LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 1hSay what you like about French education but what other country has a how to riot early years curriculum? Vive le Republic. 000
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 20hWon't even make the news such is the normalisation. 000
Reposted by LondonDiscussSarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 20h🦠 This might be an excellent time to close Schengen borders to travelers from Russia… 24722
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 20hThese people terrify me. May they forever have itching powder in their pants. 000
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 21hWindow replacement is always a bit of a swizz. Costs a fortune.. and you get a new window that looks exactly the same as this old one. Tada! New window. 230
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's window replacement day. Only one window. This one. The only old window left in the house. Still single glazed. Waiting for the window men to arrive.. It's going to make a mess. 110
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sounds much more interesting than I thought from the poster.. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...theguardian.comTom Cruise’s Digger has flopped spectacularly – but I think it is a misunderstood masterpieceThis article contains spoilers for Digger: Alejandro G Iñárritu’s film may be about to become one of the biggest bombs Hollywood has ever seen – but it is destined to be re-evaluated with time 010
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is really unusual. What's going on? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS bombers pulled from RAF Fairford base after suspected terror plotAircraft leave Gloucestershire base to return to US following arrest of dual British-Iranian national in central London 121
Reposted by LondonDiscussTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Find a crowbar that’s being used to pry apart a western liberal democracy and the person leaning on the other end of it will be in Moscow. 58929
Reposted by LondonDiscussPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win. 220577
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The most middle aged thing I've ever seen. I'm now officially the long sleeved polo shirt guy.. 030
Reposted by LondonDiscussstevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...journalofdemocracy.orgCompetitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of DemocracyThe United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile. 10638338
Reposted by LondonDiscussHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026“Apple appears to be mindful of the growing and very reasonable concerns about over-surveillance and what happens with that data, and so the sensor will instead use AI to analyze movement in your home.“engadget.comApple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else - EngadgetThe device will apparently use AI to analyze activity in your home without actually filming it. 158221
Reposted by LondonDiscussParkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is insane. 1763636904
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The little stone plant has flowered!!! #gardening 050
Reposted by LondonDiscussLee Rowan 🐕 🐈⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They do if you're trying to destroy the USA. Which is what Putin's puppet seems to be doing. 1125
Reposted by LondonDiscussDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026This is the same place in November 2023. 212979
Reposted by LondonDiscussAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press 861513614
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The opticians keep emailing me. I know I haven't had new glasses in three years. I found out I can just bigger the text everywhere instead. 010
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Witcher has been remastered. I will not be available for some time. 000
Reposted by LondonDiscussDavid Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.theguardian.comEnergy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulatingThe price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save 1274
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't think we are talking enough about how much Trump and his family/backers benefit from high fuel prices. It's theft on massive scale, and a direct attack on everyone's economy. He doesn't care about votes, only personal enrichment. 010
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The cone of shame has finally come for Poppy Cat. She's been scratching the fur off her head since we had a holiday, probably to demand we never leave the house again. Measures have therefore been implemented. 1140
Reposted by LondonDiscussCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities 17442185
Reposted by LondonDiscussSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once. 581634529
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why are Rubio and first Trump so invested in the Fairford case? I know it's a US base but they are too dishonest for that to be the main issue. 110
Reposted by LondonDiscussTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I built this to help me get my head around changing temperatures in the UK tomcoates.org/toys/britain...tomcoates.orgBritain is HotSee Britain’s highest estimated temperatures, updated yearly since 1931. 121
Reposted by LondonDiscussWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make. 13843231
Reposted by LondonDiscussJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026Someone's getting sent to Slough House. 622124
Reposted by LondonDiscussJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content. 2640457
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I put jeans on this morning. Then l had to change into shorts. I'm going to have to put jeans back on again soon aren't I? #autumn. 000
Reposted by LondonDiscussAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7935791369
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't think we take into account enough that Trump and his family maki more money from the oil prices being high for as long as possible. 000
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Is everyone still talking about TV shows or have we moved on? 110
Reposted by LondonDiscussKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776492128
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Friday. I'm done. What a week. Knackered. Cider. 020
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just thinking about the Nvidia guy. Imagin thinking it's cool to say you don't remember your own phone number or home address. 000
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They are so juiced, they'll go to war with the Pope. How's that worked out in the past? <historians welcome..> 022
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Didn't we used to have a special police unit that specialised in bashing people? 100
Reposted by LondonDiscussPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager 46644219
Reposted by LondonDiscussHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Mostly what big tech companies make now are ai delivery devices. There’s no particular point to them other than to get you to engage with ai, because that’s what the companies want (as opposed to making a thing that meets consumers’ needs) 215927
Reposted by LondonDiscussGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026According to Merriam-Webster a terrorist is defined as ”a person who uses or advocates violence, destruction, and fear to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals”. Daniel Thomas is a terrorist, not a protestor, and if you support him, you support terrorism. bsky.app/profile/news... 517463
LondonDiscuss @londondiscuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Huh. I only just found out that London Olympia's original name was the National Agricultural Hall. That explains the wheat symbols.. 000
Reposted by LondonDiscussAlan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thankful to have the opportunity yesterday to discuss the importance of retaining cognitive agency in the current polluted information environment, with the new cohort of @jbs.cam.ac.uk MBA students. 1124