Now to take a big sip of coffee and look at Andy Burnham's twitter history

Citation very much fucking needed

It's obviously not funny that the Home Secretary is attacking voters for their skin colour but on the other hand it's extremely funny that they're so incompetent they can't even do racism properly

Don't really get why they're all looking at Burnham still. All feels a bit pie in the sky

This is turning into a great example of how soft soap interviews can sometimes be more revealing than hard hitting ones because people relax and say more than they mean to.

Call me a humourless scold but I don't find it funny that the Home Secretary wants to taser or deport political opponents, that's actually quite scary

I think this whole insane scandal has broken my brain because this tweet made me giggle uncontrollably for a full minute

"Will Ed Miliband survive as PM until the 2029 election?" If you'd heard that in 2014 you're imagining a VERY different decade 🤣

Big Wet Wipe knows how to make wet wipes that can be removed one at a time but refuses to do so because they make so much money when you pull them out in clumps

Men will run the straight of Hormuz in a cruise liner rather than go to therapy

This is interesting and there's a lot to say about it, but I think this bit specifically is almost right, but actually wrong. It's not about retaining the centre-right remainers who got the LDs 72 seats - those people aren't going anywhere. It's about trying to win the next tranche of seats

The trouble is that the current structure makes this well nigh impossible. Every job I've been in I max out the employer contribution and usually put in a bit more and I'm not even close to this. People who aren't obsessed with pensions don't have a chance

Call that a ballot paper? THIS is a ballot paper!

If the outgoing ambassador with strong relationships with trumpworld is male, no way he gets shoved aside in the same way. So arguably the original sin is just plain sexism.

Good. Important to be decisive. I'm sure this will draw a line under it with no further questions.

"well actually Tom, with the cost of living rising people are looking for low-cost ways to entertain themselves at home, and last I checked sex was free"

Speak for yourself mate?

You know just once, ONCE, I'd like the answer to be 'posting' and not 'oh good, more leaflets'

Watching JD Vance's intervention in Hungarian politics like:

"Mrs Errington said the politician, Hexham's first Labour MP in 100 years, was: 'Glued to his phone throughout the meal, looking at his Instagram account to see how many likes he had or probably Googling his own name to see what came up.' "

What I love about Bluesky and previously Twitter is that sometimes someone writes a single sentence and something clicks into place, and anyway this is one of them

That murder paddington show was star studded, brilliant and totally ridiculous trash. 10/10 for Black Doves.

The nice thing for them is they can definitely rely on him, he never goes back on his word or fucks over the people who trusted him

The FT is really starting to challenge Teen Vogue as the paper of record

Isn't this just a normal local fundraiser?

V good. Need to regulate properly though or there'll be tons of dodgy knockoffs on Amazon

It is truly absurd that junior doctors have to go on strike to get the government to train enough consultants. Increasing medical school places without expanding training numbers is absurd. The whole thing is absurd! And people are seriously arguing Wes Streeting should be PM!

The other one is locked accounts but loads of people have asked for that and they haven't done it, so I assume they have a reason. No idea why they won't do the reply thing.

Niche, but I think the one thing bluesky could do to improve discussion is change the reply architecture so it doesn't show the nested replies unless you click on the reply (like on twitter) as you'd then see a bigger ranges of responses to a popular post (not just the replies to the first reply)

That Hannah Spencer piece is just pickme behaviour, oh I'm not like other girls sorry I mean politicians. Disappointing.

He's trolling the Tories at this point, right?

Just a thought but maybe we should do something about this before the horrifying energy crisis hits and people start looking for cheaper ways to get around?

This plus 'WFH if you can' seems sensible and would start to prepare people for more serious measures if they are needed

My favourite is the 'happy on earth' people because I think that's lovely

A lecturer in political campaigns, any university. But they have to do RCTs on campaign techniques so I can prove that I'm right about all my currently-unevidenced reckons

Anyone got any thoughts of or experience with conversion kits? I don't really have space to store another bike so wondering if converting the one I have might be easier... Or relatively low-cost ebikes that will fit a short woman (they all seem to be unisex and unisex stuff basically never fits me)?

This virus in China and Italy, it's gonna be fine right?

Oxfam has a better record on safeguarding than 90% of the sector. They got in trouble because they fired someone which caused a paper trail which could be leaked. Most of the others just didn't fire anyone and chose not to know what they were up to.

Next time someone decides to start a war and destabilize the entire global economy can they please do it at literally any time except the end of the tax year ie the one time a year when I do actually have to check my ISA etc and can't just pretend it's all fine?

Key point in an interesting thread

Did you know that fungus/mushrooms are older than sharks and trees?

Have you heard that "trees" are not a taxonomic group, but are in fact, just a form design? IE, there are "trees" that have completely different, unrelated ancestors. "Tree" basically just describes "large plant that uses lignin to build an outer shell". Blew my mind.

apparently grasshoppers are also older than grass?

You spelled 'stop him running for parliament and challenging Starmer' wrong

What's so weird about this is how slow they've been to make merch. It was Christmas and there was NO official merch just random unverified crap on Amazon. Parents all over the world wanting to take your money but apparently they don't want it?

Wtf?

Today I found out sharks are older than trees

Well I am now 🤣

Who could have told them such a thing might happen EXCEPT EVERYONE

The Lib Dems need to be asking ourselves some much harder questions about why we're doing so badly in Wales. This is apocalyptic and people seem surprisingly unbothered.