Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Richard E Grant is a chaos demon and i am totally here for it #celebritytraitors 0231
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Surely this is more likely to be a case of pilot psychosis rather than terrorism? Sadly it happens, is the likely cause of the loss of MH370. #C4News 010
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Absolutely convinced this man sole purpose is to dismember the BBC so that the tech bros can pick over the remains and he must be stopped. 022
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026For anyone in this patch of SE London Beckenham Cinema is under threat of closure - the new landlords, City Gate Church have served notice as they plan to turn the cinema into a place of worship. Please consider signing the petition. c.org/P2sXcjD2Mrc.orgSign the PetitionKeep Beckenham Odeon as a cinema 000
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@avasantina.bsky.social talking sense on small boats etc on #Newsnight unlike any of the men surrounding her. 041
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Sometimes I can't let the day job go... watching GBBO, mainly to see how Paul H copies with being eclipsed by Nigella, and now wondering if they licensed the Tardis/regeneration from the BBC as I know someone who didn't and it was very very messy and expensive #GBBO 010
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The whole thread is worth a read, especially the bit where Thomas sticks a knife in a dingy with a rescuer still aboard. The sooner Danny Thomas is arrested and his blackshirt organisation proscribed the better for us all. 032
Reposted by Karen ShipwayWillard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess. 641821419
Reposted by Karen ShipwayJoanne 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. 532021402
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If you've spent any time on the coast, or around major rivers, you'll have seen the RNLI in action, do consider donating to them as they don't deserve this current nonsense. Also, if you need another incentive, you never know you might need them the next time you take a walk by the water. 000
Reposted by Karen ShipwayClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793687
Reposted by Karen ShipwaySmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hard to imagine a more emblematic fracturing of the British social order than people turning on the lifeboats, the most conservative-coded, traditional charity we have. If these scumbags will attack the RNLI, they'll attack anyone or anything. Absolutely feral. 524986
Reposted by Karen ShipwayFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"If you don't lower your standards you'll end up all alone with a bunch of rescue animals." Don't threaten me with a good time. 💕 2057325669
Reposted by Karen ShipwayFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep. 13459202
Reposted by Karen ShipwayOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff. 1191745355
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Somehow I find it hard to 'trust' the companies that have, in their quest to make money, have 'raped & pillaged' our rights, fuelled culture wars, and disseminated misinformation in their quest for profit, to develop safe AI. #C4News 020
Reposted by Karen ShipwaySexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening 171188399
Reposted by Karen ShipwayPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems. 322789
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026FFS 'Madgwick said he accepted it was far from ideal for a masked group to assemble outside a hotel purely because a group of apparently foreign men had arrived.' Arrest them all.... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...theguardian.comProtesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekersA group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou... 000
Reposted by Karen ShipwayDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I am generally reluctant to hand it to the Daily Mail, but just on this occasion… 4355
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm catching up on today's Israel-Palestine statement, every moving. Felt Ed Milliband got the tone and the approach right. But I really didn't expect Sir Edward Leigh's very powerful contribution. 011
Reposted by Karen ShipwayCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145121509
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A bit behind on #Newsnight but is Jenkin really arguing that we should continue to allow our allies to break international laws etc with impunity? . 020
Reposted by Karen ShipwayRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123731266
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please stop platforming racists - Les clearly is a follower of Yaxley Lennon and his sidekick - and should be called out as a such not accomodated. #Newsnight 2110
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Once again the masked men in black have very little to do with small boats, its just a useful tool for them to use to excuse their violence. The men in black are more of a threat to our democracy than a bedraggled refugee coming off a small boat #Newsnight 041
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes #BBCNews I am worried about small boats, but actually am a more that bit more worried about masked thugs seemingly able to disrupt our streets and ports at will. 020
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There was a lot wrong with the last few decades of the last century but we knew to names these horrors correctly, 'Neo-Nazi thugs'. 000
Reposted by Karen ShipwayJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Abolish the Home Office. 23670179
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 06/09/2026FFS,.I just hope there isn't a genuine maritime emergency off Portsmouth this evening,. Arrest the fascists. 143
Reposted by Karen ShipwayJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is the part that is so incomprehensible. Palestine protestors get bashed for blocking the port, racist tractor drivers get the kid gloves. Apparently, worldwide, it's fine to protest if your intention is vile, and otherwise, it's batons and jail for you. 02514
Reposted by Karen ShipwayLadyFluffyOrca 📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Fucking hell I knew he was a git but he’s proved it without doubt here Robert Jenrick responded with 'boo hoo' when questioned about a female protester being hit with a walking stick and dragged by her hair at the Reform Conference. This is outrageous from an MP! 136929
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Lets call a spade a spade, fascists are openly parading in our streets without challenge from the authorities. 021
Reposted by Karen ShipwayGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I’ve been a bit quiet on here lately, and this was why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLosing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. Here are the things I wish I had known before | Gaby HinsliffThere’ll be exhaustion, love tinged with occasional rage, even moments of black humour. But my mum would want me to tell you: don’t be afraid, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff 13467491
Reposted by Karen ShipwayHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026Nigel Farage is very lucky that he didn't know what was being discussed at the lunch where he was discussing it 491635374
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sorry Reform are trying to say that they are the victims here? #Newsnight 130
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My, sadly long dead, Dad used to refer to people like Farage as a '19th hole revolutionary, the ultimate oxymoron', with an emphasis on the last syllable. In the decades since he died we've clearly moved on ... #C4News... 010
Reposted by Karen ShipwayChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife" is an absolute hall of fame all-timer 391593258
Reposted by Karen ShipwayToss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing 2295269212871
Reposted by Karen ShipwaySooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim. Fucking. Curry. I've said it before and I'll say it again...he played every single role like it was the role he'd been waiting his entire life to play. Brilliant and weird and sexy and hilarious. There'll never be another. RIP to a true (see pic) legend. 0637138
Reposted by Karen ShipwayPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reportstmz.comActor Tim Curry Dead at 80Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned. 38168052614
Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026for anyone who wants to donate for Dolly.... if you are in the UK there is a good chance there is a local partner in your area. donate.imaginationlibrary.comdonate.imaginationlibrary.comHomeMake a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children. 012
Reposted by Karen ShipwayImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons. 5696473244
Reposted by Karen ShipwayAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121535979
Reposted by Karen ShipwayAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135088679
Reposted by Karen ShipwayNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Can the government launch a campaign on this for non-refugee men as well, please? Because the statistics show it’s badly needed 1028661
Reposted by Karen ShipwayBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 19/08/2026Philip K Dick did not spend much of the sixties waiting until he had so little money he was reduced to eating cat food, spending everything he had on speed, and then writing a novel in a weekend to get more money, just for today's press to say ADHD is "made up". 232095
