Reposted by lesslucidMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think Andor really is one of the most important TV shows of our time. Technically brilliant, so galvanising, each time I find something new in it (just watched it a fourth (!) time). Absolute masterpiece. 2234134
Reposted by lesslucidBruno @bruintjedebeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's almost like urban planners balanced personal property rights with collective community well-being through zoning laws and public infrastructure. Unbelievable! 1445
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026I got to Copenhagen this morning and have been biking around all day and, y'all, I don't know if you've heard about this, but ... this place has pretty good bike infrastructure. You read about it but it's still just mind-blowing to see. Swarms of bikes, everywhere. Swarms! 4396089
Reposted by lesslucidChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated. 531201798105
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026When you elect more Democrats, they try to pass climate policy. When you elect more Republicans, they try to block climate policy. This is not Democrats' fault. Republicans make their own choices & are responsible for those choices. They are not helpless victims of the way climate activists talk. 328243
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026Every single word of this article seems custom designed to make me more furious than the last.cbc.caToronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC NewsAn elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend... 2921825
Reposted by lesslucidWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. 875285958233
Reposted by lesslucidweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106472514
Reposted by lesslucidGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925171709
Reposted by lessluciddrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i used to like apocalyptic books and movies, but i don't now, and i think it's cause i realized five years ago that if the apocalypse happens i'll still have to work 01052142
Reposted by lesslucidsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow 21488321159
Reposted by lesslucidStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why. 8395113
Reposted by lesslucidMariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My wife just informed me that I own every board game except one. I had no Clue. 942136185
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference." 7620159
Reposted by lesslucidAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026& our more recent Black Death research shows that peasant empowerment only happened in very limited areas where policy enabled it; elsewhere elites used the disruption 2 strip workers’ rights more, creating the 1st debtors’ prisons. But only the outdated “mass death => wealth” version gets quoted 🤨😔 513631
Reposted by lesslucidAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026My parents thought I had Polio. I got the vaccine and it turned out I didn’t. Anyone who does anything to make parents like mine worry about this is a god damned bastard. Fuck these people. 74969961896
Reposted by lesslucidAnti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026From last year. A good history lesson. 204170174576
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026It's telling that nobody involved is even pretending to defend this on policy grounds. There's not even a facade, a patina, of policy rationale. Just brute power politics.bloomberg.comEPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power PlantsThe US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. 1331176
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet. 531453296
Reposted by lesslucidCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm not gonna make it through this week. I'm not. I'm going to have a debilitating brain aneurysm watching legacy media handle Trump with kid gloves while he lies about 9/11. The blood vessels in my brain are going to pop, and that's gonna be it for me. 1793636542
Reposted by lesslucidceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193219014417
Reposted by lesslucidDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly. 465117551623
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/09/2026I guess we didn't win the war after all, since it appears to be ongoing, but also I'm assured it's not a problem, since it is, in Trump's words, just "a little war."bloomberg.comTrump Dismisses ‘Little War’ With Iran as Mideast Clashes ResumePresident Donald Trump dismissed concerns that the conflict in Iran was draining American firepower as clashes resumed in the on-again off-again hostilities that have stretched more than six months, w... 48015
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never. 382606596
Reposted by lesslucidpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I’ve been excited for GTA VI for years but now I’m hearing that you play a criminal in the game? And it’s *mandatory* that you commit crimes to progress?? Gross. I’m out. 34104355
Reposted by lesslucidTM Opera cOdy @codyanskaya.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Meanwhile real consoles are left to suffer 194312984
Reposted by lesslucidamy brown @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume 4466161565
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this? 171276306
Reposted by lesslucidBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/ 311367580
Reposted by lesslucidjamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026babe are you okay? you've barely drank from your four-font "YAY! SAME Penis FOREVER" mug 371525160
Reposted by lesslucidElsa Williams @pidgewilliams.bsky.social · 23/08/2026medium.com‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: Autism, Jacqueline Wilson and social survival‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: Autism, Jacqueline Wilson and social survival Some liken autistic girls to an iceberg. Personally, I prefer the analogy of a rotten log: overturn any one … 1227
Reposted by lesslucidHilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Anna Paquin is a real one 82256374
Reposted by lesslucidBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026Putin's method isn't to get you to believe a lie - it's to keep you from believing that *anything* is true. That's life under AI - a world of uncertainty, an epistemological void full of plausible phantasms, some of which are actually real. 8/ 118141
Reposted by lesslucidRichard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election? 20443101200
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required. 205101592135
Reposted by lesslucidDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers. 304938935
Reposted by lessluciddepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026amazing article 124102572486
Reposted by lesslucidTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 14/08/2026'If you miss the train I'm on Then you'll know that I am gone You can hear the whistle blow 100 miles' A whistle audible 100 miles away would be like an acoustic weapon. Passengers would drop stunned, bleeding from the ears. Glass would shatter. Ludicrous claim that mars an otherwise charming song. 1162
Reposted by lessluciddave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect 89160223697
Reposted by lesslucidRamin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: 94142993814
Reposted by lesslucidpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026 14294091140
Reposted by lesslucidMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta 462197196860
Reposted by lesslucidRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace. 475120223712
Reposted by lesslucidDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/08/2026I think what we're seeing around the internet right now, vis a vis AOC & her ex-boyfriend & her eggs, is just a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the absolute madness that will break out if she runs for president. No matter how f'ing weird you think people will be about it, they will be much, much weirder. 421719183
Reposted by lesslucidMatthijs Dorst @mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 11/08/2026Someone from @mathworks.bsky.social once contacted me after I ranted about Matlab, and I strongly feel that if you don't want me to get mad about Matlab, perhaps don't throw errors like "you don't have a license for the version of Matlab you're not using" at me. 3190359
![Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor.
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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce
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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest.
AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP
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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):
My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...
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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May!
And then one in August!
AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?
LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?
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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]
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LUBBOCK:
Ugh.
[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]
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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…
LUBBOCK:
Yeah
no more bank holidays till Christmas.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?
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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it!
[dog continues to scoot across floor]
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