Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 7hI don't care about his opinion genuinely why do we have to ask him 000
Reposted by Chickpeayen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 08/10/2026I wonder if this is how people felt when Euler showed up 1818
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What is Prevent for if not this (jk we all know what) 010
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I actually do think there is a big pushback against fiction right now - among other things it's seen as a feminine pursuit, anti-grindset, etc (not trying to say those parents got their idea from the manosphere or anything) 120
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I wouldn't go so far as to suggest be added the finger on purpose, but I just don't think it's worth it for him to remove the mistake 000
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. 11835222210
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is partly based on the Hugh Laurie thing: - I don't hugely care what he thinks, nor do I feel surprised - He didn't make a strong or thoughtful statement worth our time or attention - This doesn't need to be news - His most recent work is HP and we shouldn't be supporting that anyway 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026And he still graduated age 23 apparently. How are you meant to go from illiterate to a uni student in 2 years 150
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026No cheating post your lock screen (Challenge: find yourself in this photo) 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It is so depressing how cat calling basically stopped after my early 20s. However when I was about 21 I bleached my hair and the amount of cat calling spiked which was really interesting 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We will never be able to comprehend how indebted we are to these people 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Tbf I don't think this is so crazy when you consider the huge pressure some people (mostly women) experience to have another child. This could be comforting to read 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 · 30/07/2026I think another AI giveaway is the useless colour scheme 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is me weighing in on the grocery store thing: I'd rather see more subsidised canteens e.g. in workplaces. Very standard in some countries! 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 · 24/07/2026Anyway the comments are all like 'why is this reporter asking an unrealistic hypothetical' and she makes it very clear why!! 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think in his answer he does distance himself from that sentiment, which is good! I would just follow it up being like 'here's why I don't see the need to mention Hamas every time I mention Netanyahu...' 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026You may think these kinds of questions are distracting and unnecessary, if borderline offensive. I disagree - firstly, because I do see leftists celebrating Hamas online, and because there's the persistent story about Duwaji liking some of these posts 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I agree with everything he says here but I don't think he fully answers the question - personally I would say that he didn't mention October 7th or Hamas in his statement because, unlike Hamas, the US govt provides material support to Netanyahu 100
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026...I would guess because he's sick of answering similar questions a lot, but that's life when most of your publicity comes from short clips shared on social media. 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). 6257105
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 get that it's meant to be a psychological study of the effect of the murder on the town, so maybe it's less about the mystery - but mostly we just see new info teased, then revealed half an episode later, with little actual tension 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 · 16/07/2026I don't like to disrespect people's religion but I'll never get over the laughable absurdity of the idea that the ultimate creator of life is a man??? 130
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"Sorry, this is Auntie Chickpea's nerf gun, but you can play with it whenever you're here" 011
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026As an aunt I consider my job to be to buy stuff like the music box and keep them at my house, to stop the parents going crazy from repetition 110
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
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I actually get this a lot in academia! Probably some similar reasons (low pay and sometimes poor work/life balance means high drop out rate) and some other ones (low stability, competitive, better industry options means it's often a good idea to leave) 010
Reposted by ChickpeaHaunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @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 · 26/06/2026Also I work in deep tech research so being a neo-luddite is v funny to me 000
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Sometimes I have such a craving for them then when they're on my plate it's like what was I thinking 020
Chickpea @clupbenguin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026They said someone wrote something a bit too rude about you in the 'mean tweets' skit you did last year. They immediately decided the person was jealous and it was completely unfounded. These guys love you Seth 000
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. 181735622
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. 17766260
