steveb.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I remain aghast that Democrats cannot seem to gain traction or find effective messaging when the opposition is pro-Measles, pro-Putin, and so chaotic that no one has any idea who’s actually running the government right now. It’s just infuriating how feckless Democrats have been this past month.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

realized while emptying the dishwasher that Yoda is precisely wrong. not malevolently so. but there is no do and there is no do not. there is only try. this is clear to a man in his mid-fifties and so should be clear to a 900-year-old Jedi knight

submitted 2 days ago • 193 comments

John Barnes! The brilliant "A million open doors" series, and "Mother of Storms".

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

in unrelated news, I wish I could show this to my six year old self eating spaghetti hoops on toast and avidly watching Star Trek back in the early 70s

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

Starmer deployed his one skill - talking sensibly to make sure that nothing changes - and the outcome is that everyone said nice but empty things. Meanwhile the memes are flowing fast with famous UK gameshow / advert slogans that no-one outside of 80-90s UK will ever understand.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Dumping Tesla stock now isn't just good politics, it's a smart move financially. It's overvalued, the core business is in decline, and it's propped up by techno-fantasies that Musk can never deliver on. Sell while you can! #TeslaTakedown

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

to this day I'm still like "yes 2019, last year"

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I’m a scientist working on dark matter and neutron stars and I wouldn’t be who I am today without Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Haile Germima, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, A.A. Milne, Errol Morris, Star Trek, Herman Melville, Lorna Simpson, Edward Lear, Tina Turner, and so many others.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Your local bookstore needs you, and will continue to need you in the months and years ahead. Find your store and go there in person. If you don't have a Friendly Local, support a shop via Bookshop.org.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

That sound I just heard was a thousand Dionysus devotees screaming in delight #pagansky #dionysus

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you weren't around for it, I can't even describe "Going for Gold". Seems like he was just a lovely guy.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Wow – amazing news this morning. Getting to net zero will be even cheaper than we previously thought & could save households £700 a year on bills, with more savings from switch to EVs. This is win-win-win for people in the UK and govt must commit to making it happen.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Out today from Union Square & Co. — the new edition of Five Ways to Forgiveness! This volume includes the four tales from Four Ways to Forgiveness plus the story “Old Music and the Slave Woman” and an introduction by Nnedi Okorafor. A new audio edition is also coming later this year.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Keir Starmer's spokesman says that Donald Trump, who has called Zelensky a "dictator", who "started" the war with Russia, and is currently trying to extort his country out of hundreds of billions of dollars, has changed the global conversation on Ukraine "absolutely for the better"

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Also, this survey is very wrong. People want romance in their space shooty games, in their sword stabby games, abstract maths puzzle games... there's a game out soon where you romance the humanised inanimate objects in your house and it's going to make a billion dollars.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

She was rare, like a decent night’s sleep in 2025.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

companies listening to what people say they want instead of making art and just giving them something has been ruinous for games, movies and more for the last 10-15 years

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

My favourite part of the new Captain America movie is when he tries to extort Wakanda for $500b in Vibranium rights before "ironically" teaming up with Hydra to own the libs.

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 9 days ago • 1201 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 8 days ago • 323 comments

I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

submitted 9 days ago • 139 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

As @greenparty.org.uk has been calling for since #Brexit. Could go some way to restoring rights and freedoms of young Britons. Let's keep the pressure up! Make politics what you do, not have done to you www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Seriously one thing I think is really underrated about Fury Road is how the villains are a handful of gerontocrats, physically weak oligarchs who have resource hoarded / socially manipulated the young to doing their violent bidding.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

As a film & tv writer I struggle with this sooooooo much

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

stares in scientist

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series. Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

And I mean wild Drop f-bombs in every statement so they get covered Release classified info about Gabbard, Musk, Trump. Get arrested Barricade the Senate Treat the SOTU like Rocky Horror Hold a press conference naked & say THIS is how unprotected/vulnerable we are Get crazy, sane hasn’t helped

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Spare a thought of the parents of the wee kid at the Armagh Planetarium today. We're all gazing at the night sky in silent awe and the presenter zooms into Polaris. Little kid: WHAT THE FUCK?!?! The whole auditorium descends into 2 minutes of hysterical laughing.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is... unexpectedly encouraging.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Play stupid segregationist games Win stupid segregationist prizes. I’m going to Costco. Anyone want anything?

submitted 14 days ago • 134 comments

I was thinking of this evergreen tweet earlier today.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

And this was true 10 years ago.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

An extraordinary Roman statue of Athena called "The Halsted Athena" returns to public display after being held in a private collection for nearly 300 years. wildhunt.org/2025/01/the-... #art #sculpture #athena #romansculpture #halstedfoundation #hellenic #pagan #witchcraft #pagansky #witchsky

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

I rode the back of the bus. I buried Dr. King. You want me to participate in your little hate-a-thon against some other group? Kindly kiss my black ass.

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra. I have a Mabel.

submitted 17 days ago • 4537 comments

GREEN GAIN, stopping Reform in its tracks. 👏 Congratulations to Warwick District Green Party. Clear endorsement while running the council.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

At least the Death Star's vulnerability was as sophisticated as a thermal exhaust port.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A quick Benu fountain pen appreciation post.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments

They do know that this isn't how you take votes FROM the racists, don't they? I mean, they have seen the result of moving right / appeasing the right globally for the last 15 years? Useless AND contemptible.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Useless. There's been an exodus from London since housing became unaffordable - there's all kinds of buildings it needs more than the empty offices.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Replace them immediately, and any other party in any country who believe that this works. It doesn't work, so they will fail. Replace them.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Just watched all 8.5 hours of the Critical Role finale (not all in one session, but I was tempted). An end to not just Campaign 3 but also rounding off Campaigns 1+2 and 10 years of characters. Great storytelling, congrats to all at CR!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

TOM AND JERRY now have a live 24/7 YouTube channel to celebrate their 85th anniversary — available worldwide. Sounds like it may be only this month, so watch while you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFK... #TomAndJerry #FilmSky

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Sick, bro. Which part of government are you comfortable with a few "scars" from disrupting? Healthcare? Policing? Food safety? Pensions? National security?

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

UK Tour on sale now! Tickets available from venue box offices and Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.co.uk/tim-minchin-... More information and all venue links at www.timminchin.com

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments