Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 262641407
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People get demoralized when transitioning when they discover that beyond the initial identification of "the problem," transitioning itself will not make you happy. What it provides is the POSSIBILITY for happiness by allowing you to more easily participate in romance, community and self-improvement 454084611
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it. 51956215
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year 341735416
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tory MP Harriet Cross and Spectator's Noa Hoffman on BBC claim that banning illegal settlement trade will be both ineffective and attract backlash. Their position is based on the ahistorical clanger of conflating "symbolic" with "ineffective". Symbolic acts can be very effective, hence the backlash. 2743073
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232744736
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You know those Saw sequels where Jigsaw is already dead but he's set up a bunch of deathtraps that can keep going without his input? That's our entire culture and Jeffrey Epstein. 564797
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialDr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Funniest reaction possible to Starmer resigning as an MP 6574107
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026"My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife" is an absolute hall of fame all-timer 391593258
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialSpice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton did a huge amount of good with wealth she largely worked to earn. 9 to 5 is a Marxist text & permeant karaoke banger. She stood with queer & trans people throughout her life & the world was a better place for having her stay a while. 71569369
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/08/2026it is not a unique space, you live on earth with the rest of us, i hate to break it to you. cofnas is not pursuing controversial questions where they lead, he is not astray or incorrect, he is a racist. people like him would gladly destroy your whole field in the name of racism 271627196
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/08/2026yes, and more broadly I think it's more powerful to say "we acknowledge the ways in which he was a deeply flawed person but he did not deserve to be hounded to his death" than to pretend he was someone else, as doing that makes any criticisms of eg Cambridge and the media's actions feel more hollow 944846
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low. 292432408
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialDavid Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Yorkshire liberals ok? Do we get a special pass cos we are northern? Or does he think everyone outside of London is a raging racist obsessed over small boats and 'trans rights'? He does doesn't he? 7857
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Communists: they’re against pedophiles, you heard it from the President himself 356198
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again? 8687831674
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We’re rapidly approaching a situation in which it becomes legally hazardous to express any criticism of “gender critical” views. The combination of well-funded lawfare and well-funded media moral panic is extremely dangerous to free speech for everyone, as well as obviously to trans people’s rights. 91159401
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13/07/2026convincing people that computers are smart was a huge mistake. computers are exactly as stupid now as they were in 1975, they're just much faster at stupid. 371801480
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialLol @loltype.bsky.social · 13/07/2026in my defence the stick man looks like he’s having the time of his life there 1909148
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Bluesky during England-Argentina 73612552
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard 16171181211
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialGeorge @georgem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026count binface is as close as anyone's gonna get to being able to vote for the sts2 regent 315915
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is still my favorite one 333223644
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialShaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I really need people to understand that being shitty to women is not separate from a person's politics. Contempt for those seen as weaker, resentment towards people who get something you think you're entitled to, using power to dominate or intimidate—these are the foundations of someone's"politics." 5440127
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making. 1162139474
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Fair play this is funny. 13879132
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026Calling a by-election shortly before the summer break – when parliament is in recess so there's less news, even with a new PM – is a pretty *terrible* way to distract from an issue. Farage has basically guaranteed his personal finances and integrity will be headline news all summer. 2746586
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 07/07/2026Now is the time for Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, and Greens to all get behind Count Binface. Do it. 13552150
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with. 7066471683
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJulianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026Hearing Andy Burnham also ruled out shooting his own dick off on the steps of Downing Street 732938
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow. 8165731920
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such. 21169692244
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it. 182127617
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/06/2026Is it carbon monoxide 100133722717
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. 363252274862
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else 12969641557
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain. 201250332
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/06/2026love writing a first person column that inspires the picture desk to think "ah yes, a sad piggie it is" 62009
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Same-sex marriage is an instructive analogy here, but not for the reasons Streeting thinks. “Trans women can still use toilets - just not women’s toilets” is just like “gay people can still get married - just not to other men”. 141017280
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/06/2026had to put boyfriend and brother in touch for something but think we can all agree this is a much more annoying way to do it than to just send them each other's number, am very pleased with myself 102405
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.bbc.co.ukPolice pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protestA large crowd gathered close to the family home of Henry Nowak's killer. 371078309
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Police are so well protected when they handcuff a dying man, their superiors want to blame anti racism guidelines, not their absolute cruelty and fucking idiocy. None of the officers involved should have jobs right now. But we're discussing paperwork they prob haven't even read 11473128
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/06/2026One of the most under covered aspects of Elon going to the far right was how it was triggered by his daughter Vivian coming out as trans. Journalists just can't seem to grasp that this is one of his primary motivating factors. 741569325
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 26/05/2026IT'S LITERALLY JUST MATRIX MULTIPLICATION THEY'RE JUST MULTIPLYING MATRICES OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND THEN TURNING THE NUMBERS BACK INTO WORDS!!!!!!!! MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED 742744
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Nah. Not only has Britain eagerly led the charge in our cultural genocide, the cowardly way they call it “guidance” and couch it in faux concern for trans peoples’ safety is a uniquely British insult. All of the hate, none of the ownership. This is the policy you are seeing in Starmer’s Britain. 111557384
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics 10169491237
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialTom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/05/2026I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights. 653459994
Reposted by @payn-el.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/05/2026finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen 442613462
