Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 2hHappy 100th birthday to on of the best ever #dragonfly surveyors. 010
Reposted by Peter SketchDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2hBreakfast in college is silent and a number of people bring some suitable book to read to avoid the temptation to scroll. I’m not sure if Don Camillo counts as spiritual reading or not, but I am enjoying it. 3201
Reposted by Peter SketchRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 3hWhen UK police made a public request for people not to share the footage, they probably hadn’t counted on their request being effectively overridden by the President of the USA, whose brain is so irretrievably broken that he can’t comprehend for a moment why that might be a bad idea 5955
Reposted by Peter SketchESO @eso.org · 20hStraight out of the “Dune” films? Not really: this spectacular sunset scene took place in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, and in the distance you can spot the domes of our Very Large Telescope. Discover more: www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭 #flashback 03513
Reposted by Peter SketchOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4hThere’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth 311375442
Reposted by Peter SketchRick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 4hToday is the 960th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Interesting thread here on what we do and don’t know. 292
Reposted by Peter SketchAria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 6hhappy sickos day to all who celebrate 122206883
Reposted by Peter SketchElection Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 12hRodborough (Stroud) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 47.0% (+13.2) 🌍 GRN: 31.7% (+1.5) ➡️ RFM: 12.9% (New) 🌳 CON: 6.9% (-3.9) 🔶 LDM: 1.5% (New) No Ind (-25.2) as previous. Labour HOLD. Changes w/ 2024. 47213
Reposted by Peter SketchDeclan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 13hMore than ever I don't want to see the shit that depraved lunatic is posting, so please don't share it. Thank you for your attention in this matter. 3507
Reposted by Peter SketchWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13hThe President of the United States is deeply mentally ill. 68711
Reposted by Peter SketchSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15hincredible thread where Stephen repeatedly has to explain the idea that race is primarily a social convention, not a biological category 2484776
Reposted by Peter SketchJohn Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 17hThe scars of a fire in 1486 are still visible inside St Peter’s Church, Wolferton, Norfolk. The medieval stone arches and pillars remain reddened by the heat. Almost 400 years later, the future King Edward VII paid for the church’s restoration in 1886. #Wolferton #Norfolk #AerialPhotography 092
Reposted by Peter SketchThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 17hAn AuDHD poltergeist who intended to scare a couple into moving out has instead accidentally tidied their living room to a “Mum’s coming to visit” degree, paranormal researchers have confirmed.thedailytism.comAuDHD poltergeist accidentally tidies roomAn AuDHD poltergeist who intended to scare a couple into moving out has instead accidentally tidied their living room to a “Mum’s coming to visit” degree, paranormal researchers have confirmed.… 37319
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 18hOne of the actual host countries (Spain) won't have most World Cup games broadcast free to air. 195
Reposted by Peter SketchSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20hThe immediate thought is something else is going on here because this doesn't come close to the bar for having to resign from this administration. It's not even the most corrupt thing that's happened this week. 2722830
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 22hThe TLDR is that a load of supermarkets put their freezer controls on the internet with no protection and were surprised when this had bad consequences. 010
Reposted by Peter SketchKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/10/2026The boss of the French supermarket chain should be really REALLY concerned about the fact that the freezers were running on software that hadn't been patched since the dawn of time. tbh it's a bloody miracle they hadn't been taken down before. 77921
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 22hThe quotes and replies to this are fun, not least because by definition most of the errors are things most of us would never have noticed. 000
Reposted by Peter SketchDaniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026My favourite one. Niche, irrelevant and entirely unrelated to anything important about the film. But a great tidbit bsky.app/profile/samw... 563326
Reposted by Peter SketchAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23hWas watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting. 473257619
Reposted by Peter SketchTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Slight stylistic departure in my dad's latest Time Travelling Cat painting. 830950
Reposted by Peter SketchJustin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's a Sin having a scene in 1982-ish where they're reading the Sunday papers and Tiswas is supposedly on in the background. 8425
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Having Russian involvement being common knowledge gives some Leave voters an easy climb down - they can blame Cameron for failing to notice and stop it. For the rest, it's best to focus on the future and say Johnson stuffed up the deal and we need to renegotiate to benefit the economy. 120
Reposted by Peter SketchIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026My mum hated The Simpsons and refused to be in the room when it was on because "they give their baby a dummy" (Context: mum also spent decades utterly, angrily opposed to babies having dummies) 7573
Reposted by Peter Sketchtimoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I have stood in the gallows chamber in Mountjoy. I am part of the last generation of lawyers in this State that will have practised with people whose clients faced the risk of that being the last place they saw on this earth. The death penalty is an obscenity that no civilised state should accept. 2252
Reposted by Peter SketchJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I always say that both Londoners and those who live in the regions underestimate the city's size, in relation to the rest of the UK. If London's municipal cycle hire scheme were a city, for example, then it would be the third largest city in England. (if membership became citizenship) 910913
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Give me your most unsubtle metaphor! No, that's too unsubtle... 000
Reposted by Peter SketchJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sometimes you need to give people who've done something fucking idiotic an excuse to change their mind. ESPECIALLY if you warned them it was fucking idiotic. And if it was an emotive choice. you have to decide whether you value them walking it back over catharsis. Applies in work, love or Brexit. 526549
Reposted by Peter SketchStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"London has the largest number of Neets, an estimated 117,100, or one in six of all Neets in England, said the report" - you'll never guess what the other thing that London has one in six of all the things in England is.uk.finance.yahoo.comMore than a third of Neets living in nine largest cities, research findsA study has shone light on ‘stark differences’ between areas. 3633338
Reposted by Peter SketchViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Got fired from PetSmart for unionizing the hamsters 13482102
Reposted by Peter SketchAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026An interesting bit of research covering the intersection between politics, history and cultural studies would be to examine why academic and media elites paid to understand public sentiment are so wedded to myths of moderation that they underestimate how the public can get radicalised by events 1306
Reposted by Peter SketchTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026As I say in one of the threads here, Vladimir Putin’s influence on the Brexit referendum is dwarfed - to an almost infinite amount - by the influence of George Osborne and Eric Pickles. 491
Reposted by Peter SketchTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is absolutely correct. Blaming the Russians is externalising the problem. 3927532
Reposted by Peter SketchRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026WB Yeats: Tread softly because you tread on my dreams Also WB Yeats, apparently: Eat stairs, you creepy wizard bastard! bsky.app/profile/ickl... 37317
Reposted by Peter SketchRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's criminal that our English curriculum doesn't discuss how many of our nation's greatest poets and writers were alcoholic perverts that had WWE-style rivalries with one another. 912534
Reposted by Peter SketchSarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There's a time and a place for a Hedgehog 1902048267
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My mother has done a set of notes separate from her will explaining which half of the family each item came from and why it's important to her. Which will be a great help in working out which niece or nephew might value it if they know it was owned by their grandmother. 010
Reposted by Peter SketchRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Another on the list of "things that are obvious from the evidence yet ignored" is "current immigration policy will deliver a great big hole in future budgets". The OBR currently assumes net migration bottoms out at 200k then rises. That isn't going to happen 522780
Reposted by Peter SketchBritish Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026🌿 Restoring meadows to our floodplains Join Professor David Gowing at our Annual Meeting to explore the restoration of floodplain meadows, their benefits for biodiversity and what the future could hold for our floodplains. 📅 14 Nov | 📍 Milton Keynes 🎟️ british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/bds-an... 0143
Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fans of the horseshoe theory of politics will remember the days when it was Sinn Fein members who were reluctant to be involved with the PSNI. 000
