@willdalrymple.bsky.social did you and @anitaanand.bsky.social cover Shivaji in any of the Empire series? Chanced upon this comment, and realised my go to verification service for such matters is not returning an answer 😀 reddit.com/comments/1t2...

Kudos, @anitaanand.bsky.social

Voters have just today left to register to vote for the local elections taking place across England on 7 May. Anyone who wants to take part must register before 11.59pm tonight. Registering takes minutes at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Just need name, address & National Insurance number. Pass it on.

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team for the love of all that is holy, can you implement biometric login for your phone app? Every time you update the app or the protocol your users have to go searching for their password!

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

Only the bond market, ppl 😂

It’s also true that political journalists have monetised this sense of a perma crisis, for their own benefit and agenda.

While we should all be looking very hard at Starmer’s leadership, this week Nigel Farage decided that the people who vote for him would prefer to have cheaper beer at the expense of children being lifted out of poverty.

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

*smashes the buzzer so hard it shatters into a million pieces* WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU’D SAY IN BED

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

It has come to this: agreeing with the Torygraph now. FML! www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.

Damn. Now I will have to listen, and probably disagree churlishly that Flateartha the Numidian, Ekonomikrisis the Phoenician, Orangeade and Lemonade etc were racist names, not just funny ...

Quis Cloudflariet ipsos Cloudflares?

“the findings could explain the fondness for moist, loamy soils Hitler described in his autobiography Mein Kampf” 👏👏

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Turns out there is actually a zero cost way to minimise exposure to the shit-gibbons across the pond, and go about minding our own business ... Idk if this is common knowledge, @katie0martin.ft.com @robarmstrong.bsky.social @iankmsmith.ft.com

Surprised to find out that #TheGoldenRoad reached Colombia! FYI @willdalrymple.bsky.social

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

But the packaging of Tylenol says "acetaminophen" not paracetamol, because different people made different choices when abbreviating N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.

There is a reason... albeit a depressing one: they are making a pitch to billionaire daddies to come in (and make them millionaires) 😔

🤯 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared...

I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.

It's been said a million times before, in more eloquent ways, but seeing the misery first-hand makes it hard to ignore how much of contemporary life is shaped by social dislocation and chronic male loneliness. Half of this would go away if Warhammer and lower league football tickets were on the NHS.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

@anandmenon.bsky.social "the politics of it all make no sense", indeed. But the origins of it can be explained if we consider that Labour might be guided by Reform-sympathetic journeymen strategists motivated only by short-term polling ...

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Bloody hell, @jemima.bsky.social ! I sometimes sneak off to Halwa Poori on weekend for a cheeky halwa-poori. Now I'm thinking how to explain to the owner the significance of Yarvin, and whether he will be happy or appalled to have served him ... (Kudos to you on picking out a hidden gem though)

the scenario we all feared

Check out these stunning photo and video explorations of Streatham Hill Theatre - https://streathamhilltheatre.org/urban-explorers-visit-sht-📺

People do stuff out of misplaced loyalties, hormonal derangement, stubbornness and embarrassment, all held in balance by a sense of duty and/or a need to be paid. You don't get efficiency by taking averages of their decisions, you just shore their decisions of their human purpose.

Dunno, maybe give asylum seekers the right to work? Maybe we could start by reducing the UK's one-year work ban on applicants to 60 days (as it is in Italy) or three months (as it is in Germany), or even six months (as it is in US, Canada, France, Spain, and Japan)? Maybe that's the thing to fix?

Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it. The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.

Susie Essman, the brilliant comedian from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” recently offered some wise advice: focus on the small things in life that give you happiness. As Susie memorably put it, “The macro is fucked. We gotta go micro.” — @borowitzreport.bsky.social (July 11, 2025)

Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/

FYI, there is a 'Moderation' section in Bluesky settings, where you can ask for all posts containing words like Grok, Nazi, Musk to be removed from your feed either temporarily (until your followed commentors have spent their outrage), or forever. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

At long last, something to look forward to ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08T...

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

The ceramics of Rama Duwaji, wife of the New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are beautiful www.ramaduwaji.com/ceramics

Anyone wishing to learn more about the background of Zohran Mamdani, the brilliant new progressive Democrat Mayor of New York, can listen to his father Mahmood talk about his family's migrations @EmpirePodUK podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

It struck me yesterday that Trump’s appointees look like evil versions of the eternally delightful Guy Goma whenever they appear on TV & now I can’t stop seeing it. youtu.be/e6Y2uQn_wvc

@financialtimes.com just saw this image in your review of Osip. "crudités of vegetables", apparently. Thank you for the 😂