Phil

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

I love the “not everyone can afford headphones” line. As if it’s obligatory to play shitty TikTok’s on public transport and you can’t possibly be expected to go 10 minutes without assaulting your eyeballs with mindless crap

Once you’ve had the £10+ Ginger Pig sausage roll, alas, you cannot pretend that the one that’s been in a “heater” all day at Sainsbury’s compares

The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.

Good.

Dr Tottenham

The public finances are stretched to the limit, even with real-terms spending cuts coming up for most departments just before the election. At the same time taxes on median earners are *low* because we've spent 20+ years only raising indirect taxes. We are just not remotely serious people.

"Spontaneous protest" my ass.

They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Feels a shame to have to relegate a team on week 1, but…

I'd say "contactless payments come to America" has the potential to be about three days of transatlantic bluesky content, possibly taking in US aversion to automatic speed cameras and something about food consumption.

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worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem

Reappraising “Woke 1” having watched Andor

Another thing Blade Runner got wrong about the future is the existence of rain.

🎯 Falls into my favourite group of takes: “Just because a politician couldn’t voice these conclusions in public, it does not mean they’re incorrect”

A deeply unwell game today Wordle 1,852 5/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

is Wordle on glue, is this it, did it huff some glue this morning

"The establishment has decided they can't beat us fairly, so they have to use foul means," says Nigel Farage, on reporting that he's accepted gifts of £5 million+, which he hasn't denied.

In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

*GASP* who could have foreseen this.

feels bad that the guy who was chief of staff to the Prime Minister not a decade ago is now associating himself with an extreme right party! feels very bad!

A thread to remind you that the internet is FUN

Literally everyone I know or read who expressed an opinion about Starmer has been saying this since 2024 and I really don't understand why it didn't sink in. It's not a complex point

You may disagree, or rightly point out that consequences matter far more than motives, but my take is that the driver of the most morally repugnant decisions Starmer took was cowardice rather than malice. Maybe that's actually worse. The damage weak men can do.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

Just so thankful for ITV being there in-person so that we get *checks notes* the sound of traffic and some Brazilian fans having a walk.

PSA: If you’re a politics poster doing politics posting about the World Cup without much knowledge of soccer (not that anybody on Bluesky would do such a thing I’m sure) you’re probably gonna want to do a cursory google of Thomas Partey before you limber up the posting fingers.

There are a lot of bad ways to spend public money. Giving it to the WASPi women might rank among the very worst. (Article is from 2024, but sadly once again relevant) www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-case-aga...

This chart remains undefeated

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

This thread is entirely correct.

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

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*sigh* come on arsenal www.graceonfootball.com/p/no-one-car...

“Mid-season shopping spree” say the announcers to describe City, as they do every year lately, spending more than the summer transfer budget of 2/3rds of the PL clubs in JANUARY. Said uncritically. Nothing about how odd it is that no other club can do it. Or the 115 charges.

spurs' natural replacement would presumably be igor stuart.