Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 13hIdk but there’s a certain dark irony in how since I’ve booked my flu vaccine, I’ve been to ill to function and spent almost all of my week lying down 241
Reposted by FinnBeth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high 11391184
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Scrapping the triple lock is such bad politics because it’ll disproportionately affect poor pensioners and push them to reform, unless you amend it so that poor pensioners don’t lose out in which case you’ve got the negative headlines but without any cost savings 110
Reposted by FinnJames C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Your toxic Ex has learned therapy-speak to absolve himself of responsibility for his actions 1408
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don’t think the man who thought the simpsons rake meme was a threat of violence is temperamentally capable of being NI secretary, I hope I’m wrong 151
Reposted by FinnBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism. 18636254
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If I joined a peaceful protest the government didn’t approve of, I’d be a terrorist and lose my citizenship because I’m technically eligible (through a long and convoluted process) for citizenship of a place I’ve never been 020
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why was Tesco Express Moorgate playing Fairytale, the 2009 Eurovision winner? 060
Reposted by FinnSteamed Buns @aremay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Banned from driving for -7 years- for doing this? No! Permanent ban! We are so soft on drivers! 1244
Reposted by FinnMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation 78627139
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I did not expect a Parisian bartender to, upon hearing we’re from Scotland, bring up the auld alliance 040
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’ll also increase demand for petrol/diesel, driving up prices when there’s already a global shortage. £5b could (roughly, back of an envelope) reduce passenger rail fares by about 40% 071
Reposted by FinnBestBoi Alex @alexdualgrey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Gays are allergic to overhead lighting because you'll walk into their house and they'll have all the lights turned off, blinds shut, only a single lit candle in the room and they'll say "omg I'm sorry it's so bright in here" 89410
Reposted by FinnFinn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026this is frankly intellectual vandalism - and cultural too, when you look at the number of particularly "Scottish" courses on the chopping block 2167
Reposted by FinnAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026More bikes than cars recorded on Leith Walk at rush hour for the first time! On Victoria Road in Glasgow, which hit that milestone a year ago, the number of bikes has surged by another 40%. Scotland is gradually entering the 21st century 🙂 cycling.scot/news/scotlan...cycling.scotScotland’s bike lane networks break new recordsMore bikes than cars on Leith Walk, and record cycling on routes across Glasgow and Edinburgh. Explore the latest data from Cycling Scotland traffic surveys and cycle counter analysis. 419758
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Call me woke but I think saying Scotland’s relationship to England is like that of an imperialist authoritarian state attempting to wipe out the culture and people of a neighbouring nation is incredibly disrespectful to Ukrainians fighting for their freedom 3646
Reposted by FinnAndrew Blair @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 171188400
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’d love a why that doesn’t include a dog whistle, who cares if they’ve done all the paperwork?? 010
Reposted by FinnAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026English fascists on holiday in Glasgow #1: twat visits Calton Books, gets kicked out by the lads. 1818855
Reposted by FinnHugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026'Head of compliance for Reform UK' sounds like either a recurring sketch comedy character or literally a job you would have in a nightmare 1528659
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Why does Elas, the largest of the left wing parties, not simply eat the smaller left wing parties 010
Reposted by FinnBen Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality? 2136801121
Reposted by FinnRDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Truly amazing the degree to which liberal Americans will look for any other country to blame other than their own for the rise of far-right ideology accross western liberal democracies 211521
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The 1962 o-grade modern studies exam paper asked students to outline the case FOR and against apartheid 131
Reposted by FinnTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Genuinely gasped. This is why leaving Nandy in post is such obvious vandalism, the BBC does not deserve to survive like this. 319351
Reposted by FinnJack @jhol95.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Total cowardice in the face of a well organised and yank-funded opposition campaign by a vocal minority out of step with public opinion on this. 3226
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026At school they kept saying “this is the year it gets really difficult”, still waiting for it to happen 061
Reposted by FinnAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026An angry mob of racists went knocking door-to-door in a hotel so that they could yell at and potentially violently attack teenage cricket players who they thought were refugees and the local police apparently concluded that this was totally fine. 10261103
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Defence spending in the 21st century doesn’t mean more guns, it means eliminating the conditions that allow the global far right to get a foothold 270
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What would you do if I called this an accessibility aid for disabled people 120
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ahahahahahahah punishing tax dodging land owners really was Rachel Reeves’s peak 130
Reposted by FinnNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to 371175225
Reposted by FinnDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The backlash against sanctions on West Bank settlers (usually without trying to defend their behaviour because it's indefensible) is pretty dismaying to be honest. The idea seems to be that nobody in Israel should ever face any consequences for anything they do. That's a moral dead zone 1642985
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is gross and you can complain here www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...bbc.co.ukComplaints | Contact the BBCThese pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. If you would like to unders... 261
Reposted by FinnBen Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith. 86794187
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think my phone’s screen time tracker is a lie because there’s no I spend eight hours on my phone a day as well as all the other stuff 160
Reposted by FinnChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9359961596
Reposted by FinnPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing? 671696463
Reposted by FinnJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sorry, this is dumb/ahistorical. UK sanctions against South Africa 1985/86 were also largely "symbolic". But Thatcher had to be dragged kicking and screaming, and the apartheid regime devoted huge resources to stopping them - just as the Israeli govt is now. Symbols *really* matter here.. 18410110
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I remember when the right were saying Ed Miliband wasn’t the real foreign secretary, wouldn’t have any power, was just put in the foreign office to keep him out the way 000
Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The gross hypocrisy of a CDU chancellor to say socialists threaten democracy when no one else has done as much to create the conditions for the far right and Russia to threaten democracy 030
Reposted by FinnChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Make Britain a hostile environment for fascists 8557109
Reposted by FinnLuca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out. 11340701382
