Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yes, facts are listed and reasoned, but the question was forgotten. I sometimes ask them to clarify the question, only so that I don’t waffle in reply 110
Reposted by Ian McLaughlinMatt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A push notification, apparently sent by hackers, is certainly one way to get people's attention all at once 1154
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm not sure that photography is the issue here, Norway. 020
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We absolutely need to do this. Similar individuals should know their legacy gets no whitewash 050
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This BBC obituary is good (others seem to have also been published, since) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJeffrey Archer obituaryPolitician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace. 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They were on Today earlier saying that scrapping ECHR will allow them to do this, and more much more 041
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026what you up to this weekend? digging, the usual 090
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026On 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 040
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The guy whose bio is "Living in the outer Hebrides ~ a place with space" ? 240
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026That meme chart of confidence vs knowledge applies here I think 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I usually pay for a month when I’ve got a winter Lurgi. Might try to pick up S2 again then, but slow horses comes first 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I liked S1 but once they’d built the world nothing really happened in S2 100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Killing people is really, really bad. So bad that we'll have to kill you. The simple absurdity of it 140
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Semi-detached? The houses look like they should be distinct, but aren’t - maybe built for family 000
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I can’t think of anyone more smug than this Newsnight guy 3120
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Without clicking through I thought the first one was Des Lynham 001
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also, another route: regional holidays are not unusual within a country en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...en.wikipedia.orgVictoria Day (Scotland) - Wikipedia 010
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… 515177
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BBC still reporting it as a likely natsec issue, breathlessly quoting US idiots 040
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Police: <explain what’s going on> Jenrick: ah, well, nevertheless… 040
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026‘Partially viable explosives’ would be technically correct for fertiliser 010
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
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The police will decide one way or the other. In 1997 they beat the residents off the road to let the march through, for example. Scottish police will do what's required of them 130
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But it does somehow make it 40% more valuable 000
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The arrest of NI’s FM would be the end of Stormont. What a mess 020
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If they both get arrested Stormont will appear to their supporters to be a waste of time 000
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Expecting all the TikTok patriots are sitting in departures areas right now 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026First Minister’s presence raises this issue into the stratosphere 100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Eager and longstanding employe of Rupert Murdoch 030
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. 331189413978
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They’ll unionise, and everyone will have learned a lot 0100
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are three of them so it’s a seller’s market 160
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Offer them cash for the task, not the time. Ours mowed the lawn for £10 until he got a real PT job 020
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think we’ll be seeing more about the phone one 111
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The next battery cannot be as good as this one. 010
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Blair fever dream of standing before EU parliament “Look, this is what you need to do for me…” 020
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 · 23/09/2026I still think Mike Tapp had the right idea, changing PM is risk-free for the people doing it 110
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Counterpoint: it’s happening anyway, because we’re being asked to pay the same for a dwindling service 000
Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It depends on whether or not she’s confusing ethnicity and nationality on the given day 030
