Reposted by TomButcherGrudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026people have been saying for years that these freaks won't be happy until they can machine-gun people in the Channel, and now they're just saying it where's that 1984 extract about the cinema? ah yes (CW: violence) 516457
Reposted by TomButcherCaitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/using-ai-i...caitlinjohnst.oneUsing AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez WhizVideo reading by Tim Foley: 514061
Reposted by TomButcherBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Reform's policy of blaming illegal migration for everything, and claiming that dealing with it will fix everything is ripped apart beautifully, in just 1 minute. It's the same scam Hitler and Mussolini were selling 100 years ago. 12402164
Reposted by TomButcherViz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz359bs 338772
Reposted by TomButcherLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Excellent thread (scroll up and down) I’ll just emphasize that many in the AI industry see the technology as a successor to human labor entirely—that’s literally the goal—AND the technology itself presents inherent risks that pose a danger to humans as well. 24516
Reposted by TomButcherMr. Scruff Monkey @scruffmonkey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Dunno who created this but every single week, it gets more and more true. 1337
TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Is anyone running a campaign to get Larry the cat on a banknote? 110
Reposted by TomButcherVince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 12/10/2026Hole Watch #Budget2026 The Telegraph, citing the IFS: Healey needs £35bn for defence, care and housing. Nobody asks if Britain has the welders, care workers and bricklayers to deliver them. The “hole” is measured against fiscal rules the Treasury wrote. vincegomez.com/reality-chec...vincegomez.comHealey faces £35bn hole in Budget, IFS warnsSome accurate reporting on inflation and tax effects, but the central frame treats markets and tax-funded "pay for" logic as binding constraints on the Chancellor. 132
Reposted by TomButcherSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There are more Ketchup sachets than nurses. More operational Furbies than professors of human geography. More dogs named "Digger" than people licensed to operate a JCB. And you ask why people are turning to Reform? 1426464
TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Life depends on science, but the humanities make it worth living. 100
Reposted by TomButcherebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Pretty Awesome 👍 743191144259
Reposted by TomButcherBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/202637,000 people arrive on small boats. 4,000,000 kids are in poverty. 4,500,000 can't get a dentists. But they will blame these vast problems on a tiny one. They think you are too stupid to know the problem, is them, the greedy billionaires. 11381142
Reposted by TomButcherTeatimeandBiscuit @teatimeandbiscuit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Or could the answer possibly be, that the flogging off of billions of pounds worth of public assets produced a temporary boost to a flagging national economy but that in the long run the consequences were entirely negative? 172
Reposted by TomButchermaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 169188864737
Reposted by TomButcherStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 29/09/2026My money's on Javier Bardem. 2832336
Reposted by TomButcherGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵 31914398
Reposted by TomButcherSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33372971085
Reposted by TomButcherWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/09/2026This is such a powerful speech from Chris Hinchliff There are many reasons why we must bring our water into public ownership. NATIONAL SECURITY and DEMOCRACY are not mentioned enough 213976
Reposted by TomButcherBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The owner of BetFred has spent his whole life pushing poison and contributing nothing and now he complains about the result. In 59 years what have his betting shops produced? Not a single thing. Just addicts, misery and bankruptcy. 916336
Reposted by TomButcherSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred. 1171828728
Reposted by TomButcherLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl 22543682075
Reposted by TomButcherChris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised" 4563358
Reposted by TomButcherNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141126481
Reposted by TomButcherAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Reposted by TomButcherAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles 742029806
Reposted by TomButcherChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Very good piece by @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. A couple of things I'd add. One, on the point below, one reason Harborne gave for his £36M donation was "competitive spirit" to match Delo. That aspect of it is pathetic willy-waving: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic... 1/4yorkshirepost.co.ukYorkshire-born billionaire Christopher Harborne donates £36m to ReformReform UK has received a second £36 million donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire. 77536
Reposted by TomButcherCornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Retrospective legislation often applies to financial laws to prevent pre-emption. Overseas donations cap applies from 25/03/2026 “will include all donations from overseas electors received from today & all regulated transactions entered into from today.” hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026...hansard.parliament.ukForeign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Polit - Hansard - UK ParliamentHansard record of the item : 'Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics' on Wednesday 25 March 2026. 1225
Reposted by TomButcherAndy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.bbc.co.ukTice says government trying to 'retrospectively change rules' as Reform receives £72m in donationsReform UK announced two £36m donations this weekend, as a bill that could change the rules passes through Parliament. It's being debated again in the Lords later. 69688271
Reposted by TomButcherBroken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"War chest"? Is that the war against taxing the rich? The war against human rights, workers' rights? The war against black/brown people and foreigners? The war against democracy, on behalf of #fascism? So many wars #Farage has to fight... #ukpolitics #bbclaurak #ReformUK #bbcnews #corruption 41332111
Reposted by TomButcherMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026On the News Agents, Jon Sopel says that 9/11 made him realise he was “on the side of freedom-loving America”. Podcasts have done a lot through the sheer amount of material recorded to reveal just how storybook a lot of journalists’ analytical faculties are. 1916027
Reposted by TomButcherHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059862392
Reposted by TomButcherBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You don't own anything you make using AI, whether it is a picture, a video, a program... It all belongs to them and if it is profitable they will simply look in their records and see that they own it and they will take control. And you can't do anything. 35117
Reposted by TomButcherBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today’s offering is an attempt to write a poem in real time while on a train journey. 730957
Reposted by TomButcherRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123711265
Reposted by TomButcherJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 200308595019
Reposted by TomButcherByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026🔴 NEW The BBC Is Just Nodding Along By Patrick Howse Read below. ↓bylinetimes.comThe BBC Is Just Nodding AlongThe corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer 19405152
Reposted by TomButcherMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The guy who wrote this horseshit is The Observer’s ‘chief customer officer’. That says it all. 2015528
Reposted by TomButcherMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts. Original post 23679471531
Reposted by TomButcherJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room 493137681
Reposted by TomButcherJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Full marks for the typo. Chef’s kiss for the reply. 81614305
Reposted by TomButcherGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵 1023060610
Reposted by TomButcherflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours. 14677101682
Reposted by TomButcherFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026If you had a proper fundraiser I’m sure ordinary folks would contribute. Better speak to the Electoral Commission first about process, tho’ I expect people would volunteer, too. bsky.app/profile/fasc... 16010
Reposted by TomButcherSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This kind of whining - from France - is so very Brexit. Until we take responsibility for the inevitable consequences of our own stupid choices, we will stay stuck in a sulky dead-end calling other people names. Boris Johnson rejected these data sharing arrangements. You get what you pay for. (Times) 1501430401
