Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Everyone is talking about whether 100 grown men could fight a gorilla. Let’s switch it up - could 10,000 ten year olds fight and win against a full grown silver back gorilla? 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Is it though - or is that just wishful thinking? If Reeves called an emergency budget, broke the manifesto and increased income tax for a direct immediate raise in military spending, the Telegraph and Mail would kill her. 010
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Not sure if Kaja Kallas actually reads these … but just in case … Europe needs to show stronger collective leadership now more than any point in its history. Weakness and reluctance today will be paid back 10 times more in future. 0301
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Not quite sure why you say that. @goodwinmj is a charlatan desperate for attention who has to bend his views to fit the narrative he wants to be part of. @georgemonbiot (who I don’t agree with on a lot) actually believes what he says. And for honest people it’s clear Russia is the aggressor 0361
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Tazo’s i think. You had to buy certain packs of crisps for certain ones. Taz himself was in Doritos only I believe! 140
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A good article - for me the biggest change is people in their 20’s don’t want to take risks as financially they can’t lose a decade if they want a house / family. The stakes of failure are unbelievably high. 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 05/01/2025One presumes that interest can change is if it’s electorally advantageous. They went from Kennedy to a coalition with the Tories in just over 4 years. I can easily see the Tories spinning off far right and them nudging slightly to the right after a period of Labour government. 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Gosh - sorry to hear that, and glad you are doing ok now. Must say that’s a shock considering I seem to be very susceptible to catching the noro virus by non oyster means. 010
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Surely this is just the price you occasionally pay. I’m sure I must have. 1100
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024In ways we can never fully appreciate. Man U beat City = Man U a good team. So Spurs go 3 up. But being 3-0 down to Spurs must make you a bad team. So Spurs crumble.team.so 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I do think that Britain is a little different here because Farage simply won’t do left wing economic populism. He can get all the great polls in the world but people won’t vote for him if he says he will scrap the NHS. Boris was a left wing economic populist (cake and eat it etc) 140
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Isn’t this similar to all the complaints GMAIL was breaking privacy laws by scanning your mail for advertisements? Ultimately people will just get on with and it’s use is such that application of laws will change 100
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Thank you - I thought that was the case. But I’m honestly a bit ignorant as to what their territorial ambitions are in this area. Would they be happy to hold and just see Assad gone. 100
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Sorry for a really stupid question - who is the yellow? 110
Reposted by Tom WattsDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/12/2024I can't believe this needs to be said but: You do not owe it to anyone to spend the next four years on a social media website you hate, getting abused by algorithmically boosted Nazis, just because some Democratic consultant thinks a swing voter in Pennsylvania might see your tweets. 35889139
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A question from a position of total ignorance. Is this not just replacing a horrific regime with ISIS? 320
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Safeguarding doesn’t mean stop. It means apply appropriate measure. This debate, and the legislation that will come from it is effective safeguarding. 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Or maybe that we all have to die. We don’t need to gamble. 010
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Is it? Who is we? I see no we - just the individual who is making the decision for themselves. 160
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024How about for the Rugby Championship there being a “Island Nations” featuring the best players from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa etc They can still play for their nations at other times but that would give them a boast like Argentina 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Mines just turned 5. So plenty of road yet. Seems to be more interested in Rugby at the moment as he sees the game as adults allowing play fighting. Also seems to like golf! as “hit ball in hole with stick” is the easiest concept. 140
Reposted by Tom WattsJwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 23/11/2024NGC 3256. The result of two galaxies that collided ~500 million years ago. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪 202150146
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hopefully we see a broad range of journalists and news outlet join over the coming months 010
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Sorry - this is a random response. But in the spirit of improving this site, is it better that MPs “verify” by linking their handle to their personal website? 000
Reposted by Tom WattsBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19/11/2024Useful starter pack for news organisations on BlueSky (including us)! go.bsky.app/Vat6XPc @tomirwin.bsky.social 1211254
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 17/11/2024It’s not an escalation. If you want to be reductive Russian’s have died from UK weaponry for nearly 3 years. Inside and outside Russia 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thank you for posting these lists here and helping me get away from X 0150
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024BlueSky now has 18million users. Adding roughly a million a day. Approaching critical mass 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I follow you on X. Still have my account and use it but I am desperate to move away. I’ve had BlueSky for a while, it’s getting therein terms of engagement/ range of people. Maybe run both for a defined period - maybe to Xmas and then make the jump. That’s my plan. 130
Reposted by Tom WattsTim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Here you go, a starter pack of Independent Record Shops to follow (pass it on, guessing they’d appreciate that) go.bsky.app/FFCkVXG 43481212
Reposted by Tom WattsSebastian Payne @sebastianpayne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Here’s a centre right starter pack, for those who want to ensure this isn’t entirely an echo chamber go.bsky.app/DNLEPTu 183426132
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Awesome. Need a music starter pack if anyone has one? 000
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Please encourage as many MPs from all political parties and journalists to come over. There does need to be a critical mass. 030
Tom Watts @tomwatts.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Does anybody have any good starter packs for sport? I’m keen to find some non political people to follow 000
