Sign in

Flic

@flisty.bsky.social
369 followers 2.9K following 2.3K posts

Editor/publisher in Cambs. She/her. Still trying to master tone while speed typing with thumbs. I mostly live on Mastodon now because it's a bit more chilled out. Follow @ap.brid.gy to bridge your account so fediverse people can follow you from there too.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Flic
Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 24/12/2025
If we can't kill foxes, we'll kill our dogs. Your move.
117579108
Reposted by Flic
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.
664653113
Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
More consideration needed for this in the UK too. We need way more street trees and to bring back awnings on high streets.
030
Reposted by Flic
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
this on the problem of the "besuited void" of Starmer www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/the-...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
The Starmer Problem for Democrats - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The reason why it’s frankly idiotic to say that we shouldn’t be having discussions about the future of the Democratic Party and instead just all get behind Democrats to oppose Trump (a position most s...
121
Reposted by Flic
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
At this point there is no argument to be made in defense of what's going on here. None. Where these people all thrice removed cousins of hamas agents? Is that the yarn they're gonna spin? The depths of depravity a political regime can enact under guise of state defense is truly unfathomable.
0173
Reposted by Flic
Richard K @rkemb.eurosky.social · 16/06/2025
Greatest writer in the English language, curious how he had no themes
21283
Reposted by Flic
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
UK government pledges further £590m for delayed Lower Thames Crossing
Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’
701493419
Reposted by Flic
Gerri @gerbelean.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I think we need to start asking what's the cost or consequences of not doing something rather than 'can we afford to do it'.
141
Reposted by Flic
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.
571704621
Reposted by Flic
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.
471845429
Reposted by Flic
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/06/2025
If there any humans left in two hundred years they're going to think we were all the stupidest humans ever to have lived.
58845100
Reposted by Flic
Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#Journorequest - can I have all and any accounts of employees being banned from riding their e-bikes to work and reasons given, plus buildings/employers (you can be anon, if you prefer).
2811
Reposted by Flic
Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars. As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
502562571
Reposted by Flic
Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Very useful map indeed - didn't realise some of these villages had a bus service.
011
Reposted by Flic
Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is just downright pathetic
35910
Reposted by Flic
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 12/06/2025
To dominate AI, Sam Altman knew OpenAI needed to scale faster than anyone else — regardless of the social and environmental costs. This week @karenhao.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss Altman’s AI empire and why it must be dismantled. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/280_...
28534
Reposted by Flic
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 12/06/2025
Well colour me surprised! *Looks at other far right influencers* #Brexit #Romania #Poland #America
195
Reposted by Flic
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
As my 18 year old daughter says wearily of the tech bros, They're just trying to build god.
1711924
Reposted by Flic
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
464228154708
Reposted by Flic
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches?
Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation.
Reporter: Are you worried about the others?
Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis.
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
70117904378
Reposted by Flic
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Cartoon. A living room with a coffee table, two armchairs, a standard lamp. One armchair is saying to the other "FUCK OFF" to which the other is replying "NO YOU FUCK OFF". Caption: The Internet of Things
219232
Reposted by Flic
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The UK government should long ago have exited X. The platform is not interested in appropriate moderation. It is a hotbed for extremism. This was clear nearly a year ago during the riots.
13502142
Reposted by Flic
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Finally! Nearly a quarter of new UK homes now have heat pumps—big progress since we highlighted the fossil fuel problem with Ben Webster at openDemocracy in 2022. Next step: fully implement the Future Homes Standard and end fossil fuels in new builds.
213029
Reposted by Flic
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
No wonder the Treasury had some doubts about her spending plans if that’s what she’s been funding
1533543
Reposted by Flic
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen
2245810707
Reposted by Flic
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025
“What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that these LLMs that have generated so much hype are no substitute for good, well-specified conventional algorithms.”
theguardian.com
When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus
The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus
6349138
Reposted by Flic
Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
When the Greens said this, nothing. When the LibDems spoke up about how bad it was Labour were dropping this, nothing. Reform back it and its even a headline in the fucking Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England
Party joins MPs across political spectrum in supporting bird conservation amendment similar to one blocked by Labour
24478212
Reposted by Flic
Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is unequivocally true. Whether you're in the UK or the US, immigration is a plus in every conceivable way. And until you acknowledge and celebrate this fact, the racists will continue to win.
410731
Reposted by Flic
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
97171284658
Reposted by Flic
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The owner of Twitter gave a Nazi salute.
722115
Reposted by Flic
Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025
Success. I think there were five chicks in all.
A number of blue tits, mostly young, on a bird feeder.
1161
Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Great summary of the consequences of all the sprays people use to "tidy up" their gardens here from @joelashton.bsky.social youtu.be/8oEAQhjvrRM
youtu.be
The Poisoned Garden – What They DON'T Want YOU to See
YouTube video by Wild Your Garden with Joel Ashton
031
Reposted by Flic
james tom @jamestomxo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"I asked chatgpt" I confided in amazon I confessed to mcdonald's I have an inside joke with exxon mobil
2476132
Reposted by Flic
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Um... have the protesters tried *debating* the masked stormtroopers?
1562376
Reposted by Flic
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I’m being a little facetious here (moi?) -but fact remains a percentage of women out there wearing ALL KINDS of garms have been told what they’re allowed to wear by coercively controlling partners. That is a textbook abusive tool. Yet some ppl only seem to care about this if the garm in ? is a burqa
9766
Reposted by Flic
Wee Pond Project @weepondproject.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Excellent news! www.itv.com/news/anglia/...
itv.com
012
Reposted by Flic
trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I ❤️ TEBAY SERVICES
Kanye & Kim at Tebay Services
2265
Flic @flisty.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Personally I think we should mandate a fee per use, like a plastic bag tax. Never going to happen but it would be nice
041
Reposted by Flic
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The more that we see and hear of Elon Musk, the less and less that we think of him. There is an open goal here for democratic politicians to do the right thing + the popular thing at the same time: insist Twitter starts to recognise & respect the law + its legal responsibilites as a platform
0122
Reposted by Flic
paris martineau @paris.nyc · 05/06/2025
i never thought i’d say this but someone needs to get elon on a livestream stat
171301140
Reposted by Flic
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo
66112941958
Reposted by Flic
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Amusing to see the Efficient Market™ reveal TSLA stock had a corruption premium of >$100 billion, additional value untethered to the company's performance or even policy/legislation, but rather solely to a belief Musk had the President's favor, which he no longer does. P.S. Now down 10.5%
261074244
Reposted by Flic
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 05/06/2025
Elon Musk has yet to apologize for his Nazi salute
77611
Reposted by Flic
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The BBC v The Ministry of Truth www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
bbc.co.uk
Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...
12918
Reposted by Flic
Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My "god I can't believe he's being this tedious" fact is that it actually doesn't rain in London as much as you'd think and I learned this (god it gets even worse) when I started commuting by bike about a decade ago
8423
Reposted by Flic
Kevin H Bell @kevinhbell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
16880113
Reposted by Flic
Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
There's a really unpleasant tenor of the debate that there are normal/good people here & those in poverty over there, rather than that we're all people who might hit on hard times if something bad happens to us and its not right to punish children for the mistakes or misfortunes of their parents.
1258