John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Breaking: Government seeks to increase tax revenues from death duties by making 65yr olds ineligible for a #Covid vaccination this year. Also reduces State Pension expenditure! That’ll teach us to be economically inactive. Let the bodies pile high! 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 10/08/2025In the same way the Titanic sailed close to that iceberg? 010
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 10/08/2025You say pensioners, Starmer says supporters of terrorism. Potayto Potarto… 030
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 10/08/2025I feel so much safer now that 450 terrorists have been arrested & taken off the streets. Who needs to repeal the Human Rights Act when you can just suppress dissent by declaring peaceful protestors as terrorists. The Tories can learn a thing or two from Starmer 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Specifically new shoes. But yes, my Nan (daughter of a Welsh miner) instilled this and many other rules. 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Ray has to park this close to the gym door so he can get to the treadmill to walk his 10,000 steps 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 29/07/2025True enough. However, if you check out the gardening tool he was carrying in public, you might think the police had a reasonable concern. My granny never used a trowel like that. 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Why don’t the Israelis want you to film the devastation? Well, obviously it’s not good. But why are you complying? 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Does any Labour or Tory politician, or indeed Supreme Court judge, understand science? 010
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 26/03/2025They may wear red ties, but this particular bunch of Labour MPs are basically Tories. I’m sticking with LibDem, where the real lefties live 021
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 25/02/2025#martinlewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Why are electricity costs tied to gas prices? Most electricity is not generated from gas. Why charge everything against the highest cost? 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Trump is not mad. He is doing the job his backers are paying him to do; make an apparently insane suggestion or claim every day. His opposition & the media can’t keep up, blinded by his headlines. In the meantime, his owners do whatever they want, unreported. Stop reacting America. ACT! 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 24/01/2025And again, @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social standing reporters out by the coast to report on the risk to life posed by storm Eowyn. How does this help impart the danger to their viewers? 031
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 24/01/2025An intelligent response to Badenoch’s political opportunism 010
Reposted by John WhittleTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Great point here. Trump is creating a hostile environment for talent that leans liberal. We can't pay as well, but there are not school shootings and we aren't being run by anti science fascists. 22609145
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 23/01/2025But this rubbish will be repeated and linked multiple times, then consumed by large language models, then recycled as fact in response to Google searches. As a useful source of information, the internet is dead. 020
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 23/01/2025@goodmorningbritain.bsky.social no you can’t blanket ban drivers older than 80. Why not raise minimum licence age to 25 instead? 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 20/01/2025It reminded me I was still registered with them, so I've deleted my account! 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 20/01/2025It’s an observation not a plan. A plan needs something actionable. 030
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Scraping the barrel. How about asking some actual economists? 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I recall seeing this event immortalised in a few words carved into the bottom of a desk drawer in one of the older classrooms in the western end of the boarding house. 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Hmm, they dun got themselves some of that sovereignty stuff ain't they? 010
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 11/01/2025What is it about the panel on the #TheMaskedSinger that makes me think of The Hunger Games? 000
Reposted by John WhittleSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Bear sends legal letter ordering people to stop saying that bears shit in the woods. Lawyers delighted to be able to bill ££££ for this wildly delusional nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLiz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat 64905195
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 10/01/2025My #52frames habit continues for another year. This year I aim to get inspiration from photographer's new to me, and classic images This is based on a self portrait by Lee Friedlander 130
Reposted by John WhittleDr Charles Smith @smith-brocca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer. 363170653079
Reposted by John WhittleCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025British political system is far too complacent about risks posed to our democracy from malign actors like Musk spreading lies & misinformation & poisoning political discourse #Newsnight 2233490
Reposted by John Whittledllahr.bsky.social @dllahr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025@whij.bsky.social Thought you'd appreciate this 011
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Although I'm a fan of @theguardian.com, I'm likely to stop following them on this platform. Less is more, chaps. Less is more. Could you try reducing your output a tad please? 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 09/01/2025What is it with UK media that they know that the whole grooming gang public inquiry is just political grandstanding but continue to cover it anyway? We need action on the findings of the last inquiry, not more waffle 000
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This news was the final straw that has made me join Bluesky and start the process of deleting my Facebook data and account 020
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 08/01/2025So far this feels like Twitter before the Nazi took over 110
John Whittle @whij.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Hello World (I believe this is the necessary first message, based on a long-time past life as a programmer) 120
