Nick Barlow

Bluesky a band Monarchs Are Bad, Even When They're Women

"Handheld savoury pies" feels like the sort of term you use because someone has managed to copyright "pasty". #GBBO

Beginning to think that job applications which require you to enter each previous job and qualification separately on a web form rather than by attaching a CV are age discrimination.

One interesting assumption in this article is the idea that the primary aim of drawing boundaries is to ensure political balance, not creating constituencies that represent communities. Another part the US's institutionalised hyper-partisan politics.

There are four types of Bluesky user.

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As a runner, I've complained about the prices some races charge for event photographs, but shall remain silent on that in the future now I've seen what Ede and Ravenscroft are charging for it at my masters graduation: £40 for a single digital image?

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Heffer putting the boot in so accurately on this is a real "worst person you know made a great point" moment

www.maptap.gg October 26 98🔥 100🎯 92🏆 100🎯 49😟 Final score: 829 Going really well, then a big oof on the last one

Lula won and Vučić lost? Let's hope good things come in threes and Netanyahu falls tonorrow.

Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang and the graphic novel The Death of Stalin (the inspiration for the film)

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Idea for a future Traitors season: do a recruitment in plain sight. After a Traitor is revealed at the round table, to get a replacement, one of the remaining ones has to ask someone "do you want to join me?" or similar and get a "yes" from them.

"A distinctly British approach to artificial intelligence"

Suddenly realising that Ruby Flipper were disbanded before they ended up causing a diplomatic incident. #TOTP

What is that weird combination of a bass guitar and ZX Spectrum that Maurice is wielding? #TOTP

Still hearing people speculate about the prospect of Burnham going for an early election. Here's why it would be a terrible idea.

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

www.maptap.gg October 23 99🔥 99🔥 100🎯 93🏆 100🎯 Final score: 977 I'm sure number 5 was one of the locations just a few days ago

Interesting, and makes me think what sort of places nearby could be added.

I'm sure everyone else had this thought a couple of months ago, but imagine telling someone in July 2024 that by the end of 2026 Rishi Sunak would still be an MP and Keir Starmer wouldn't.

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Fandom.

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

www.maptap.gg October 20 100🎯 80✨ 98🔥 100🎯 90🎉 Final score: 946 Odd moment when the first location for this was also the first place I'd guessed in Loconundrum today...

Every time I think I've seen all the ways in which the US is so hideously corrupted, I find they've invented another one.

There's a group of supposed leftists whose entire geopolitical views are based around squaring the circle of "Russia has no agency and therefore must be allowed to do whatever it wants".

Members of the British media who can name a lot of governors of US states but approximately zero elected French officials aside from Macron are all confidently explaining exactly what is wrong with France.

The state of British politics and media is shown by her interviewer being only a fellow politician, not her husband.

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Somehow, my dad - who went to live with the woman next door after mum kicked him out when she found out about his affair, then told my lesbian niece he didn't support her "lifestyle choices" - isn't the cringiest 86-year-old I know of.

Rod Hull was in Abba? #Strictly

I’m not a fan of his work, but he’s absolutely right. The calling out in faith that there is someone out there to hear you, and the feeling of solace when we recognize a part of ourselves in such a call, to know someone out there gets it, is *fundamental* to art. Arguably the entire fucking point.

www.maptap.gg October 17 97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 96🔥 81✨ Final score: 928 Working on my new album, Chinese Geography.

Shocked that there might not be another FIFA Peace Prize.

Musk unveils new rocket-powered wallet inspection, promises first wallets will be returned in 2028.