Reposted by Ian HopkinsonRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 12hthe plainness with which this is put covers up a sort of powerless rage that you feel as a parent of a trans kid. it’s, to say the least, an alienating experience to see people bicker over the niceties of this or that pension policy when the party and the government has done this to your family 412652
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Britney channeling a deep-sea fish there #totp 010
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Whilst we're expected to do things today or tomorrow our local SENDIASS team has a 15 working day waiting list, and 5 day response time! 000
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonDuncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#1 Bestseller 💥 Archaeology. History. Boudica. Artefacts. Landscape. Travel. Torcs. Battles. Druids. Black Labrador. In a factual book. There might be more to life; but not much more… #BoudicaFriday #Echolands A Journey in Search of #Boudica 87713
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonMr. Fresh™️ 📡 @mrfresh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lol #noliesdetected, Chad! 043
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14480401971
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 28/09/2026The Liberal Dems have voted to reject the EHRC Code of Practice - which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people from most single-sex spaces Read more in our newsletter 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-the… 0378
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 716143616317
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Our home schooling timetable starts tomorrow! I'm pretty excited about the astronomy GCSE and my proposed 3d printer "special project". 120
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonSon of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026**sigggghhhhhh** #TOTP 0213
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonRowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸 2254822753
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonBertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault. 8236126
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Our son's diagnosis for autism took two years on a waiting list. His school ignored its adjustments recommendations, his consultant was dissmissive of non-NHS diagnosis (ours was NHS). The Fonagy report into all of this has been delayed. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comNHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessmentsPatient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses 121
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonCaroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026John Cleese has gone way off the racist deep end I see. 4262
Reposted by Ian Hopkinson☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we gotta shut down the comedian factory until we figure out what the fuck is going on 1330822
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As home schooling comes ever closer I discover "Of mice and men" is one of the set books for English Literature - it's one of the most depressing books I have ever read! 100
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonAriellah | אריאלה @sodone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tbf I shat bricks when I first saw electron microscope images demonstrating that organic compounds do in fact look like that 1123049
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Presumably the "common ground" will be an enthusiasm for genocide in Palestine. BBC News - Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meeting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAndy Burnham expects to find 'common ground' with Trump in first meetingIn New York, the prime minister will also deliver a speech to the UN General Assembly expected to be focused on AI. 000
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonProfessionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched. 872690844
Reposted by Ian Hopkinsonfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess 2435423
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonSinisterBulb @sinisterbulb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That is one pissed off oyster 1287
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless. 532022402
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 21/09/2026www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... An open goal here for Labour who will promptly punch the referee, trip over the ball and say that Meta deserved to win.theguardian.comMeta launches legal challenge against UK media regulator over Online Safety ActAction against Ofcom comes as social media companies are being accused of using courts to slow down implementation 052
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Got a *really* close up view of a young lion @chesterzoo.bsky.social - he seems to be licky his lips... #ChesterZoo #lion 051
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In addition, I just think the Earl Spencer story is…quite cruel. Ultimately we’re talking about two people’s dad talking about their dead mum. 2625631
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But not if they are President of the United States 010
Reposted by Ian Hopkinson👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026appropriate amount of bookshelves www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 3 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove3 bedroom detached house for sale in Underhill Lane, Westmeston, BN6 for £775,000. Marketed by Chatt Estates, Ditchling 2814013
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Off for a walk to inspect demolition work at a local hospital? Does this make me (1) middle aged man (2) retired or (3) a bit odd? 411
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonTom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The BBC has decided that this constitutes news… A man who left for Monaco several years ago declaring he’s ’lost confidence’ in the UK His qualification for making the headlines? Owning £15bn Broadcasting like democracy already died! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 49525147
Reposted by Ian Hopkinsonsianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don’t understand why I or anyone should care what Ratcliffe has to say or why it is on the news 167269
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Harper Collins ‘knew’ [about David Walliams] - but they did nothing” HT @louiestowell.bsky.social millihill.substack.com/p/glass-wall...millihill.substack.com‘Glass-walled offices’ for ‘the mad king of the palace’: how David Walliams was enabled and protectedAs Harper Collins drops the author completely, why was this problematic man allowed to reign so long? 32413
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonDr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Basically, the rich & super-rich - especially those connected to fossil fuels, tech & AI - are going to keep on whingeing about 'hyper-taxation' & 'envy', and keep on buying up politicians, until the planet burns around us. Today's super-rich are, BTW, the richest people that have ever lived. 064
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonAmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 10/10/2025sherman, for the love of god! 15077852306
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonDave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 18/09/2026"Can you fill me in?" #totp 0278
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As home schooling hoves into view I'm reminded of The Beginning of a Great Adventure by Lou Reed "I'd keep the tyke away from school and tutor him myself Keep him from the poison of the crowd" "I'd teach 'em how to plant a bomb, start a fire, play guitar" genius.com/Lou-reed-beg...genius.comLou Reed – Beginning of a Great Adventure[Verse 1] / It might be fun to have a kid that I could kick around / A little me to fill up with my thoughts / A little me or he or she to fill up with my dreams / A way of saying 010
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue. 12585206
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Book review: Different Minds by Pete Wharmby #autism #bookreview ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/09/book...ianhopkinson.org.ukBook review: Different Minds by Pete WharmbyMy next review is of Different Minds by Pete Wharmby, it has the lengthy subtitle “How can we help our autistic school children thrive”. I read Wharmby’s Untypical, about a year a… 021
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised" 4564358
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonJames Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bolivian Murder Kitten just dropped... 1628867
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonJonathan Blackmore @jonathanblackmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a gleeful and obnoxious piece of shit Farage is. 012
Ian Hopkinson @ianhopkinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As a result of attendance issues we have discovered that Mrs H is better at emails that don't flame the receiver and I am better at the in-person meetings Fortunately this is the way it has worked out so far... 020
Reposted by Ian HopkinsonTamara Bumps in the night @moiness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This explains Kash Patel’s unusual comments this week. 011