*massive sigh* bring back @carolinelucas.bsky.social

Bluesky hivemind: are there obvious examples of UK politicians who have defected to another party and are generally regarded more positively afterwards? Churchill maybe? (though his legacy is probably too polluted by WW2) The Gang of Four perhaps? (not sure forming a new party even counts)

Personally I'm hoping the King has a pen-gate-esque tantrum at Trump when he inevitably says something dumb, offensive or ignorant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Enc...

Breaking: the person who came up with the phrase third time lucky has resigned

I was just thinking, I don't think I've *ever* bought a newspaper, even when they were still a mainstream thing.

Artist: Captain Howdy https://b3ta.com/board/11427416

When Viktor Orbán changed Hungary's voting system - making it easier for the biggest party to win supermajorities with a minority of votes - it was understandably criticised as authoritarian. So why is it that in the UK we accept an even more disproportional system as the norm?

Avatar 3: visually stunning, too long, quite tedious. Please stop making Avatar films James.

If this actually happens (MRPs don't have a great track record), the electoral system is incredibly broken. Why didn't they just use STV like normal democracies? Whhhhhhhhhy?

Growing up (and still now, to an extent) I looked in awe at the generation of programmers that preceded me because they wrote *everything* in assembly language. I wonder if the next generation will regard mine in the same way, but in terms of our lack of LLMs?

I made a blog! I'm not sure if it's that interesting to the few people that follow me on here (it's about making/engineering), but who knows, maybe? 🤷‍♂️ timang.us

It's a close run thing, but I think I might actually hate Pete Hegseth *more* than Trump.

Imagine the situation the UK would be in now had Kemi Badenoch been the Prime Minister...

Let's all just hope this is yet another grift to manipulate the markets.

Taking one more small step for man (and woman), and the next giant leap for mankind, launching a new era of celestial exploration, Artemis II & its crew flew around the moon aboard Orion Integrity going further than anyone before them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbpd...

Reject divisive politics, he says.

Say he does carry out his threat to bomb power stations and bridges, what does the ICC do in response?

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.

When YouTube types doggedly refer to the website formerly known as Twitter as "TwitterOrX" is that basically their political beliefs encoded? I can't make up my mind.

Imagine being in a position to see this, with your eyes.

It says a lot that the "President of the USA threatens to commit war crime" story is behind something about mis-sold car finance and one about a DJ losing his job. Like, at this point it's just become normalised.

Can everyone who supports Proportional Representation sign this petition please, and spread it as widely as possible. This is the big one! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... Thanks!

Finally! news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...

Had to turn phone notifications off for this. I guess the BlueSky Discovery algorithm just randomly decided to show it to a bunch of people?

Regardless if they're true believers or circumstantial actors, when/if Trump's followers lose patience with his behaviours, I wonder if the off ramp that they'll use will be a medical one? "Oh well, it's a tragedy. Trump would have been successful had it not been for the dementia. So sad. So sad."

I used to take the piss out of my dad for (repeatedly) getting three quarters of the way through watching a film before exclaiming "oh, I've seen this before!", but now I find myself in a similar place 👴. I'm going to have to start a list.

If this means he's not bombing or invading anyone for five fucking minutes, then no. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Almost Everything There Is To Know for £3.85? Pretty good value I'd say.

Can we all just preempt the enshittification of WhatsApp and move to Signal?

Can we just put Palantir and everybody and everything associated with it in the bin?

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Quite remarkable really. Good job we're not doing something dumb like pricing all our electricity in terms of gas.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in. That’s Horatio of 3:1.

It's interesting that Reform's polling share appears to have peaked (for now at least) in the UK, but is still very much on the rise in Scotland. What's that about then?

When he gets bored of Iran and stops bombing it, he's going to count that as another war that he's ended, isn't he?

Turns out it's not "board of peace", it's "bored of peace".

Hahahahahahaha cc @paperghost.bsky.social

I have no original observations other than to say I woke up to the candidate's acceptance speech playing on the radio, and couldn't tell if it was Labour or the Greens that had won. Actually thought it was Labour tbh, fwiw.

Presumably Bill Clinton's testimony is just going to be him saying "I did NOT have sex with that woman" about 5000 times?

Don't sweat it Andrew, I'm sure it'll all get sorted out.

New peak work anxiety dream: Last night I dreamed there was a new book of conversations between Werner Herzog and Leonardo DiCaprio. In German. And I was having to read it ahead of interviewing LD. Who then ran away in great distress from the interview before I could ask my first question.

Vic Reeves & @bobmort.bsky.social made a very strong case for the BBC License Fee…

Bin Tracker timang.us/2026-02-16-b...

Experiments in AI: I took a screenshot of an easy level sudoku (something that would take me 1-2 minutes) and asked GPT to solve it. It had 4 attempts after which I asked it to give me the original grid in text form in case it had transcribed it wrong. It hadn't, but claimed it had, then gave up.