Reposted by Desk NerdBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Six months ago:theonion.comDOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of EntertainmentWASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo... 19075451695
Reposted by Desk Nerdjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"windows is fine just run these scripts" 491549249
Reposted by Desk Nerdlogan ☄️ @lokarhu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026i keep seeing folks in both of these threads being like "linux isn't ready for the primetime" and i have no idea what that means i, a blue collar factory worker, installed linux (mint) on my laptop two years ago, with only minimal linux experience from my Steam Deck, and have had zero (0) issues! 2146751
Reposted by Desk NerdLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Oh wow, nobody saw that coming. If you let yourself be entranced by the same three snake oil salesmen who have captured the entire sector and who only understand "staff cost" as an entry in a spreadsheet, not all the contributions we make that don't fit that silly excel box, this is what you get. 27722
Reposted by Desk NerdJane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights. 92035376
Reposted by Desk NerdM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan 572420679
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026That's largely due to privatised energy, actually nationalising it will do wonders for the average Scot. 100
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Connections is Only Connect, a British game show. They tend to be much harder and interesting than Connections. 030
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I first got infected well after the school closures lifted--by my sister, who had contracted it at school. It was then passed to my parents, one of whom had asthma. Luckily they were fine, but most illnesses I get are either on nights out or by my sister when I return home. 110
Reposted by Desk Nerd⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 316254906963
Reposted by Desk NerdSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23/07/2026There's no super secret Israeli plan to occupy the United States. There's a super open corporate oligarch plan to make billions of dollars in weapons massacreing innocent people in Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon. 610120
Reposted by Desk NerdIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'. 1492296238
Reposted by Desk NerdTimothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It's kind of embarrassing how excited I am whenever anyone in the public sphere acknowledges what's going on in my sector. 191
Reposted by Desk NerdDan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This article is total bull****. At full output Jackdaw could meet 1.6% of the UK’s winter gas demand. What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would releasebbc.co.ukJackdaw boss warns of winter fuel shortages if gas field not approvedAdura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages. 5204109
Reposted by Desk NerdSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I genuinely feel like one of the reasons they're losing it over Binface is more than anything, most of the rightysphere in UK media wants to be high-status, and being mocked by count binface running against Farage is a sign that no one actually likes Farage (or by extension, them) 26598104
Reposted by Desk NerdAbigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity. 251187325
Reposted by Desk Nerdclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 06/07/2026i really don't like this framing where trans people being rightly upset about a 9-0 scotus decision against trans rights is resulting in yet more will stancilesque lecturing about how scotus rules are complicated and progress takes time sweeties and also trans people are always overreacting anyways 25926219
Reposted by Desk NerdDave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If only there was an extremely simple solution to this that we’ve had access to for years!!!!! 222043
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In some languages "X" represents a very similar phoneme to the "sh" sound, so just Xitter would work as well. 050
Reposted by Desk NerdBrixton Hatter @brixtonhatter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Let’s all pretend we can save cash by unplugging the TV so we don’t have to interrogate why the profiteering energy firms have nearly doubled our bills in five years 220914
Reposted by Desk NerdGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵technosphere.earthThe bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences 381041507
Reposted by Desk NerdInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A brighter day is inevitable not in the sense that we get to just do nothing, but in the sense that everyone who worked for every previous victory felt as exhausted and heartbroken as we do now up until they won, but they beat on anyway, because throughout history those people can't do anything else 1634121
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026They would typically raid each others' runs and a few individuals were killed. It culminated, or rather led to the murder of 6 people who were burnt alive in their sleep, after one of them refused to sell drugs. There's not much to the story, but it had a large cultural impact. 100
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Essentially, ice cream vans in the UK were and are largely used for drug dealing. A lot do sell ice cream, but it's more of a cover story and quite a few will tell you to piss off if you're a kid. In the 80s they managed to get ahold of shotguns and there were several turf wars across East Glasgow. 100
Reposted by Desk NerdAndrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵giftarticle.ft.comEd Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warnsComments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments 13524267
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I mean, it's a convincing meat substitute visually, looks quite a bit like the flesh you find in game. 010
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Are you aware of the ice cream van wars in Glasgow in the 80s? 100
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Not to mention most peasants didn't get married that young, instead getting married in their mid 20s. 170
Reposted by Desk Nerdcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/06/2026great news for people who don't eat food 523579515
Reposted by Desk NerdKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/06/2026I'm really struggling with the brazen level of injustice about this ban on trans people in public the government is pushing through. I used to have faith that science and love always eventually won out but I just can't see that light at the end of the tunnel at all 2646739
Reposted by Desk NerdAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble 222133352
Reposted by Desk Nerdheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/06/2026no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad 213495730
Reposted by Desk NerdKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 10/06/2026Absolutely horrifying 8745179
Reposted by Desk NerdKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse. 4945981141
Reposted by Desk Nerdkuš! @kushkomikss.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026... 1707247
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026They pronounce so many names wrong. I mean, even the main character's name's pronounced wrong. It should be Kratos, not Kraytos. This stuff has been around since the first game. Anglophones gonna anglophone, ig. 190
Reposted by Desk NerdNatasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Universities are a huge cultural and economic asset to the UK. They are also massive employers in their local areas. Why doesn’t the UK government (or the Scottish Government up here) care?!?! 194
Reposted by Desk NerdJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 29/05/2026The state of the California governor’s race: 291249277
Reposted by Desk NerdMaggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Today, University of Aberdeen Court will decide on the future of the institution: staff workload, staff-student ratios, restructuring, etc. Staff unions have grave concerns about the impacts of these changes. Good governance is vital! Here’s the letter I wrote to Court:open.substack.comAberdeen University must listen to its staffAberdeen University Court meets today to decide on changes to staff workload and discuss restructuring. Staff unions oppose these changes. Court must heed the warnings from staff. The Scottish Parliament is watching! 0159
Reposted by Desk Nerd🦇🕷️🕸️Jack Anderson🕸️🕷️🦇 @omegajak.bsky.social · 25/05/2026When you see this kind of unexamined, instinctive and immediate racism from apparently "progressive" Americans, hopelessly unable to grasp the idea of a multicultural society, you begin to understand why their country is like that. 0155
Reposted by Desk NerdSiobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Tech people: a good time to unionize was ten years ago. But I guess now will do 337043
Reposted by Desk NerdHell-a Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Genuinely wild how all these billionaires keep sounding like resident evil villains 849593
Reposted by Desk NerdJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026i shan't be quote tweeting the original quote but this is untrue for many reasons, most notably that your entire life was labor from waking to bedtime. peasants weren't clocking in for 5 hour workdays in the field and then scrolling reels on insty all evening. 531630190
Reposted by Desk NerdSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Just saw someone my age posting that people in their teens and 20s now have "fixed views" and are "extremely disrespectful of people who have more life experience than them". Wow! Imagine thinking the generation below you is rude and bad. SO original. That hasn't happened before in history. 043433
Reposted by Desk NerdNelle from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Skipping all those chapters in Ulysses that are just weird shit. 3814
Desk Nerd @desknerd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It's all about things on a flag, you can have about 6 or so things on a flag before it gets cluttered. Words are just another thing. 040
