Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Continuity announcer immediately before The Traitors: '...and this is only possible because of the unique way the BBC is funded. Please, millennials, pay your licence fee. I know this is the only live TV you watch, but we're dying out here.' 000
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If nothing else, seeing a second term Republican president flame out and head towards <30% approval makes me feel like I'm 16 again. 010
Reposted by Public Universal FriendBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if we die, we die 04919
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The one good British Communist propaganda cartoon. 0104
Reposted by Public Universal Friend👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every single time I see the "Every Fringe Event At Party Conference" graphic I howl. 57113
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What this list demonstrates is that streaming has made Prestige Drama™ and sitcoms the dominant TV genres of our time. There are some documentaries and sketch comedy shows on there, but if you were to write a list for 20th century British TV they'd have a much greater place. 000
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The impression you get from Taylor Swift's latest songs is someone who is brimming with resentment but wants you to know that they are, in fact, extremely happy. 000
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the points at which social media started going wrong was when influencers/'creators'/total randoms started getting paid for posting. Not only does it create terrible incentives, it moved platforms from being peer-to-peer to a more top down. 110
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Average headline about an employment tribunal: 'woman wins £100,000 because bosses didn't give her cake'. And then in paragraph 7: 'Mrs Brown, 42, was also regularly beaten around the head with a newspaper by her line manager and forced into a cupboard known as "The Chokey"'. 001
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The way that there is such a stark online gender divide on the Lindsay Clancy case - including this kind of pseudo-philosophical claptrap below - does not say anything great about the health of US society the incentives of social media. 130
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One thing that American leftists on here circa 2021 were absolutely right about is just how fickle the political signalling of large corporations would prove to be. 140
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Watching Heroes for the first time (only twenty years late). Nathan Petrelli is going to great lengths to protect his campaign for a House seat in central NYC which (as a clearly Republican-coded candidate in 2006) he's not going to win. 120
Reposted by Public Universal FriendAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I have become increasingly convinced that we are heading for a disastrous confrontation and that the 21st century will be remembered for a terrible war between mankind and goats" 2217351
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026'Your work is complete', British Gas tell me proudly. One problem with that: I haven't been a British Gas customer (or lived in the relevant property) for over a year... 110
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A question about generations - do Gen Z know who Cliff Richard is? I feel like most Millennials know who he is (if only as the guy your grandma liked who song those Christmas songs), but suspect that he's probably not as lodged in the cultural memory of those born after 1996 or so. 110
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This looks like Elon Musk about thirty seconds after opening the Ark of the Covenant. 121
Reposted by Public Universal FriendDirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dave Gibbons making this point about Lichtenstein made me very happy. 1128874
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The fancy new café around the corner from church switches from its breakfast menu at 11am on a Sunday, thus depriving me of the opportunity for post-Mass brunch. Pure anti-Christian discrimination. 000
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If your political project is fixated on gender, and you define gender/sex rigidly in terms of biology, then you are going to get a lot of genital inspections as a matter of public policy. 022
Reposted by Public Universal FriendJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The logline for the new Jonathan Majors movie is unbelievable. pagesix.com/2026/06/25/h... 3276
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Remember - David Walliams won't see your comments about his awful books, but his ghostwriters will. 061
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Imagine being so fragile that you manage to whip up a one-sided beef with The War On Drugs. 000
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One thing that's noticeable in BBC news output over the last few years isn't necessarily a decline in the quality of the basic journalism, but increasingly sloppy editing. (You can see it at a more basic level - typos getting through that would previously have been picked up, mislabelled maps etc.) 2207
Reposted by Public Universal FriendMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026me: hey so I was thinking of maybe watching a documenta- streaming platform: about MURDER? me: no I mean I was maybe thinking like a history show, or like sp: MURDER? YOU WANNA WATCH WOMEN BEING KILLED? BY SERIAL KILLERS? me: no honestly something on the Ottomans maybe or sp: DEATH! DEATH! 2955453
Reposted by Public Universal Friend👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It will never not be funny that one of the first prominent historians (as he then was) to say there were fake was David Irving but he changed his mind literally a week before the were officially debunk because he realised that there wasn't an entry saying "signed off on The Final Solution earlier". 2539
Reposted by Public Universal Friendeminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When Taylor Swift met Ed Sheeran she was disturbed by how obsessed with his charts and streams he was. If Taylor Swift thinks you're too obsessed with charts and sales then you're an addict. Accounts of Sheeran watching his streams go up, sweating like a gambler. That's how you end up like this 38614
Reposted by Public Universal FriendDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Interesting. cepr.org/voxeu/column...cepr.orgMission possible: Making teenagers read newspapersIs declining news consumption among young people inevitable? This column reports on a large-scale randomised controlled trial in France to test whether free access to a major newspaper and teacher tra... 4135
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As someone who already occasionally has children shouting ED SHEERAN!* in my direction, this has not been a good 24 hours for me. *the successor to Ron Weasley for any ginger-haired man 100
Reposted by Public Universal Friend🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm just up at 5:30, thinking about how the sparkling piano that sends tingles through each of my vertebrae in Nick Drake's Northern Sky is played by the same guy who plays the frontal-lobe-disabling viola drone on the Velvet Underground's Heroin. 4427
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In addition, a lot of people believe that any business which doesn't have much visible custom is a front for money laundering - whereas in fact there are just a load of unsuccessful businesses out there. 120
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But I was told that incredibly rich people were *less* likely to be corrupt because they don't need the money! 100
Reposted by Public Universal FriendPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Just reading the Guardian piece on Michael Samadi, the businessman who wants rights for LLMs and none for humans, like the employees he allows it to fire. The personification of the tech sector. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 75421
Reposted by Public Universal FriendMichael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Sometimes I browse through heritage auctions and I find the occasional odd gem, but today I stumbled upon the mother-load: these ridiculous grocery store ads promoting the release of The Jungle Book, and each one has me absolutely reeling. Sharing them here so you too can share in my bewildered joy 982735982
Reposted by Public Universal Friendelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11/09/2026This is a good corrective to the common cliché you hear about how bin-Laden "won" or "was right." No! This theory of change is very, very stupid! 1012526
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thinking about this again - it is absolutely not accidental that the first AI 'actor' is a young, conventionally attractive woman. The male gaze is able to overlook a lot of extremely unconvincing ""acting"" which it would object to from a man. 020
Reposted by Public Universal FriendBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 10/09/2026It just feels *wrong* that "She Loves You" is as close to Queen Victoria's lifetime as to today. Victoria feels like deep primeval past, "She Loves You" is the past, yes, but not *really*. It's past that feels basically the same as my childhood in the 80s. 3613
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yes, but didn't you know that Mississippi has a higher GDP per capital than Britain? 010
Reposted by Public Universal FriendLance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The main difference between Tilly Norwood and Max Headroom is Max Headroom found an audience. 3428
Reposted by Public Universal FriendThe Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026🎨 Craig Everett "Nearly Home" (2024) Yorkshire artist Craig Everett brings an urban, graphic-design background to his contemporary landscapes. This work captures a nostalgic view of streets at dusk, balancing the textured brickwork with the warm glow of streetlights guiding the way. #art 1204
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Alright, here's the deal. Every time you vote Republican, I will send you $5,000." "Cheques may not be honoured." 010
Reposted by Public Universal FriendJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's amazing the extent the train and the turnpike completely changed our sense of geography and what is close; to the extent this now seems absurd 1926153
Reposted by Public Universal FriendItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is fifty today, and therefore about the right sort of age for it to have a midlife crisis, strip off and run into the sea. 4508
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I have more sympathy than some for the Westerners who supported Stalin out of misplaced idealism, and even the ones who venerated Mao and Ho Chi Minh. But imagine being stupid enough to be duped by Pol Pot. 100
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The first wet day of autumn. I'm sure I'll get sick of them soon, but at the moment it's blissfully refreshing. 001
Reposted by Public Universal FriendJim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Unpopular Opinions: 'I Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My Friends' www.thecut.com/article/i-sh...thecut.comI Should Be Allowed to Cold-Call My FriendsA text-based social boundary is ruining my relationships with everyone I love. 002
Reposted by Public Universal Friendjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157221152
Public Universal Friend @jamesinlimbo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In later life Dave Brubeck became a Catholic, which means there's a high chance that he'll have heard Sing Of The Lord's Goodness, a rip-off of Take Five so blatant that he could have sued. 020
