I have yet to encounter anyone who uses the word “leftist” that isn’t an absolute dog-fucker

If the Rapture takes all the people who think they're going to be Raptured, the world will be fucking great afterwards.

Timeless, rolling English countryside. Wagner. The missionary position.

Have I got bigger, or have conkers got smaller?

Let's face it, if he was still alive, Hitler would be quoting J K Rowling.

This is what Robert Redford thinks of Nazis

This is what Robert Redford thinks of Nazis

"Cat soon", "Hat soon", "Chat son" - choose one (like I do at the end of every email)

An amazing opportunity to work with wonderful writer and teacher of historical fiction, @girlhermes.bsky.social! ✒️📚📖 #HistFic #BookSky

I see a lot of “but people can’t control their views because of propaganda” in the wake of recent events, and while I get that people are not immune to propaganda, I also subscribe to the idea that people should use their fucking brains and not be easy marks

Whenever I remember the handful of £5 subscriptions I pay to indie podcast creators I get the same warm glow Lorenzo de' Medici must have felt 👨🏻‍🎨

I was just asked about my hobbies and couldn't think of a response other than "crisps"

Very excited to be a part of Unch and to have a cryptic in Issue 1! Crosswords by the community and for the community, through your letterbox ❤️ UK pre-orders open now! unchcrosswords.com

Wes Streeting will be in Reform or in prison by the end of the year. Jesus Christ this *prick*

Alternating between an outraged "letters with accents on them are functionally different letters!" and a resigned "but am I bothered though" depending on the phases of the moon, or something

It sounds like Spanish national airport operator AENA is very much over Ryanair and MOL. Haven’t seen something this… forthright in quite some time, and goodness me, forthright it is. www.aena.es/en/press/sta...

Spotify's algorithm came up with this today - wonder if the racists have it on repeat?

I have an upcoming event!

Is it possible Reform types actually hate Labour *more* for the craven, hollow up-sucking they've been doing towards the flag shaggers? This entire government is a massive own goal.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

The most glorious final sentence of a novel I can remember: "And so, having entered the fullness of my years, from there by the grace of God I go on my way rejoicing." (Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark, 1980)

Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Farage will send to the Taliban the people they specifically want to kill? This is magnitudes beyond incitement to racial hatred ffs

All the very best - I respect you and we have a happy professional relationship All the best - I am A Bit Miffed and or impatient Best - I abhor you and your kin unto the third and the fourth generations

I'm going to break the rules here and post an album that came out in the year I turned 16, as it beat me by a couple of months. But it's my favourite album ever so flocci non facio.

"If you have no Reform friends you must dislike 30% of the public" seriously underestimates how much of the general public I dislike.

Is there any activist organisation in the US targeting military, quasi-military and police individuals with information about how they are being used as a tool for fascist oppression and maybe some of them might not want to do that?

I have a feeling mine is Richard Wagner 😳

I am one butt man 😔

Tell you what, the audiobook of Bleak House is getting pretty gripping now I'm into the last 14 hours!

Via the inestimable and wise Caroline Crampton, here's a literature map that places any author in a word soup of their peers. It's amazing! www.literature-map.com

@brokenbiros.bsky.social I feel you ⬇️

Did they refuse to join in?

Tried to take a picture of my electricity meter and accidentally nailed the next My Bloody Valentine album

Getting mixed messages from my packaging 🤨

I will never be able to deal with how a waggy dog stops wagging when you can't play with them. I'm programmed to deal with British human emotions, dammit

Just listen.

New threatening Prince William pic just dropped

A mate pointed this out recently; that having friends, work colleagues, family members, who’ve drunk the AI Kool Aid and are using it at work, is going to be like Brexit, or gender, or whatever - the thing that stalls, freezes, or inflames conversation from now on.

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What athlete's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Orwellian beach sign

This is the church of St. Trousers in Venice

Reading books on Waterloo and The Black Prince while on holiday in Europe feels almost aggressively Brexit of me, but hey, I contain multitudes 🇪🇺

The current AI clusterfuck feels like a nightmare but might actually be a good thing, because the eyewatering levels of incompetence on display might inoculate us against better, more insidious future AI and its propaganda

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

You know how after you do stuff in the kitchen, you tidy up? Except, apparently, tea drinkers. What the hell is this pile of skanky brown refuse? How is this okay?

I think this is really well written, albeit with massive "what a sad little life Jane" vibes. 4.5 small boats out of 5

At one point I would have celebrated the death of Norman Tebbit. It was about an hour ago and it was wonderful.