Reposted by Thom SaundersEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week 426984
Reposted by Thom SaundersMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.  1375118507
Reposted by Thom SaundersSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nobody, not a single Labour leader EVER, has ever suggested socialist stuff before and The Duntmeister General is EXCITED! 11578
Reposted by Thom SaundersIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan! 231033382
Reposted by Thom SaundersMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I know it's late in his career but I'd like to see Tom Jones release a follow-up song called 'It IS Unusual', which focuses on rare but documented phenomena like Halley's Comet. 1924126
Reposted by Thom SaundersIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Friends fear she's stress playing Terra Nil AGAIN Few things calm the brain like deleting the destructive remnants of a post industrial civilisation, encouraging wildlife and then fucking off as if you were never there 3131
Reposted by Thom Saundersa frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe @supermathskid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wrote "ouch" on a piece of paper and sent it through the photocopier. What happened next chilled me to the bone 521654
Reposted by Thom SaundersGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048511482
Reposted by Thom SaundersMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297737663
Reposted by Thom SaundersClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026the rage that was activated in me by the breastfeeding line for SO MANY doctors, the abstract hypothetical babies we don’t have yet and and might not even want outweigh literally everything else. you want top surgery? a hysterectomy? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NEEDS OF THIS BABY I JUST MADE UP?? fuck you 4810133
Reposted by Thom SaundersRachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world 534191015
Reposted by Thom SaundersInbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages. 8022941810112
Reposted by Thom SaundersJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth... 22068452694
Reposted by Thom SaundersMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/07/2026hey girl, are you the moon? because you also look bad in pictures 827828
Reposted by Thom Saunders5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This week’s episode is Mullin v. Doe, where the Court finally weighed in on Trump saying that Haitian immigrants are eating pets and poisoning our blood. The verdict: NOT racist.podcasts.apple.comMullin v. DoePodcast Episode · 5-4 · July 28 · 55m 614127
Reposted by Thom SaundersEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 28/07/2026being online is basically incompatible with serious governance you can’t be a shitposter and the home secretary 5585
Reposted by Thom SaundersThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Lots of people commenting on how unsporting Argentina’s players are, but let’s be fair and remember that they are also very racist.theguardian.comFrench federation files complaint over ‘racist’ song by Argentina playersThe French soccer federation pledged to file a complaint with Fifa over ‘racist and discriminatory remarks’ by Argentina players after their Copa América final win 341018274
Reposted by Thom SaundersMatt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 15/07/2026by now you shoulda somehow tried to score goal number two 214933
Reposted by Thom SaundersThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt 4567741792
Reposted by Thom SaundersEmma Grae @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot. 482556697
Reposted by Thom SaundersMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026why are people only ever described as "no-nonsense", what if you're a nonsense person, what then 79994160
Reposted by Thom Saundersfranz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/02/2024Someone was surprised to learn that I yeet bugs out instead of *gently relocating* them. I appreciate the gesture. But in the tropics, seeing bugs where they shouldn't be is an hourly—not weekly thing. You learn what can survive a yeet to save time. In this thread I'm rating animal yeetability. 551160331
Reposted by Thom SaundersVeerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Evergreen. 1479591906
Reposted by Thom SaundersRufus Hound @rufushound.com · 07/07/2026If the English team's performance is making you feel too proud of where we live, may I suggest travelling by train? 0212
Reposted by Thom SaundersNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be. I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading. 6549223
Reposted by Thom SaundersJames Cook @jamesecook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé 213314561
Reposted by Thom SaundersDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 02/07/2026PSN in 2028 when you buy a new game 123135592
Reposted by Thom SaundersThe Man With The Mouthful Of Shit @prefectbeanis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Bluesky would be better if it had ads mixed in with my friends posts, and posts by people I’m not following showing up as well, also all the posts should be out of order. Also there should be more stupid little dick fuckers on here saying shit that pisses me off. 282200265
Reposted by Thom SaundersMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just heard Clare Balding use the phrase 'do not adjust your set!' and I thought (a) soon enough, nobody will understand what that even means and (b) it was always a funny expression. 'Hmm, a surprising sports result - there must be something wrong with my TV!' 2823014
Thom Saunders @actionthom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026🎶 Today, is going to be the day that you're gonna throw up at the zoo 🎶 000
Reposted by Thom SaundersBrosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal 1080922189
Reposted by Thom SaundersAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026lots of people frame restore and reform as only being a problem if they win elections. But they don't have to win elections. they can win by installing their views in the national conversation - influencing labour party policy for example. starting riots and flag shagging etc etc 12810
Reposted by Thom SaundersMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars. 8153372301
Reposted by Thom SaundersGlonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This tweet lives rent free in my head 8843166
Reposted by Thom SaundersMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 23673501703
Reposted by Thom SaundersDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 06/06/2026I DonT knOw wHO tOOk thIS It took me twenty seconds to find the photographer: Steve Mackay. www.stevemackayphotography.com Nobody forced you to post this at gunpoint. You could’ve taken a fraction of a minute to credit the photographer. 66511
Reposted by Thom SaundersGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 13/11/2024when the butt thief is in town 343607807
Reposted by Thom SaundersMaggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot. 125136862063
Reposted by Thom SaundersAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The 10 facts at the end of this www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...vanityfair.com10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse AllegationsThe author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland need to know. 3177
Reposted by Thom Saundersmindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026If anyone knows what to look like or what to say or how to stand correctly, let me know 323054