Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Silence of the Sea (2013) by Michiel Schrijver, born in the Netherlands in 1957, and who studied and works in the UK. Acrylic on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 661485
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/09/2026Fighter pilot J.J. Hyde, son of Joseph and Millicent Hyde, of San Juan, Trinidad. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit, No 132 Squadron. Took off at 15:25 hours on 25 September 1944. Shot down during battle of Arnhem, he was 27. 215516
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...bestforbritain.orgTell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain 15217113
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialphoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Joan Mirò : The Garden, 1925 Oil on canvas 96 × 80 cm | 37.8 × 31.5 in Reflects Miró's poetic visual language, utilizing simplified organic shapes, biomorphic forms, and a dream or childlike sandbox approach to the subconscious mind. 16961161
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Karen Pleass, contemporary Irish textile artist #womensart #Autumn 82739439
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony. 491118302
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/202699.9% of DNA is shared by all humans, which obviously means difference exists only in the remaining 0.1%. Yes, it's another 'Edge Case War'... rolandmcs.substack.com/p/edge-case-...rolandmcs.substack.comThe Edge Case WarsHave the culture wars been misnamed? 66318
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026I believe trying to define what Englishness is to be a mug’s game. Any attempt to introduce precision results in absurdity. But angry white men in Union Jack underpants do not have a special insight. If your definition is more inclusive it is not watering down any objective standard. 5557
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026Ok, fine. Clearly you all won't calm down until I do this, so here it is: the definitive list of who is and is not English in alphabetical order... (1/58,722,468) 1926323
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 24/09/2026Just the hall at Groningen Station. 729025
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com 9902268
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We're so lucky that British politicians foresaw this risk in 2010 so didn't take that path. Oh wait.... 710338
colinb8.bsky.social @colinb8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@publicradionerd.bsky.social More implausible than: "Freddie Starr ate my hamster"? Daily Mail headline: Trump privately blames HIMSELF in rare admission after frightening new poll leaves the president with sobering midterm realization 000
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialMichael Black @michael.bsky.team · 20/09/2026I just learned Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Womp. All the more reason to use @bookhive.buzz or @popfeed.social 55222
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Trump is the biggest arch villain.” - Why is that, Batman? “For he is the villain who wants the biggest arches.” 58814
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Labour lead up to 4 points in the latest Ipsos poll. (And congrats to them for using error bars - all pollsters should do this). 2753678
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433131788
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Danny Kruger agrees that wealthy men don't need our help, in a devastating blow to his own policy of abolishing inheritance tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comSmall boat arrivals are ‘wealthy men’ who do not deserve help, says Reform’s Danny KrugerThe fact that some migrants pay people smugglers thousands of pounds makes them well off, MP claims 1730165
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialGary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026© Hannah Höch. 'Mechanical Garden,' 1920. Gouache, watercolour, pen and india ink on paper, 73 × 47 cm. 0647
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/09/2026How quickly the dickheads screaming at the RNLI have forgotten that they were knuckling round shouting “ALL lives matter” just a few months ago. 111917
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The late Cloris Leachman roasts The Actors Studio with the help of Marlon Brando. 217223
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In the United Kingdom we also have a constitution day, but its date is not written down. 711010
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We should be very British about this new independent nation by invading it and claiming it for the Crown. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. 93600102
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby 1663527836
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialEl Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Vasilij Kandinskij. Curva tranquila. 1924 171780298
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Should have guessed that the thing that would eventually kill off the right's interest in grammar schools would be non-white kids doing too well in the 11+. 36704141
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Political party opposed to the European Convention on Human Rights minded to rely on the European Convention on Human Rights before the the European Court of Human Rights. 12329138
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialTom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Genii: You have released me from the bottle and in return I will answer *any* question you ask me. All human knowledge is yours! Aladdin: Will your answers be correct? Genii: Well now you’re just being picky. 07628
colinb8.bsky.social @colinb8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@publicradionerd.bsky.social Alito has called himself a "practical originalist"-he differed from Scalia in applying originalism flexibly to arrive at conservative outcomes "with plodding consistency" rather than following it so strictly as to occasionally produce results unfavorable to conservatives 001
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics". 171066334
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13/09/2026Spaziergang, by George Grosz, 1922 21014
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Cold Comfort Farm is just such a wonderful comic work. In essence a Jane Austen heroine walks into a Thomas Hardy novel. 4642039
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialDavid Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Brilliant cartoon! 032
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Augusta Savage (1892-1962), sculptor, educator and civil rights activist associated with the Harlem Renaissance #WomensArt 51127212
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12/09/2026This looks pretty good, the underground press during WW2 deserves more attention and this is quite the story: youtu.be/TomTh4zI1Ms?...youtu.beLe Faux Soir (Michaël R. Roskam) - Trailer BEYouTube video by CineartBE 0425
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialJon Porter @jonporter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Why I hate vox pop 04315
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialDee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant! 892845742
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As their former Head of Policy put it, on the recent Channel 4 expose, "We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". 713336
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026🤷🏼😕 6644801421
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 09/09/2026Fascists in shorts and balaclavas? Looks like my degree in knee identification techniques is about to pay off. 7757
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/09/2026charmed by the sign in this local Beijing park that explained the rules for fishing in the pond by writing on a sign in English that said it costs "30 yuan for one hour of removing fish from the water" 81826
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialAlternativeTo @alternativeto.net · 10/09/2026Greatest strength 262441331
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls. 412795620
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tim makes people who reply to emails from Nigerian princes look skeptical. 1531829
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialGeorge Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Here are the (differing) texts. “France will ordinarily accept those persons” is strangely absent from la version française. 711444
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026To state the obvious: lawyers can't behave in this way. They can't make a false statement of the legal position, particularly to a vulnerable and unrepresented third party. (and 90% of the postmasters didn't have a lawyer) 1465
Reposted by @colinb8.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391274
