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I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 10th 2026 (Tricky), in 04:11 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

On crucial issues the BBC now barely even tries to report facts, only the perspectives of particular political actors on the facts, & without helping anyone understand which perspectives might be worthy of belief. This helped lead to Brexit & now it‘s helping to normalise fascism internationally

listen, my answer to the question ‘have you drunk enough water today’ is never going to be ‘yes’

The USA is terrifying

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 7th 2026 (Tricky), in 04:13 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Both @charlotte2153.bsky.social and @kevinmckenna.co.uk have called on the government to leave X. After viewing hours of Grok's output, it's hard to escape the fact that every post - from government or anyone else - and every minute on that site is helping to fund an industrial abuse machine.

👀 Lads, there is a difference between diplomatic language and a government so badly out of their depth that they are drowning before our very eyes.

can’t remember how to job

Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical. It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it. And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

“and in other news, President Trump has ordered the bombing of Venezuela” “Caracas?” “not according to his doctors”

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 2nd 2026 (Tricky), in 05:47 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I want to post about #StrangerThings but here’s the problem: I enjoyed it and I don’t want online people with their online opinions to ruin it for me

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Are there any sane countries left that an English person could reasonably move to. Just hypothetically.

Is it legal for my mother in law to have the sounds on her phone keyboard or

Who?

We Wish You Baby, A Merry It's Cold Christmas Outside 🤝 not going until you get some

My main gripe re #TheWarBetween is that it was sold as a UNIT spinoff but for the most part Kate Stewart was relegated to supporting actor while RTD indulged his love of Russell Tovey. (Who is great, but that’s not the UNIT story the lesbians wanted)

I may’ve been on the brink of tears pretty solidly since a festive fight with my mum about whether or not genocide is happening in Gaza but I think this would’ve sent me over the edge regardless 🥹

Just watched Nativity (2009) for probably the third or fourth time in my life and it remains a total joy, like you’d have to be so dead inside not to crack a smile

The primary reason I open this app is to check if Trump is dead yet

Just renewed my EDI training at work. Do you think government ministers have to do this? Because ooh boy, they do not seem to grasp much of this stuff

What does it mean, if the national equality body aggressively pursues discrimination; if the energy regulator rubber-stamps huge price hikes; if the water authority does nothing about shit in the rivers and the press regulator occasionally ticks off a newspaper? What is the purpose of “regulation”.

I’m not even sure what I’d hate RTD for more: killing Kate Stewart off or making her straight. #TheWarBetween #DoctorWho

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

“Reshape the global economy”

Yes I’m a middle aged woman who hasn’t finished Christmas shopping yet but took a little moment to buy herself this Polly Pocket Stranger Things set WHAT OF IT

"Either stop giving me directions or you do the driving, Thomas. Oh right. You CAN'T. Because your arm is in Naples. So SHUT THE FUCK UP."

Bring back the death penalty for people who post screenshots without alt text. Just kidding… unless

I rarely feel so ‘at home’ anywhere as in a university, and I often miss being based in one. But I’m incredibly - deliriously, almost - relieved not to be battling AI from within academia.

Impossible to say how this could be happening here on Hellhole Island

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

This correct, and almost none of it is organically arising from the public. The relentless fear and hate of the last decade was deliberately imposed by opportunist politicians, toxic media outlets, crackpot activists and malignant squillionaires, working hand in hand towards similar goals.

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Think of the catalogue of social cruelty and indignities that have been visited upon an 80-year-old trans woman in her lifetime, now she’s being forced out of her one safe space. Those rancid cigar-smoking bigots should’ve been deemed vexatious litigants, instead they’re calling the shots. Heartsick

You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.

The truth is that there are many good people in good institutions regretfully making the choice to sacrifice trans people because they fear for their own survival and their institution's survival... ...and it is incumbent on us to show them that their choice is not without consequence.

Every organisation in the country running scared of being sued by well funded terfs. It's not the supreme court ruling that's bothering the WI or the Girl Guides it's having to pay to defend an interpretation of it that allows trans girls and women to continue their participation.

Please, my shareholders, they are sick

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

"The new “mansion tax” announced by Rachel Reeves in last week’s budget is estimated to affect around 165,000 property owners, and on current trends the British media is forecast to have interviewed every single one of them by the end of the year." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do you notice how this is worse than what’s happening in Trump’s America? Because we are in some ways much further down the extremist radicalisation spiral, because Britain is dominated by the English-speaking world’s most toxic and hateful media outlets, and by fuck those people get what they want.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Saw this bumper sticker on my journey today and laughed out loud BABY ON BOARD (it’s me, I’m crying)