights break out they simply ignore it as it's an adult space.

“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Looking forward to more extensive coverage of the civil war about to break out in our hellhole cities.

Kemi, this is just a population density map

I was going to suggest war games but it's just a teenage hacker using WOPR to put women in skimpy clothing and give them big tits. Then i realised thats just weird science

Lots of folk assume this piece (which I'm not linking to as it doesn't feel particularly fair) is written by a man (or at least default to male pronouns when expressing their assumptions), but that would be an incorrect assumption

Blade Renner enchance scene but it's deckard putting Roy in a bikini and giving him progressively bigger tits

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

We used to do real science

At least his posture has improved

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

The wine mums might be toting magnums.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

When someone points out "The only reason corporations vocally support human and civil rights is because the market rewards them and it helps their brand."

one time I told a Claude instance I had researching various historical warning signs of emergent fascism about Alligator Alcatraz and yeah I guess it triggered some "hey you are having a psychotic episode there's no way that's true" subroutine

Waitrose chefs? I have questions

Lets be fair here: armed militias intimidating and attacking americans has been a cornerstone of trumps domestic agenda, so maybe he's jyst running venezuela like he's running the USA?

Is a big horse mweting known as a Round Stable?

[horse meeting] We're getting a lot of good feedbag

Questions raised by large language model's role in equine ingestion tragedy

"I know an old woman who trusted AI"

You’re right—swallowing the bird was a half-measure. The bird did eat the spider, as planned, but now you have a bird in you. It reminds you of swallowing the spider to catch the fly. You’re seeing the pattern. Would you like me to suggest some animals which could eat the bird?

We practised for our first communion using circles cut out of ice cream wafers. I feel like if Mrs Lindsay had known this fact, we might've got some sherbet out of the deal

This is a fantastic fact

I feel like if our political leaders responded to the fracturing of the Western alliance with the same intensity they did to that time Obama referred to BP as British Petroleum during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we'd be in better shape.

I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?

The Stranglers used to do Bowie covers like 'The Laughing Gnome' and 'Heroes' but they don't do Gnome or Heroes any more.

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Do you know a logician who's trying to give up booze? I just saw the perfect sign!

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

Hmm, is my follower count one of the 7 seals? And if so, is that good?

Reactionaries reading Tolkien

Oh god. I've just realised: the entire plot of xfiles is just the teacher sitting the well behaved quiet girl next to the disruptive boy in the hope it will socialise him to play well with others

He’s out there trying to trade the Nobel Peace Prize to himself in exchange for not invading, simultaneously threatening NATO over an empty island he’s got a childish fixation, and claiming an absolute right to execute Americans, and all our institutions are keeping up the pretense this is not nutso

I think 2026 is going to be the year of me saying "I'm not going to do that unless you can explain what the point of it is". And then probably getting sacked.

There’s also another reason it’s hard to fathom which is Gamergate lost on its own terms. As I repeat ad nauseum, the biggest movies of 2026 will be Supergirl and a colour-blind trans-inclusive The Odyssey. The GtA VI trailer passes the bechdel test. They just took over the world trying to

Tbh this also explains quite a lot of trump

I think it's very important that Rupert Lowe's "Million Nonce March" gets widespread media coverage. Critical to amplify diverse voices.

I think the mistake here is that while we thought that the important word in "protect our girls" was "protect" they clearly thought it was "our"

If I Stop Reading Mein Kampf and Writing “No!” in the Margins, Then the Nazis Will Win

If pushed, I'd probably have to say that my favourite Anglo-Saxon king is King Ethelbert since he is the only one whose name contains an entire middle-aged British couple from the 1960s.

Nah, give them a shot. We had our chance and, in modern parlance, blew it.

Are US police given such broad defference in US soceity (moreso than in other developed nations) despite their brutality and incompetence or are they so brutal and incompetent because of the broad deference they reveive and have come to see as their right?

it is one of my go-to points - connected to their widespread use of firearms and dire lack of training - that while police have problems everywhere, U.S. police are unusually brutal and incompetent by developed country standards.

Ice on ICE violence

Idea for Tony Gilroy's next Star Wars TV series that bridges the gap between RotJ and Force Awakens. It's basically the story of how the rebel alliance fails to prosecute or punish the Empire for anything they did during the original series, including blowing up planets.