Reposted by FootpadJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4hMy teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning. 211141239
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 23hI'm torn. On the one hand, I'm monstrously pissed off with FA and I want accountability for what I understand to be pathological dereliction of user privacy. On the other hand, they're a tremendous and unique community resource run by people busting their arses off to provide a public good. 151
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Why are you not trans? Wrong answers only. The oil lobby diverted the rail budget to roads instead. 030
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aaand sure enough a trumpeted "terrorist incident" turns out to be some addlebrained twerps without the nous to even pose a plausible major threat. Almost as daft as the US attempts to lay this all at Iran's door. If we must have evil people, could they please try to be a little less fucking stupid? 021
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#ukpol Terrorism suspects released on bail? After 36 hours? Is that a thing you do if you have vanloads of physical evidence of an actual terrorist threat? Or should I lay bets on them being the usual bunch of gormless pillocks with two leaky molotovs and a copy of Sabotage For Dummies? 110
Reposted by FootpadEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 122102942669
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@furaffinity.net I've cancelled my FA+ subscription pending either your reinstatement of @darkviolet.bsky.social's account or an impressively convincing explanation. 345
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trying to replay the supposedly oh-so-good Mass Effect and OMMFG, two-minute unskippable cut scene with multiple obligatory dialogue options that dumps you straight into a boss fight with no option to quicksave ARE YOU KIDDING ME Some things *have* gotten better, you know. Not many. But some. 230
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I might be applying for a German security clearance soon so imma need y'all to lay off the furry porn, hogs, deviancy, weirdness and left-wing radicalism for a few months. (*stifled giggle*) 360
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Talking to someone about their disappointing experiences of a national-level non-furry kink event, and how poorly both the organisation and the public etiquette compared to an ordinary furry convention, and my main takeaway is a reinvigorated appreciation of just how awesome furries are. 270
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is particularly worth reading because it identifies the threat of AI not just to human creators, but to the entire social and collective institutions we build to foster our creativity. 030
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026listening to the Joan Baez my mum loved so much and huge fucking wave of sadness all of a sudden My mum was so wise and she travelled so far and knew so much and had such a keen sense of destiny and beauty and this isn't the life I was meant for. 050
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026WAAAAH WHAT THE FUCK oh right, today is the yearly German national disaster warning systems test. With a test alert sent at EXTREME DANGER priority. Rightyho. Got it. System working. Thumbs up. Thanks guys. #twitch 1100
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026More senior pilot, squinting at my EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL lanyard: "Sag mal, [wolf], bist du Furry?" 0120
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The threshold for probity in politics is not the same as the threshold for conviction. Reform's denials of accepting illegal donations have the same logic as a man in a black eye-mask smirking and saying, "Ha-ha, you can't prove a thing, copper!" #politics #ukpol 000
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If you calculate the fraction of the Sun's energy that human civilisation uses, it's actually within a pretty good handwaving distance of the ratio implied by the term "a fart in a hurricane". 040
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Gosh, that was a nice flight. Just 25 minutes before we came down to give another student a go, but every bit of air I flew through seemed to be going up. #wheee 080
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Going from re-reading "A Fire upon the Deep" to "The Player of Games" is like snuggling up to your two favourite fursuits. 030
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Knots are overrated. There, I said it. They're hot, sure, that "grr grr imma make you mine for 25 minutes" is based af. But also uncomfortable and inconvenient. Just once in a while, wouldn't it be nice to have maybe a quick shower and some snuggle time instead? #werewolves 270
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026For I'm just a dog whose intentions are good Oh lord, please don't let me be deprived of food 191
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Forget about your heads of state and the firmament of stars. Live your life so that when you die, one of your untold millions of glowing epitaphs is from the NE Ohio Regional Sewer District. 0163
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Well, that's the social media post from which I hear the sad sad news. What a lady. What a soul. What an absolute stonker of a life. Dolly Parton, 1946-2026. 070
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thunder just rolled outside and now I have a hundred pound dog trying to climb into my lap. 250
Reposted by FootpadAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu... 133101727
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026For some reason they didn't get back to me about that plum job they wanted to talk to me about. :( 120
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A Gaza sympathy scam bot reposted my post in under a second after I posted it. I'm actually slightly impressed. Very slightly. 140
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026After a long time subscribing to woke liberal left-wing perspectives, I too am finally starting to have sincere concerns about the effects of multiculturalism on our society. 340
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Ahhhhhhh, switching reposts off for those one or two users who're just interesting enough to follow but manic on the repost button. My timeline just became 20% more readable. 090
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Kölsch is nice to drink. This is a hill I will die on. No, seriously. The Düsseldorfer pikemen are nearly here. #germany 020
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The Hohenzollern bridge in Cologne is famous for couples fastening padlocks to its fences as a pledge of love. There are tonnes of the damn things. They're mostly cheap junk. I bet you could make a handy wage by learning to lockpick and removing them to sell for scrap. #romance 010
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Horror's not my thing, but I watched "Hellraiser", if only to catch up on the catchphrases. Huh. Struck me as competently gripping and appropriately, well, horrible. So glad I didn't watch it when I was thirteen. 220
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Kestrel hovering over the airstrip, hunting mice. Damn, you're better at this than I'll ever be, li'l buddy. 030
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 03/08/2026When did you last see a politician looking so simply, frankly and uninhibitedly happy? I'm willing to let history shake out on the legacy of his mayoral policies, but meanwhile what a delightful guy to have in office. #mamdani 090
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Pet hate: that movie trope where a minion says "we need three hours to encabulate the magneto directance", and the macho star shoots back, "You have fifteen minutes." Supposed to convey dynamism and authority but actually unpacks to a whole showcase of shite management behaviours. 460
Reposted by FootpadAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 31/07/2026For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why 221374297
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Vernor Vinge would have split his caecum laughing. He wrote this straight-up in Rainbows End. 100
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Still haven't quite forgiven Leonard Cohen for being mortal. But then Leonard Cohen, more than most people, wouldn't have been Leonard Cohen if he'd been immortal. 010
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Settling down with that end-of-the-nineties sci-fi movie about a naive young man discovering that his reality is artificial but he wields godlike powers to triumph over the malevolent inhuman forces controlling it. No, not that one, the other one. 350
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ed Baldwin's sendoff in season 5 of "For All Mankind", man. Oof. I've gotta hand it to the scriptwriters for that one. 010
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Wolp community wishes to express its polite but firm disagreement with the Danish government. On encounter with wolp, pls dispense all treats and earrubs immediately pls. (Also those are Czech wolfdogs, not wolves. Tsk!) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... 330
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Saw "The Odyssey". Heard about 93% of "The Odyssey" over the soundtrack of "The Odyssey". Good film, well worth the cinema trip, but will somebody please restrain Christopher Nolan from using sound as a bludgeoning device. At times that sound was actually over the distortion level of my own ears. 150
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I thought chuffed.org was supposed to host validated and genuine charity appeals, and that is a niche I'd very much like to see filled, but I'm now getting so much automated spam for it that I am declaring it as a de-facto scam domain. 010
Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Cory Doctorow laying out a crucial roadmap on the economic harms of the AI bubble and how we workers can argue against it: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p.... As a side note, he sure does nail how hard artists get screwed. 142
