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Theo Bird

@theonlybird.bsky.social
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Meandering musings of a millenial. Brit. Fungi enthusiast. IPA skeptic. Proponent of active travel, walkable cities and public transport. I follow politics in the same way I enjoy the odd horror film.

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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just finish one
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Why have these filled croissants never caught on in the UK when they are such obviously delicious processed food?
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
You'd think he'd be proud of his Lebanese heritage given it has lots of blossom trees and no crocodiles
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
There really is no moral justification whatsoever for mined blood diamonds now, on an environmental or humanitarian level. As technology advances, industries die. There would be nothing sad about De Beers or Rio Tinto doing a Blockbuster. www.ft.com/content/2a8d...
ft.com
How the diamond industry lost its sparkle
The explosion of lab-grown stones from China has shaken up the sector, leaving established players struggling for relevance
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Self sufficiency is achievable if you lock in
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
What's going on with my "mallards" and, in some cases, "grebes?"
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Forget Drake's fake abs - a gin collection of Bombay, Hendricks, Plymouth and Tanqueray for a man worth half a yard is funny to me
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Raye should headline in 2027 #Glastonbury
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Mark is right. In the Netherlands they are so confident that their nuclear waste is safely stored that you can go and visit it in a museum: www.covra.nl/en/radioacti...
covra.nl
The art of preservation - COVRA N.V.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The time will pass anyway. If we don't start building now we'll be saying 10 years too late again in 2035.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Perhaps a boring decision but a great one. Not only the right direction with nuclear but Rolls Royce being a British company for investment and infrastructure security.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Utrecht is how cities should be
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Truly one of the dumbest people ever to hold public office
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
No idea but can't deny he has aura
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Make politics fun again
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I thought this mandatory 2 pits would make it more exciting but somehow it's worse haha. I mean personally I'd just scrap Monaco, but if not, can the solution to avoid a situation like last year just be that teams can't pit during a red flag? #MonacoGP
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
But also like... AI is clearly really powerful, and for better or worse it isn't going anywhere, so I want to do my best to understand it. What Google announced yesterday was honestly quite extraordinary. Am I missing all the AI chat on Bluesky somewhere or is there a genuine aversion to it here?
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I'm not necessarily saying that is a bad thing. I find the constant sound of AI Bros larping on about how their terrible AI picture is 'making art accesible' pretty exhausting.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I find the difference between X and Bluesky on the topic of AI truly staggering. On X, I can't scroll for a minute without seeing someone talking about AI. The lastest models, comparisons, job losses, benefits, covering all companies from Google, OpenAI or Anthropic. On Bluesky? Crickets.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Also if news starts spreading that there are 'no repercussions' for missing Klarna payments I can see this spiralling fairly fast
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Turns out a predatory business model of pushing loans on broke people might not be most stable www.ft.com/content/6c4b...
ft.com
Klarna’s losses widen after more consumers fail to repay loans
‘Buy now, pay later’ group’s weaker results come as concerns rise about the financial health of US consumers
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hahaha anything is possible
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
With every fibre of my body I hope this is true. It's almost too on the nose for the Onion.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I remember when any reusable water bottle was the 'Eco-friendly' option. I am massively pro-environment, but where does the purity end? I fear a constant push for eco-perfection puts swathes of people off doing anything altogether.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Sorry but look at the size of this asparachungus
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
*very* cheeky of the Guardian to illustrate this with a picture of Farthing Down, a site of special scientific interest and thus absolutely not the sort of horrible scrubland the mayor's talking about here
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 08/05/2025
I don't know if I am just getting older or what but when I saw that the new pope was 69, my first thought was "lol nice" but my second thought was "damn, that's a young pope."
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A lot of discussion about what name the new Pope will take. A small part of them must be tempted to go with Pope Muhammed for chaos purposes.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Omg Starmer on the phone constantly name checking him Donald is toe curling
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Yeah I mean he lies constantly but I don't think the tarriffs themselves are to mess with markets, they are part of his ideology as to what is 'fair'
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is part of the reason I personally can't see a trade deal between the US and the EU happen whilst Trump is in power. A deal with China just depends on how long American people/markets can take higher prices, lower supply of goods.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
BREAKING: US-UK trade pact will leave the 10% US tariff in place - CNN These tarriffs are not a bargaining tool, they are an ideology. Trump genuinely believes a trade deficit with another country is always a bad thing. At some point in the coming months Americans will face the music on this.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Much of this article is bleak but this part might actually be the worst. Just people asking ChatGPT who they are lol nymag.com/intelligence...
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“When you’re ready for your child to stop being a child, give them a smartphone” We face a mammoth task as a society trying to reduce smartphone use in children, but I not only think it's possible, I think it's a societal necessity. #smartphonefreechildhood www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?
It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about t...
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Places I didn't expect the strongest condemnation of Israel and it's allies? The FT. Excellent wording. Should be common place across most media outlets. www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
ft.com
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza
The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Someone like Dai Yongge should never have been allowed to own a club and I really hope the EFL has learned lessons so that no other club goes through this. I welcome Rob Couhig and Todd Trosclair with the most open arms imagineable. Onwards. URZ #readingfc
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Whatever happens today, hugely proud of this team and supporting this club this season. A huge thank you also has to go to Select Car Leasing who went way above and beyond expecations of a normal sponsor by paying staff wages some months.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It will be a shame if we don’t make the play-offs, but ultimately only one thing mattered today. We can finally, finally stop worrying about the very existence of our club.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I genuinely don’t know how this team has done it this season but there have been POTS contenders in almost every position on the pitch. Huge credit has to go to Noel Hunt and his team who took over seamlessly from Ruben Selles in December.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Yet here we are today. A sell-out crowd with new owners – a sale process which thankfully includes the stadium and the training ground – and somehow, against all the odds, even an outside chance of making the play-offs.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Let’s be clear: it was really *really* bad, not just for a week or two, but for years. Just a never ending stream of embargoes, fines, staff not being paid, player sales and rumours of extinction. It was exhausting.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Redundancies happened, the few staff remaining wore coats at their desk. Players ate microwave meals before matches. Being a fan of a football club is such a weird experience at times. No matter how bad it gets you can’t ever really walk away; you just have to ride it out & hope
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
For 580 days we have wondered if our club will still exist when we wake up. For 1,395 days we have been under an embargo in one form or another. Our Women’s Team had to go part-time, we lost our Cat 1 Academy status, we very nearly lost our training ground. #readingfc
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Russell Brand here, facing charges of sexual assault, arriving at court dressed like a sex pest
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This has been the best week for drying washing in recent living memory
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The flip side of course is that the UK is not in a strong position financially at the moment and Labour don't have many (if any) levers left to pull. If people don't feel any progress is being made on their slipping standards of living then the appeal of Reform will only continue.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A week is a long time in politics. Try 4 years then. The pressure from Reform will no doubt continue but with Trump in the Oval Office the world has never looked more uncertain. That could work to Starmer/Labour's advantage vis-à-vis Mark Carney and that wave of Canadian patriotism.
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FPTP is simply not designed for a 5 party system. A general election with this split would be absolute chaos. That said, I think it's easy to blow these results out of proportion. 2029 is a long way away and I think the Labour Gov will last until then (Starmer perhaps not). #LocalElections
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Theo Bird @theonlybird.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What's your favourite woodland and why is it deciduous in spring?
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