Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Not to be too conspiratorial: I think this mistake doesn't matter to him because it's clear the image is fake, and you're meant to know the image is fake, and accept it anyway, because the truth isn't important, what he says is (Oceania had always been ar war with Eurasia, etc) 100
Reposted by ChickpeaJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835232211
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026No cheating post your lock screen (Challenge: find yourself in this photo) 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We will never be able to comprehend how indebted we are to these people 000
Reposted by ChickpeaSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Attitudes to immigration by party. The black line are the British public. Reform voters are the outliers, not the best match 34814
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Preaching to the choir but IT'S NOT ABOUT THE HOTTER WEATHER it's natural disasters, empty shelves, loss of biodiversity, disease, water scarcity, an ever larger refugee crisis... 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'm a big believer that the average person shouldn't feel forced to cook as much as they do - especially in the modern day without the hired help or SAHM model 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026youtube.com/shorts/GJ3xM... This question is getting shat on in the comments but I think it's a reasonable question with a pretty good answer. Imo it's a softball opportunity for Mamdani show support for the Jewish community that he doesn't take as much as I would like...youtube.comReporter asks Mamdani if he would have sought arrest of Hamas leadersYouTube video by CNN 121
Reposted by ChickpeaSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The government will take a £12 billion hit on the public finances if/when it belatedly reduces the current [unrealistically high] OBR projection of net migration averaging 235k for next 3 years to about 130-150k. (But it could double that cost if it wants to stay closer to zero net migration). 6258106
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026One of my big issues with Nolan is how he represents women: his female characters are almost always motivated by their relationship to a man (Interstellar v guilty of this). This is what led to the legendary bad "including my son" line in Tenet 020
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It is my earnest belief that Mahmood was a major factor in Starmer's downfall and it's a huge mistake to keep her around, as well as simply believing her policies are cruel and deeply hurtful to the most needy 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I watched Broadchurch this week - obviously the acting is amazing but overall I wasn't impressed. It felt very slow, there were no hints about the killer so it wasn't that satisfying, it just felt like you spent 7 episodes waiting to see who it was 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Several Afghan refugees told me that they found the BBC World Service invaluable as a relatively unbiased news source. Not only do I think this helps our influence but it is itself a valuable resource we provide abroad, particularly those at risk of radicalisation and misinfo 010
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026When I first started using Twitter, >15 years ago, people used to tweet #followfridays where they'd list their favourite accounts. Can we bring that back while Bluesky gets off the ground? I'd like to find more accounts to follow. 000
Reposted by ChickpeaHannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Tolkien is so funny. The man invented an entire world, and made it feel real. He wrote multiple languages and a whole history that influenced the languages. Massive epics and magic and music and poetry. And he somehow just forgot to include girls lol 8598
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026If your name is Seth and you study business at the Uni of Calgary there's a group of your classmates sat near me talking about how nice and cool you are and how much they like and admire you. Great guy, great athlete, great chat 100
Reposted by ChickpeaThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else. 181735623
Reposted by ChickpeaTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record. 17767260
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Prepare to be infuenced: yesterday I wore the left hand sun cream on my face and the right hand one on my neck and chest, my face was fine but my chest got burned. Now you know 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I'm 95% of the way to a Nobel Prize in Literature, I just have to write the novel 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Just FYI, this is a pet that may have been taught this behaviour, but if you see a dog doing this don't approach it, it is possibly very stressed, in pain, or about to throw up 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Sometimes you see Trump doing outrageous stuff and think, how can he get away with it? It's because of how previous left wing governments paved the road for him. This is what that looks like in the UK 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Today I was a bit dumb and did a hike that was much too hard for me and I was very under prepared for. I'm abroad and I think I almost got heatstroke. It's always really embarrassing thinking of what the emergency services would say if I fainted or broke an ankle... 100
Reposted by ChickpeaAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"To the contrary, voters are on average more likely to defect to the radical right when mainstream parties adopt anti-immigration positions, a pattern that has been particularly pronounced for established RRPs." 6810195
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I don't know if anyone else is getting this but my Discover feed is always full of people posting about their pet that just died. I'm sorry for you and wish you the best but why do I have to see so many of these 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Mes parents sont de gauche, athées, etc. Mais aussi ils m'ont montré qu'il y a des choses plus importants que l'argent, et cela m'a influencé beaucoup, surtout quant à ma carrière 010
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The week I've been watching Columbo (the episodes are free on YouTube!). I've been surprised how beautifully crafted each episode is. I've always loved a whodunnit and I like the format flip ('howcatchem'). Falk is just so damn charming, I can see why this is such a classic 020
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026This week I watched Red Rooms (Les Chambres Rouges). I thought it was fantastic: well-acted, tense, and thought-provoking, however there's a massive warning for deeply disturbing themes and content. Unlike Roger Ebert I liked the ending. The climax (in the courthouse) is fantastic (and so horrible) 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026This week I read Love Needs No Words by James Hunt. I've followed his Instagram account (@ storiesaboutautism) for years and I think the book is really pitched at his followers. However, it's easy to read and very warm and honest. It feels like a very valuable insight into a world we wouldn't see 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Some bad, but important, news that I haven't seen covered on here is Israel's proposal to expand the death penalty: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comIsrael’s death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners moves to final voteLegislation initiated by far-right Otzma Yehudit party drew mounting criticism from opponents and rights groups as it moved through the Knesset 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Breakdown not cancelled BTW I spent a week in essentially complete isolation looking after my parents' dog and genuinely felt like my life was falling apart 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Woke up with such bad hangxiety today I had to write down a list of every conversation I had last night and do affirmations about how I wasn't that weird and even if I was I'm sure my friends won't mind 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?... The National Theatre production of the Importance of Being Earnest is available for free until the 18th! I'm watching now :)youtu.beThe Importance Of Being Earnest (Full Show) | Take Your Seats | National Theatre at HomeYouTube video by National Theatre 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Cleaned my flat and had 2 weeks of beautiful weather breakdown CANCELLED 010
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I did a big spring clean this weekend. This past year I've been using an app called Tody to keep on top of cleaning (which frankly I'm still pretty bad at), it's very satisfying and I really recommend it 110
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I think it's so wonderful to see this level of honesty and humility from a Labour MP. I'm pleased for the Green by-election win but there are still great individual Labour MPs, I hope they're listened to more 110
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026GENE THERAPY www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comHuntington's disease successfully treated for first timeOne of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC. 111
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I always struggle with the 'x technology takes away jobs' argument because I really do think more efficiency/reducing human labour is good, I just wish we had the economic system to allow people to work less. But I just can't bring myself to be in favour of people doing unnecessary work 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Happy Valentine's Day to this Sappho fragment that never fails to move me 000
Reposted by ChickpeaPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years 409253257181
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026If you live in the Northern hemisphere, then you're probably through the average coldest days of the year in your area. Things are going to start getting warmer again! 000