Sign and share if you're a UK citizen or UK resident! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

For fucks sake, no part of a cow or pig is called a burger or sausage, it's a shape. Desperate attempts from animal farmers to damage vegetarian food sales. What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?

Friend of mine momentarily forgot what Bonfire Night is called and renamed it "terrorism party"

New print in my shop for the philosophically inclined! (Shop link in bio)

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.” Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

"Automated BIOS patch corruption"

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.

Grand Theft Fitba #SCOGRE

#SCOGRE we gave the Greeks a right Thracian. The biggest theft in their history since the Elgin Marbles

' I’m beginning to wonder if Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is a sleeper agent for Nigel Farage, because at every turn he’s making Starmer look like a complete and utter fool.' @weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/iMU0G

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

One step beyond

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Once again watching England with an archly raised brow from Scotland; we've had 15 years of scorn heaped on Independence supporters up here for being narrow, flag-obsessed nationalists, and now the whole UK Cabinet is lying about having loads of flags they shag all the time, mortifying behaviour

Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation

UK online safety law in practice.

Mount Alvernia; Nuns who would not leave Liberton in life or in death tinyurl.com/threadinburgh1 I assumed at the outset that this story would be a historical one, but much of it is relevant now. I'm a devout atheist but I do have admiration for people who devote their lives to 'good works'

BREAKING NEWS Sunny Dunny 2025 #bloodbowl tournament is proud to announce a MAJOR new sponsor: Umbrage Sports, manufacturers of the finest bloodbowl equipment this side of Altdorf! Each team gets one 'special' match ball: The Umbrage Punt! Full details: talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopic.ph...

Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds

The big technological challenge of our times is going to be the ability to verify facts when AI generated content becomes the norm. As more people rely on this information while the way it was generated becomes more opaque, we could be in real trouble

"I wonder, in my darker moments, if we’re going through something similar to Suez now – a less dramatic decline, perhaps, but a potentially more ruinous one." continuing my one man campaign to brighten up your summer

"The inalienable right of a people to be free is reduced to a crude bargaining chip, a chess piece on a board to be discarded for a greater strategic cause" notes @owenjones.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

📢 I've given the old Threadinburgh website some attention and it has a new display theme. If you have 5 minutes could you take a quick look to debug anything? I'm aware the title and strap line aren't displaying fully on mobile, that sorta thing 🙏: threadinburgh.scot

Wouldn't like to be in their choux

You'll be amazed to hear that Liz Truss does not understand basic public finance

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Remember Mechahitler is the name of the creator, not the monster

I’m here in R’lyeth, where Barrister Douglas Green and his wife Judy want to build a house of cyclopean stone that came to them in a dream. Unfortunately, as this blighted land has risen from the abyss, so has the price of their build. Will this dream house become a nightmare?

Spiceworld.

Love your street trees. Give them a drink. They will return your love with cooler, leafy neighbourhoods in the hotter summers to come, Bring you quiet joy as you walk beneath their shade. #TreesForLife #Scotland

Peter Benchley's Jaws (Eric Carle version) for @mitchbenn.bsky.social

Did you know every time you say “someone is toast,” you are paying homage to that great linguistic innovator, Bill Murray.

Hear me out here: pangolins are nothing more than the Clangers' warrior caste...

I made one that raided my pantry. 🧶

Looking at Scotland: Reform are on 16% (one in six voters) for Westminster 14%/16% in Holyrood 2026. A breakthrough - but less dramatic than suggested, eg in the Hamilton byelection. Reform's rise is a challenge to Scottish exceptionalism. But lower support than in Wales or England. Why?

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

"James Rebanks remembers his grandfather’s tractor being mobbed by flocks of gulls as the plough turned over the rich earth to offer the gulls a feast of worms. Those days are past"

England wildlife regulator chair ‘enthusiastic’ about Lynx rewilding

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

Hannan's predictions of post-Brexit life in the UK are, impressively, almost 100% wrong. You have to admire the chutzpah of these commentators who still believe their insights are of worth. It's a Mary Sue version of the UK, when Mary Celeste would be more apt.

How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children | Devi Sridhar

I enjoy the conclusion here. One measure of a nation’s success, is it George? Would that be the only measure you actually care about by any chance?