Reposted by Ross BurtonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy cheese day to all who celebrate. And a good moment to remember that our political system is so broken that this woman, who is visibly inane, became prime minister. 4748786
Reposted by Ross BurtonRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Only in Switzerland. Workmen having a cheeky fondue by the side of the road over the weekend. Identities obscured to protect the peckish. 317019
Reposted by Ross Burtonlondonscallin.bsky.social @londonscallin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@vizcomic.bsky.social 0157
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 25/09/2026@josiahmortimer.bsky.social breaking pocock news if you're as obsessed with this guy as I am danielpocock.com/en/supporter...danielpocock.comSupporters of winding-up process staking claims against Reform UK Party (CR-2026-007405)Software engineer, Free, Open Source Software Consultant, Innovator, Fedora & Debian Developer 101
Reposted by Ross BurtonEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5794803354
Reposted by Ross BurtonBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10380772784
Reposted by Ross BurtonDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy. 761730490
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 23/09/2026@lemosfran.bsky.social I just downloaded Tales From Behind the Ferns and was trying to show a friend but lemos.itch.io/tales-from-b... isn't publicly visible. Is that intentional?lemos.itch.io 100
Reposted by Ross BurtonJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington 738148
Reposted by Ross BurtonJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork. 1933093
Reposted by Ross BurtonStuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org · 16/09/2026Actually LOL at this, which is rare 141
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 11/09/2026Brits! I'm giving away five Rapanui/Teemill discount codes as I have a few too many to use. Anyway want one? 001
Reposted by Ross BurtonJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Public service announcements appearing on the Tube (spoof ofc)👌🏼 6956184
Reposted by Ross BurtonNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Hell yeah. Hell yeah brother. Here we go. Hit me with this content. Hell yeah. I can feel it. 1452719475
Reposted by Ross BurtonJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reform UK has been removed from the Alliance for Proportional Representation. It comes after a Q&A at conference where Reform MP Danny Kruger said: “On PR there is a significant danger [Lab.] will try to introduce it...Reform’s position is we support First Past the Post.” Reform's 2024 manifesto: 17354144
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 08/09/2026The RNLI don't get paid (at all) to put up with this shit. Donate if you can! 000
Reposted by Ross BurtonAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Law of the Internet says that every time you see this story, you have to share it. And here we are again. 515759
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 05/09/2026Just watched the original Terminator for the first time in decades and wow I’d forgotten about the stop motion animation at the end. 010
Reposted by Ross BurtonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 04/09/2026He didn't extend Angela Rayner any grace for not understanding how family trusts operate. 1344399
Reposted by Ross BurtonHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we? 551915735
Reposted by Ross BurtonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What really struck me watching Channel 4 investigation into Reform is that the wilful breaking of electoral law isn’t an accident - it’s by design At every turn it’s Reform - Orr, Dan Jukes - saying how to break the law Exactly why I’ve been banging on about weak election law for so long 521494413
Reposted by Ross BurtonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/09/2026There's a lot here to be sickened by, but for some reason the "do you understand what's happening?" really got me. What's happening, Zia? Explain it to us. Use your words. Say it out loud. No no, not "wink wink, nudge nudge, you know..." Why is it a problem she's nominated? Say it, coward. 24570168
Reposted by Ross BurtonJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This now has a transmission date: 29th October! Obviously, I will be shouting more about this closer to the time. 35712
Reposted by Ross BurtonCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet. 1426890889
Reposted by Ross BurtonJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Idea for a new policy idea to pitch to Defra "National Muntjac Week" - all children to be served free deer burgers at school to mark the start of the new school year. Properly maintained, must not, repeat, must not lead to CWD outbreak. 4472
Reposted by Ross BurtonJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026One of the more interesting graphs I've seen, something that seems really counter-intuitive until you think about it. England only having about 15 percent forest coverage at the time of the Doomsday book (about half of what France and Germany have today) is wild, isn't it? 1818247
Reposted by Ross BurtonOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet 2642471264
Reposted by Ross BurtonMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026crashingly obvious thing to say, but surely if you had written the Father Ted “liars” speech you would then be quite careful not to actually write it again as yourself 316232
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 29/08/2026I mean it's nice that it's not a heatwave anymore but I've four suitcases of laundry to do this weekend, the heat could have just lasted a few more days. 000
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 28/08/2026In honour of Michael Scott, tonight we’re eating at Chilli’s. 000
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 25/08/2026How do I tell housekeeping to stop giving us clean towels? 020
Reposted by Ross Burtonamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 23/08/2026we’re at costco and my husband ordered a hot dog from the cashier and the guy said “what flavor” and my husband said wat and costco guy said “jk there’s only one flavor. it’s hot dog” and my husband said dammit you did this to me last time and the costco cashier collapsed in giggles 36136472127
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 22/08/2026Unexpected upside to wildfire smoke drifting over the mountain: golden hour light at 1pm. 000
Reposted by Ross BurtonQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026UK transit nerds are next level. 1454157716
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 19/08/2026Today I shall heartily recommend Three Bears Brewery from Banff, Canada. 010
Reposted by Ross BurtonJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Reclaim's accounts are a fun read (Laurence Fox's party). Reclaim raised £200,000 last year from just one person (Jeremy Hosking), has no members' income at all, and spent £436,000 - almost all on consultants (Fox?) to contest...no elections. 1186
Reposted by Ross BurtonSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention. 491385303
Reposted by Ross BurtonJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions. 542002639
Reposted by Ross BurtonSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times) 2412281757
Reposted by Ross BurtonSomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Great reporting from Sunder on the Express outright inciting violence here. I've added alt-text to the "jaw-dropping" list of items asylum seekers are provided with. 36326
Reposted by Ross BurtonSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications... 271037404
Reposted by Ross BurtonBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps 252112130
Reposted by Ross BurtonCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton 22772302807
Ross Burton @burtonini.com · 05/08/2026Just got my renewal notice for my @404media.co subscription and absolutely their journalism is worth $100/year. Keep up the good work! 000
![THRASHED BY A LADY CYCLIST.
WHO IS NOTED FOR HER ATHLETIC POWERS.
[SUBJECT OF ILLUSTRATION.]
An extraordinary scene was witnessed on Saturday morning in Peel Lane, a thorough-tare connecting Little Hulton with Tyldesley, in which the principal participants were a young lady cyclist and a youth of nineteen or twenty. The lady was riding at a good pace, and when in a quiet part of the road the young man, who-had apparently been imbibing, stepped into the roadway, and addressing some insulting remarks to. the cyclist, made as if he intended pulling nei off the machine.
She immediately alighted
caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him & sound thrashing, using her tists in scientific fashion, to the delight of several colliers who were passing.
The young man
made of and the list, who is believed to be a Bolton lady noted for her athletio powers, rode off towards Tyldesley.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:irlrdb4p2swljzcdjbhc54gd/bafkreidh6wgfdqispgye44r65t72odubtyvi4cujbku33ozj4irwp2apn4)
