Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/05/2026We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight. 7771932472
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025We should have listened when the modems screamed at us. 125118952739
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 07/01/2025Always regret not writing more on mechanics of broadcasting in old job. Anyway, I *did not know* that the reason BBC Radio 4 still broadcasts on long wave in 2025 is that it secretly carries the Economy 7 signal for cheap overnight power on old electricity meters. c20society.org.uk/news/c20-cal...c20society.org.ukC20 calls for Droitwich Transmitter Masts listing – The Twentieth Century Society 28325112
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The Dylan movie would have been 100X better if they'd written it as a quest film where they have to reassemble the Fellowship of the Traveling Wilburys in order to defeat Spotify 742976221
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Terminally von der Leyen @ciaran.operationglad.io · 22/11/2024Don't dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want (Serbian Warlord) 27014
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion. The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ. Exempt from all. 26142651515
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Man if John McAfee had just lived a few more years he'd be up for several dozen cabinet roles right now. 1027528
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 17/10/2024Disney owns both The Muppets and Star Wars, and the fact they are not making a Muppet version of all nine main-series Star Wars movies is only explained by the fact that they secretly hate making money. 1164354752
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2024This shit is WILD. Turns out the phenomenon of "Blue Zones," where people have exceptionally long lifespans, are not real and it's just people committing pension fraud.ucl.ac.ukUCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zone’ regions of exceptionalA study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the 611763456
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 29/08/2024This is an interesting one. www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...politico.euUK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concernsPeter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action. 2112264
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.com · 27/08/2024always amazes me that fresh steamed hams are still being made youtu.be/Ly1VOlZMF1k?...youtu.beSteamed Hams but it's a Netflix True Crime Title SequenceYouTube video by Tyrone Deise 44413
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/08/2024This is a great piece of writing, and shocking because - if this is our big debate, our big issue, that people are just asking “questions” about - we should be hearing this argument all the time, from the other side, as a mainstream take. That’s who was crowding the streets. Speak for those people. 210235
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 28/07/2024This piece on higher taxes on second homes in Wales is interesting because a lot of the problems presented as *bad unintended side effects* (homes put up for sale, creating a market glut; people renting out their second home rather than leaving it empty) seem… good? www.thetimes.com/article/eb98...thetimes.comThis town tripled council tax on second homes. Here’s what happenedCouncils are trying to free properties for residents — but a visit to Tenby reveals it has had ‘disastrous’ unintended consequences 810429
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/07/2024“political violence” is when violence is done to a politician. everything they cause is a different thing and you shouldn’t worry about it 81722458
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/07/2024From a friend. I didn’t make it 430764
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg) @moriamarmalade.bsky.social · 13/06/2024The real conspiracy 292522550
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 05/06/2024Therefore, we want to use our reach and call on all those who are entitled to vote to make their voice heard. We must not leave the EU to the far-right parties and must defend our democracies. Please vote. 1597
Hugh 🥐🦢 @hughobrien.bsky.social · 02/05/2024They added gifs just in time for voting daymedia.tenor.comKirk Khan Rage GIFALT: Kirk Khan Rage GIF 020
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 02/04/2024i don’t think too often these days about a certain incident but it’s still pretty wild that a magazine owner could fire his staff for organizing, get one of his few remaining goons to write an obviously bogus defense of him, express no remorse for any of it, & still kind of have a place on the left 212816
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 02/04/2024decades-long manhunt finally ends 462980730
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/03/2024They care when TikTok does it, but they didn’t give a damn when Uber was doing the same thing around the world to get people to help it roll back taxi regulations — and getting the help of US ambassadors along the way. 624741
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/03/2024i apologize to everyone following me that i did not produce a detailed proposal of how a 4-day work week would work for every segment of american society when i said it was a good idea 1013238156
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 13/02/2024David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.” 5042931122
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2024"Now take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going." 121048127
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 11/01/2024For reference, below is a live-posted thread on South Africa's oral argument. (I suggest opening the last post so that the thread doesn't break.) 0136
Hugh 🥐🦢 @hughobrien.bsky.social · 08/01/2024www.newyorker.com/humor/sketch...newyorker.comIs My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home. 060
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/01/2024city model from 'Metropolis' (1927) preserved at the Deutsche Kinemathek museum📽️ 242193573
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/12/2023We live at a time when anyone can publish their thoughts anywhere. "Debate" is the cheapest and easiest form of discourse. It is *everywhere.* What we need are institutions that fortify debates with basic facts and, yes, close down debates where one side is plainly wrong. 12838151
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 13/12/2023TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there. www.vox.com/culture/2399...vox.comTikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.The Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever. 38819
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/11/2023Bethesda, Democratic Party: If you don't like us, you're wrong aftermath.site/bethesda-dem...aftermath.siteBethesda, Democratic Party: If You Don't Like Us, You're Wrong - AftermathThis is fine! Everything's fine! 35112
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 01/09/2023meanwhile, on X (the social media website formerly known as Twitter) 344959
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11/11/2023At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients. 2420951456
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2023this continues another trend in arguments on this topic: analyzing the slogan by presenting a distinctly different sentence with some overlapping words 32675
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/11/2023Over and over we’ve been told self-driving cars would solve our transport problems only for them not to deliver. In 2023, Waymo and Cruise told us their services had finally cracked the code — but a new scandal in SF shows they deceived us once again. We need to stop falling for their fantasies.disconnect.blogSelf-driving cars still aren't the futureA Cruise disaster deflates the robotaxi hype once again 110034
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/11/2023Hi! Welcome to Aftermath. We are a new worker-owned, reader-supported website about games, internet culture and beyond. aftermath.site/welcome-to-a... 38792348
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2023How dare you advocate for an armistice on armistice day 1036278
Reposted by Hugh 🥐🦢Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023do you know how stupid you have to be to have tens of billions of dollars and end up in jail 281920221
