Reposted by Celestial M WeaselStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5hSome people don't go outside enough anymore and it really shows. (The reviewer, not Mark, to be clear!) 3585
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely. 26968364
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselNostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 11hHappy birthday to Grampian Television. One of the things that the original borders of the ITV regions got absolutely right was that Scotland in not a single homogeneous whole. The people of Wick and Inverness do not want the same coverage as those of Dumfries or Stirling 291
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselRob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remembering when for no good reason i pretended to be Nabokov ranking various bears 37929
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303169674
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 12hRelease it into the public domain - let a thousand Doctors blume 010
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 18hWhenever I hear this what I want to see in the headline is: - What was profit last year - what was profit trajectory year on year - what was average non exec pay & what pay rises were there average - what changes were there in investors 3309
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 15hI remember Bill Gibson as an aside at a talk saying he had seen Carphone Warehouse shops here and it was like finding a shop called 8-Track City still going 070
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16hWell, if it’s 30 September, it must be... oh God. The 36th anniversary of the first—and, you may not be entirely surprised to hear—only transmission of a sitcom which was genuinely called ‘Heil Honey, I’m Home’, in which Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to Jewish couple Arny and Rosa Goldenstein 1119553
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23hBREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 13671321712
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17hI accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 124760
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 17hYou can presumably just train it on the Road to Serfdom for an hour and it'll be ready 371
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselEdward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 17hChrist, how terrible is the advice now? Surely this is an obvious case where a half-decent LLM ought to able to predict the Economist line on any given issue. 4223
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 17hI was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”. 1034572
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here is a sample of Denby's economic expertise: "Bond markets... don't believe in Britain, they think we are too much of a risk, because of our out-of-control spending and our out-of-control taxes and all of those things." I hope the Nobel Economics Prize Committee is paying attention. 2919228
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselIndy @indy.bsky.social · 21hPart of the current political disaster in the UK is that the Right sets the terms of what is “strategic” 022
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselIndy @indy.bsky.social · 20hI think you'll find the one thing our commentariat are united upon is "no consequences for Tories" 021
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance 131201142
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselUK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 20hTHE GUARDIAN: Sixteen English councils spent more than 80% of core funding on social care last year. Rising demand is squeezing budgets for services including libraries, roads and refuse. - by Michael Goodier and Patrick Butlertheguardian.comSixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care 193
Reposted by Celestial M Weaselllafgorf.bsky.social @llafgorf.bsky.social · 20hI wonder if there is a Sgt. Bilko character, on the base, who has been syphoning off fuel from storage tanks, and selling it to bootleggers? 2103
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselNick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 19hThere's a genuinely horrifying vision of a vision of a future where everything is personalised based on pastiches of existing music, films, books etc, everyone is atomised off into their own personal bubble and the only thing we have in common is beige protein and nutrient slop we eat. 1143
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselBrynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 21hcomplicatedft.comSuspect in RAF Fairford incident called 999 shortly before arrestMotive for the emergency call is unclear, as police continue to investigate incident at air base used by US bombers 331
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 43366261811
Reposted by Celestial M Weaselnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 4149701958
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging. 541023134
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was wrong. It’s happening 222036241
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselBrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AI is nature's way of telling BBC bosses to put tired formats out of their misery 34713
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Honestly it’s like a parody by this point isn’t it 2326232
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1761142319
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselVictoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reminds me of being at that 6th form college in Brighton with Dickon's book, 'Diary at the Centre of the Earth vol. I 1997-2007'. "That was the year I was born!" 042
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselRichard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026The vast economic and efficiency gains from the development of the internet just fizzling away. 152
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselIndy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The hard truth is we have implemented every centre-right nostrum, from slashing local government through conditionality of benefits to junking resilience measures for society and the economy - and as many predicted, it all turns out to be very costly in the long run. 04220
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 29/09/2026Scrap the triple lock and replace it with the Tribble Lock. 1224
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselJo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The most sensible MPC member, by a margin. www.ft.com/content/4aa0... 1108
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselBallooon Mein Herr? @ballooonmh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Apart from Liam Dutton on Channel 4, who constantly references climate change and global warming, they're all like that. "Sunshine good, rain horrid", like a bunch of happy clappy nursery teachers. 073
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselIndy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Labour's (and indeed many "independent commentators") inability to trace the roots of our current situation to past actions means we are doomed to keep repeating those foolish actions. 1133
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here. 441426256
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026can't believe Burnham is going dogging too 2162
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselNicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A grim read. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/u... He executed death row prisoners. Then they came back to haunt himedition.cnn.comHe executed death row prisoners. Then they came back to haunt him | CNNEvery night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul. 084
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselGavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post. 34719154
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselAnother Friggin Dave @anotherfriggindave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Christ, are we really so far-gone that now any decline in employment anywhere is widely assumed to be due to the success of AI? Is that what we're up against now when we try to talk to people and like, have data on things and look at it together? 011
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl. 211060171
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselEllen @gershamabob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When is bins? Thought I. Blue this week. Bring it out. Everyone else has green out. Why? Cos council cocked up their printable calendar. 141
Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Which of you lot (in the UK) have the technology to digitise reel to reel tapes? (See thread) 022
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026holodeck dungeons and dragons 416124
Reposted by Celestial M WeaselTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I enjoyed the time a bunch of people with "insurrectionist anarchist; 19" in bio tried to explain to me, a trained urban planner, that i was "watering down the definition" of third space by pointing out cafés were literally listed as one of them in the title of the book that invented the term 46510
Reposted by Celestial M Weasel❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Feels as though the upper echelons of Silicon Valley are built on sort of reciprocal of Milkshake Duck, where the surprise reveal is the bigoted duck is famous and hangs out with billionaires & White House officials 21129