Barnie

Please note that if you block someone on Bluesky they die in real life

One fun bit you can do: when passing a child/baby crying, turn to your friend/partner, cock your thumb in the child’s direction and say ‘someone’s being a real baby over there’

America often seems like a desolate, unredeemable place, but then you remember they did that whole Midwest emo thing. Maybe they’re not all that bad.

Classic Bluesky exchange

Please remember that if you’re in the queue then legally they have to recognise your blood offering and let you have your turn upon the altar of sacrifice

Final boss beaten of Nine Sols, the closest I’ll get to a religious experience this decade

Making my way through a Leftovers rewatch and can confirm it is still very good

Referred to my partner as a kite today and that felt like a good descriptor that more people should use

Forgetting everything else for a sec, but Lake America is such a pathetic and embarrassingly bad name for a lake.

The year is 2026, and Apple Music doesn’t know how to handle Weezer

No child of mine is going to be allowed to read the Hobbit before they’ve read the Silmarillion

I’d think a popular counter to this narrative would be how you reframe his point of view as very anti-Britain. He wants to lose ‘traditional’ countryside scenes, lose the animals we kindly host here, lose our stoic British attitudes to rain - all a bit waffly nonsense, but something there!

Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP

Music discovery as a thing seems really broken - input what you listen to, the algorithm spits out things it thinks you’d like. When I listened to some of my favourite bands for the first time I had absolutely no idea what I was even listening to, took days for my brain to even parse songs out.

It is a travesty that it is lunchtime at the Little Bagel Co in Bristol and I am the only one in - their Super VBB is so amazing.

honey, the gifted kids are posting about their woes again

Is 🎵 Old Mac Donald had a data farm / A-I-A-I Oh 🎵 something

Plagued by AI poster monstrosities everywhere in daily life, I would like to produce stickers that read ‘Your AI poster looks shit, mate’ to stick over them. Would love to commission a design for a these.

Going to start replying to more people with ‘Okay? Good for you? Firstly, I can't eat beans’

"These profits have been built on an energy crisis that's left households across the country struggling with high energy bills at home and expensive fuel at the pumps. This underlines the urgent need to end our dependence on costly oil and gas." - Danny Gross, FoE. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words

Just excellent

“He’s made The Odyssey too dark and gritty” Oh buddy, you’re going to be devastated when you hear that the new Wes Anderson is full of colour and whimsy

Remembering a childhood game where you’d pinch the skin on the back of your hand to determine your calcium levels (I know), I googled to see if it was a shared experience and instead stumbled upon the most cursed images imaginable

The UK will never truly enter a gilded age whilst we still have this godawful national anthem

This story about Reform donations is also a story about climate change.

"Reform’s registered average donation last year was £137,496" and "Reform UK would have raised just £4.1m (in FY), instead of the £26.7m it actually received, if a £100k annual donation limit applied". Analysis by a brill team here shows some terrifying stats: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The whole English psyche can be explained simply by watching any England football match

Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

Can’t believe when I basically non-stop listened to Aim and Ignite by fun. all through 2009-10 after a glowing review on SputnikMusic, that I’d be living in a world where their sound would go on to dominate all pop for ever more

Back in my day, being a FIFA Peace Prize winner used to mean something

cursed advertising

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

All those people with ‘please, no DMs’ in their profile

Gordon isn’t really the kind of footballer name I can get behind. He should probably rename himself ‘Ronaldo’ - or, at the very least, ‘Ronaldinho’

Give me a Capcom videogame console

I don’t think I’ve ever done a two-move checkmate before in all the years I’ve played chess! (Please ignore my rating - this is blitz and I’m a recovering childhood chess prodigy)

The Rockstar Games Workers Union - which I firmly believe my involvement with was the reason Rockstar fired me and 34 people last October - is formally seeking voluntary recognition from the company. I hope the right thing is done here ✊ 🌱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cleaners at the Royal College of Art in Battersea were fighting management harassment, including sexual harassment. Two were sacked just for protesting it. Their union fund supports them through the fight. It’s open for donations till Saturday, every bit helps! www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-ba...

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If I was prime minister my first act would be changing the English language words for places to their local names. We do it with Welsh place names already (Snowden to Yr Wyddfa), let’s do it globally (Florence to Firenze, Germany to Deutschland, etc).

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

yeah my age may be 37, but my average item level is 549

One positive takeaway for Kier Starmer after this whole thing is over is his potential on the circuit as an Andy Burnham impersonator.

Lovely thread about well-loved board games!

The only bet I’d be willing to place is on how many social media posts reading ‘Vaxxed?’ will appear when JFK Jr dies. I’d say at least five hundred thousand.

Plato’s sweating rn

Just to speed up a few things - please understand that to 90% of comments on any internet post I am mentally replying with: ‘what a weird thing to say’

folks, we’re going to be okay - I found nutritional yeast in Italy