Who would have thought that 15+ years of chronic underfunding of the NHS coupled with a huge rise in cheap ultra-processed foods and cheap alcohol would see a health service struggling to cope with cancer treatment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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 …

@impq.bsky.social What's blond and depressing? Ivan Brackenbury

A couple of people I've known irl unfollowed me on Twitter. I didn't ask why. What kind of needy twat would do that? Stop trying to make people feel bad for making choices they are entitled to make. I assumed that they felt I either tweeted too much or found what I tweeted boring or annoying.

Just watched Farage talking about Trump and BBC and it makes me so miserable that his career has been so helped by an institution he is committed to destroy - I am bewildered

I'm so very sick and tired of representing young kids who have committed crimes of harassment and threats and bullying on the internet because the parents ALWAYS blame the internet. YOU are the person who gives your child access to the internet. It's your job to limit it sensibly.

As much as we love & support & fight for her rights, as cis parents we will never truly, fully understand. Thats why we listen to her, but also to trans adults who have been where our daughter is and how we can better support her. 2/

I'm the parent of a trans teen a year younger than Brianna should be. She's been beaten, spat on, outed & bullied out of school. By children who have grown up surrounded by toxic transphobia. She didnt leave the house for over 2 yrs - her online trans friends were the ONLY ppl who understood 1/

The man whose deranged supporters attacked the Capitol with his encouragement thinks he can sue the BBC (when defamation suits have to be filed within a year) for "severe damage to his reputation". Genuinely hilarious. The rapist convicted fraudster who mocks the disabled and lies in every speech.

Do I know anyone in Liverpool? Coz if I do you should come to the Fesshole gig on the 12th and then I have someone to hang out with and catch up with afterwards. The last time I asked this it shook @sheepfilms.bsky.social out the woodwork and it was lovely to see him after a 20 year (!) gap.

It's been a long time since I've had such high hopes for something and it hasn't let me down. GDT's Frankenstein was everything it should be. Utterly rooted in Mary Shelley's amazing story and prose, uniquely GDT's vision throughout but, the fan he is, steeped in the tradition of Whale/Karloff.

It really is astounding how many people don't believe that many U.S. ICE agents are breaking the law and could well be prosecuted under the next administration. Even more shocking that people are unironically saying "But they were only following orders"

idk if this is a generational thing, but stores need to get out of this mindset that every waking moment of a person’s day is improved by forced interactions with an in-character stranger. I need paper towels, not a shitty version of Disney World that sells paper towels.

"Hi, I'm the world's richest man, Elong Muks, and I can see the appeal in a digital drawing of a woman telling me it loves me because I told it to tell me it loves me"

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

The long tailed tits are back in force in the garden. Earlier this year this fella knocked himself out flying into the window and I had to keep him in a box on a hot water bottle until he felt better again.

People who sneer at those of us who find gory horror films entertaining when they find true crime podcasts entertaining, are the worst. Someone being murdered should never be entertaining unless it's obviously not real.

When I first saw the album cover it put me off buying it. Obviously I was going to buy the new Priest album but that hellbike so laughably shit. Thankfully the music blew me away

Re: ChatGPT and suicide: I start by saying I think ChatGPT is awful and it saddens me that anyone uses it. It's destroying the planet and also damaging people's critical thinking and causing some to form a parasocial relationship with a few lines of code, BUT...

I totally get that the algorithm Zuck and Musk use on social media and the news fed to people by most major outlets is skewed to the right and the manipulation tactics used but I just refuse to believe so many people are that dumb that they can't see the cat is asking the budgie to vote No More Cage

Stop pretending to care about suicide if you still use the term "commit suicide". Outdated for at least a decade, offensive to all of us who have lost someone to suicide and a huge red flag to show you've done little or no reading on the subject. Do you say "coloured people" as well? 🙄

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Buy elections Buy time in the White House to get govt contracts illegally cancelled and re-awarded to him Pay off Russian mafia Buy and destroy Twitter and turn it into a right wing propaganda tool Fail to buy friends "What does Elon Musk do with all his money?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

I genuinely think I might be naive and missing something. From working class Brexit voters in the UK to working class MAGA voters in the USA please someone explain why they think "The multi millionaire (backed by multiple billionaires) asking me to vote for him, has got my interests at heart"

Briefly forayed into Twitter. Some prick having a rant about how "blacks" are genetically pre-disposed to be criminal and violent. Reported his posts. I'm sure you can guess the next bit. Yes, of course Adolf Musk's moderators say that doesn't breach their rules.

Almost like the thing that’s actually unacceptable is rich wankers not being able to get someone on the phone whenever the mood takes them to just buy whatever they want or shout at someone.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

"Musk took to the stage and danced to chants of his name. "Other shareholder meetings are snoozefests but ours are bangers. Look at this. This is sick," he said." The man makes Alan Partridge look like fucking Lemmy. He makes Mr. Bean seem cool. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Most major airlines put more CO2 into the atmosphere in a week than you will in your entire lifetime. I can't be sad about fewer planes in the skies.

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

"Musk took to the stage and danced to chants of his name. "Other shareholder meetings are snoozefests but ours are bangers. Look at this. This is sick," he said." The man makes Alan Partridge look like fucking Lemmy. He makes Mr. Bean seem cool. www.bbc.com/news/article...

RIGHT ALL YOU SMUG MOTHERFUCKERS CRASHING INTO EVERYONE'S MENTIONS BANGING ON ABOUT VOTING LABOUR TO STOP REFORM NEED TO START VOTING GREEN I DIDN'T MAKE THE RULES YOU CUNTS DID.

Looks like juries don't like fascism, racism and lack of due process. Nice to know that 12 good men, just and true - said "Fuck ICE"

SANDWICH TERRORISM IS NOW LEGAL?!?!

Because it's a computer programme. Stop treating lines of code like people. I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is the A Team music the best telly theme tune ever?

People who say "that's not a spoiler" when they've just told you something about a movie or tv series RIGHT AFTER YOU SAID "I don't want to know ANYTHING about it" are such wankers. You don't get to decide what piece of info will/won't spoil another person's experience.

Happy birthday, Emma Stone!

My Bluesky is going to get increasingly less use - for those who also use instagram - this is where I put up a lot more stuff

Responses to Billie Eilish’s challenge to the billionaires are a reminder that if you’re wealthy you can’t criticise billionaires because you’re a hypocrite and if you’re poor you can’t criticise billionaires because then you’re envious. So, magically, no one is allowed to criticise billionaires.

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

I learned a thing today. Thought I knew my way round my iPhone well and have most apps set to not allow background refresh but many still do and also some sync with iCloud even if you're set to only sync on WiFi. You can change your data settings to "Low data mode" to stop it.

Men: ask any female friend or relative if they've ever been sexually harassed, assaulted, sexually assaulted or intimidated by a man and I will be amazed if you get anything less than 100% "Yes" replies. Ask how many of them have even met - for certain - a trans woman. 10-20% maybe?

So the percentage of the population who are trans will go from incredibly small to really tiny - yet the political discourse in this sad country will still focus on them, rather than the THOUSANDS of rapes, sexual assaults, murders and other acts of violence cis men commit against women every month.

If #SamirZitouni was the train knife attacker, I guarantee you the fact that he's a Muslim immigrant would have been stated in every headline. The fact that he is a hero who saved lives (and almost died doing so) seems to mean it's not worth mentioning. Racism is endemic in our media.