Laws designed to allow large corporations to maintain control over our daily lives are being passed at an increasing rate, while laws designed to protect people are being broken brazenly by the powerful.

Something I've seen Reform voters say a few times is "But you said you supported Labour/Starmer!"... yes, but now Labour no longer align with those people's views, so they no longer support them. How is this unclear? If you stick with a leader/party no matter what they do then you're just in a cult

At the risk of being labelled a radical extremist, I think we should bring actual accountability (back) to politics.

It's nice when they take an interest in your hobbies. Has anyone seen the mop? #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Based on my investment portfolio, I've determined that I'll be able to retire comfortably at the age of 236. That is unless Discworld collectibles skyrocket in value. In which case I'll wave at you peasants from my yacht.

Just so we are all on the same page, Farage probably knows the investigation won't go anywhere, but he's just setting the media narrative in the minds of the Reform voters to give them another excuse to fall back on about why they lost. They will lap it up.

I see "sectarian" is the political buzzword of the moment, and that people are repeating it, as if it means anything in this context, without troubling themselves with a dictionary. So, as a proud member of the "trying not to be an insufferable arse" sect. Vote Green 💚

Labour would have been fine with Reform winning Gorton and Denton because they would have claimed it validated their anti-immigrant and anti-trans policies and doubled down. Very happy that the message was clear: You should have treated people with respect and basic decency.

Reform asked voters of Gorton and Denton to 'channel their patriotic Blitz spirit' And they did just that - by defeating fascists.

Labour will be having a focus group this morning to figure out what it was about the empathetic, emotionally intelligent, working class, normal human being that appealed to the voters of Gorton and Denton.

3) Don't play dirty. The bizarre claims about the Greens in relation to drugs and sex workers were desperate, embarrassing, and harmful. It is no wonder they did not work and instead reflected badly on our party.

I imagine a lot of Labour MPs are unhappy with Keir Starmer right about now after the Green Party win in Gorton and Denton. Oh well, hopefully some of the tools his father made were spanners, as there's a constituency in need of a plumber 😁 Well done Hannah and the Greens 💚

I've been striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home... No wait don't send that's the wrong franchi... https://www.pixelbandits.org/2026/02/star-trek-voyager-across-the-unknown-review/ 🎮#VideoGames #StarTrek #Gaming

Kick the tyres and light the fires. I'm coming out of the mail-slot screaming with the Kestrel Mk. II this week. Come along on Thursday and we'll show Sabbathias who's boss (so sorry, Sabbathias. I know it's you) https://twitch.tv/pixelbandits #EliteDangerous #Elite #SciFi 🎮

Life hack: Play 90s games to avoid the GPU price hike #Gaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames

Trivia entries I've looked at for Supernatural on IMDB have a "body count", but unaccountably lack a "Brooding" rating.

A "Let's see if this gets me blocked" thought of the Day: Why is Mario bigger than Thunderbirds? Mario has an entire Super Mario World, but Thunderbirds only have a Super Mario Nation. #Thunderbirds #Gaming #BadJokes

Today I learned that opticians are absolutely supportive of you taking a miniature to your appointment and saying "I need to be able to see to paint this" 😁

The country would definitely like to see other people. It's not us, it's you.

When doing UX/web design, it may also be worth considering the wording you use. Especially if your website is for health insurance

The Internet likes feet pics, right? #Caturday #Cats

"AI will be able to replace all programmers in 6-12 months" is the new "Fusion energy is 30 years away"

Nvidia, who are betting the farm on AI, think that it's good that companies are giving them lots of money for AI components Apparently this is news, so I'd also like to confirm that I would welcome people giving me lots of money.

In this latest episode of I may have to grow older, but I don't have to grow up, the perfectly normal adult human adorns his backpack. Naturally most of them are Discworld pins

A lie can ACK around the World Wide Web before the truth has got its SYN on. #Discworld #TerryPratchett

Now THIS is a Discworld pin badge that means business.

Apparently Reform now want to keep the Welsh out of England... I thought he was going to turn out to be a bot that spams "Vote Reform" on posts about multilingual subjects, but he replied to someone. Comment has just disappeared so either BBC deleted or realisation kicked in 😂

I don't want to worry anyone with potential signs of the end times, but with the cost of RAM and the rumors about GPU price hikes, it's possible that Warhammer may become a relatively cheap gaming option. #Warhammer #TTRPG #Gaming

The reason Labour are so scared about the idea of The Green Party is because, to compete with the Greens, Labour would have to prioritise everyday people over the rich and powerful, something that they aren't allowed to do. Labour fighting Reform only requires a step or two further to the right.

Science tells us that nothing is faster than light. That may be true on a galactic scale, but where it comes to local phenomena I'd argue that sound travelling between a food packet and a cat's ears has it beat. Now that's a wave with fast track priority boarding. Tune in next time for more science

Anyone else got an uneasy feeling that all this (potential) Internet "safety" legislation is as much about using regulatory hurdles to turn the Intetnet into a walled garden for the big tech lobbyists than it is about reducing privacy? #Privacy #FOSS #OnlineSafetyAct #ChatControl #Politics

With how the world is going, companies really need to be more specific when advertising "Breakdown cover". I don't have a car, but if we are talking societal or mental then sign me up!

Ugh, I accidentally tapped on a GBNews link. Is there some kind of support group I can join to get rid of the unclean feeling?

Not done any miniature painting for ages, so I'm quite happy with how this one turned out :) #Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #MiniaturePainting

If you're a millennial nerd who might like to watch another millennial nerd play retro video games on original PS One hardware - I'm playing Final Fantasy IX and it's all kicking off right now. Come join me - https://twitch.tv/pixelbandits #RetroGaming #Gaming #Retro

People joke about Reform turning into the Tories via defections, which isn't wrong, but the Labour party seem to have done the same thing all on their own.

Beyond excited to let you know that I'm an official Co-Streamer for The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. Join me tonight from 8pm GMT to check out some incredible upcoming games at twitch.tv/pixelbandits Thanks, @pcgamer! #PCGamingShow #PCGSCoStreamer #Gaming

Is there a game which you absolutely adore, but you couldn't possible explain even at gunpoint? The #Discworld video games are 100% my choice. You play a Wizzard, right, but he can't do magic, and he has a box on legs, and to capture an octopus you need custard #RetroGaming

Today I present a photo of my cat doing her best impression of "Wired headphones removed from pocket" #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #Cats

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't raise energy bills. Migrants didn't close community centres. Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

The UK government continues to do all it can to embolden racists in an attempt to hold onto power. This isn't how you make a society work, this is how you make a society break down. The Terry Pratchett quote "Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things" is very appropriate today.

If we are going to carry on, full steam ahead, with this dystopian capitalism nonsense then I propose it should be law that, by the age of 50, everyone should have the means to dissappear into the wilderness should they wish.

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Unseen University, of the Discworld, sets unrealistic expectations of workplace catering facilities. #Discworld #TerryPratchett

This is me with Terry Pratchett btw

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Plausible Fact of the Day The Linkin Park song "In The End" is about the futility of trying to open a pack of biscuits* using the little "open here" tab *Custard creams, naturally. Why would you be attempting to open any other type of biscuit packaging?

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I really hope Terry Pratchett had some inkling that the Vimes Theory of Boots would end up being referenced all over and often politically. I suspect he would have been incredibly amused by all of us. And maybe pleased at how much it helps people see how our system currently works.