Is this same Kemi Badenoch who was Secretary of State for Business for 18 months until April 2024? If so, why the hell didn’t she do that then? #Tory #Fool #Ukpolitics

UK MPs on Bluesky (not all verified yet) as of now on this handy examiner

I'm going to boost this again tonight because it gets forgotten so often. When people choose at the ballot box, they choose the Lib Dems, as we start to think about the local election campaigns for May 2026, this is going to be the story. Let's hope that the media start paying attention.

If you see this, post an Archer

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

Hellon thinks everyone will do her casual work. Pfft #TheArchers

So is Hellon selling Bridge Farm from under her parents’ noses to Akram? #TheArchers

Chris is strong, isn’t he? Just saying. #TheArchers

If I may give some advice to MPs (finally) moving over here - it's not appropriate to disable replies. Yes, block or mute those who are offensive but you need to be open to feedback. Get your staff to filter if necessary, but be open to engagement. This is not merely a broadcast channel.

My 29 year old son, the BW, who now lives in Canada has taken up Sunday afternoon baking to take into work on the Monday. I can’t tell you how much this delights me as I used to find it such a comfort on winter Sundays. His first of the year is @nigella.bsky.social’s Venetian carrot cake.

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

He shot someone dead. In the face. She was unarmed. Murderer.

Guy Venables in The Metro

Renee Good’s last words were to ICE agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” Then Ross shot Renee three times in the face. As she was dying, his last words to her were: “Fucking bitch.” And JD Vance thought that exchange exonerated ICE. That says it all.

Reasons to stay on X, the child pornography site: 1. News. No point, mainly fake rwing algorithm driven/AI generated dross 2. "Holding the nazis to account " Would you carry on buying drinks in a nazi bar? 3. "I have friends there" Time to reconsider your friends & their choices 4. See 1-3

Seven senior Labour MPs have written to the Prime Minister, urging him to ban crypto political donations Liam Byrne, chair of the business committee, has told Starmer that if the Elections Bill does not include a prohibition it will be amended until it does observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Don't blame "society" for this. I am begging "lonely" dudes out there to find a hobby you enjoy and seek out a club that lets you do that thing while interacting with real people IRL. A sport, scale modelling, TTRPG, something. And stop treating 'having a girlfriend' as an inalienable right.

It’s time we started taking Trump’s threats seriously. God forbid if Greenland is attacked, the UK should immediately sanction the Trump Organization and think twice about whether we want US forces on our soil at all.

"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.

I'll tell you who I feel sorry for right now. The poor, tofu eating wokerati with young kids, who couldn't really afford to, but bought a Tesla in order to save the world. I can see them now, looking at it through the front room window, muttering, "The Bastard..."

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

@liberalisms.bsky.social cf this

Apparently it’s a “leap” to say that individuals and charities who continue to post on X for its reach side with the fascists, the racists, the white suprematists and the misogynists and child abusers. Maybe. But silence is complicity and I’m so tired of the silence.

Will is soooo primitive #TheArchers

It is sickening. Fix yourselves.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Calling someone a "fucking bitch" and denying them medical attention after shooting them sure seems like what someone would do if they wanted to murder them.

Characteristically excellent thread from @sundersays.bsky.social I don't know of anyone who has done more to expose the realities of X, especially on its continual failure to remove overtly racist material.

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

But, women are too emotional! Men do 90% of the killing. 🤬

Essentially this is how governments/media response to x have felt this week

Yeah, this is where my understanding breaks down. By *what possible measurement* was it OK to be on that platform before the latest wave of shit. There have nothing but waves of shit for several years now.

So now the world is filled with non-consensual deepfakes and AI slop because a tool without a purpose was democratised to men who also have no purpose.

Stop. Anthropomorphising. AI. It can't "lie", any more than it can apologise, or tell the truth. It isn't human; it doesn't have agency or intent. It doesn't know what lying is; it doesn't have human emotions or motivations. Grok is a shit tool with zero guardrails, made deliberately so by humans.

Does anyone know where I can find a gold paper crown for a galette des rois? (Not Amz or Tmu thanks)

They’re talking like it’s still pre-2022. The Twitter from that period no longer exists in name but X is also substantially something completely from then. It’s like they haven’t yet reached the final ‘acceptance’ stage. It’s shit because what we lost was great but no point being in denial.

You know what to do next time, ladz.

just done a pre-rec for the BBC World Service (think it was for Newshour, which goes out at 2) on the response to Grok's appalling AI images. Feel really strongly that governments, institutions and businesses should come off X now: it's crossed a red line; there's no value there for them.

Dumbass.

It was supposed to snow for between 3 and 6 hours here this morning, depending on your forecast provider. There has been no snow. *pouts*

@iandunt.bsky.social Enjoyed your Substack today and found it fascinating. It pinpoints how I felt when talking about Trump/Obama with the wife of an old classmate a few weeks ago. It was like entering a parallel universe, for both of us, really. Thank you.

For a simple one-off fee of £1million, I will go into any government department and show them how to Google "social media apps to post on more than one platform".

Being late among friends to buy our first flat at 22 years old.

Parents’ early retirement in their late 50s.

Neighbours asking to use our phone and giving us 10p.

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Vintage @wtffashionshark.bsky.social here. (In a good way)

I wrote this nearly a year ago. We can see this trajectory very clearly.