flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Thinking about this today. With doorbell cameras and meta-glasses, we’re not just approving of a surveillance society, we’re paying to help out with it. 010
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.” — Isaac Asimov 313235
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Need to have a heat pump so they can be used to heat in winter and cool in summer. Also solar panels. 140
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Seeing a lot of Executive Dysfunction posts today. Is it a new name for an old friend? 040
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...action.electoral-reform.org.ukFirst Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting systemIt only takes 30 seconds 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Do you think that government announcements that groups of kids hanging around aren’t dangerous will make a difference? Or even that bigger groups will be hanging around? 1240
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Maybe they should increase the restrictions by 1 year every year until no one can use it. Just like cigarettes? 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The portal at my GP is a new thing since March. It takes the 8am madness away. It seems to be working just fine 🤞 110
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026In Scotland. My GP has a portal where appt requests can be reviewed. The other week I logged my request at 0715. Text at 0830 offering me a 1030 appt. GP referred me for physio and x-ray at local clinic. Had the x-ray later that day, and the report was with the physio when that treatment started. 160
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026What is it with Reach news pages that make them utterly unreadable? Oh, yes. It’s the incessant adverts and pop-ups 110
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 11/05/20265 for me, too. I thought it was 4 but my first 10 months was spent under the Douglas-Home government 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Regularly. Although I have actually stemmed the flow on Threads by adding “Hot Take” to my hidden words list 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Can we *please* try to hold onto a lead, now 001
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I’ve read posts describing people as “based” a few times today. I assumed it was a typo of biased but that doesn’t work. What does it mean? 100
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/03/2026New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children. 9132671683
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Apparently just England. Does that mean Trump supports Scotland, Wales, and NI? 220
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Rise should be much higher, BUT… 1) No second jobs 2) All investments for MP and immediate family go into blind trust 3) Accommodation and staff costs are paid directly, not via expenses 011
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Maybe she just needs protection from whatever Corey’s carrying? 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Khameni Khomeini. Potatoes Tomatoes. They both have white beards 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Good luck to Jamaal. A solid captain in a very tough time. Hope he does well at Leicester. 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Had this exact conversation with a cab driver in New Orleans about ten years ago. Had to keep it civil on assumption that he was armed. 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Actually, Mette Fredriksen said almost exactly the same in terms of Starmer’s pragmatic approach. Her opinion probably carries more heft. 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This was one of them. He went through a dreadful, overly sentimental, mawkish period and this was part of it. Feel bad for saying this because of what we learned after his death. 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026He seems to be on a suing frenzy after being forced to cave on Greenland. Is he gonna go after everyone who doesn’t buy a ticket for Melania The Movie? 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I don’t need to know 9 things. I don’t need to know 1 thing. This isn’t news. 020
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026How about this (from a Brit, but bear with me) Swearing on the constitution would affirm the idea that breaking the oath would lead to the people holding them to account. Breaking the oath would be inviting the wrath of the people upon you. Just a thought. 020
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialPacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 15/01/2026ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies. 21566392631
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Yes. That’s what State Capitalism is. Except without any of the good bits of socialism where we all contribute as much as we can to our society whilst ensuring that we only take what we need. 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026That would require logging into LinkedIn which I haven’t done for almost a year now 100
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I get them for Over-60s. Looks like we’re stuck with them. 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Meanwhile, the US sanctions European anti-disinformation campaigners? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.com‘Undermines free speech’: Labour MP hits back at US government over visa ban on UK campaignersChi Onwurah speaks out after Marco Rubio accused five Europeans, including two Britons, of ‘seeking to suppress American viewpoints they oppose’ 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Dearly wish UK ministers would tell him to fck off the way European ministers do 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Team Sweep. He’s got the energy and the attitude 100
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialRichard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Rachel Reeves has already made a complete mess of her Budget, so I thought I should offer an alternative. This is the first part. There are several more to come. When the country's economy is failing, it's time to be radical. Nothing less will do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...taxresearch.org.ukThe Alternative Budget 2025 – The BackgroundRachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh... 816077
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15/11/2025your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️ 184155485124
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Right, so he understands magnets in this context…. 1300
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025media.tenor.coma man is talking on a phone with the words that money was just resting in my accountALT: a man is talking on a phone with the words that money was just resting in my account 010
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025But the right-wing parties and their media enablers are all telling us what a huge success Argentina is. Surely some mistake here? 🤔 000
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.social👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I've just realised it's 2025 and yet I only have two items in my home that regularly featured in old cartoons: a sink plunger and an iron. I feel like I immediately need to get an anvil and an enormous red stick of dynamite to fill the chasm that's suddenly opened up in my soul.media.tenor.coma cartoon of a coyote holding a cane in front of some lightsALT: a cartoon of a coyote holding a cane in front of some lights 1264
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 21/09/2025You’d hope that real journalists will be voluntarily handing back their press credentials, and that their newspapers or TV channels would be publishing front page articles explaining what a free press means in a democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comPentagon demands journalists sign pledge not to gather certain informationIf they don’t agree to limits, including restricting movement within building, Pentagon press passes will be revoked 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025This is really fckn disturbing. It was funny when it was that #Funzo thing in The Simpsons, but this…. No www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.com‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toyThe cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime... 000
Reposted by @flamingbagel.bsky.socialThe Ghost of Diana Goodman 👓🎥 @lecinenerd.bsky.social · 24/08/2025One thing I love about the @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast is it’s like James Burke’s “Connections” series. Where Burke showed how rug designs led to computer programming via airline reservations, Andrew shows how Frankie Valli led to Led Zeppelin via Joan Rivers. 13711
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I lived in London nearly 40 years. I don’t understand how anyone under 40 can manage it now. 110
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I seem to be receiving a lot of German language content in my feed today 🤔 000
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Property over £500k is not a mansion. Tax the land. More equitable, supportive of climate change initiatives, more efficient. Source: www.oecd.org/content/dam/...oecd.org 140
flamingbagel.bsky.social @flamingbagel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Question: if we establish that Trump didn’t win, that Musk fixed the election, how will the media reevaluate the Harris-Walz campaign? 010
