Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the most annoying things about thinking of the books I loved as a child - Narnia, Box of delights etc is the posh entitled kids in these story will grow up to be twats like David Cameron or George Osbourne 82159
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026People should stop calling tech manual "bibles". The Bible is a barely coherent bunch of stories and half-truths, told by illiterate men, packaged together by the powerful to exert political control over the masses. Your average tech manual can only dream of being that 1621021
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My wife and I were so hot when we were young. She was very beautiful and I was so handsome. Now we are in our late sixties, I look like Danny Divito and she looks like Mitch Miconnell. I can't unsee it now. 123249
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I started a rumour that the vicar who came in to teach Christian Education didn't have a soul. It made it onto to agenda of the PTA meeting and the minutes showed that he asserted that he did have a soul. Religious schools are really peculiar. 1933516
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Salt doesn't need to be ground like pepper does. The only reason we have salt and pepper grinders is because humans like symmetry. 12474
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ministers should have to dress like the sectors they engage with. Science ministers should wear labs coats, building ministers should wear hard hats, boots, and hi viz. The farming minister should wear a flat cap and carry a shepherd's crook. 2913515
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Crypto will be listed in history as the biggest ever transfer of wealth from a great many dumb individuals into the hands of a few very powerful individuals. Those billions Trump and his kids "raised" with the Trump coin? Where exactly do you think that money comes from? 51069
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6 725232
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/09/2026Wayland Yutani having an office in Canary Warf makes sense. 1221140
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Fyi in 2024 the Harris Campaign spent $1.2 billion during the 2024 election and Trump spent around $500 million. Money isn't everything in politics. 1813513
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@chrisbritt.bsky.social 28741
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialIan Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Surprisingly this turned out to be neither Nazi shrine nor sex dungeon. 192
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In the same way that the downfall of Al Qaeda gave way to the rise of ISIS I do worry that Farage's fall, when it comes, will be the handmaiden of something worse. 7781
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess 1725613
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Aberdeen's finest adopted son and also the first ever lad fea toon to get into space. Well done Scotty fea Star Trek. 341258110
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialEmtcub @cumpigcub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Star Trek Forever 22753071037
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me." 277051731357
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialCaptain Edward Jellico @captainjellico.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Nearly 60 years since this episode aired, and its message continues to be as powerful today as it was in 1966 #StarTrek #StarTrek60 530396
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialroninresearch.bsky.social @roninresearch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026 0206
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026How can a person who looks like this be anything other than as pure as the driven snow? 000
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You absolutely should look a gift horse in the mouth. Otherwise, you might end-up with a crap horse, or even a dead one. And then you've got to get rid of it. 14591
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So, US policy is to be “devastating” to Canada until we break them and do what we want. It will take generations to recover from this madness. 92951219
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialJay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Tell ’em, Reagan: “We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends — weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire Free World — all while cynically waving the American flag.” Thank you. 725143
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I spoke with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, which has encrypted the daily online work/comms a hundred million-plus people. We talked in particular about Proton's surprising embrace of AI, like its chatbot Lumo. Yen says "AI is surveillance." He also says it's "unavoidable." www.wired.com/story/the-bi...wired.comCan AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have ToProton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI? 145521
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My course, "Hitler and Stalin Today," is available for free online. Through 10 lectures, I examine Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared, and what we should have learned from the 20th century. Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/timothy...artsci.utoronto.ca 261295488
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Everyone you know has a skeleton inside them. I feel that this unsettling fact is not given the attention it deserves. 24928
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-… 3860101091
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...nytimes.comYears of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history. 000
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026As I wrote elsewhere, Arday’s universities have blood on their hands. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/w...nytimes.comProfessor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring (Gift Article)Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work. 121
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialIan Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I think I'm having a stroke. 181
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We're gonna do it, aren't we? We're actually gonna do it. We're gonna let greedy rich cunts cook the planet and suck it dry of energy and water just so bots can send emails to other bots. Un-fucking-believable. 1946575
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal. 30837318
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialTheo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star 13895782310
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/08/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Rob Sand, the Democrat running for governor of Iowa, “is very much a moderate,” writes Ben Rhodes, “but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.”nyti.msOpinion | This Is the Winning Formula for Democrats in Red StatesJust shy of 44 with boyish good looks, Rob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country. 35210
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Inexplicable. Deutschland radio 1939 - relax/study to | Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht youtu.be/t1XTDpouggkyoutu.beDeutschland radio 1939 - relax/study to | Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht 📻 Old aesthetic soundYouTube video by AnotherVidHub 000
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270822919
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Pre internet I once drove half an hour home to get a dictionary to prove to my work colleague that the word gullible was in the dictionary. I was literally 2 mins away, on the way back, when it dawned on me. 2692866
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/07/2026All that *and* being married to Ted Hughes 0183
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/07/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Birthrates have fallen almost continuously for nearly 20 years,” Lyman Stone writes in a guest essay. “They have fallen through good economies and bad, through Republican administrations and Democratic ones, through every tax credit and child-care subsidy.”nyti.msOpinion | The Population Bust Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Is Prepared ForAmerica is not prepared for population decline. 395715
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialBill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Pop Culture Jeopardy... 0491
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYrM...youtube.comRight v. WrongYouTube video by Saul4Democracy 000
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This does not make Platner more palatable to me, but it confirms Collins as the supreme hypocrite she is. prospect.org/2026/07/02/p...prospect.orgPlatner, Collins, and the Peculiar Definition of Political Scandal - The American ProspectWhat most people would consider a scandal from a public official isn’t always depicted as scandalous. 000
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 29/06/202643 years ago today, Chiefs running back Joe Delaney made the ultimate sacrifice while trying to save three drowning children.nbcsports.comRemembering Joe Delaney, 43 years after he died24-year-old running back gave his life to try to save three children. 322016499
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We’ve reached the inception chapter of our war saga, where we are making deals to save deals that might lead to a bigger deal. by Niall Ferguson 938534
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“Now I am become Death, the exhibit at state fairs.”foxnews.comTrump admin unveils 11-foot-tall, AI-designed nuclear test flight vehicle at the Great American State FairNNSA to unveil an AI-designed nuclear test flight vehicle on the National Mall, touting a faster, cheaper path to advancing U.S. deterrence capabilities amid Chinese competition. 3315
stankapl.bsky.social @stankapl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026How a country can blow itself up. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comHow Britain Became as Poor as MississippiA case study in self-sabotage 110
Reposted by @stankapl.bsky.socialAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Genuinely amazed they haven’t started selling the algal water to true believers as some sort of holy presidential secretion. Feels very on brand and not like them to miss a chance to grift. 3138353
