Reposted by JTCallum May @callummay.co.uk · 09/10/2026Anonymous sources are bad, says an anonymous source. 623758
Reposted by JTLuke @helloitsluke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Also, being polite shouldn't be a conscious decision. You should naturally say "please" and "thank you" and you should instinctively hold doors open for people. These things should be second nature and you should do them without thinking. 8556
Reposted by JTSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nor is it the case that public attitudes) become more unsettled recently. Generational shiftbigger. 1 in 5 doubted this in 2010 and 1 in 10 in 2020s. (There was a generation gap in 2010, but older people adapted to the prevailing norm). This is media/politics amplification of online radicalisation 1525
Reposted by JTJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322946641
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That quote by Stephenson in the second last paragraph is gobsmacking. Literally just "yeah, nah" 000
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Welcome back to London, here are some parrots on daily walk around Canary Wharf" 010
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For the longest time I've thought Brexit inevitable because if Cameron didn't offer it, the next leader would have. But had Dave just taken Kemi's approach, imagine the world we'd live in 020
Reposted by JTAndy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Catching up on Bake Off and Nigella often has the same cadence as Jinkx Monsoon as Judy Garland (positive) 271
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Second day back at work after holiday, and I'm at the stage whenever someone messages me on Teams I just put my head in my hands and wail "just leave me alone" 000
Reposted by JTTyron @tyron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Public support for net zero is still close to two thirds of voters. The recent shift against it is almost entirely an elite thing! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comCut ‘net zero’ from name of UK net zero department, MPs urgeCross-party group says term has become ‘lightning rod for opposition to climate action’ 812134
Reposted by JTMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026I'm sorry why was she interviewed as an expert on this lmao, at this stage she's someone who should only ever be mentioned in the press as part of a "people who fell head first off the online deep end" feature 1011414
Reposted by JTedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Holy shit, I am pleasantly surprised by the news for once? For friends abroad, that’s the UK’s national federation of unions. It’s about time the beast awakened.leftfootforward.orgTUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans peopleDelegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable' 51380401
Reposted by JTSexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening 171188399
Reposted by JTJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721801538
Reposted by JTDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I completely understand people saying “why is the media giving Piddington so much attention?”, but I do think this clip is worth watching. 35916
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm sure the referendum in Paddington made it clear that independence would mean surrendering their Pensions? Given it's a benefit, and all? 010
Reposted by JTTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Crucially, and I cannot believe I have to explain this to a serving human, let alone a serving opposition leader, the dead tend not to work. 2727
Reposted by JTRob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It is kind of interesting how many people who we were told only a year or two ago were just feminists with concerns about self-id have revealed themselves to be pretty run-of-the-mill social conservatives. 18414
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I just don't think there's ever been a better person than Sandra Bullock 110
Reposted by JTflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Britain has a very serious problem with radicalised reactionaries and extremists 47217
Reposted by JTRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc... 19957304
Reposted by JTChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We've had a "Number 10 spokesperson" briefing to journalists, and reported comments from Burnham in a closed door meeting That's pissweak. If you can make videos about chicken nuggets or whatever, you can make videos about violent fascists 6675113
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026So I'm staying in a relatively upmarket hotel in Boston for work, and I thought I could see Snoke on TV yesterday, and I got to the hotel bar and they are DEFINITELY playing Attack of the Clones, @nutedawn.bsky.social I knew America was collapsing but what is HAPPENING 110
Reposted by JTAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports 8743331048
Reposted by JTAlan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The single most effective argument against Mosley’s BUF in the 30s, the one that really broke through with the masses, was that all the creepy fash stuff (esp. the uniforms) was *un-British*. That is the angle to keep pounding away at - the foreign donations, the obvious mimicry of the 🇺🇸 alt-right. 417547
Reposted by JTSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals. 391642616
Reposted by JTDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest" 211106400
Reposted by JTEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/09/2026a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists! 2851276
Reposted by JTConor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ask not for whom the JLL polls - it polls for thee 015623
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's quite surreal be abroad when something good happens on British Bluesky. No-one in this Brooklyn gaybar knows why I'm cackling but because I'm doing it in a British accent, they're vibing 140
Reposted by JTAndy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Tired: Up shit creek without a paddle Wired: Up shit creek with an Orr 152
Reposted by JTJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What a loss. This dedication at the start of her book My Life on the Road remains one of the most powerful things I’ve read 13211
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Accidentally deleted every photo folder off my phone and I'm not exaggerating when I think this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me 000
Reposted by JTRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It would be impossible to guess any of this from most media coverage. 24623189
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Could you at least wait until after Body Movements lads, I got a new outfit 020
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really think this BBC article fails to pass the smell test and underlines how the transphobic institutional rot is undermining objective reporting. A whole section on the 'trans dividing line' yet no data which shows transphobia is overwhelmingly a minority position www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukThe backlash Pride faces from inside and outside the LGBT communityBig companies used to go out of their way to support Pride. Now, there's a nervousness in the air, Darren Milby writes 231
Reposted by JT👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't think you can get a better measure of Dolly than how she was brought up in a house were some of her siblings couldn't read, so she set up a foundation where literally anyone could sign-up to have a curated, age-appropriate book, delivered to their children until they entered kindergarten. 413530
JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I like to consider myself discerning when it comes to marketing ploys, but the hold Buzzballz have over me... The forbidden pokeball. The shimmering green elixir. A berry cherry mana potion. I would die for a women-founded business like this, & likely will, due to the liver damage I have incurred 310
Reposted by JTJosh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Nothing he’s saying here should illicit the reaction we’ve see from so many in the admin tonight. He scored a direct hit on something. 44710919
Reposted by JTBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I do not understand why there isn't constant coverage of how dumb and unqualified this man is to make any decisions on behalf of the United States. His cartoonishly deficient intellect is a major national security issue. It should be headlines! 1515456
Reposted by JTStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Indeed. SS embodies the whole sorry mess, in that hardly anyone in it ever saw Arday as a person. For Cambridge he was a way to buff their credentials, to be discarded when he became embarrassing. For Sodha he was a prop to air grievances about “gender ideology”. 261725201
Reposted by JTKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455912065
Reposted by JTGav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Even in death he's "the black academic" in the Guardian. 9607140
