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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I was young I really didn't appreciate how dangerous a trip to B&Q could be as a grumpy middle aged man. What do you mean I've just spent £130? How did I do that?

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Well, this has started badly 😭

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This zig-zag down the street seems a suboptimal alignment for the cycle lane, especially since the street itself is completely straight.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Stephen's facial expressions continue to be top tier. #traitors

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Stephen continues to walk between the raindrops #thetraitors

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Hugo really made a rod for his own back with that daft speech at breakfast. #thetraitors

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Surprised they're allowed to swear on The Traitors before 9pm

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I'm learning that I'm really bad at video games

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

FFS Kilmarnock. Get it together.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Scotland really didn't make that easy for themselves or my heart.

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

At the very least the EU can embargo Kaliningrad and sever the shipping route from the exclave to Belarus. Oh, and just constantly buzz it with drones. Make it expensive for the Russians.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I am afraid this is coldly right. The UK, Australia and Canada are particularly vulnerable because of our shared language and culture with the US. We, meaning everyine, and the UK government need to act accordingly.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management." snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

snyder.substack.com

The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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FOARP @foarp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Get that Europeans? We both don't help Ukraine enough because we're excessively pacifist and the US does all the work, but also help them too much and spoil the chances of ending the war because we're warmongers. Support for Ukraine is a moral imperative, a matter of survival for a free Europe.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If the Starmer government doesn't understand that grovelling towards Trump will just make the UK look ridiculous towards the EU and China without any gains with the US then Labour is going to lose the respect of Right as well as Left wing UK voters too

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The effort was great. The question should be what was the purpose of all of the UK government efforts towards the US? We never appeared to be the target, and weren't. It just looked like knee-jerk special-relationship-ism. And that's been a story of the last 9 years.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Just watched Rachel Reeves on Sky News talking about negotiating a trade deal with the USA as if it's still a normal country. Everywhere else in Europe recognises the MAGA changes for what they are and are derisking - British Government has lost the plot I think.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great things are happening on Google.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (c1hr18:30) talking about @joemenn.bsky.social’s scoop that 🇬🇧 gov’t has apparently ordered Apple to unlock encrypted cloud services I try to explain why, as well as provoking a needless 🇺🇸backlash, it probably can’t even work 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.uk

Today - 08/02/2025 - BBC Sounds

Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The people pushing these lies want more kids to be murdered so they can have a fun day out & people shouldn’t be afraid to point that out

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There's a red alert for storm winds, roofs are being lifted off of buildings...and I've just seen a guy wearing shorts out walking his dog. Glasgow cannot be defeated.

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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk · 23/01/2025

It's not finished. This is just the outline. But I wrote about why North England is poor. Which it really really is. tomforth.co.uk/whynorthengl...

tomforth.co.uk

Why North England is poor.

And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Don't know how this seer thing is going to work. Removes the jeopardy if a faithful gets it and uncovers a traitor. #thetraitors

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Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I got hacked on Twitter, and things turned out to be way worse (and funnier, somehow) than I imagined. Read for free and please distribute to raise awareness of my predicament! lol www.cartoonshateher.com/p/im-off-twi...

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Agree that Farage may end up misreading how much anti-Americanism is a potential factor even on the UK Right. But the UK government is also misreading MAGA politics even if Mandelson manouevres his way around this. Trump's Washington is not about dealmaking, it's about bullying and submission.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Reeves: It's not her fault, but it is her problem

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Watching Missing You on Netflix and good god these characters are stupid

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The French were really on to something when they came up with the pain au chocolat

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

So...Trump is gonna pull the USA out of NATO right? It seems like the logical progression of what he's said so far. Europe needs to prepare, and quickly.

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Lovely winter day in Glasgow. For all the talk of the city centre being dead, it's plenty busy on a Wednesday afternoon. #glasgow

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Great round-up of @productivity.bsky.social research on business investment from BoE's Catherine Mann. Eye-catching research on how London, post-GFC, sucked capital from rest of UK. "QE appears to only have benefited London, with the rest of the UK regions being almost entirely unresponsive." ❗

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Mashy Potato @masheypotato.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Yet another photo of the new bridge in #glasgow. Feels like the first 'new' thing we've had for a while.

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