@patagonia.com Are you for real? This makes you look like complete idiots. Did you pay Argentina and Chile for rights to the name? Grow up, don't be dicks. Leave Pattie alone. You are hurt more by your own actions than her name. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Who? Who are the LIb Dems?

How it started How it's going

@projectionbooth.bsky.social Hey Mike. Hope you're well. You may, or may not, be interested in this, with cinematographer for 2046, In the Mood For Love... Keep on taking over the world. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"We are trying to find rational explanations in voter A moving to party B for reason X, but voters are much more instinctive. Like murmurations of starlings, something spooks or attracts the group, and it seems to form a deliberate shape, but it is not the result of deliberate individual choices."

Local chippy is pretty good. Queues forming before they even opened today.

Maybe they shouldn't put the box next to the bin. #JobsYouDidntKnowExisted. On the same theme, when I was a kid in Southend, there was a shop that sold keyboards. Named themselves "Essex Organs". I noticed it partially obscured by a street sign as 'Sex Organs'. Quite the retail experience.

Not even 4 hours into the new tax year, and HMRC send their first begging letter of the year. Fuck off...! So many pointless reminders between now and Jan '27, I end up ignoring everything you send. Wind it in, guys!

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

We need the consultation to know how many people oppose the Marina’s application to keep dumping sediment on Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone. Public pressure is powerful. Your voice can make a real difference, and we urgently need your support. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/188345/...

I think the King is about to get scammed.

My 'On This Day' photo recap today presents me with memories of one of my favourite ever pieces of public art. It's a fish. Obviously. What? Why are you laughing?

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

Four years since Putin invaded Ukraine. Still in my thoughts everyday. #SlavaUkraini #СлаваУкраїні

Some bold choices from #WalkersCrisps in this year's special editions flavours. Happy to say, so far my local convenience store doesn't seem to have stocked them.

Literally a bull in a china shop

Right now, given a choice of the two countries, if I had to go to either the USA or Russia, I'd probably opt for Russia. The US seems to be descending so fast and so chaotically into a dystopian reality, I wouldn't have confidence in the situation for more than a day or two ahead. Madness.

Sitting on a train in Spain next to a guy with Falangist and Nazi insignia patches sewn quite openly on his back pack, while he reads "We Fought, We Lost" by Otto Skorzeny, an Austrian Waffen SS officer close to Nazi high command. They live amongst us, people... Take care out there.

Damn! Forgot to start Strava while walking the #CaminitoDelRey... 🙁 Need to find someone here to share route with me.

Another Green councillor in Brighton & Hove. Welcome Councillor Bruno de Oliveira! If it wasn't clear already, we'll say it again: it's time for change.

¡Hola Sevilla!

Boycott the World Cup

I'm in dire need of @quietriotpod.bsky.social #SundayService right now. Struggling to get my head round things, the sheer number of 'fronts' in which the world appears to be unraveling is overwhelming. I need some clarity and ordered thinking to help me through. Urgh.

It's tricky deciding if to intervene but good on Peter Mullan for stepping up. In my 20s, I stepped in when I saw a guy having a go at a woman (his girlfriend). He backed off but carried on verbal abuse, now at me. She meanwhile jumped on my back and bit my face. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@sevillatapas.bsky.social Finally! Finally got round to booking a return to Sevilla - it's been about 18 years since we moved away 😮 Really looking forward to revisiting favourite old haunts, no doubt it's all changed beyond recognition. I shall be scouring your recent posts before I go!

The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.

Burn, baby! Burn! ... Oh. youtu.be/lfGpo6t2As0?...

Been watching some Rob Zombie films, and on the whole it's been incredibly tiresome. The high point across the three. #Firefly films was this cereal brand which I want so much, don't care what it tastes like!

Repeats the same phrase 4 times in one post. It's tiresome reading stuff here sometimes.

Google Calendar really not capturing the vibes with this flair.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Top tier joke

I'm going out on a limb here. The Venn diagram of people interested in both Prince Charles, and @zackpolanski.bsky.social, has a wafer thin intersection. Aside from it being easy to watch both, very few will care to. And yes, I know. Prince. See also: Twitter. I'm not changing.

@quietriotpod.bsky.social One aspect of the Australian ban on social media is that parents also come under huge pressure from kids to be able to get an account, as all their friends have it etc. This legislation gives opportunity to resist demands without being seen as the evil denier.

Would that we were hearing such realism from the UK government www.politico.eu/article/dani...

I’m delighted that my amendment to give swifts a home has won through with x-party support today 🎉 Many thanks to @writerhannahbt @rspbscotland and thousands of individuals who campaigned with me 💚

Had a hard time finding the film I'm currently watching. Eventually found it, a Turkish film, dubbed into German with auto generated English Subtitles. Confused me why the main character called her boyfriend 'Grandma'. Then I realised his name is Omar. Omar = man's name Oma = German for grandma

An EV car is still a car...

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Time to start keeping tabs on the Gävle Goat. Built afresh every year, 42 out of 59 goats since 1966r have been destroyed, mostly by fire/arson. No fires since 2021 (though 2023's was destroyed by jackdaws...) Is this year going to be a fire year? www.youtube.com/live/P1VOrSo...

Well, I really hope it's not at the upper end of that range, gets a bit expensive. Thanks AI overview...

Planning and Infrastructure Bill - sadly about to clear its final hurdle. With disastrous implications for our already nature-depleted land #Biodiversity #Planning

Not just useful! This by @adamramsay.bsky.social is also a short, lucid history of British politics since the 1970s

Today I voted for protecting nature. The Lords added sensible, evidence-based amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill to strengthen nature protection. But the govt rejected them. Ministers need to listen - to experts, to trusted organisations, and to the public.

Mad exercise bike in "Ben" (1972), film about killer rats. Looks like hell to use. youtube.com/clip/UgkxLdP...

Great result for @sussexwildlife.bsky.social in their fight against disastrous plans to dump dredging waste from Brighton Marina in the Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone. Congratulations and thanks to all involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My bad - Palace Pier - was just reading the headline and not thinking.

Brighton Pier up far sale as owners unable to afford to pay people minimum wage. Who's up for a whip round, turn it into a community led jazz co-operative or something? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...