Reposted by Ryan James SmillieNoisy Neighbors @noisypod.bsky.social · 11/10/2026TO ALL OUR ENEMIES… 1483
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieTheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I see lots of City fans are being told what to think again. 2422
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If there's one groups in society who NEED to stop using AI to make resources, slides, posters, it's teachers. You're literally showing your students that you used AI to do your own homework. You look like a moron. It's shameful. Do not do this. 24718134
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Listening to Kemi Badenoch list her many supposed triumphs you wouldn't have any idea that the Conservatives just suffered their worst set of election defeats in their history and are now polling eight points lower than when she first took over as leader 2244576
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼 881964548
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses. 653999786
Reposted by Ryan James SmilliePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing? 671695463
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026is this a serious question? i feel like i'm on drugs, nothing makes any damn sense 2040388
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh 511117
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-... 1082087934
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieNintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Check out this behind-the-scenes look at the performance of "Title Theme" from Mario Kart World, straight from the recording studio! 🎶 Listen now on #NintendoMusic: ninten.do/6016aOI7C 7532120
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If early release can be altered so as to exempt homicide offences, it should be. Prisoners who have caused the gravest harm should be among the last to benefit from the overcrowding crisis. But carving out exceptions for individual prisoners in response to media campaigns is weak and unprincipled. 1032065394
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieSteffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet. 209109792166
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieTolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 01/08/2026I fucking hate AI almost as much as I hate the sniveling asshole billionaires and shithole corporations who have all forced it into every conceivable spot in our lives. It literally makes everything worse and it makes us worse and I fucking hate it. 6638741034
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends 431845328
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Much as I love the News Agents their discussion on Covid was ill-informed and misleading. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...christinapagel.substack.comWe are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closuresA response to yesterday's News Agents podcast... 914761
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness 36827425
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit. 1513128935
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/07/2026[boldly] I just don't think the British government needs to have Shabana Mahmood in it, I think we managed fine without her and we can just keep going without her, it's fine, Andy Burnham doesn't need to find a space for her in cabinet, there are other MPs 461135182
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieJason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8883364512529
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieMax Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social · 01/07/2026❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴 2118917
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieIan Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026keep seeing this face and all I can think every time is God bless @stephencollins.bsky.social 010221
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical. 21392252468
Reposted by Ryan James SmilliePete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Can we just be real and admit that these bans are about political window-dressing and not child safety? If you were really cynical, you might conclude that they were designed to *avoid* having grown-up, responsible conversations about internet regulation. 1014544
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieSamira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house 722699812
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain 22462181
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieWoodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Again asking why it's OK for Uncle Graham to doom scroll right wing racist anti-trans hate speech algorithmic propaganda in to the wee hours but young people have to have their entire social and study support network cut off at the knees. 430897
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieMicah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman 4898762570
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieKatherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026tired and my stomach hurts 3875152
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieScaryanne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026🚬 amazing isaiprofitable.com 3348155
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieUltimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026This is what every game developer sounds like right now. 1342034810063
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Got into an argument on Sky a few weeks about about banning social media for teens. "But parents want it!" Sure, but that doesn't mean it will work or is a good idea! How about a serious conversation about what social media is doing to all of us, adults included? Or is that too difficult? 45639140
Reposted by Ryan James Smillie👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown 784347964
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch! 1463109802
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/06/2026If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories. 31250484
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news. 6743631523
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company 661548756
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry 1562303845
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieSirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess." 406150863389
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 22/05/2026So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil 27803467
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It is juts fucking crazy they straight up let people’s “discomfort” with someone overrule their human rights 841991
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieAdam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026"Shall we tell motorists that they might have to drive slightly slower to conserve fuel, fellow Minister?" "Nah, let's betray democracy instead." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK loosens Russian oil sanctions as fuel prices riseThe waiver reflects increasing supply concerns over certain fuels due to the effective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. 416260
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieIain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 18/05/2026People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more. 832103382
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026Immigration make Britain brilliant 511139274209
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieConor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward 22907204
Reposted by Ryan James SmillieCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate 841198188
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm)
![cartoon strip script:
The summer of 2026 was endless…
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Roaming the woods after school
[Image shows two kids running through sun-dappled woods]
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[Next image shows one of them turning over a rock to find a lizard with a BET365 logo on its back]
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Hours just lying on the grass...
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spotting logos in the clouds.
[Gambling logos appearing in the clouds]
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All we needed was chalk and a pavement
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[Kids drawing gambling logos on the pavement]
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Then in to watch the World Cup with Mum and Dad!
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[Everybody looking at a screen saying]:
Brought to you by GAMBLING IS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY.COM
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Ten back to school on Monday to re-enact our favourite TV shows
[Kid in playground, play acting, says “I’ll be Ray Winstone!”]
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Kid:
“OI YOU MUPPET - GAMBLIN’ IS NOOORMAL!”
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And proper playground games.
[Kids playing musical statues but instead they’re saying]:
When the fun stops….
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STOP!
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibyoam4zmkxki2ohhfjoqgerut2nedjigzcyryhfzfji6wwn7aeka)