i dont think anything could ever have prepared me for the absolute jarring horror that is living long enough to see your friends and aquaintances climb their various career ladders like what do you mean you are in charge of thousands of men and national security? i wouldnt trust you with a spoon

To me, there is a very simple litmus test. Which is more important to you: humanity or patriotism?

As it's International Men's Day, here's three strapping representatives to remind us what made the British Empire great

You want an International Man? I’ll give you THE International Man…

It’s the money cat!! 🥰😻😍

When I arrive at the party

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Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…

@barryrichards.bsky.social 😂

That was a similar-but-different sort of early bicycle, which was superseded by the penny-farthing. (Apologies for the quote-post, but replies are disabled.).

I’ve found a box of my old LPs from the ’70s in my attic — they’re groovy!

🧵Spotted at a Vineyard Picnic in Aotearoa New Zealand: A very friendly dog (red cloud kelpie), her bottom square with age, is sprawled on a picnic rug as numerous small humans compete to see Who Can Pat Her Best. Friendly Dog is in her element, a doggy smile on her face. This is the life. (1)

It’s not just my imagination, is it? Game of Wool is absolute shite, isn’t it? The challenges are dreadful, and the group challenges worse. Tom does his best while wearing terrible knitwear, but dear god — in the whole of the UK, are those really the best ‘knitters’ available? (Holger excepted)

I don’t believe this hottie wottie bottie is going to warm my jiggered back.

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart. Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration. I despise them for it. Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years. What a disgrace.

#SundayPixPictures Downloading a picture to my iPad.

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Early start ready for tomorrow - #SundayPix #SundayPixPictures see below . @purplequeenpub.bsky.social @realdaveedwards.bsky.social @trooper.bsky.social @miladycheryl.bsky.social @wombat37.bsky.social

Most of the people who think Britain was better 50 years ago weren't even born 50 years ago. The second largest group who think it was better 50 years ago were too young to know what was going on. The third group just think it was better because they were 21 and getting a lot more sex than now.

Your occasional reminder, if you’re in the UK, that it is shaping up to be a hideous bird flu season, with many wildlife casualties (including resident birds, not just winter migrants), and, however soft your heart, it is a Really Bad Idea to handle sick or ‘injured’ birds or bring them inside.

spot on

People think Britain was a better place when they were prettier, had more sex, went out more and didn't go oof every time they moved.

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

Oh poo, I really must get on with wrapping an order. This really is the worse bit of selling stuff 🙁

Every ad now

Its been a topsy-turvy sort of a day. I guess I should start making some breakfast. And then I won’t need to bother with dinner. 🥚🥚 🥓

I love ❤️ my local garage. My car had some electrical faults with lights showing on dashboard. Mercedes garage: £350 for diagnostic tests, + whatever for repairs. Village garage sorted it out: £20.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

In part 2 of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation, I reveal how the 'BBC bias' memo - written by a Trump-aligned lobbyist whose firm was paid up to a million by pro-Trump donor tech giants - was politically biased and reliant on pro-Trump partisan sources bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...

Anyone who respects the BBC's output overall should fight like hell and tell trump and his donor psychos to fuck off. The current BBC crisis arises because the insider right wing Tory appointments are functioning as designed. Gibb must go.

Honestly, I'm about to waste a £60 ticket for the BRILLIANT French singer Zaho de Sagazan, from 7pm at the Palladium. Please can someone take it. I can't make it. She is amazing. I'm gutted.

🔴'BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

finally found the difference between truth and beauty

👏 Excellent work. 10/10. No notes.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

Well, I rather enjoyed Murder Before Evensong, in a gentle Sunday evening sort of way, despite the puzzling styling/social attitudes for the year it was supposed to be set in.

My brain is still boggling!!! Daily Wordle! NOV. 9th 2025 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 #WordleApp

It's been a very quiet week. As a small business owner that’s a bit scary heading into my busy season. So, if you're looking for unique #Christmas gifts, I make prints, homewares, cards & accessories inspired by midcentury design, music & architecture. Have a nosy here gailmyerscough.co.uk

I think the last three lines form the best poem I’ve ever written.

A lovely expression of enthusiasm on Strictly tonight from Vicky Pattinson: “I’m thrilled to ribbons…!” I need to remember that 💓

Note to self: stop buying jumpers/cardigans. You have enough now.