Ben
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We shouldn't have a Quiet Carriage on the train.
We should have a NoisyCcarriage.
If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage.
The rest of the train is de facto Quiet.
Who's with me?
We should have a NoisyCcarriage.
If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage.
The rest of the train is de facto Quiet.
Who's with me?
September 29, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We shouldn't have a Quiet Carriage on the train.
We should have a NoisyCcarriage.
If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage.
The rest of the train is de facto Quiet.
Who's with me?
We should have a NoisyCcarriage.
If you want to watch or listen to the phone without headphones, or have loud and never-ending conversations, you go and sit in the Noisy Carriage.
The rest of the train is de facto Quiet.
Who's with me?
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In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:37 AM
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’ll say this to dog owners as gently as I can…
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP LEAVING YOUR NASTY BAGS OF SH*T EVERYWHERE!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP LEAVING YOUR NASTY BAGS OF SH*T EVERYWHERE!
September 14, 2026 at 12:16 PM
I’ll say this to dog owners as gently as I can…
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP LEAVING YOUR NASTY BAGS OF SH*T EVERYWHERE!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP LEAVING YOUR NASTY BAGS OF SH*T EVERYWHERE!
Hydration break #spaarg
Inna Drinking Wine from Giant Glass
ALT: Inna Drinking Wine from Giant Glass
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July 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Hydration break #spaarg
Hydration break #SPAARG
Churros Dipping in Chocolate
ALT: Churros Dipping in Chocolate
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July 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hydration break #SPAARG
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Have we considered that only the goal at that end of the pitch is working?
July 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Have we considered that only the goal at that end of the pitch is working?
Hydration break
Excited Woman Popping Champagne
ALT: Excited Woman Popping Champagne
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July 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Hydration break
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The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.
July 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.
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can we win this but then not play any more games please thank you sorry thats enough
July 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
can we win this but then not play any more games please thank you sorry thats enough
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Where’s Andy Burnham going?
June 19, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Where’s Andy Burnham going?
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
June 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
June 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
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Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..."
Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true.
I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news
Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true.
I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news
I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story.
That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.
That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
May 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..."
Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true.
I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news
Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true.
I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news
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And lo, under questioning by his tormentor the prophet did consulteth the holy book and verily after some time didst speak, saying unto the teeming multitude: “Er. This is good enough”
Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing
April 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
And lo, under questioning by his tormentor the prophet did consulteth the holy book and verily after some time didst speak, saying unto the teeming multitude: “Er. This is good enough”
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it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.
April 13, 2026 at 12:33 PM
it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
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Hungarians are singing ‘We Are The Champions’ in celebration of the landslide victory of Peter Magyar
April 13, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Hungarians are singing ‘We Are The Champions’ in celebration of the landslide victory of Peter Magyar
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Well Gen X takes the heat for just about everything, but just for the record:
The average age of the Artemis astronauts is 48-50. That is smack dab in the middle of Gen X, folks, the generational cohort from 1965 to 1980. We must have done something right...
The average age of the Artemis astronauts is 48-50. That is smack dab in the middle of Gen X, folks, the generational cohort from 1965 to 1980. We must have done something right...
April 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Well Gen X takes the heat for just about everything, but just for the record:
The average age of the Artemis astronauts is 48-50. That is smack dab in the middle of Gen X, folks, the generational cohort from 1965 to 1980. We must have done something right...
The average age of the Artemis astronauts is 48-50. That is smack dab in the middle of Gen X, folks, the generational cohort from 1965 to 1980. We must have done something right...
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I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
April 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
March 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
On sunny days like this Southampton really does become a Richard Scarry busytown
March 5, 2026 at 1:30 PM
On sunny days like this Southampton really does become a Richard Scarry busytown
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Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
March 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections