Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 6hOn Saturday, in the UK there were 904 parkruns, 232,000 parkrunners www.elliottline.com/parkrun This anti-trans org turned out 248 runners, despite huge promotion by right-wing media a few weeks ago, Conclusion: statistically insignificant 020
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.socialheraldscotland.comShame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the deadOur Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors… 515077
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinThe Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"You will never defeat us" is a very funny thing to say after you've just bailed everyone who was involved in whatever the fuck this was 1734696
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331189313975
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is easily answered. Bomb disposal experts are those that get to attempt it twice. 1525432
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’s now a month since I dropped my Guardian sub, and you might be interested to learn they’ll offer 6 months at half-price 110
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social enjoyed the open day today, good chat from your colleagues 👍 110
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431633459
Reposted by Ian McLaughlintimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Carney telling the European Parliament that what's needed is an alliance - his word, repeated - where nobody gets to tell the EU and Canada what to do. Good *LORD*. And met with a standing ovation. Well, that's that for the previously-existing form of Atlanticism, then. 26897240
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinJoe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this. 724477
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinCitizen Helene / Galaxy Brain @citizenhelene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Your dad pulled out last night. Of the tour. The Ed Sheeran tour. 1164
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran chose the dollar, and chose badly 110
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Clearly, the price of diesel is all Ukraine's fault. *shakes fist at the sky* 0428
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026America’s media can end all of this quickly by sending only female reporters to ask him zingers 011
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tremendous leadership from Ed Miliband today 041
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 201308645018
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Only a matter of time before the other donors the Reform guy named (but were bleeped-out) become public 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Not sure this is all AI, but still. Programmers aren't held in the same regard they once were, I think people got fed up with their data being hacked and systems not working for them, needing continuous updates. Even my car has avoidable bugs now. Then AI came along 100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Did he think salmonella would turn them into salmon? 000
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Another UK Prime Minister, this time a Labour one, who has not read the Good Friday Agreement. The Northern Ireland Act also expressly provides there must be a referendum if certain conditions are met. 22708237
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinDr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Xanadu-du-du push pineapple, shake the tree Xanadu-du-du stately pleasure dome decree 1121987
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Seeing this going around quite a bit this morning. Not sure it's that much of a problem tbh. Browsers always show the website domain, and it's for the user to determine the veracity from that. Or perhaps users just click any old links in emails etc and hope for the best? 100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is very good. Even down to the old-school lighting and camera angles 020
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Posting this again as it didn’t show a preview last time… NEW | So… CHANNEL 4’s NOT SO GREAT ADHD POLEMIC Press coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/channel-4s...brokenbottleboy.substack.comChannel 4’s not so great ADHD polemicPress coverage of Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? shows how willing publications are to applaud stunts when they favour their conclusions. 46323
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026undiluted good news www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUlez led to better lung size and function among London children, study findsResearchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone 001
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is bad and the people who did this should feel bad 000
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Loving “the party plans to release a plan” 6296
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Hearing on BBC News that Amy Hunt anchored the British 4x100m relay team last night. Anyone who watched it saw her run the second leg. BBC News are just making stuff up now to suit the accompanying audio clips 020
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455942065
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Coincidentally, both at some point have shouted "up the 'ra!" 6429120
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very serious by-election given the appropriate purdah balance heretheguardian.comNigel Farage and Count Binface: a visual guide to their electoral careersFarage was elected to EU parliament five times before becoming Clacton MP, while Binface has been less successful – so far 010
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/08/2026Let's think about this WSJ 2527634
Reposted by Ian McLaughlin👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/08/2026As a side note, I find this pseudo whatever sympathy incredible weird and irritating. I did not express any emotion in my message! You do not know how I’m feeling! 3260725
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Iran are going to creatively grind this out until the midterms in Nov. We’ll all pay heavily for US misadventuretheguardian.comIran issues tough demands to reopen strait of Hormuz as deal still out of reachTehran urges US to ‘correct its behaviour’ as UAE says one of its ships targeted by Iranian missile 000
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Still very ironic that the easiest way for a business to serve trans customers and abide by the rules is to make all toilets and changing facilities gender neutral. Efforts intended to 'protect' gendered spaces could well mean the end of them 031
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinHugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Fair play to C4 for asking these questions. Very revealing answers from Stephenson that these are essentially unenforceable, that there is no plan for what happens if someone decides, say, a cis woman looks trans, and that businesses should have single sex toilets except where they shouldn't 🤷♂️ 14014
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Will countries boycott LA2028 because Russia is recognised and present and still invading Ukraine? 010
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinInside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We see that, unfortunately, Russia is regaining its positions in international sports organizations, while not stopping the war and the killings, - Zelenskyy. 421732527
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The latest in encouraging girls into sport. It's almost like they don't want women's sport at all 100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I think it needs more gold plated Rorschach tests, and more toys 121
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Watching the Commonwealth Games athletics from Glasgow where it’s pishin doon 020
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinIrvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The over privileged shit outs who urge ‘fight or die’ always want other people to do it on their behalf. 38517
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinThoughtbarf @thoughtbarf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026*Shuts down laptop.* I think that's enough internet for today. *Picks up phone* Let's see what the pocket-sized internet is doing. 322471385
