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MY SCRIPT FOR NEXT JAMES BOND GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

THIS IS WHAT LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE

How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias? Zero.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

How to tell if something is absolutely 100% true

“Love me daddy”

China’s emissions have peaked, five years ahead of schedule. A moment of epochal importance. bsky.app/profile/carb...

Anyone got an equivalent of this (same outlets) that relates to consumption? Newspaper-wise my assumption is that it’s about upside down #bbc #news

Anyone who cares for a child full time in the UK is entitled to claim child benefit. Here's everything you need to know.

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Best thing I’ve read on this ideological Right Wing stitch up yet. To paraphrase “it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just listing known political agendas & affiliations”. It is the job of news orgs to list the fact that for eg Nick Gibb, complaining about impartiality SET UP GB “NEWS”

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

Hunting for bias will ultimately be hunting the snark. We are all biased in some way or another. The news team need to insist on detail and rigour, not matching one empty but biased commentator with another equally empty and biased commentator from the other side.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Balance isn’t the same as objectivity. The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

Good article on this #bbc farce. It must be noted that what’s happening here is a transatlantic Right wing attack on something whose very existence is a threat to their agenda; using their strategy of pissing on your shoes then telling you off for being wet www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The January 6th rioters that he’s spent the last year pardoning, releasing and celebrating? He supports those guys? Absolute slander #bbc

So let me get this straight. All of this confected outrage over a panorama program, which edited two speeches (of what Trump actually said) on Jan 6 to make it sound as though he he supported the Attempted Coup (which he actually did)? Are you for real? #bbc

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

All the evidence shows that transphobes are actually a minority, as with most form of bigots. Problem is they are a very vocal minority and because of that are taken as the "voice of the people". Make your voice heard against them👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Can anyone recommend any academic essays (that are publicly available online or that you could send me) exploring the parallels between Loki and Ulysses expanding on Snorri's slightly throwaway lines on the topic. Or failing that, general explorations of Troy-as-Asgard? #MedievalSky #ClassicsSky

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Sunderland absolutely loving life - you love to see it

Certainly the relationship of art to tech feels feudal, in that “we take whatever we want, fuck you”

Just come across this fascinating passage in America: Empire of Liberty. That’s President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1944. Seems that states have fundamentally failed to grasp this, some 80 years later. The bill failed of course, the South didn’t want African Americans to have rights…

Swifts have declined 70% since 1994. They fly from Africa to breed here, only to find we've blocked their nest sites. A £35 swift brick nest box was proposed for all new buildings. The construction industry lobbied Labour to block it. Biodiversity sustains life. Labour sustains economic power.

Let’s drag the Overton window back a bit shall we??

My first manifesto promise: all billionaires to be arrested, their wealth immediately distributed to NGOs to be administered by Citizens Assemblies, their properties turned into youth clubs, skate parks & community centres, their clothes to schools & colleges to be sold for their budgets…

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom especially to everyone who understands, now more than ever, that Jewish safety will not come from spreading Islamophobia and othering other communities.

A few years ago, we decided the Marvel Hawkeye series was one of our regular Christmas treats. Cos it’s smashing. Now Jeremy Renner seems to be Yet Another Arsehole, should we just stop men making or being in things? To be safe. Because they end up being twats, and spoiling my favourite stuff.

Once again this will deployed as ‘strategy’ to fend off Reform. But as has been proven time and time again, it does nothing to win votes, it only legitimises the far right; leaving govt in a position where it can only continue being crueler, & denies basic human rights to refugees

The longer apartheid & occupation continues, the crueler and more inhumane it must become. There is now little separating 🇮🇱 from the worst regimes in history. Once upon a time there were arguments to be had, but now anyone allying with this regime is complicit www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is what they took from you

I needed a lol and this really came through 👌🏻

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

😂😂 amazing. No better learning fuel than spite

In Penny Lane, the beatles say that a nurse is selling poppies from a tray but then fail to make it clear that any of the other characters are wearing theirs, or that the beatles themselves all have one on as they should. MR MCCARTNEY MUST ANSWER FOR THIS

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

All of the biggest cunts have just realised that they can now just say all the racist shit that’s in their heads. You can just feel the strain built up over maybe 20years of it not being publicly acceptable, like a hosepipe with a foot on it. And now the foot’s come off and here we are

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.