Reposted by DaveXhxxax @txomxs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Ofcom should step in and do something about all the Guardian articles which leave you guessing for several borderline-illiterate paragraphs before confirming in passing that it is aimed at their Australian readers 25113
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 26/07/2026A European settler who made his fortune in US industry is not from the West? (the last post isn't important, I just included it so you know you don't have to reply telling me the same thing). 120
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Why are all the replies saying "I did know that actually!" and not "What are you talking about, that is not how money works, you are a charlatan who has no business selling financial advice"? 130
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 23/07/2026static.klipy.comDan Olson: This Makes Me CringeALT: Dan Olson: This Makes Me Cringe 030
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Harry Braverman: "[capitalist society dictates] that the ignorance of the great masses of the workers and the concentration of all engineering knowledge in a few specialists are desirable and, in fact, essential conditions rather than, as it would seem from a human point of view, an abomination." 192
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Appreciate these two historic footballing nations putting on a very boring final to discourage Americans from taking too much interest in the sport after this. 2160
Reposted by DaveDave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18/07/2026One reason to be sad that England didn't make it to the World Cup final is that we don't get to see England fans booing the half time show, scandalising American broadcasters by calling Justin Bieber a cunt. 1173
Reposted by DaveDaily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 19/07/2026"I was glad when it was over. I'll tell you the truth, I like a lot of those artists. That was crap" Wayne Rooney. 1132463
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Cutting from Will Ferrell to Pharrell Williams was a nice visual pun. 4317
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre. 131829339
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Getting closer and closer to Roy Keane saying something that gets him put on a no fly list. 020
Reposted by DaveWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I applaud the French player’s work life balance. If they make you come in on a weekend you half-ass it, that’s right 211925289
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Some former supporters of Keir Starmer are demonstrating maturity by doing threads explaining what positive expectations they had and how they were disappointed. I am demonstrating maturity by not quote-tweeting each one pointing out how patently naive they were. Together, we are growing. 0131
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 18/07/2026One reason to be sad that England didn't make it to the World Cup final is that we don't get to see England fans booing the half time show, scandalising American broadcasters by calling Justin Bieber a cunt. 1173
Reposted by Daveflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I think that if you said to Pesto that the country and British democracy are in this parlous state *because of* people like Howe, Lawson, Brown and Osborne, rather than despite them, it simply would not compute for him. It’d sound like the way adults talk in a Charlie Brown cartoon. 1214726
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Got a ticket to see The Odyssey next week and I can pretty much guarantee that the criticism I'm going to come away with will be that it is too tediously deferential to the source material and needed more irreverence, camp, and adaptation. 241
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026lmao at the BBC selectively editing Tuchel's "this is pure mentality, you can bottle it up and sell it" into the England exit montage. 130
Reposted by Dave 𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026hhahahahahah get fucked you cunts 1120735
Reposted by DaveAll Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass @bartlebooth45.bsky.social · 15/07/2026England parking the bus 542885
Reposted by DaveThe Haunting of Moose Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026As a cheeky little addendum to this, the press release from Aston mentions there were over *100* institutions who applied to join so yeah 1115
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I used to get yelled at when I suggested that maybe the culture around English football might be reinforcing some imperial nationalist values so just for the record, please look at how the army's current recruitment campaign makes this explicit. 13810
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I think a lot of people have not fully grasped the extent to which this government has openly committed to reorienting the whole of society around providing for the military. 29161
Reposted by Dave👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I fucking guarantee you that this was a burglary gone wrong because no anarchist thinks there is a strategic value to murdering a 78 year old minor politician, but that doesn't matter, cos now Psycho Baz from 2 Para and Dave the Racist are on Facebook planning to nailbomb my local social centre. 1720555
Reposted by DaveEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative 252370511
Reposted by DaveMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 14/07/2026Any time you post about criminal offences against the person there's a kind of person who immediately jumps to "I hope you reported it to the police" in the kind of imperious tone that suggests you're doing something wrong if you don't. 31239
Reposted by DaveDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13/07/2026All this “Give everything rights” stuff. What it means is “Make judges the arbiters of everything“. And how is that doing, recently? 2172
Reposted by Daveflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Remember how it took the press literally six weeks to tank Boris Johnson to hated public enemy status simply by noticing what Johnson is and how he behaves? This is like that: Farage has become embarrassing and surplus to requirements, so now he has to go. 781226349
Reposted by DaveChris S @stylistic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This - from the pickle newsletter - is the endpoint of constantly playing to ‘reasonable concerns’. 27129
Reposted by Davemseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was. 19348701509
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"as time went on, the scale of the killing in Gaza became unbearable" so "it was right that we call for a ceasefire but by the time that we did it felt overdue". Just woolly-headed vacillation where some amount of civilian slaughter is acceptable but they were a bit slow to notice it was too much. 1144
Reposted by DaveBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Check this shit out motherfucker [I stutter step before my penalty kick and slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear how this was going to help me score]" 16816
Reposted by Daveflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Mr Farage’s politics of working class resentment once had the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why was he so popular? We may never know but now, in the space of four weeks, we discover he is a hooting hooray Henry who lives in a castle, sleeps on a pile of gold like a dragon and smells like poop 312517
Reposted by Daveflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Like I say: it really is not hard to spot when the Bullshit Machine’s control switch has been flipped from Suck to Blow. 12687195
Reposted by DaveTom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory." 302429509
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026No one needs a string of degrees but one of the benefits of theory is that people are better able to figure out what's going on *before* things get this cartoonishly bad. 0438
Reposted by DaveWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.jerseyvindicator.orgAir conditioning fails at Delaney Hall as heat wave leaves detainees struggling to breathe • The Jersey VindicatorAdvocates say temperatures became unbearable inside one housing unit as the region's heat wave intensified. 251092764
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The second quote here has that amazing duality you often get from police apologism: this heinous thing you're alleging could never happen and besides, it's totally normal and maybe even good actually. 213554
Reposted by DaveThe Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Coppers are so immersed in their filthy day-to-day environment that they're genuinely surprised that civilians object when they encounter it. 16922
Reposted by Daveflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It doesn’t really matter what we’re calling this year’s excuse for Fuck You, You Get Nothing - black hole, the national credit card, there is no magic money tree, it’s all the same thing. And that thing is: Fuck You, You Get Nothing. 17016
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I really admire the clear-sighted commitment to anti-nationalism in this. 261
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 26/06/2026AC chat is enraging; yanks spewing glib prognostications about UK national character, supplementing ignorance of actual circumstances with fanciful speculation about our moral failings. Maybe a good opportunity to reflect on whether you, a Brit, are ever guilty of doing similar about other cultures 1164
Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 25/06/2026If you think a 2 trillion dollar bubble can burst without affecting you you don't hate capitalism enough. 1141
