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Joby Catto

@cattotonic.bsky.social
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Immersive media, extensive interests. Sporadically opinionated, mildly cynical, rarely offensive, always curious and hungry. Irreverent and critical thinker. Northern and proud.

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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Makes sense as BBC has nowhere near enough income due to previous cumulative govt cuts, increased obligations, fewer license fees. Thus needs immediate deep cuts, just about enabling them to uphold min. charter obligations. Privatisation's neither cause nor effect, tho may be a downstream outcome .
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔥Absolute *god-tier* beer snacks spotted for the first time in years on UK soil. In a world where so much is going to shit, it’s the little joys that matter. Muled back a load of these from Brooklyn in 2023 after they’d disappeared from UK shelves. Now, I need a pint to complete the experience…
Bags of Snyder’s jalapeño flavour pretzel pieces
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oooohhhhh…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Some pubs can be unprofitable simply because they're tied and owned by large pubs (which I assume is the reasoning for the predatory landlord line). It's not always the pub site which is unprofitable, sometimes the business model which dictates the overheads and margins.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Silent spring (and summer, and probably autumn too). The omission of public discourse is jarring and dissonant.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Chapeau… elegant and literal. Or… sweet 🍦
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tapps aff…
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Marco Rubio on 23 June: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law."
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I've seen streets with Israeli, Confederate, loyalist paramilitary, Parachute Regiment and Christian flags in a fairly short stretch. It's like tribal bigotry jackpot 🎰
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
*immediate flashback to that skit in Chris Morris's Jam where Robert Kilroy Silk lost his mind, going naked and feral around a shopping mall*
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The prospect of Nigel Farage fighting a people vs the establishment by-election in which the only other candidate is Count Binface - is too hilarious for words.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Toadface vs Binface. Everyone else sits on the sidelines, crossing their arms and biding their time.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hope not hate
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Troubling, powerful testimony from @otoolematthew.bsky.social and deep, level-headed historical parallels perspective in this Half Pint from the ever-excellent @passportirish.bsky.social Thanks for recording and sharing this.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Listen more, say less, lads… Wading in, full cowboy boot-deep into a complex part of the world with overlapping, nuanced, highly sensitive issues *really* is not a good look… Pure Trump 2.0 MAGA-centric vibes though, so no surprise…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What kind of buffer / lead would Burnham need to comfortably compensate for the 'secret / ashamed to admit' demographic which could reasonably be expected to be under-represent in polling like this? Do psephologists use a reference margin, weighted for different parties, for such a thing?
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Calculated opportunism on the part of him and his backers. Always keen to shift the window, given the chance.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...
ft.com
Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
Reform UK leader has said he did not use £5mn gift from crypto billionaire to buy Surrey property
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
💯
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Bias aside, I just can't get over that errant double space…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I bloody love trig points www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
theguardian.com
Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain
Pillars at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Thorny Gale, Cumbria, bookended the project that modernised mapping
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🇭🇺 First visited in summer 1990, last visited in 2010. Time to go back for lángos, beer and a side portion of democratic retribution, methinks…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
IP vs process knowledge. You can monetise/exploit the former (but also exist without it) , but you'll really rue the lack of the latter when you need it most. This thread reinforces what I've learned over my professional / creative lifespan. Intangible, accreted, contextual knowledge is king.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
3D gaussian splat of Orchan Rocks near Todmorden. Data set from last year, but newly reprocessed using the new MRNF strategy in LichtfeldStudio v0.5.1. #gaussiansplat #lichtfeldstudio #3DGS #outcrop superspl.at/scene/23c50045
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brown, black… so many colours, so much choice…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Amazing… that's a wild total! Congrats and keep up the great work🔥
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This whole thread suggests good UX is (unsurprisingly) a key determinant. Companies should take note. It’s unlikely they will, based on the collected experiences in this thread. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
First images from those meetings
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I've been using Macs for three and a half decades and I can (a) confirm cut, copy paste existed then in System 7, along with drag and drop and (b) dread to think who's paying this twin short plank agglomeration for their so-called Mac knowledge so they can ostensibly make a living 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Glorious thread, thanks. 🍆 also I’m getting strong Clockwork Orange attack scene vibes… was Kubrick’s production designer tangenitially inspired by this theatrical protuberance, I wonder? Or were all oversized cock and balls equally svelte, streamlined and stylised at the time?
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
There’s an overwhelming amount of news (and noise) in these times… and this means some of the best and worst discourse gets submerged. If you read one thing today, it should be this; highlighting both ends of the spectrum, and underscores values we should collectively cherish and protect.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Forget happy hump day, it's happy midweek Pellicle publication day, and this one's a doozy. A characteristically informative, thought-provoking and balanced piece by Tim Anderson 🍵💚
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
👏 Boom-tish!
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This heritage Irish stout recipe from 1883 by @kernelbrewery.bsky.social and Boundary Brewing Co-op elevated a St Patrick's Day tea very nicely. Sláinte! ☘️
A plate of cabbage, champ, bacon chop and egg alongside a glass of craft Irish stout from renowned Belfast and London breweries collaborating.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
That’s not a mince face. That’s a gammon face.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy Silver Man day!
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
As oil doesn't mix with water, simply spill all the oil onto the Gulf's surface, wait for the tide to take it out past the Strait, and scoop it up again. Easy. And as a bonus, it'll lubricate that tight passage for future incursions. The Marine Expeditionary Force will love that.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Pidgeon English? That would *really* hack off the swivel-eyed brigade…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026
Ed Zitron's a fantastic journalist, capable of turning a close read of AI companies' balance-sheets into an incandescent, exquisitely informed, eye-wateringly profane rant: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl... 1/
A cutaway of a rocky underground, with a cylindrical brick cistern. Trapped in the prison is a 16th century drudge seated before a wheel on which rest a series of books that rotate along with the wheel.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious. privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
LIST OF BUSINESS FOR
THE PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING,
HELD BY THE KING AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
ON 10TH MARCH 2026
PRESENT AT COUNCIL
His Majesty The King1. PRIVY COUNSELLORS
Dame Sara Cockerill DBE, Sir David Foxton, Sir Robert Miles and
Dame Amanda Yip DBE were sworn as Members of His Majesty’s
Most Honourable Privy Council.
An Order striking out The Lord Mandelson from the List of Members
of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
2. PROCLAMATIONS
Three Proclamations determining the specifications and designs for a
new series of coins:-
1. celebrating the Lunar Year of the Sheep;
2. depicting the music group the Spice Girls;
3. depicting six character tokens from the board game Cluedo;
and an Order directing the Lord Chancellor to affix the Great Seal to
the Proclamations.
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Brilliant sweepthestrait.com
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That caption + the slightly furtive expression of the photo of HRH suggests he's using the throne for an emergency chocolate weasel moment…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Richie from @weare1of100.bsky.social consistently collabs with incredibly talented (and tastefully-curated) creators. I've been pining for this one for weeks since it was first teased. Made up I managed to get my usual number today 🎛️🔥 I lost control, I sold my soul I sold my soul, I lost control
White t-shirt displaying an illustration of a customised Roland TB-303 with the name Adonis scrawled on the frontplate
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🟪🟦 Oh, this is great. Beguiling simple, frustratingly compelling. Congrats @chrisroguerobot.bsky.social Just lost a good chunk of my early morning getting lost in pastel-coloured futurist strategic gamesmanship. Extra points for the name too. Shall we play a game?
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Oh yes! Pavlovian response just conjured up the theme from the deepest recesses of my younger self’s mind.
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Remember Operation Rolling Thunder? This is Operation Rolling Bullshit. Excellent piece joining the dots between Surkov’s doctrine, Bannon’s gameplay, and the current US / Israeli strategy of shoot first, spin later, retcon always.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve. @jamesgraham.theliberati.net 👏 www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...
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The baseless innuendo of “family voting”
The extraordinary decision by Democracy Volunteers to shroudwave about “family voting” for the Gorton and Denton by-election has damaged both trust in the political system and harmed ra…
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Joby Catto @cattotonic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🍊Third year making Negroni marmalade in the pressure cooker… and this is the best batch yet. Improving the recipe, technique & method* annually. Kaizen. *First time using Method 1 from the definitive Modern Pressure Cooking by @catherinephipps.bsky.social (takes longer but prefer it to method 2)
A stack of filled orange marmalade jars, glowing and backlit by spring sunshine and a pale blue cloudless skyA handheld plate of toast, each slice generously covered with homemade marmalade
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 02/03/2026
As Russia’s full-scale war enters its fifth year, the fighting is erasing art that was meant to be indestructible. Photographer Oleg Petrasiuk has captured not just images of endangered artwork, but evidence of a cultural landscape in the process of disappearing in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast.
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Russia's war is erasing Kostiantynivka's Soviet-era mosaics — this is why it matters
The mosaics covering the facades of factories, cultural centers, and apartment blocks across eastern Ukraine were designed with a specific kind of permanence in mind. They survived the Soviet collapse...
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