♫ All together now, one, two, three... . youtu.be/DDYpr99FgEk
Card-carrying member of the Anti-growth Coalition. Likes: cats, birds (feathered persuasion), science, nature, words, history, art, music, current affairs, satire. Mostly lurking. Repost/like≠endorsement.
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♫ All together now, one, two, three... . youtu.be/DDYpr99FgEk
♫ Call me in the morning just before the breakfast show We'll watch TV and analyse the weather Before we go to work, we must plan the day ahead We'll while away the working day together youtu.be/Jv17UTYzPco
Beat me to it! Great song. 👍
I'd like to thank The Telegraph for illustrating my point about the importance of liking posts on @bsky.app so clearly 👍
Bluesky is shrinking rather than growing. It has no source of revenue. If it doesn’t grow, *it will die*. Constantly making it unwelcoming, saying who you don’t want here, setting rules for what other sites people should and shouldn’t use, and the like, will kill it quicker.
If you're in the York area and need window cleaning services, please consider giving these thoroughly decent and honourable people your custom.
Bullshit & you know it, Kristi. More than half had a tenure of over 5 years. Jesus doesn't like it when you lie, Madam Secretary... and on a Sunday no less. Tsk tsk
Calm, yes. Rabbit in RefUK's headlights, not so much.
That could aggravate matters. Despite the amped-up headlines and agitation by the usual political suspects, most of the protests are very poorly attended (for now, at least), sometimes with larger counter-protests. @sundersays.bsky.social is posting lots of factual reports on his feed.
I could never watch that film a second time. Still haunts me to this day when I hear it mentioned.
It's great! Best B-movie of all time. 👍
"Look for the helpers..."
It just seems to be a fixed feature of media culture that newsdesks + subs can do "protests anticipated" & "protests continue/swell" but will never put "protests shrink" even when they do So there is a chasm between the framing/headlines & the live reporting of smaller protests than before
♫ We are strong No one can tell us we're wrong Searchin' our hearts for so long Both of us knowing 🔽 youtu.be/IGVZOLV9SPo
♫ Ours, entrance we surely carry on And change the passing of the sun We don't even need to try, we are one ♫ youtu.be/438-Ii_BueM
Lá breithe shona duit, Van the Man! Still can't fathom out how such a miserable oul' git can produce such beautiful music. 😜 youtu.be/4Yvdx1lIAv8
over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author... i think making a list clarifies this:
Rylan Clark's ITV This Morning migrant rant wrong on three points www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Seems the BBC significantly exaggerated the Home Office case here, both in their wording on Twitter and on the broadcast itself. Home Office lawyers did *not* say this, which would be politically toxic, and play right into the hands of you know who. >
Why won't the media do its due diligence? Instead, most of the right wing press and GB News add fuel to the fire. They, Farage, Tice, Jenrick, Carswell, Philp, are raising the temperature. Boiling the frog. The unacceptable face of racism is now mainstream, and many of us will be burned by it
He never fails to weird me out.
Just can't keep a good hook down!
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That's more like it! #Stranglers #totp
Knew it was too good to last. #totp
He taught Dave Grohl everything he knows.
Choooooooooon! #numan #totp
I prefer the Genesis take on In the Cage. #totp
Good plan!
Muting in 3, 2, 1...
With very few exceptions.
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Play Massive Attack, you cowards! #TOTP
Brianne?
I always found them intensely irritating.
I loved Trevor and Simon.
Another late '90s chart entry that passed me by (for which I am grateful). #TOTP
Trump is 10 days older than I am. If he can cause as much mayhem as he does every day, the least I can do is make a bit of good trouble every day. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-retire
Jon Stewart tackles the GOP's refusal to address gun violence unless it's carried out by a non-citizen
Earlier, you wrote: "Let me know when the Lib Dem’s offer their constituencies up as places of sanctuary." Albeit at council, rather than constituency level, my reply to your post directly addressed this.
The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything. It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.
"so he's got the reins of power, but he's lost the battle of ideas."
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
Stand Up to Racism groups do their best to represent the decent majority in Britain, but without local help it can be hard to muster the numbers to be everywhere You can help in many ways: in person, turn up locally + be counted (link) donate to help print leaflets share information directly
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
"Of the 131 areas [currently housing asylum seekers in contingency accommodation, primarily made up of hotels], 74 are fully or partially led by Labour, 30 by the Liberal Democrats, 19 by the Conservatives, nine by the Green Party and one by Reform UK." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
And me!
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This.
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Another collection of entitled kitties on this Caturday: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/8Zg...
I thought Swayze was fantastic!
Great soundtrack.
Weslely Snipes in pigtails skipping around like a six-year-old is my favourite memory from that film. .
My favourite scene, hands-down, was the soon-to-be-deployed squadron of spermatozoa.
You win Bluesky today! 💐 👏 🎈 🏆 🎈 👏 💐
👏 Kicking myself that I didn't think of this: it's one of my all-time top 10 movies!
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So, come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver with antici ... .
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover .
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
"Look for the helpers..." ❤️
Whilst the collapse of local journalism is terrible the work of these citizen volunteer journalists is laudable …not least @bearlypolitics.co.uk “Their work is methodical. They trawl through council records, social media posts, archived interviews, and press releases.”
Samosa vs Jalebi The Ed Davey cut 😬 youtu.be/K34xkkJVLiE
Love the ending! 😀
#SomeGoodNews
He has two?
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How to sound tough but do nothing: Impose tariffs on a country where we already impose sanctions. A 100% tariff on almost nothing will do almost nothing.
The fun thing about talking with @therickwilson.bsky.social s that I don't bother sugarcoating anything, and we just get right down to it.
And while you're at it, turn the moon into cheese.
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Alas! 🙁
Mea culpa! Misread the post (brain's banjaxed from all the hot weather). .
Soap was on ITV.
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I'd rather not go there: there's only so much of the Angelus, An Núacht and Bosco a person can take! .
Banger of a choon!
I quite fancy giving it a watch. Saw it first time round at a friend's house and thought it was a fantastic. Whole gang of us, barbecue, the works (got quite emotional about it all). 🙂
