Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If the sane voters could also clock this it’d be helpful. Voting is not game theory, but a degree of ‘I acknowledge that other people feel differently and therefore maybe I need to accommodate that in my political preferences’ that would be handy given the other side are such a bunch of cunts 050
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026IT’S A SYMBOLIC NOD TO 4 REGIONS FROM WITHIN THE EVIL EMPIRE 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A genuine expert friend of mine is astonished that they’ve seemingly released the full estimated visitor number of tickets up front; it’s usual to pilot the first couple of days to gauge experience and ratchet up tickets release until it becomes unpleasant then wind it back to one notch below that 1170
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I would simply be more circumspect about putting the words ‘ideological clown’ in people’s minds while I walked about on a stage 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026First 15 also feel like someone may need to tell him to stop the meta-commentary ‘I bet you didn’t think I was going to say X’ bits* because they’ve got a real bad best man’s speech/‘I’m so ker-razy, me’ vibe *I can’t remember the actual formulations because of the powerful cringing they induced 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026While there’s definitely no equivalent for Burnham among the ex-Spads of Bluesky, no alternate timeline fan fiction manifestations here, no siree 😂 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yep, in the electoral casino Labour has definitely just handed the croupier our father’s watch 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yeah he may well prove to be. He’s certainly got self-belief to think he can get away with it where no-one else has. It may ultimately just be a combo of life as a Welsh rugby supporter and the osmosis of marrying into CEE Catholicism - optimism makes me feel like I’m stumbling in a trap 120
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s something unsettling for me in the parallels between the mood today and the right’s reaction to Truss’ speech/mini-budget… just a nagging voice in the back of my head saying ‘everyone sounds a bit like Farage claiming the best budget since ‘86…’ - is that just inbuilt centre-left trauma? 221
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mad to do this policy blitz without a bucket of Sharpies and pile of comedy-sized Executive Order imo 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well ultimately judge this on whether the crowd breaks into a song about him before the end of the speech 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fundamentally incorrect though - people on Bluesky absolutely want a comic about public policy 150
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah, I see the campaign strategy is swinging back from ‘ultimately doomed pragmatism’ to ‘immediately doomed wishful thinking’ 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’ve just heard WVA thinking ‘are you joking you cunt’ at Remco from 5000km away 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To max out ‘symbol of the timesiness’ they’ll need to clad them in Racism tiles 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Council refused to let us return keys for grandmother’s council flat after she died. After 3 infuriating calls I ended up saying she’s been buried 3 months, you’ve got a death certificate, I’m leaving the keys in the front door tomorrow so you decide if you want them back. No idea if they ever did 030
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Chatting about it with few people today and lots of comment on details while I, perhaps sim. to you, am thinking ‘If this analysis is half on the money which I think it is, it’s describing a conveyor belt to existential catastrophe. The essay title should be ‘PANIC STATIONS: WE MIGHT ALL BE FUCKED!’ 100
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Friend of mine in 6th form failed 10 times and her theory eventually ran out. The best fail, in my eyes, was the time she pulled back into the test centre car park and knocked the tester’s motorbike over 130
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Musk-ito Repellent (with apologies to Bill Hicks) 020
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You’ve got to think that playing behind the Toulouse forwards is going to put him in an excellent position to investigate a murder each week 020
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@squidgerugby.bsky.social incredible range on show from Ntamack here 110
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sometimes things you think are dead can rise, unexpectedly. Pretty dark stuff if I’m honest 020
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The @joshgardner.bsky.social Scheduling Quotient I think they call that 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This has very much got shades of that Bangor RFC 2nds team accidentally playing Treviso in 2013 and going 0-3 up from the kickoff 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Come on, the first few days after a £36M donation it’s going to be impossible to tear him away from Rightmove 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ooh, I had plenty of time for this one www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environ...thedailymash.co.ukOrange-hued Just Stop Oil activist totally successfulA DISRUPTIVE man wearing the bright orange of Just Stop Oil has succeeded in shutting down oil worldwide in a victory for the group. 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’d keep checking my email for a year or two after that just for the chance of a spectacular payoff 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’m not sure this evening’s humiliation is going to be amazing for Lawrence’s batting tomorrow if I’m honest 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If she’s eating the paper it might indicate she belongs with us in consumer research 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What’s really taken me by surprise is how quickly since we went back to a Root-captained team that I’ve started cheering the opposition, there must be something chemical in it 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Can’t remember a more feel-good 50 in recent memory 😂 001
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026First time in 20 years my wife has asked a bit about cricket (why is that guy just prodding at it instead of swinging?) and it’s involving a lot of ‘well these later batters are trying to survive, they can’t pick the ball up as well, yes except that one there who’s doing the opposite, ignore him’ 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Don’t criticise pedantry, it’s a load-bearing wall of this website and I can’t face having to doomscroll the Guardian again instead 090
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That’s a hell of a hallucinogen you’ve picked up there 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@stephencollins.bsky.social continues to set the target on fire and then run it over with a lorry 011
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This country’s just becoming overrun with people isn’t it 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Without names, a sequence of large charities our team used to work for were coincidentally such demanding, entitled, and occasionally nasty clients that the policy was changed to charge full rate and donate a % to charity elsewhere instead, so there’s another option 170
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s really something that with all the terrible things happening everywhere right now, this is by some distance the worst thing I’ve found out on Bluesky 060
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thought it would be fun to get a little Tour de France jersey for my eldest this summer but after checking the prices I’ve decided to buy her a car when she’s older instead to save a bit of money 020
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It was very kind of Starmer to leave his genie behind in Downing Street 000
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It’s amazing, it’s like playdoh that sticks anything and is as strong as china when it sets. Having married into a strong love of Boleslawiec it’s pretty much currency in this house 110
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026That’s the beauty of milliput! You can fill missing pieces etc., it’s nails and easy to use 100
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026My wife has just panicked and frantically turned up my phone brightness because she thought you’d done this with no netting either side of the boards 😂 010
Charlie @charlesesquire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Mackenzie being a Kiwi troll is an A* coda to that one! 000