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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are screaming directly into the gutter he/him

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bucket list was a phrase invented for the film “The Bucket List”, and nobody had ever said it before that

07.03.2026 09:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spy of the Year Welcome to the Spy of the Year awards ceremony!Your group of S.E.C.R.E.T. agents (and handler) are here to have a nice time and hopefully win some awards. With all the world’s greatest deceivers, tric...

Spy of the Year is OUT NOW! I teamed up with the brilliant @hannahraymondcox.bsky.social @arlohoward.bsky.social and @chloemashiter.bsky.social to make this lighter take on the jubensha format. Our first print run is now on sale with these wonderful folks: jubensha.co.uk/products/spy...

05.03.2026 09:10 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

04.03.2026 10:39 👍 1273 🔁 219 💬 33 📌 9

italics for emphasis will be next

03.03.2026 16:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

no, because they don’t want to, and you and I can’t make them, so [raspberry sounds]

02.03.2026 10:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

then no. the only examples are very small countries and even then the (current) inability to put actual boots on the ground maybe disqualifies those examples too

01.03.2026 11:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Aunt Bessie’s pancake mix. what an unexpected banger. happy shrove

17.02.2026 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

pulled out by its roots, etc

14.02.2026 22:38 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

does Corelli Barnett mean nothing to you

13.02.2026 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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keir starmer waiting for the may elections

11.02.2026 15:22 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

the puff piece in the graun literally went from “he expertly masterminded the selections to get rid of the far left” to “and selected candidates including his wife” without so much as a glance at the camera. I think even the hagiographers have an inkling they know what they’re selling

09.02.2026 10:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

he actually does have a chance to secure 10% more of a reputation as “no okay he did actually stand for something” by resigning on Monday morning

06.02.2026 14:28 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

he wasn’t meant to get in, remember

05.02.2026 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

conference… if I can go to jail… WE

03.02.2026 22:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

metal gear solid: breadcakes of the patriots

03.02.2026 08:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve genuinely made people confused by saying how angry I am with his right wing policies and behaviour

01.02.2026 22:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a key figure in the middle period Brony Wars, jeffr_csa was banned in 2013

31.01.2026 16:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

30.01.2026 18:03 👍 2681 🔁 348 💬 66 📌 20
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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

26.01.2026 02:13 👍 6935 🔁 1378 💬 278 📌 173

yeah but the idea that means the game is over (a game in which Burnham is one of many players, not the protagonist) is also for the birds, surely?

25.01.2026 20:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’d go further and say that he is now inevitable before the election at this point, unless there’s a truly old school proper stitchup for Streeting (no other candidates allowed etc). what deal he makes with Rayner will be key

25.01.2026 14:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

congratulations to Ed Miliband!

25.01.2026 12:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@coneshotline.bsky.social cones look what I saw today

24.01.2026 18:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I see a lot of people debating the funniest outcome and to be clear the answer is:

1) They let Burnham run.

2) He wins it.

3) They lose the mayoral by-election.

4) This forces a leadership election.

5) Andy doesn't win it.

24.01.2026 17:27 👍 255 🔁 43 💬 22 📌 9

did you doubt the plan, Andy-on?

24.01.2026 18:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have gone all in. it’s 2026. it just is

21.01.2026 15:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I *think* Kieran crossed the line of the rules of the show (wilf would’ve won if he hadn’t done it and said “parting gift”), either formally at the time or in such a way that they tightened up the rules in s2. which I get

19.01.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

but enough about geopolitics!

18.01.2026 12:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slightly diminish a game

Bridge Request

12.01.2026 12:55 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

unstoppable!

11.01.2026 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0