Reposted by David HallJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502610642
Reposted by David HallThe Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The safeguarding lead at Ellis' nursery once came out at pickup to talk to me. "Ellis has been talking about Colin. He says he shouts loudly, threatens to kill people, and he and Ellis play with guns in the garden." I explained Colin was a Dalek. There was a pause. "Is he a real Dalek?" #DoctorWho 1419541
Reposted by David HallAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack. 61596146
Reposted by David HallAgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊 493157913846
Reposted by David HallDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/09/2026The lesson from this week is that most of the UK media thinks Hot Fuzz is a horror movie about a woke city cop destroying a perfectly admirable local community. 1240465
Reposted by David HallJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee 1193555629
Reposted by David HallThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026And now more than a thousand reposts of this. Thank you all. Yes, there is perhaps a technical reason why one is ’terrorism’ and the other is not, but sometimes one has to stand back and see the law as simply being the wrong way around. 128045
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Well, the original objective of the new rules, more so than the revised rules, was to pull in new players esp. from D&D. So maybe it wasn’t thought to be achieving that objective enough (and/or different enuf) to offset the economic cost and potential “two rulesets” confusion? 010
Reposted by David HallRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026'Nigel Farage tells BBC he wasn't listening during foreign donor talks filmed undercover.' So he 'smoked' some dodgy dealings, but didn't inhale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talksThe Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job. 3317836
Reposted by David HallFeelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🧵”Dealmaker” Trump. An excellent thread from threads by @chrisfb87 who is not currently on bluesky www.threads.com/share/BASUkZ... 27431
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I played JeffQuest & it was fresh & enjoyable, but still *so* very similar to the current RQ rules that it makes *no* sense to publish it & duplicate / demise the current rules line. That can’t happen & commercial sense shall prevail. I’d check out what’s up (or not) on FB for confirmation of this! 150
Reposted by David HallEd Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...edconway.substack.comThe 30,000-mile fish fingerThere’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label... 45652297
Reposted by David HallMike @mike-umbkm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles outbreak is because of rampant illegal immigration." 361753200
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The spreadsheet that screwed us! russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...russincheshire.substack.comThe Spreadsheet That Broke BritainThe absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage. 000
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Great stuff on the US Canada trade deal meltdown, & with a helpful glossary for non-Aussies…. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 030
Reposted by David HallMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026NEW | So… CHANNEL 4’s NOT SO GREAT ADHD POLEMIC Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/channel-4s...brokenbottleboy.substack.comChannel 4’s not so great ADHD polemicPress coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. 118935
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“Exclusive: Hamish Falconer wants ‘sense of renewed pace’ in post-Brexit talks while staying within Labour’s red lines”… So, all we need is a “sense of pace”? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLabour seeking ‘deeper relationship’ with EU under Burnham, new minister saysExclusive: Hamish Falconer wants ‘sense of renewed pace’ in post-Brexit talks while staying within Labour’s red lines 250
Reposted by David HallEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 08/08/2026amazing how this is still relevant a year after i posted it 5706147
Reposted by David HallAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 08/08/2026Blanche’s confirmation underscores a simple truth: a handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to. 872187659
Reposted by David HallScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Trump's actions as opposed to his words still make clear that Trump is sitting firmly in Putin's breast pocket. 65795353
Reposted by David HallLinda D @busia11182020.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country. 978120864231
Reposted by David HallAlice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity 15340221
Reposted by David HallCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane. 7146671268
Reposted by David HallLynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I was at a wine tasting in Franconia 10 years ago and the winemaker said they are already planning replanting different grape varieties, as traditional grapes such as Bacchus can’t cope with higher temperatures. ‘You won’t find a winemaker that doesn’t believe in climate change’. 56014
Reposted by David HallJames Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Just exempting care workers would be ridiculous. Basically it would be a case of designing a policy to kick out care workers, panicking when you realise how stupid an idea that is, and then kicking out a load of engineers, scientists etc out of sheer stubbornness. 1236396
Reposted by David HallTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026OMG I could spend weeks and months here!peter-guillam123.github.ioPlotLines - the classics, mappedEvery journey in the book, played out on a genuine period map - out-of-copyright novels and plays, followed stop by stop from Frankenstein to Shakespeare. 612043
Reposted by David HallCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird. 1170132226694
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Reaching Moon Megacorp’s *Marsh Attacks!* for #RuneQuest is now 30% off at DriveThruRPG (digital edition). Learn about the Upland Marsh & the Greydog clan, plus ducks and Gloranthan Battle rules. #Glorantha www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... 085
Reposted by David HallianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 16/07/2026So Sir Sadiq Khan becomes Lord Khan. That's going to: a) Really annoy the haters b) Really confuse people about the difference between the Lord Mayor of London and Lord Khan, Mayor of London. c) Annoy Town Hall staff who just finished adding Sir to all his letterheads. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukPolitical Peerages July 2026The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned: 78916
Reposted by David HallBryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 15/07/2026Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated. 22981901447
Reposted by David HallJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comBurnham must learn from Starmer’s mistakes: Labour was elected to transform the economy, not just stabilise it | Jonathan PortesDevolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes 11377139
Reposted by David HallJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives 38751332
Reposted by David HallJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Of course, being forced to appoint a less than congenial Chancellor to appease the factional balance of the Labour machine was exactly what happened to Miliband when he was leader, and didn't that work out brilliantly? 2448
Reposted by David HallMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office. 464134064698
Reposted by David Halljohn @snoopster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I think he is misunderstood how the WC works. We didn't win bits of Mexico and Norway because we beat them. 4582
Reposted by David HallPaul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 15/07/2026No intelligible explanation, no appeal, customer of 30 years banned by First Direct for buying a coffee and snacks in Ukraine bit.ly/4gJtpg5 ‘a sanctioned country’ it told him.bit.lyHSBC debanked me after I spent £36 in Ukraine on an aid visitAndrew Boff, chair of the London Assembly, wants clarity over how sanctions rules are applied after losing access to his First Direct account 12713
David Hall @davidoschall.bsky.social · 13/07/2026So does the Senate work a bit like a hereditary peerage? 060
Reposted by David HallSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I've already had several emails from bemused American subscribers asking me what "Count Binface" is. 3533634
Reposted by David HallMichael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I hope serious journalists press him on the feasibility of the space bridge at Northallerton. @countbinface.bsky.social shouldn't get an easy ride just because he's riding a populist wave against an establishment candidate. 6575
Reposted by David HallDan @socialistlefty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Countbinface on GMB today when asked if he had been to Clacton: "I have not been to Clacton, based on the activities of the incumbent, I believed that was the correct process" #CountBinFace #Farage #UKpolitics 3491121
Reposted by David HallAustin Clemens @austinclemens2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The US hasn’t been humiliated like this since last month’s treaty of Versailles 4540100
Reposted by David HallRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I would just like to thank Trump and FIFA for making the World Cup suddenly interesting for all us nerds with no interest in football but an unhealthy obsession with political scandals. It's been a difficult time for us these past two weeks. You've really come through 322335
Reposted by David Hallscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman 472683878
Reposted by David HallRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Very much this. Blistering stuff on America by @iandunt.bsky.social 211946