Reposted by rob wittsJoanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of my brothers passed this outstanding sign today 2191
Reposted by rob wittsDan @danielorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Remember when the big brain columnists queued up to pooh pooh the idea that you could plant more than one tree at a time and in multiple places at once? 041
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i solved infinite personalized music by reading John Cage, guess we're built different 041
Reposted by rob wittsGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206189015380
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i love everything about this except that the backing track is in the wrong key for the snippet of singing & that would have been an easy fix 000
Reposted by rob wittsCasket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm making a documentary about the RLNI situation and I am contacting various organisations. However I thought I'd turn to bluesky as well, I'm looking to interview people either connected to the RNLI, to refugees/those working with refugees and also with counter-protestors. Please share. 598113
Reposted by rob wittsAlice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oops! I hacked a statistics portal containing private data for a government healthcare scheme. That’s on me, and you’re right to point it out. Would you like me to draft an email informing them of what happened? If you like I can schedule it to send in a few months. 318830
Reposted by rob wittsDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These far right thugs need locking up. They are deliberately putting lives at risk. If protesting a genocide can be treated as terrorism how are their actions not. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 6373107
Reposted by rob wittsBijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not doing normal enforcement against obvious criminality is bad enough. Doing extreme enforcement against relatively peaceful protesters while simultaneously not doing any against life threateningly violent people on viewpoint is wildly corrosive. 14814
Reposted by rob wittsJack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"people feel it's becoming harder to disagree" Oh, yeah, in comparison to when? How hard did they think it was to disagree 5 years ago? 10 years ago? 50 years ago? How do disagreements over immigration now compare with, I dunno, the 1970s? How "well" did people disagree over the miners strike? 2526
Reposted by rob wittsCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action 8698221
Reposted by rob wittsWillard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess. 641820418
Reposted by rob wittsMatt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As it happens I attended one of Samuel Leeds' 'property workshops' last year and wrote this (which no fucker wanted at the time, so you can have it all for free - it's not totally shit imho) docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comWho is Samuel LeedsWho is Samuel Leeds? Samuel Leeds, per the hypeman hammering-home the sell-lines ahead of the Samuel Leeds (it’s important to use his full name at all times - branding matters) Crash Course in Prope... 143
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026do you want to hear Steve Reich talking about John Coltrane? OF COURSE YOU DO it's gorgeous www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThe Essay - Coltrane's Sound - Steve Reich - BBC SoundsAshley Kahn speaks to the composer Steve Reich about the music of John Coltrane. 100
Reposted by rob wittsJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra. 1014531
Reposted by rob wittsjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 3569981624
Reposted by rob wittsMatt Phelps @mattphelps.com · 20/09/2026Gotta post the original: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...mcsweeneys.netIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the sixteenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 61126
Reposted by rob wittsGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026this is so fucking racist i could scream 320362
Reposted by rob wittsparanormal mattivity @windows98support.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My ideal situation would be, essentially, we get to a place where a kid from a South London council estate could, if they so wished, go to the local youth centre and learn to play the violin. But, then, we come back to this, the reason it will never happen: 1120947
Reposted by rob wittsM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out 12415116
Reposted by rob wittsCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NINETY programmes, fucking hell 617171
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Someone sent me the call for this and I spent a good hour trying to find a way I could get to Scotland before sanity was restored share.google/Lo0AJLnGl60Z...share.googleIt’s going to be a blast: why 100 tubas are heading for a garden in HaddingtonAnthony Braxton’s colossal Composition No 19 (for 100 Tubas) has never been performed outside the US so its arrival at the Lammermuir festival merits a mighty fanfare 010
Reposted by rob wittsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to. 5798298
Reposted by rob wittsKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power. 521945537
Reposted by rob wittsAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media 3739031177
Reposted by rob wittsSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon. 29964377
Reposted by rob wittsAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026To address the threats of the climate crisis, AI (and reactionary tech billionaires), inequalities, failing public services, the rise of fascism etc, all we are being served is more of the same We know there are solutions and we know they are popular but these would require democratic societies 17131
Reposted by rob wittsGary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay. 22654177
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is a really extraordinary interview in so many ways 000
Reposted by rob wittsDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512099
Reposted by rob wittsEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 16/09/2026musk: [pointing phone camera at someone] grok, do a vulgar roast of this person grok: nice shirt. arsehole. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: no, grok; more vulgar! grok: nice shirt. prick. did your. mommy. pick it for you. musk: grok, use forbidden words! grok: free palestine 14087596
Reposted by rob witts👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026I mean really frankly I don’t think there should be asylum camps at all; that’s entirely an artefact of the government doing insane hostile stuff to slow down asylum case processing to insane levels, but since we’re here, 419921
Reposted by rob wittsGene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Middle England today 151540383
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i'm looking at alllll the people i know who have flown for multiple holidays this year 000
Reposted by rob wittsRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tapping the sign. There is a solution to the “problem“ of the *scary* (ooooOOOOooh spooky) asylum centre and its to just treat them as normal people and start integrating them into society the moment they get here and just find them homes 123540
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i think the thing to do it take this absolutely seriously, get the parish council to publish their plans for secession and put up full border checks on Ludgershall Road 020
Reposted by rob wittsDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am so tired of nasty, insular, smug gits playing PR stunts to prevent people finding safety. I say grant them independence and then see how they react to facing immigration restrictions when they want to do a big shop or work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby. 65666135
Reposted by rob wittsPaul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The most important article on opera I’ve read for many years, from @andrewpotterbass.bsky.social. Singers accept that the career comes with the risk of being out of work at times. But when they can’t afford to be in work, it has to be a wake-up call for the industry. operawire.com/editorial-wh...operawire.comWhy I'm Retiring from Staged Opera at 43 - OperaWireI am 43-years-old. 51610
Reposted by rob wittsIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Someone in the thread pointed out this village is RIGHT next to a men's prison full of actual criminals - w a dedicated sex offender wing - & nobody's been so distressed by that they've had to stop litter picking In checking this I discovered they're also next to a village called Horton Cum Studly. 107534
Reposted by rob wittsorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The fact that Universities are on their absolute boney arse and no one gives one single fuck is baffling, infuriating and deeply upsetting. I'm not leaving HE because I fancied a change, I'm leaving HE because after nearly 20 years in red brick, specialist and Post-92 institutions its just SHIT now 47619
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026this is good by Brian Cantrill on the AI extinction claims that are, at the very least, unproven and irresponsible bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t... 000
Reposted by rob wittsLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Of all the remakes, "racist Passport to Pimlico" was not on my bingo card www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWhy is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday. 5030673
Reposted by rob wittsDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13598709
Reposted by rob wittsAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Incredibly important piece about the misery and harm caused by extortionate immigration fees, please do take a few minutes to read > 46240
