Old Hobbit🐸

Old Hobbit🐸

@oldhobbit.bsky.social

Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.

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We can't comment on the Brand trial (I have many thoughts) but the observation in the press that his PA gave evidence against him yesterday seems wrong as it was disclosed at an agreed facts stage.

Owl Burrito is my favourite band. Not many have heard of them.

Owls in Towels@owls-in-towels.bsky.social

27th of Owltober! A burrito-wrapped Burrowing Owl was admitted to a wildlife clinic to treat eye ulcers from suspected head trauma. The sender (anonymous) said "his favorite meal in care is mice and mealworms and he is very vocal now that he’s feeling better!" #owlsintowels 💛🦉

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It’s probably not a coincidence we’ve seen the same across all channels in Britain in the past 15 years, a period notable for relentless revelations of sex crimes by politicians, policemen and prominent public figures.

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Scots living in the most deprived parts of the country are five times more likely to die from alcohol abuse than those staying in the richest, new NRS figures show. The overall number of deaths from alcohol dropped by three per cent last year.

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Victim blaming season is back, alongside darker evenings and mornings. But perhaps it’s time to recognise that like “cities aren’t loud; cars are loud”, our roads aren’t dangerous by themselves. It’s the motor vehicles on them that create the danger and that perhaps it’s time to address the source.

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Bloody hell - I hope the regulator has a look at #r4today over the way they just responded to allegations made on air earlier by Farage. It was badly handled by Robinson and I think Today’s editor should be resigning. Allowing Farage to dictate the content of a live broadcast is a gross mistake.

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100% right. They can all become the obedient, conforming Trad-wives they want all women to be. PRAISE THE LAWD!!

Jadey Character@lampjaded.bsky.social

Taking the next "I guess we got a lot of what we wanted so we have to now obey tight gender norms so as to indicate we are very biological women and not to be challenged anywhere, which we indicated was an extremely small price to pay for the blood sport we are addicted to" step, I guess.

That was my local council last week, a computer for the Chief Executive's office after someone told him about Samantha Fox's Strip Poker. Everyone else uses pencil and paper (their own supplies)

Prof Frank McDonough@fxmc1957.bsky.social

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Norwich City council has a state of the art computer delivered (1957). 📷 Norwich Evening News

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You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

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Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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Instead of screaming about ‘woke’ could we try having a sensible discussion about whether or not the dead should be on display in museums? Scotland has removed some mummies from display and the culture warriors have gone nuts. Whatever happened to intelligent debate? In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

heraldscotland.comLet's try having an intelligent discussion about mummies in museumsRemoving the dead from display in Glasgow has sparked claims of cancellation. Neil Mackay says culture warriors should cut the cheap chat and engage their brains

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"Lest we forgot: To congratulate any person or business who stops the [fascists] in their tracks at every given opportunity" via The UK Against Hate

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Replying to @marcusjdl.bsky.social

I would read the crap out of a book that details the BBC's complicity in all this. Including with Have I Got news for you's platforming of farage and johnson (and others probably i've forgotten)

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Good representation on the back row from the worst sixth formers you know.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

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BREAKING: Former Miss Switzerland Accuses Trump of Rape A former Miss Switzerland alleges that President Donald Trump raped her while she was in the U.S. for a pageant in 1993. The allegation was included in a report released on Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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Now this is a good idea. James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, wrote a whole tract on witch-hunting: Daemonology. It’s chillingly rational: rather than being full of overheated fantasies like some such works, it’s coolly consistent. 1/7 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

smithsonianmag.comSee the New Tartan Pattern Created to Honor Women Accused of Witchcraft in Scotland Between 1563 and 1736The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act

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Why is YouTube pushing videos on me with Douglas Murray talking rot about civil ‘conflict’ in Britain? So bizarre for decades there was effectively a civil war in N Ireland that Britain never named as such Now there is no civil war, but endless mouthpieces talking it up evidence free