Reposted by Martin J GilbertRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 9hOn BBC, a “Protect the Dolls” t shirt is erased. In the US, opening of a revered comedy show says women in the gym are dressed like whores - and still we hear talk of the oppression by “the woke” - to hell with every comic that has monetised their base by pretending they’re a free speech rebel 430057
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 7hIt's one of the earliest and most enduring truths about the internet that the best way to find true information on the internet is to post something untrue and wait for people to correct you. 010
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Even if that were true - and track record of this administration suggests it isn't - that doesn't give a paramilitary secret police force the right to arbitrarily execute someone on the street. 000
Reposted by Martin J GilbertMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114992669
Reposted by Martin J GilbertRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens 1122266549
Reposted by Martin J GilbertAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 253162193709
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026what is even the point of being a billionaire if u have to be like this lol 2156715
Reposted by Martin J GilbertDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026This is not confined to climate change either. There is seemingly no awareness that these fights have actual, real-world ramifications. There is only the push & pull on cable news, only owning & being owned, only tribal warfare. I don't even know how to capture it exactly but it's unnerving. 1440534
Reposted by Martin J GilbertCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart. 22798522141
Reposted by Martin J GilbertRob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As someone who will probably "benefit" from this in the next few weeks, this is a bad idea. I'm not being "helped to buy". Taxes I've already paid, and that could've gone to funding basic services, will instead be funneled to the wealthy developer of an overvalued property. 77833
Reposted by Martin J GilbertA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5264321784
Reposted by Martin J GilbertThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Those arguing for mass-adoption of AI art always seem intent on proving the wrong thing; that AI tech will change beyond all recognition. They seem less inclined to prove their argument's much wilder claim; that human nature, and all previous modes of taste, emotion and investment, will change too. 369168
Reposted by Martin J GilbertClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026oh, did Claude invent an algorithm to recommend music based on the music you like is it different from what Spotify and Pandora and every other streaming music app has already been doing is it worth the absolutely ludicrous amount of money they spent developing it 282658
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 30/09/2026we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone 112402366
Reposted by Martin J GilbertHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03689778
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/a16... 110
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertweeder @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. 62107312533
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor. 1156699916
Reposted by Martin J GilbertSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes 392317665
Reposted by Martin J GilbertMicah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them 272407466
Reposted by Martin J Gilbert👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x 65246603
Reposted by Martin J Gilberte.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h... 412764431
Reposted by Martin J GilbertThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool 2073094
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3570041627
Reposted by Martin J GilbertFR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery 182543506
Reposted by Martin J GilbertThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 18/09/2026Scientists have discovered a new species of wild cat for the first time in more than a century. The Tilcayo tiger cat, a small feline with a spotted, leopard-like coat, was identified in the mountainous Yungas region near the Bolivian capital La Paz jrnl.ie/7166373jrnl.ieExcitement as scientists discover first new species of wild cat in a centuryThe cat is the first new feline discovered since the Uruguayan pampas cat in 1923. 0194
Reposted by Martin J GilbertNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141066479
Reposted by Martin J GilbertMichael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days 6247061593
Reposted by Martin J GilbertBracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horsesstatic.klipy.comRage Against The Machine: Tom Commerford RockingAlt: Rage Against The Machine in a rehearsal space rocking the fuck out! 322562
Reposted by Martin J Gilbertjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*” 2345466806
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." Desmond Tutu www.brainyquote.com/quotes/desmo...brainyquote.comDesmond Tutu - If you are neutral in situations of..."If you are neutral in situations of injustice,..." - Desmond Tutu quotes from BrainyQuote.com 000
Reposted by Martin J GilbertTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/10/2024According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political 101124326
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A close tie with Brexit for the impact on the people of the country doing the voting, but far more harmful to the rest of the world. 041
Reposted by Martin J GilbertPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral." 7763721783
Reposted by Martin J GilbertMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297787665
Reposted by Martin J GilbertAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566281238626
Reposted by Martin J Gilbert Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity." 1063808873
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comI Award You No PointsAlt: Billy Madison GIF - Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I Award You No Points, and may God have mercy on your soul 000
Reposted by Martin J GilbertSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reminder: The US President says anything that pops into his head and intends none of it. 601100187
Reposted by Martin J GilbertSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Who are the new citizenship rules actually benefitting? Why are the right questions not being asked? We have seen a decrease of 30% in international protection applicants since 2024. So why are anti-immigration narratives thriving? 42517
Reposted by Martin J GilbertOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here 282379299
Martin J Gilbert @madiguana.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My "I'm always being real" t-shirt is inviting a lot of questions already answered by the shirt. 010