Reposted by LXJohnAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 512663960
Reposted by LXJohnTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Amazing thread of an absolute car crash Microsoft live event 🧵 16926
Reposted by LXJohnPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999. 321477460
Reposted by LXJohnMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’ve called this drawing Smoke City. You can see it’s unplanned, I had an idea about the kind of view I wanted it to be and an atmosphere, but then I started drawing, intrigued to see where I would end up. Hopefully you can see the work that’s gone into it and the decisions I’ve made along the way. 8949
Reposted by LXJohnSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times) 831886690
Reposted by LXJohnDr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Please enjoy this very normal cottage :) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 1 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove1 bedroom detached house for sale in The Wellhouse, 3 Machpelah Yard, Hebden Bridge, HX7 for £250,000. Marketed by EweMove, Covering Yorkshire 58493118
Reposted by LXJohnPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5428421092
Reposted by LXJohnDavid Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Letter printed in The Times today 8591240
Reposted by LXJohnNina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺 10518148
Reposted by LXJohnMistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Major Republican donor fights for his right to continue generating images of naked children 916672
Reposted by LXJohnDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 202100212461
Reposted by LXJohnJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning. 362054452
Reposted by LXJohnMicah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.” 3668130
Reposted by LXJohnEast Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026Paternity leave is now a right from your first day in a job. Paternity pay isn’t. And the statutory maximum remains two weeks. Cambridge campaigners are pushing for the next stage of reform.eastangliabylines.co.ukCambridge parents renew paternity leave campaignCambridge parents are renewing their campaign for longer, better-paid paternity leave, six months after their first colourful protest 074
Reposted by LXJohnSeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Offered at a special price in support of @newcastlefoodbank.org www.mickoxley.com/product/orig... 0287
Reposted by LXJohnGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c... 10703261
Reposted by LXJohnAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... 7458160
Reposted by LXJohnNeil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead Seven people - three men, one woman & three children - were killed by loyalist terrorists because of Drumcree in the 1990s. I covered the terrible events. Is this forgotten? What’s happening now mocks their loss. In @heraldscotland.bsky.socialheraldscotland.comShame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the deadOur Writer at Large covered the Northern Ireland Troubles extensively. Here, he remembers the lives lost over Drumcree and says Loyalist protestors… 515177
Reposted by LXJohnNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026across UK universities, the only people who do not care about students and their experience sit in senior leadership roles 23011
Reposted by LXJohnLucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching. 2369
Reposted by LXJohnRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 28/09/2026theonion.comCreatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev... 213820
Reposted by LXJohnAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish physics history: James Clerk Maxwell has the lads around to show off his new Ooni tabletop pizza oven and gets ready to slice and serve which is great cos Peter Guthrie Tait is starving 36820
Reposted by LXJohnBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/x Several times a day, the BBC reads out a list of sea areas, and one of them is named after a man. He took Darwin around the world, invented the weather forecast, was mocked in Parliament and the press for it, and died broken and in debt. Robert FitzRoy. A 🧵 #maritimehistory 35321
Reposted by LXJohnJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lots of pieces in the print media recently about the decline of reading in children. Here's a little thread on ways to help your kids get reading again: 13278123
Reposted by LXJohnRichard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s such a brilliant book. 1793
Reposted by LXJohnMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...youtube.comMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 25667664549
Reposted by LXJohnMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad: 141214589
Reposted by LXJohnKatie 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 5776502128
Reposted by LXJohnJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom? 311328270
Reposted by LXJohnAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Useful thread from an ex-Merchant Navy officer here 12616
Reposted by LXJohnJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026if there was a mechanism in place to officially force Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, Tik-Tok etc to demonitize an account quickly, then so many of the major, and opportunistic, fash grifters would be fucked. especially coupled with powers to fine for a multiplier of past revenue earned. 441649
Reposted by LXJohnJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388
Reposted by LXJohnMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is fascinating. So much of what we’ve accepted for years is quietly being overturned. Here - the ovary is much more than an egg factory.apple.newsThe Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why — WIREDA growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed. 1921368
Reposted by LXJohnArchie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My latest for @economist.com: AI writing is taking over politics. 10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada. Link: www.economist.com/britain/202... And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders 811765
Reposted by LXJohnEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042174958
Reposted by LXJohnGrumpenstein’s Monster @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Does anyone have a couple of grand they want to give me? 093
Reposted by LXJohnSteven (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. 161191503869
Reposted by LXJohnCrime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026It’s back to school and for lots of parents it’s the first time you are not receiving updates on what your child is doing all day and you want to know, but when you ask your child they have amnesia and tell you they did “nothing” all day. 1613327
Reposted by LXJohnTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there... 1411068
Reposted by LXJohnStephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I was interviewed by R5Live on Ratcliffe last night. Pointed out that he is simply wrong about benefits, crime and immigration levels, and that banging on about Empire and Two World Wars only reveals an old man who left the UK years ago and has little understanding of a country he seems to despise. 316029
Reposted by LXJohnDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431632459
Reposted by LXJohnTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think the prime minister should have said this 1844461
Reposted by LXJohnAndy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Politicians like @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and other people who think that oil & gas from the #NorthSea #Jackdaw and Shetland #Rosebank fields will substitute for imported fossil hydrocarbons, or are necessary during the energy transition are sorely mistaken. 2197
