Reposted by Jack StapletonMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301154475 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If you think a distinct sub category of human exists because some medieval warlords agreed that the border of England should be on the River Tweed, you are, Im afraid, an absolute maniac bsky.app/profile/theh... 10662119 0
Jack Stapleton @jnrstapleton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's good to hear that some within the Greens remain committed to fixing the serious and systemic issues that allowed this motion to pass. I cancelled my membership of 11 years at the weekend, but I hope that the party can one day be something I wouldn't be embarrassed to be part of. 030 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070421926 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03691778 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonLeigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 25/09/2026my neighbor Howard has been allowing me to call him Harold for like three years 4342 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We all love sweeping generalisations. 1129847 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonBrian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anatomy: “We’re a mature science” Also anatomy: “So, we’ve been miscounting the number of brains in, um, humans and all vertebrates” Very cool result 092 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 161191493869 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonBen McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected. 25967297 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?bbc.co.ukGroup entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrantsProtesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived. 23653235 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242674684 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201439891 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The headline doesn’t do justice to this piece. It is extremely good, thoughtful and philosophical. I hate the pervert glasses so much, and this expresses exactly why. (Yes, with a carve out for people who actually need assistive tech, as the piece also says.) 822366 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonGeoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026One of my all-time favorite rules, from Pea Ridge (1980). The designer's great-great-grandfather fought in the battle, and if his unit takes damage you roll a die to see if he survives. If he dies, the designer is never born, and the game doesn't exist, and so automatically ends in a draw. 7442172 0
Jack Stapleton @jnrstapleton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The 5 Simpsons lines I've uttered most of the top of my head: 1. [Sideshow Bob's post-rake grumble] 2. To alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems 3. See? Because of me, now they have a warning 4. So I says to Mabel I says... 5. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas! 010 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️ 14172111752 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonLauren Shhh @savtasugarshub.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I feel duty-bound to report that that while it is true that the Chinese robot did beat Usain Bolt’s sprint record, unlike the robot, Mr. Bolt did not burst into flames upon completion of his race requiring the extinguishing services of the fire brigade. 1010230 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonPaul Eggleston @pauleggleston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I've got a new job doing the staff rota for the monkey enclosure at the zoo, but I've never done anything like it before and now I'm really struggling with chimp roster syndrome. 24711 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 18/08/2026Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses. 1061492461 0
Reposted by Jack Stapletonmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo 201514238 0
Jack Stapleton @jnrstapleton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026went into an actual proper honest-to-jupiter gym today for the first time in about 15 years and... didn't hate it? more developments as we get them 000 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonTerence Eden @edent.tel · 14/08/2026I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person. 243399519 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 181142502637 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonIndy @indy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As with so many part of the UK public realm, there's a graph and it shows "something happened in 2010 and we became a society with lesser public capacity to respond to unexpected challenges" 13412164 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Spent much of today on the motorway. A lot of the leftover flags are looking very tatty and sorry for themselves. It's not very patriotic to leave them in that state, I think. 151262 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonGreg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026spiderman defeating the bad guy by sneaking into the compound and laying millions of eggs 20470125 0
Reposted by Jack Stapleton𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026there is an absolute crisis these days in "people not minding their fucking business" and it encompasses everything from toilet policing to people filming everything they see in the streets. nobody Minds Their Own Fucking Business any more 36814 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonOn This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons 17733212 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026soooo just out of interest, anyone else feeling like they've not really slept in about a fortnight, or 332404 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonAlan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works. 21179482153 0
Reposted by Jack Stapletonsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding 355712846 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonWill Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ***THURSDAY*** 943768 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Green groups will be angry at Burnham if his first act as PM is to approve new fossil fuel drilling. But they'll also be wary that the biggest challenger at the next election will be a party of Trumpist climate denialism and a party that thinks the Climate Change Act has led to higher emissions. 6114 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonSam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you 152691630 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My tortoise just took a shit and then turned round and walked directly through it, so I guess we're all having difficult days. 2351 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonSiobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026why Do they only make gritty reboots of IP aimed at boys. Where is the evil care bear film 3443927 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House. 451105193 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonTom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026"How dare you plagiarise my plagiarism machine" is the new "No fighting in the war room" 417457 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonMitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Ultimately Starmer’s biggest miscalculation was failing to appreciate that chasing the Reform vote was far likelier to LOSE support than it ever was to gain it… Those of us who are NOT on the anti-immigrant bandwagon aren’t merely indifferent to it; we’re SICKENED and APPALLED by it. 517746 0
Reposted by Jack StapletonTreblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Has the UK ever been searching for a new PM, a new James Bond AND a new Doctor Who all at the same time? Feels like at least one role should have an incumbent at any one time 2111 0
Reposted by Jack Stapletontweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/06/2026the good news is that science is working hard on a solution to the UK's political problems 419252 0