Profile avatar
barryspinnaker.bsky.social
24 toasters from Scunthorpe.
1,548 posts 315 followers 529 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

really interesting watching Alex Jones flip on Peter Thiel. Jones' InfoWars used to chase Thiel around at Bilderberg Conference, accusing him of being a globalist pursuing a new world order

Wondering how I did it? I boiled water and added two tablespoons of vinegar, baking soda, and lemon juice. I soaked it for 20 minutes, and after that, it looked the same, so I bought a brand new one.

Lots of talk about Manchester United’s “transfer strategy”. Surely, with the exception of a handful of clubs who are in the top division but would ordinarily struggle to stay there given their income, every club’s strategy is “sign the best players you afford”?

Burning it all down.

What Thom doesn't appreciate is that the Evri courier is the main character in an open world RPG, and he just has a couple of side-quests he needs to do first.

Relatedly: as recently as 2018, I heard one valleys teenage mum describe to another the pavements as “being like Beirut”, referencing a civil war that ended (at least in the case of news coverage) sometime in - I would guess - her mother’s pre-pubescent years

And that’s the problem. Is that settlement still relevant to the world we find ourselves in now? The Attlee settlement broke down in the 1970s in the face of inflation, just as the Thatcher settlement has broken down in the face of slow growth.

This is a truly fantastic headline.

The reason I know that the KLF did not, in fact, burn a million pounds back in the 90s is because we spent some of the £50 notes intended for the fire in the local pub the next day after finding them fluttering down the beach with slightly singed edges. Better luck next time.

‘One night in Corfu, which is part of Greece, they had a Greek night.’

The Mount Etna video today is incredible. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

Back in the Twitter glory days I had a long-running thread where I was attempting to taste and rate every single sandwich available on the Tesco meal deal. Sadly Elon had to come along and ruin that, so I'm left with no other choice: I'm starting again. On here. Let's go ...

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

I tried to post about this on FB and this is what popped up. “AI” indeed.

Don't have a podcast but want to start one? No problem. Here are my suggestions for podcasts that don't exist but definitely should. I look forward to listening 👍

The view from space as Mount #Etna in Sicily, Italy erupts 🌋

Plus the article has repeated quotes from *actual Government ministers* saying we won't do this. But the article represents it as something Labour is doing. Rather than a tiny faction pushing their agenda

So I was not mistaken in thinking this place is slowing down...

Captain Sensible’s cricket bat guitar.

1938, Marine Court, Hastings. Designed by Kenneth Dalgleish & Roger Pullen, it was inspired by Dalgleish seeing the RMS Queen Mary sitting in dock at Greenock on a trip home to Scotland. At the time it was the UK's tallest residential building