What can journalists who cover Trump & Netanyahu learn from @colbertlateshow.bsky.social & @jimmykimmel.com? Got to talk about this and much more with the excellent @alexvont.bsky.social at @bunkerpod.bsky.social 👉👉 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Motörhead and Norövirus at the same time, what's not to love...

Wandering around Gdańsk yesterday and noticed it was conspicuously full of middle-aged German metallers. That’s how I found out there are heavy metal cruises www.full-metal-cruise.com/en/

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

I agree with this – it has shock value, but isn’t that relevant to people in the UK. I understand why it’s the biggest story on Bluesky: this place pretty much selects for neurodivergence (complimentary)

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

I also would like businesses to do shit for me for free

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Starmer announced the UK’s recognition of Palestine as a state at the weekend – what will this mean for foreign relations and the ongoing crisis in Gaza? @alexvont.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss the news to look out for in the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Sam is right to say that the correct argument is that a Reform government CAN & probably would attempt things that are ethically reprehensible + currently unlawful + broadly unpopular if they commit to using majority power in the UK political system to repeal all judicial limits on govt + parliament

This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

It occurs to me that the only way the US would ever be able to legislate gun control would be to mandate at a federal level that anyone who owned a gun carried liability insurance of a certain level for anything that happened with the gun and then let capitalism take its course

The government has no cause for cheer at the moment, but I expect the sideshow spectacle of YourParty tearing itself apart before it’s even decided on a name is putting a little smile on the PM’s face. Unfortunately, this may just reinforce the view that they can ignore their own internal critics

I have a sinking feeling they’ll do exactly this

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Legit thought I was looking at a colourised picture of 19th century prisoners of war for a minute and was wondering why their facial hair was so unkempt

This story is so absurd and so appalling. It’s so debasing for society that the anti-trans panic has some people thinking that it’s their business what’s in anyone else’s pants.

There are so many weird things here, but the aesthetic is one of the weirdest. Unsigned, headerless single page note in a large unserifed font. The writing… okay: my dad used to talk about a style in C19th reportage and official communication which avoided mention of the self.

AI promised helpful assistants. Instead, some users find “friends,” therapists, even lovers. But when bots reflect our thoughts back at us, paranoia, mania and worse can follow. @drkatedevlin.bsky.social joins @alexvont.bsky.social, to discuss the risks of chatbots. Listen now: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Showing up at Pride looking like a

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

I’m old enough to remember when a lot of people on social media told me that Vance’s remarks in Munich about free speech were to be taken very seriously.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Smotrich: the Gaza Strip is a real estate bonanza, we're already discussing with the US how to parcel the land

I do wonder what would happen if we made the workload lie a reality. 50 mins total prep for a lecture then pens down. Max 10mins per essay, use crap irrelevant genAI prompts. Actually let students experience the reality that management design.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

If the Tories had a different leader and any kind of strategic plan around rebuilding a centre-right vote this could all be quite helpful in getting rid of some of their most destructive influences. But they don't, so it's just adding to their woes.

Just my face getting stankier and stankier as this builds

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

We have a standard double sized bed and Bixby Snyder can take up all of it. He’s not even that big for a Maine Coon cat at a mere 9.5kg, but well over a metre long when he stretches out. Also this is one of his most refined and elegant poses. Please admire his surprisingly ginger tummy

Have just recorded an episode of @bunkerpod.bsky.social on AI-induced psychosis with the brilliant @drkatedevlin.bsky.social – coming this week I think. If governments won’t regulate and AI businesses won’t regulate themselves (lol), the courts may effectively force them into harm reduction.

these posts really blow up the theory that he was antifa and the theory that he was groyper AND the theory that he was an irony-poisoned nihilist. there's still a lot we don't know but based on this, he may well have been the last thing anyone expected: Just A Guy.

It would be super great if when politicians say “it’s a problem with both sides” they’d acknowledge it being a bigger problem that the President is still doing it than whatever internet randos are saying.

Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins suggests Israel and states supplying it with weapons be excluded from the United Nations, in light of the genocide conclusions in the UN CoI report. @president.ie #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

I read someplace that when INDECENT PROPOSAL came out a TV reporter, outraged at the concept, did some vox pops outside the theater, asking a woman "Would you sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars?!" Only the woman without hesitation replied "I'd sleep with Robert Redford for fifty cents."