Profile avatar
47thcenturyboy.bsky.social
Aspiring writer. I enjoy comics, cycling, and painting miniatures.
31 posts 118 followers 87 following
Regular Contributor
Conversation Starter
Posts 20 Comments 17

Oh look. So despite all the hand-wringing about Le Penn's sentence and the insistence that it would trigger great surges of public sympathy, hardly anyone came to her sadsack protest www.politico.eu/article/mari...

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Never trust a Tory talking about "oven ready deals." #BBCLauraK And one with Trump wouldn't be worth the paper it's printed on.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It is also worth noting that the UK could double its healthcare spending and still only be just above average.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A homeopath being among roles on the UK skilled worker visa list just shows the government is now pandering to the 0.00000000000000000000001% (Sorry.)

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe the plan is to make Putin laugh so hard his head literally falls off.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

And BBC News was breathlessly reporting about the opportunities of AI and interviewing Amazon Europe's AI person with zero criticism or even a hint of scepticism.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Please sign this.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The @wildjustice.bsky.social petition to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 50k. Halfway. Please feel free to sign it if you object to gamekeepers exterminating almost all other species so that pissed toffs can shoot medicated birds in decimated landscapes. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

Any time #24HoursInPoliceCustody is in or around Bedford, I spend half the episode seeing if I recognise where they are or who they're talking to.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I didn't realise #UniversityChallenge was a blood sport.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Is Elon Musk's plan to keep publicly soiling himself with his deranged posts about UK politics in the hope we all go back to Twitter to watch the sorry spectacle?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

The #Gladiators Celebrity Special was brilliant. Good change to Gauntlet. Bring on series 2.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Calling Sadiq Khan's knighthood a "reward for failure" is a bit rich from the party that knighted Gavin Williamson and gave Chris Grayling a peerage.

submitted 107 days ago • 28 comments

Loose regulation, austerity, repeat: The UK economy, explained. From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 110 days ago • 19 comments

I live near Milton Keynes and am a massive Superman fan. I didn't know that part of Superman 4 was filmed there. Every day's a school day. #CelebrityMasterMind

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I'm currently having a crack at Mass Effect Andromeda in an effort to finish it. So I was surprised to see an article on Vice about someone doing the same thing. Except it never talks about them actually doing it, just why they are. Which is baffling, it feels unfinished.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

The new #WallaceAndGromit is the best show on TV this Christmas. Maybe the best one since The Wrong Trousers.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

That was a bit one-sided. #UniversityChallenge

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Musk is reportedly considering a donation around 10x the size of the previous record donation. This is an Armada off Plymouth grade foreign assault on our democracy. We need to act like it.

submitted 119 days ago • 9 comments

It seems like the algorithm wants to keep showing me posts that are photos of motivational quotes. The same ones from different accounts. So, the third sighting earns a block. Maybe that will motivate some originality.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments