Reposted by Groucho MerckxSolidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 1hIt's time the Green Party kicked out those in its ranks that are still promoting the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. 1141
Reposted by Groucho MerckxMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19hIf you could use a pick-me-up, check out the Smithsonian’s live cheetah cub cam. The five-day old cubs are beyond adorable, and an important addition to the captive breeding program for this vulnerable species.nationalzoo.si.eduCheetah Cub CamThe Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. 9695300
Reposted by Groucho MerckxGareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 3hI talk a lot about major transport investment, but one of the biggest bangs for the buck policy-wise would be a full pavement parking ban and more rigid enforcement of traffic rules. Enforcement is so lax that this stuff is just completely normalised now, and it's unacceptable. 1517630
Reposted by Groucho Merckxfilm-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 7hAnother classic on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social , Went the Day Well? aka 48 Hours is a remarkable movie made during WWII about a Nazi invasion. Adapted from writing by Graham Greene, this resistance story makes the blood run cold. 5 out of 5 #TalkingPicturesTV film-authority.com/2020/12/12/4...film-authority.com48 Hours - film-authority.com[…] More 34313
Reposted by Groucho MerckxColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong. 024346
Reposted by Groucho MerckxBUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 17hYou call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x 26626131
Reposted by Groucho MerckxRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23hI will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise. 552308208
Reposted by Groucho MerckxScuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 21hThis graph is literally on the Guardian website 113043
Reposted by Groucho MerckxScuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 18hZack Polanski will never be accepted as a serious politician until he has materially assisted in the commission of a genocide and I can’t decide if I’m joking here or not. 08315
Reposted by Groucho MerckxAdrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 18hIf the @greenparty.org.uk can run Labour this close, under their new and currently popular Prime Minister, enjoying his temporary 'bounce', what will they be able to do once the novelty wears off? 👍 2130661
Reposted by Groucho MerckxZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19hWe TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk 1101136252
Reposted by Groucho MerckxTom @zenithedtom.bsky.social · 21hSeeing commentators saying that the Greens have run out of steam now that Labour have ditched Starmer and moved their pitch to the left - and I’m like, you realise that’s why people were voting Green? That’s the successful application of political pressure 231
Reposted by Groucho MerckxZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22hThe winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. 411388452
Reposted by Groucho Merckxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I urge you all to remember Nick’s radio interview with Morgan McSweeney - the only one that bland psycho has given. Morgan simply denied he would ever do factionalism, denied being mates with Peter Mandelson and said he wanted to bring the Labour family together, and that was just fine by Nick. 212729
Reposted by Groucho MerckxFolk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 09/10/2026‘Not that he would have welcomed the description “folk” singer. Not for Bob were the definitions of folk music promulgated by the early 20th-century collectors such as Cecil Sharp’ www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...theguardian.comBob Davenport obituaryFolk musician who recorded a succession of celebrated albums and shared the stage with Dylan and Baez at the 1963 Newport festival 033
Reposted by Groucho MerckxHmwhatnow @hmwhatnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wellington was the absolute king of pass agg memos, telling accounts to get fucked. 132
Reposted by Groucho MerckxLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 09/10/2026this analogy falls down because dividing zero by zero is actually really easy and the answer is definitely zero (say you are dividing a pizza, and the amount of pizza you have is zero, nobody is going to get any pizza simple as that. & luckily you don't have anyone to divide it among either) 291
Reposted by Groucho MerckxDave @davemck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Done. The great thing about free will is that my caps lock is now extremely loud. 07318
Reposted by Groucho MerckxMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! 613223
Reposted by Groucho MerckxFolk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk · 09/10/2026Not sure who needs to know that John Kirkpatrick once appeared on Harry Hill's TV Burp being attacked by a model pig, but here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyX2...youtube.comHarry Hill's TV Burp: Series 8b Episode 3 (14/02/2009)YouTube video by Oscar Barnett 2123
Reposted by Groucho MerckxDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining. 361184258
Reposted by Groucho MerckxMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 09/10/2026oh my god I was going to joke "he's actually centre-left" and turns out he IS 26935193
Reposted by Groucho MerckxMatt Round @mattround.com · 09/10/2026Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it 17500103
Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026The cones hotline, except it doesn't even have government backing www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comWhat would make your life easier? Martin Lewis asks public for ‘small ideas’ to improve UKFinance expert launches Small Ideas Initiative to gather ‘practical, low-cost’ ideas to put before cross-party panel 000
Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026Can't believe I've once again been passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the piddling technical grounds of "never having actually written a book" 010
Reposted by Groucho MerckxProud ‘n short @proudnshort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You know what I love most about this picture?? The range of wonderful people. That’s my London, that’s my greens, that’s why, secretly inside me, no matter where I live, London is always home. The very best of luck tonight @zackpolanski.bsky.social , for you have the best of people behind you 617024
Reposted by Groucho MerckxIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 221124
Groucho Merckx @grouchomerckx.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026Report from the frontlines of the Holborn & St Pancras byelection: the Greens are still out knocking doors, while the Labour activists have gone to the pub 000
Reposted by Groucho MerckxCineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oct 8th 1984 - After catching their first ghost at the Sedgewick Hotel, business quickly picks up for the Ghostbusters with more paranormal sightings. On Oct 8th they were featured on the front page of USA Today. 📽️📅 Ghostbusters (1984) 08631
Reposted by Groucho MerckxTom Sykes @tgcsykes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't know about you but it's enjoying these kinds of rights and freedoms in this country that really makes me want to fight and die in an unwinnable nuclear war against Russia, China or anywhere else where they censor people who disagree with their elites. 001
Reposted by Groucho Merckxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026*The fucking Guardian* is now printing columns by fash crank Israel partisans demanding that the government Take Swift Action against protestors, Muslims and migrants, as an urgent defence of national security. 26114
Reposted by Groucho MerckxCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026holy shit this might be one of the most offensive cartoons i've ever seen 2419631
Reposted by Groucho Merckxbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143034708
Reposted by Groucho MerckxRob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 07/10/2026The Italians won’t tell you this, but this is how you do a truly great carbonara 9508
Reposted by Groucho MerckxMatt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My non-Blueskying wife has been following this conversation and adds this contribution: 2122
Reposted by Groucho Merckx✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025…🤔 Your belly button is just your old mouth. …🙃 3640875
Reposted by Groucho MerckxCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You know what? I’m feeling generous today. This is Chapter 13 of Space Opera, justifying why in the world sentience would be determined via an interstellar battle of the bands. 215244
Reposted by Groucho MerckxBen JJ @benjjgeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Greens don't get an alloted slot of media attention that they can choose to fill how they want. If they do something "bad" the media splash it everywhere. If they do something good, the media ignore it. 1528
Reposted by Groucho MerckxRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This isn't even in the menu at this cafe, so as best I can tell, he ordered it specially and is now angry with the restaurant for his own choices. 2326
Reposted by Groucho MerckxAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Once again, the framing on this sort of stuff is so poor: a) the Labour right have already made clear they’d rather disembowel themselves than share power w the left b) if compromise is impossible, why should the Greens agree to a coalition with the party of genocide support and legitimate concerns? 316927
Reposted by Groucho MerckxSolidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026OPPOSING GENOCIDE MAKES ZIONISTS FEEL UNSAFE 16726
Reposted by Groucho MerckxDarren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So the Greens aren't pandering to the 'genocide doesn't bother me vote.' Good on 'em 💚 1285
Reposted by Groucho Merckxiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 06/10/20261. I myself proposed a plan to Frank, without anyone else involved, for this evening with dinner. It was a long and very positive conversation. 2. I know how much he loves dinner and the weight he carries in the world, and even more so, the weight he has had on my lap for 5 consecutive years. 171
Reposted by Groucho MerckxLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd is currently being enthusiastically dunked on by western Discourse Guardians for the supposed incoherence of this post & I gotta say the irony metre jst exploded cos Mohammed wrote an entire book addressing exactly the rhetorical policing of Palestinian resistance 10381112
Reposted by Groucho Merckxcancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The press and broadcast media are never gonna let Greens win If the party doesn't work out a way to sidestep them, it's doomed anyhow. Might as well have an open discussion about the true nature of zionism in the meantime. 0283
Reposted by Groucho MerckxAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Cats are a community resource 9708
Reposted by Groucho Merckxtoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114553118