keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I remember many years ago a good friend saying he was a fan of Nawaaz and Sam Harris and I just stopped talking to him about anything political. We are still friends. The stakes seemed low at the time. 010
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Who was it who said British people will do anything to preserve their local shops other than use them. 181
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s also the gig. The appetite for ‘left wing person disillusioned with the excesses of the left’ in right-wing and centrist papers is insatiable. 030
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026OK I just see any aggression. It strikes me as a quite honest response. It’s the truth! 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don’t get the reaction to this. She is talking about standard corporate stuff. Badly, perhaps, but I genuinely don’t see the gotcha. 100
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Indeed. ‘You must make a hard commitment to join the euro to qualify for membership’ would not go down well in Sweden! 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026‘Hobbyhorse’?! My culture is not your prom dress. *whinnies* 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Her observation was that in situations where Canadians would just strike up a conversation, Brits would only speak to you if you had been introduced by someone they went to school with :) 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes perhaps in a regular haunt where the people are already familiar. Or perhaps it’s just me! There’s definitely a cultural element to it though. My wife is Canadian and she found Brits incredibly hard to talk to for the first few years living here. 201
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026True. But the situation described by the OP - people going into bars and striking up conversations with strangers - is something that perhaps happens in the US but has just never been a thing in my experience, with or without phones. 110
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026From a socialising point of view that’s no different from being on your phone! 100
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I sort of agree but as an introverted Brit the idea of going into a pub and striking up a conversation with strangers brings me out in hives. 110
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026He often writes nonsense, but it’s always well written. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My reaction to this was ‘I wonder when they changed it, there was a toll when I went over it a year or two ago’. I now feel old. 010
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Branagh is a glorious actor. His Hamlet is still by far the best Hamlet I’ve ever seen. I’m gutted I missed his Prospero this year: I alway just assume these things will come to London 🙁 Still got to see him in MayDay 😛 110
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Staying up too late (UK) reading life-affirming threads on bluesky. ✊ 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026our god given freedom to put a bayonet bulb in a screw fixture 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I hate these people (as a brit in particular) more than you can imagine but there is a valid point in this. Robots driving cars will be - and in certain circumstances already is - safer than humans. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And that’s right! There are well-understood ways of managing safety when kids of different sizes play rugby. Only cis kids though apparently. 050
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They tried doing weight-sorting for rugby in New Zealand and have largely stopped it because it drives kids out of the sport: they like being with their friends. This was considered more important than the safety implications. 190
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My son had to play competitive rugby with boys 30-40% bigger and heavier than him at school and nobody ever gave a shit. 150
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I went to a thing recently where there was prosecco basically on tap and it was… really nice. Never before and probably never again. 010
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Memento is a genuinely interesting movie just for the narrative conceit. 140
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I also gave up on Oppenheimer: *so boring*. But I loved The Odyssey and I’ve enjoyed a few Nolan films. For me the key is just to realise and accept that his movies are silly fun. I like silly fun. 020
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Similarly I always found The Tempest a bit weird until I saw Simon Russell Beale do it. 110
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I sort of felt the same about MND until I saw the recent National production with Matthew Baynton as Bottom. It was belly-laugh funny and I finally got it. Very hard to pull off. 120
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am terrified of spiders. My wife isn’t. But getting rid of them from the bath remains my job. To be fair she does the bins. 010
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think this is true but from the outside it still boggles my mind that you guys* elected THAT FUCKING GUY again. He was a known quantity. *I know, sorry 140
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Do these people think that ‘English’ people - by this definition- exist today? 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026‘sex offenders self-idying into women's prisons’ Failsafe indicator of transphobic brainworms, thank you. 040
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Reminds me of this. Literally believing what Fox news tells you to believe from one week to the next. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In many cases the language they use (‘misinformation’, ‘harmful recommendations’, ‘limitations, biases and inaccuracies’) is as close to ‘junk science’ as you will find in this kind of critique. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If I did that once with any of my kids they would just turn it off. They do sometimes anyway, which is fine. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t think it would take much of that sort of thing for our kids just to turn it off. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I tried to deliver your parcel but you were out. I’ll be back. 020
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our teen/20s kids all do it. It’s absolutely not mandatory and they can turn it off if they want. They can see where we are too. I do think the Snapchat thing has made it much more of a norm for them. 070
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Same here (4 kids 17 to 23). They can see our location too. 000
keriothe @keriothe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I started this on audiobook and found it boring. Will have to give it another go. 100
