Reposted by Patch ThompsonThe Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 6hThe crowd presses another drink on Frodo and asks him to sing again, but mid-song he falls from the table and vanishes—the Ring has slipped on his finger. The crowd is startled. Frodo removes the Ring in a far corner. The customers leave without offering him a single good-night. 0347
Reposted by Patch ThompsonElaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 6hI remember going on the Nolan tv show to talk about #MeToo and the framing magically adjusted once the show went live to ask if it was going too far. In October 2017, when it had barely gotten its boots on. 1144
Reposted by Patch ThompsonJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16hI give up. I’m moving into a cave. 652978558
Reposted by Patch ThompsonHugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 9htweets that should have started 'well, anyway,' 16510
Reposted by Patch ThompsonMicah @rincewind.run · 8hI appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site 201127127
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 7hGoing to be a passable comedy docudrama about this in a few years... 070
Reposted by Patch ThompsonCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 8hthe Man City report is as bad as everyone says it is, but I also laughed out loud at the redactions in the conclusion. 5533
Reposted by Patch ThompsonDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9hHow Burnham is going to try and balance proposals for a National Care Service, while supporting Mahmood's immigration policies is going to...interesting, and by "interesting" I mean fundamentally unworkable. It just cannot work with the hostile immigration policies being pushed. 310030
Reposted by Patch ThompsonThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 11hThe real Lisa Nandy has emerged from the Mersey and has chosen VIOLENCE against Man City (h/t @generalboles.bsky.social) 3134
Reposted by Patch ThompsonM @captainmeg.bsky.social · 11h[runs in, panting] SHAMCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB 113727
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 15hWho was it that predicted the government were going to 'have a look at it' then back off in the face of an obvious backlash? 120
Reposted by Patch ThompsonBelfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 16hA Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/area/derry-l...belfasttelegraph.co.ukSinn Féin office attacked with party saying it ‘will not be intimidated’ amid second night of disorder in DerryA Sinn Féin office in the Waterside area of Derry has been attacked amid a second night of disorder. 011
Reposted by Patch ThompsonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s as if had James Callaghan stood up in 1976 and saying “for the past 30 years we’ve been too concerned with price stability”. 513417
Reposted by Patch ThompsonDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 20hMaybe I’m a Luddite on these things. But I’m always quite cautious about any financing structure that involves multiple hard to read circular flow charts. www.ft.com/content/d6a9... Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-outft.comNvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-outWorld’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom 55310
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21hOnly took the better part of a year for legacy media to catch up with what some Substackers and half of Bluesky had worked out... 140
Reposted by Patch ThompsonMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23hThe tweet that immediately came to mind: 221716394
Reposted by Patch ThompsonDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132481815
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starmerism with Mancunian characteristics continues! 161
Reposted by Patch ThompsonJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026So much of the British right has just become about insta-react getting likes on X dot com. 5908
Reposted by Patch ThompsonTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think a lot about Tolkien's concept of evil - as something that reproduces itself in ever smaller and pettier but also harder to defeat ways, him giving up writing a sequel to Lord Of The Rings cos nihilist teenage ord-cults were too depressing 27012
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Really thought I'd become hardened to the disingenuous nature of Northern Irish politics. The last few days have royally disabused me of that notion. 1100
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jamie Bryson giving the full Lucy/Charlie Brown treatment to the DUP. Despite the man's previous form in never having advanced anyone's agenda other than his own. And seemingly having forgotten his role as advisor to Donaldson. 071
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Anyway, I give the Executive until about three pm tomorrow afternoon. 0111
Reposted by Patch ThompsonPatch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An alternative timeline where the Commission just *did its job properly* would be the nearest thing we've had to utopia 171
Reposted by Patch Thompsonhiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910... 57420
Reposted by Patch ThompsonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette) 422775
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026'Found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations/ you'll never sing that!" 040
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What are we doing here, exactly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...bbc.co.ukParades Commission says Orange Order Drumcree parade can go aheadDrumcree parade: Decision made over Portadown march 160
Reposted by Patch Thompsonregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i asked them about your posts and the reviews are in 282224299
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A bold negotiating gambit, offering roughly what both parties would quite like... www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...belfastlive.co.ukNI Secretary warns he will set Stormont budget if Executive fails toStormont departments have been operating without a budget since the beginning of the current financial year. 150
Reposted by Patch ThompsonSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet 17188471740
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One gets the sense it would be quite easy to sell Jonathan Hinder a bridge... 1100
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not to sounds like a broken record, but this is one of the (many) reasons the Prime Minister should have been stood outside Portsmouth lifeboat station last week, rather than filming videos for social media about making tea and drinking pints... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDaniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashingPolice had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife. 1376
Reposted by Patch ThompsonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right. 961535275
Reposted by Patch ThompsonNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What are we even doing here. What does any of this have to do with the real dangers presented by this merger. 520043
Reposted by Patch ThompsonPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For Matthew Syed, we’ve been looking for German extremism in the wrong place. Not the AfD, the real extremist was…Angela Merkel. 5621128
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Absolutely incredible things happening on the loyalist far-right... 3151
Reposted by Patch ThompsonDreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right 712223339
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026While I'm not an expert by any means, Merz's conflation of the AfD and Linke votes as 'challenges' looks even sillier faced with results like these, doesn't it? 100
Reposted by Patch ThompsonMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/09/2026echoes of the time I went clubbing as a teenager and the bouncer asked if I was 18 and I said "yes" (I wasn't) and then he asked "are you sure?" and I said "yes" and he let me in 4191272
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This morning, Instagram served a video of Andy Burnham having tea with Micheál Martin at Number 10 North. Filmed and posted yesterday. 041
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Danny Kruger being at DUP conference is interesting because, based on both his politics and vibes, I can imagine him being the last actual 'Conservative Ulster Unionist' in Westminster. 161
Reposted by Patch ThompsonEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026lol www.ft.com/content/65f4... Ozempic confidential: men share their experience of GLP-1s 625942
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Good thing you live in Monaco then, isn't it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 0130
Reposted by Patch ThompsonTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?ft.comUK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in BritainBetfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects 93610149
Reposted by Patch ThompsonThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 17/09/2026"transgender ideology" is a phrase that should be treated with the same revulsion as "woke mind virus" 341723287
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Jake Richards (Highgate School; Somerville College, Oxford) has some hard hitting ideas on young offenders, everyone! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comParents could lose benefits if their child commits crimeJake Richards, the youth justice minister, says reducing benefits is one option on the table to hold families to account for young offenders 060