Simon @simonlovely.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I may be developing a Shelly problem 😂 #smarthome #HomeAutomation 001 0
Reposted by Simoneliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026just learned this today 6968493723 0
Reposted by SimonMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o... 251401532 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Germans vote (neo-)Nazi in 2026 and, just as in the 1930s, we all know exactly which British papers, politicians, presenters & pundits will be absolutely loving it… Spoiler alert: they also love Trump. 711543299 0
Reposted by SimonRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Reform say they'll force school children to sing hymns. Only 5% of Britons go to church. So what we have here is a religious minority forcing their wishes on the majority, and refusing to integrate with Britain's culture. They should go and live somewhere else. According to Reform. 87888216 0
Reposted by SimonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA question for Nigel Farage – why is your nationalist party so obsessed with destroying British jobs? | George MonbiotClaims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 13657235 0
Reposted by SimonBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/06/202610 years after Brexit, Farage is richer... Are you? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0vx2e…bbc.co.ukFarage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'Rival parties have raised concerns over the gift received by the Reform UK leader before he became an MP. 17451179 0
Reposted by SimonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.ms.nowThe Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook familiesThe Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month. 274225435260 0
Reposted by SimonLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12/06/2026Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved. 851538316 0
Reposted by SimonAdil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors? 14275912368 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Apart from the dangerous, possibly deliberate, ignorance of the established facts, this hideous narrative also offers support of sorts to the shithead who committed the murder. 31662161 0
Reposted by SimonDen of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026He threw his then pregnant girlfriend downstairs. He should always be remembered for that. 3552 0
Reposted by SimonRabid Cormorant @rabidcormorant.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The only two-tier policing is Rayner losing her job then being found not at fault and Farage having no consequences for a 5M bung 1477 0
Reposted by SimonGeorge 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. 6743621523 0
Reposted by SimonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026McSweeney: "We procured two strong candidate for [the PM]: One was Mandelson and the other was George Osborne." Christ above. What did the weak candidates look like. 1922254366 0
Reposted by SimonCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing moretheguardian.comMet police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigationsExclusive: Internal concerns over allowing US firm linked to ICE and Israeli military to process highly sensitive data 58993496 0
Reposted by SimonDrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other. 116150665537 0
Reposted by SimonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵 14948421185 0
Reposted by SimonIan Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I’m 58, until Keir Starmer’s “Island of Strangers” speech and failures over the flags campaign I was a Labour member. I quit to join the Greens. Yesterday’s victory by Hannah confirmed that choice for me. Labour is finished. The Greens are the alternative we must all stand behind to beat Reform. 1448 0
Reposted by SimonRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour. 5211406350 0
Simon @simonlovely.bsky.social · 11/02/2026news.sky.com/story/the-uk... The problem is definitely immigrants and not billionaires who reside in Monaco for tax purposes...news.sky.com'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim RatcliffeIn an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years. 000 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/02/2026So true. Also, many of the Americans doing literally nothing about Epstein’s American ‘associates’ are precisely the ones lying about Europe & particularly the UK being overrun with child-rapists. It’s insane. 591611416 0
Reposted by SimonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson. 481468352 0
Reposted by SimonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/01/20261. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10 602029976 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards. 2182198703 0
Reposted by SimonSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/01/2026But there's more As I wrote at the time, NESO said net-zero "Holistic Transition" was the "cheapest option", once you take account of the economic damages from CO2 adding to climate change It said a fossil energy system is only “cheaper” if we “ignore” carbon costs www.carbonbrief.org/... 9/10 211523 0
Reposted by SimonChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?... 68104663619 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Good grief. What a pathetic baby. 92988181 0
Reposted by SimonRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN 1613856727 0
Simon @simonlovely.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Bang on about Europe not having free speech. Police the speech in people from Europe. Makes perfect sense. 000 0
Simon @simonlovely.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Trumpf: "We had a meeting and I said, 'Why is it we only take people from shithole countries', right?" he said. "Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden?" Probably people from Norway and Sweden don't want to move to your shithole country, while you are in charge. 000 0
Reposted by SimonKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 05/12/2025For those following the news re: EU fining X for DSA violations, this thread explains that (despite how we may see the right and the U.S. gov frame things), it isn’t about “censorship” or even content moderation, but about X failing to follow laws about platform transparency and deception. A thread: 315857 0
Reposted by SimonTW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points 148104664527 0
Reposted by SimonDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Dear UK: You don’t pay enough taxes to have an NHS that doesn’t run on immigration and immigrant labour. Sorry to be brutally honest but it’s how it is 33647126 0
Reposted by SimonEliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/11/2025The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting. 1802453558 0
Simon @simonlovely.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Wondering quietly whether all these big internet outages are the result of them using AI to write code... 000 0
Reposted by SimonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place. 521351348 0
Reposted by SimonBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA 7541031312 0
Reposted by SimonJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025My god! Imagine if the hyperscale chatbots just disappeared! Civilisation would be catapulted back to... er... 2023! 082 0
Reposted by SimonJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I confidently predict that people who profess to be outraged by, say, the removal or destruction of statues honouring slavers and other racists because "history something tradition something something" will be completely silent about this abomination. 841106278 0
Reposted by SimonSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 17/10/2025I have in fact fallen into the trap of these things. It speaks the language of authority that normal authority normally has. I just don't know why you do not learn how fucking dangerous that is very quickly. We're not built for this stuff. Especially children. Like what are we doing here. 61189 0
Reposted by SimonChris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 15/10/2025There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67... 26772446 0
Reposted by SimonJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025The people this is pandering to will no doubt be delighted to find themselves competing in a job market where every migrant knows English to a much higher standard than they do. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukMigrants will be required to pass A Level standard of EnglishMigrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today. 1124 0
Reposted by SimonRhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes. 13877601966 0
Reposted by SimonNG @ng1978.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago 320683 0
