Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialHeather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction? 4132294
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialAlistair Caird @alistaircaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fascinated by Matt Brittin’s strategy of delighting his customers by repeatedly punching them in the facebbc.co.ukBBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and YoursThe corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts. 021
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialEllin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tech bro cuts programs called Free Thinking and Thinking Allowed. A bit on the nose metaphorically-speaking, imo. 0151
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism. 45621156
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialjon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comPeople Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-AllUrine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine. 1602569651
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "I will not allow it to continue like this. Today I can confirm Angela Eagle will present a strengthened water bill to Parliament. The center piece of that bill will be this. The repeal of Margaret Thatcher's ideological ban on public ownership of water companies." 831621421
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249245523
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Bloody hell, I just searched off-peak returns from London to Shrewsbury for Friday. What the actual heck is going on?? £836 for first class? It’d be cheaper to hire a limo! 😆 211
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before. 352160635294
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026👇👇👇👇 16622723812115
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster 2103240824
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one 1690244038465
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Good lord Justin Webb’s wheedling tone with Ed Miliband today is deeply grating and disingenuous. Not to mention ‘perhaps you, merely a man of Jewish heritage, don’t know what it’s like to be a British Jew because you don’t go to synagogue’. #r4today 0131
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialAndy @andyirv63.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My daughter lives Portsmouth her friend sent this last night. 511032
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115623175
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here? 1003262529031
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialMolly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026🤬 🤮 I don't pay my taxes so that public authorities can reward fascists www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comBritish Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestryConcern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum 15115
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail. 18793420512025
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New immigration stats show that the numbers of asylum seekers in hotels is down to 16k - falling 50% in a year. Small boat crossings down 23% in the year to June. Numbers waiting for initial decision down from almost 180k to 40k. 771328544
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026What is so important to the ultra-rich that they must seize and destroy the world's resources, hold down wages and crush organised labour, capture politics to reduce the tax they pay, fund the far right to stifle democracy? Here's an answer. A Hermes Birkin 35 Diamond Bag. On sale for £449,555.68 1471151385
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026He was right about ULEZ He’s right about Brexit. No need to “revisit old arguments”/lies now we know it’s rubbish and costing us a fortune. Moving on means admitting this and asking about how to now join. Not pretending it’s ok in case Farage loses his shit. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sad...thelondoneconomic.com'Brexit lies are exposed, the debate is settled... we must rejoin the EU' - Sadiq KhanThis is searing stuff from Sadiq Khan, and his arguments for the UK to rejoin the EU are as clear and comprehensive as it gets. 722095639
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I need someone to open a cafe that serves cheese and biscuits or toast and butter instead of cupcakes and pastels de nata and brownies. I sometimes need a snack that isn’t pure sugar. Cheese and biscuits! Or cheesy biscuits! It’s basically savoury chocolate cookies! How has this not been done yet? 000
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Little timeline cleanse for you and your cat from Purrwave - the speaker that purrs to keep cats calm. Play it to your cat and see if they like it! Also sign up at Purrwave.com for early Kickstarter access! 011
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways. 601145440
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialJon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026#booksky 10082981980
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Justin Webb and some other posho yapping about Prince Harry on #BBCR4Today like a pair of angry old gossips complaining over the fence. Well what are they going to DO? WHO so they think they ARE? Is that Markle woman still going to try and have a career? How dare they live where they want to. 000
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialNicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Just a thought, but is it perhaps time for a responsible news media to stop reporting the dribbling arseblurts of these fools? Seriously, this is on a par with “Bloke down the pub says it’s a well-known fact that there’s no actual evidence that smoking is bad for you.” 61783555
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It's deeply frustrating that the mainstream debate centres on fresh drilling in the North Sea when Labour is in a position to properly hurt Reform and the Tories on climate change. 49908232
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026What is the right-wing vision for a world where immigrants have been deported and public services cut? Care and other services would dry up. The return of living in squalor for those beyond working age? The workhouse? The pauper’s grave? 100609101
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Let me fix that headline for you, BBC News: "Reform UK Tries to get Humiliating Clacton By-Election Off The Front Page With Outrageous, Uncosted Policy Ragebait" 18799215
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialRuth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Appalling headline from BBC .. not “ they claim it would “ just a statement accepted and repeated as fact ! Bias, what bias ??? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please challenge this ! 1311239386
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialRichard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20243111201
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi. 33687332865
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Listening to #broadcastinghouse and a very thoughtful interview with Lord Woolley, talking about whether those who attacked him have the self-reflection to examine what they wrote. I note that Kathleen Stock is on the news review segment later. I wonder whether she will defend her writing? 000
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialMolly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Depressing to see BBC headline treating this as if it's a serious proposition But Reform are serious about returning us to an 18th-century level of social support So many of their voters depend on the sorts of benefits they would strip away #TurkeysVoting4Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukReform UK plans to overhaul welfare system to save £50bn and replace PipThe party's proposed changes were they to come to power include a replacement for the disability payments system Pip. 3222663
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵 1023059610
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742411099
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialpsymad.bsky.social @psymad.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"I will become the head of eugenic and race sciences chair in harvard" HE IS NOT JOKING, NOT TROLLING. Listen when people talks. 0423
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialmilominder @milominder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ofcom, the Met, Parliament need to take a look at coverage like this from Pearson and The Telegraph after the Jason Arday tragedy. Unconscionable bile. #r4today 1371612445
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Thanks to @hughesroland.bsky.social for getting me involved in talking about my much loved cat Frankie for this very moving article about #petgrief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGreg James was 'completely floored' by his dog's death - I know how he feelsThe grief of losing a pet is complicated and often comes with guilt, writes Helena Wilkinson. 011
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD. 201925513
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 14/08/2026this is important to add 13898243
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialDaniel Lismore @daniellismore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Nigel Farage first act as MP for Clacton is to boycott Clacton, lie about the reason why, and then call Clacton constituents “nobodies” 22546154
djfrankiecat.bsky.social @djfrankiecat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I feel like the admin end of anything to do with Facebook business or Meta is literally designed to drive us into despair. 😭😭😭😭 010
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just BBC News reporting the 5th heatwave of the year With farmers warning about food shortages 1722452
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22 671254656
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Zack Polanksi, "We need to look at the £2.7 billion in tax breaks that is given to fossil fuel companies, that should go into jobs in renewables, in nature, in care" 6318100
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialKuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Epic vandalism www.independent.co.uk/space/spacex...independent.co.ukOut-of-control SpaceX rocket smashes into the MoonCollision hit with the power of three tons of TNT and will leave behind a visible crater on the lunar surface 67337101
Reposted by @djfrankiecat.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMurderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George MonbiotAs climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 6821671054
