@thetwomatts.bsky.social Listened to your podcast in which you mention the Royal website still has “Prince Andrew” listed as a Counsellor of State - able to act on behalf of the King. Wonder if it has to be act of Parliament to change? Eg 2022 act below publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Glad to see mock the week back (now on TLC not BBC) and showing full episodes on YouTube youtu.be/M2EspDjsjSA

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Listening on catchup to today’s show and the “ Farage Files” segment. You were discussing if the segment continues potentially commissioning a jingle. Could I suggest some on the lines of… youtu.be/U8NuzNxTjhE?...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social from article in The Atlantic - “Knutson mentioned in passing that his neighbor had “an adopted brown kid down there; they hid her in the basement yesterday.” This kind of thing no longer sounds weird in Minneapolis.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@lewisgoodall.com @ofcom.bsky.social @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social just wondered if OFCOM would be looking into whether Grok AI admitted it was in breach of online safety act?

Manchester Metrolink Tram Looks like power cable has come down this morning Aytoun St

@sturdyalex.bsky.social If you need good news story for Quiet Riot podcast.

NPR: “Regarding Antifa…” TRUMP: “Who are you with?” NPR: “NPR.” TRUMP: “You’re still here? Won’t be for long… does Antifa have anything to do with your network?”

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

What more could you want…. A Transformers band singing theme tune to The Racoons cartoon show - Run with us. youtu.be/DRPbKIXoEsI?...

DC Clayface reported filming at Plaza in Stockport. www-manchestereveningnews-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.manc...

Saw this ages ago only managed to find it on YouTube. Animated short Balloon (1991) Ken Lidster -A creepy clown trying to steal red ballon from girl. youtu.be/529QLdpdjV8

When I was younger many years ago I started to collect some rocks and was given this amongst the amethyst etc. we always called it a Stone Age spearhead/ dagger. Any ideas ?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social good to see you back on the BBC. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

"The hallways...were absolutely lined with ICE agents. And immigrants were scared to leave, even though their cases were still open. What happened was that ICE agents then stormed into the courtroom, kicked out the attorneys, and detained everyone in the courtroom over the judge's objections."

Manchester Chinatown

@bottlenecknyc.bsky.social @mattferguson.bsky.social Nice 🙂 On sale tomorrow- if you don’t have pre-sale email

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Highly suggested reading. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

After listening to Laurence Reece’s thought provoking book the “The Nazi Mind” I wondered how people today would react to rise of fascism. So had a play with Chat GPT and used Tally.so to create the form & scoring - was quite easy to use. This 42 question quiz is the result. tally.so/r/mVNgol

@mrjamesob.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Reform UK Party Limited - person of significant control moved to Reform 2025 Ltd find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1169...

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign from the left…It's like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.

@jon4highpeak.bsky.social just wonder if you have any comment. I know as member of a local charity the support Ruth has given over many years as a MP / Councillor both to the charity and community. And heard suggestions locally she stand as an independent which may split vote.

@bottlenecknyc.bsky.social Nice FedEx delivery @mattferguson.bsky.social Crow poster … Looks great. Thanks

@bottlenecknyc.bsky.social Mystery tube arrived. Thank you😍

@vicepress.bsky.social Great Mystery & badge .... Thank you

Seems quite apt at the moment . youtu.be/EIuwp5PWlk8?...

@jon4highpeak.bsky.social Hi just wondered if you are going to include Bluesky in your regular social media postings. As your last post on 🦋 was 8days ago and some people are engaging less on Twitter(X) and Facebook.

@lewisgoodall.com Just wondered what you thought of Nigel Farrage “throw away” comment on continuation NATO Article 5 ( mutual assistance) for UK when he says around 13:30mins into your show “ if we continuing going on doing that” ?

@sturdyalex.bsky.social Whitehouse Spanish webpage www.whitehouse.gov/es/ has changed - Yesterday had Biden and Spanish - today 404 error page not found and “ Go Home” button Compare it 404 page not found message to www.whitehouse.gov/it/ button “Go to Home Page”. 🤔

Always thought that Judge Dredd and the Dark Judged would make a great horror/sci-fi movie.

This is the colleague that the likes of Cleverly, Badenoch & Jenrick are refusing to defend...

They say Christmas comes earlier every year, seems to be ending sooner as well. Popped into local Morrisons supermarket and they had Valentines cards on display!!