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Big Fez
@bigfez.bsky.social
· Mar 26
85% of wrong political opinions can be avoided simply by asking the question 'and what do you think the *other* person will do then?'
Are you weird about one specific thing? Have you considered not talking about it?
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Are you weird about one specific thing? Have you considered not talking about it?
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
This is a great idea, during what's often the crappest time of year for a lot of folk - middle of January. All gigs are free!
www.leithjazz.com
www.leithjazz.com
Leith Winter Blues Weekend | Free Gigs in Edinburgh's Coolest Neighbourhood
Discover exciting performances at the Leith Jazz & Blues Festival. Check our programme, venue details, buy merch and involvement opportunities.
www.leithjazz.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is a great idea, during what's often the crappest time of year for a lot of folk - middle of January. All gigs are free!
www.leithjazz.com
www.leithjazz.com
Okay evidently most of you saw this a fortnight ago but i only saw it today so am sharing just in case anyone else missed out on their wee greet
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Okay evidently most of you saw this a fortnight ago but i only saw it today so am sharing just in case anyone else missed out on their wee greet
Can I interest you in hearing about our lord and saviour MMT?
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Can I interest you in hearing about our lord and saviour MMT?
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Locally and nationally, @scottishgreens.org are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor.
I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.
I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.
Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens
Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie has joined the Greens nearly three years after he quit the Labour party.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Locally and nationally, @scottishgreens.org are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor.
I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.
I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.
Paint is a scam.
Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!
Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Paint is a scam.
Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!
Oh, you've got some kind of mark on your paint? No, you can't get that off. Just need to buy more paint I guess!
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You can choose what your city looks like.
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You can choose what your city looks like.
(arguing with the assembly instructions:)
I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!
I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
(arguing with the assembly instructions:)
I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!
I'm not an ambi-kneeler, goddammit!
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Totally 1) devastated and 2) livid at this. I was a Brownie leader for ten years and a Brownie/Guide/Ranger and it’s such a valuable and underestimated safe space for young girls and women to develop confidence and find refuge, whatever their background or identity. This is so incredibly cruel.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Totally 1) devastated and 2) livid at this. I was a Brownie leader for ten years and a Brownie/Guide/Ranger and it’s such a valuable and underestimated safe space for young girls and women to develop confidence and find refuge, whatever their background or identity. This is so incredibly cruel.
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Algorithmic social media is such poison. I literally use TikTok to watch people cleaning vintage bags and cats being stupid and yet maybe three vids into a brief scroll through my FYP and I get a hateful transphobic video????? Fuck off!
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Algorithmic social media is such poison. I literally use TikTok to watch people cleaning vintage bags and cats being stupid and yet maybe three vids into a brief scroll through my FYP and I get a hateful transphobic video????? Fuck off!
What's that coming over the hill?
A great variety
Of morbid symptoms
A great variety
Of morbid symptoms
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
What's that coming over the hill?
A great variety
Of morbid symptoms
A great variety
Of morbid symptoms
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Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's one of those things where I *know* in a few years people will be like "Well, didn't it seem crazy at the time?" and yeah it did but still 90% of people just nodded along with it
It's fucking ridiculous that it's cheaper to get a plane from London to Glasgow than a train.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It's one of those things where I *know* in a few years people will be like "Well, didn't it seem crazy at the time?" and yeah it did but still 90% of people just nodded along with it
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WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WANTED: A Chair that does not give way when sat on.
loads of interesting stuff in here, and some good 'check my own assumptions' work as well
It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
loads of interesting stuff in here, and some good 'check my own assumptions' work as well
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath
Some costs aren’t costs.
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Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
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Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
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See also: The Onion's take on car bloat
Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
PRESCOTT, AZ—Explaining that she did not have any strong preferences when it came to make or model, area woman Laura Bauer, a conscientious SUV shopper, confirmed Wednesday that she just wanted someth...
theonion.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
See also: The Onion's take on car bloat
This album is more than twenty years old but a lot of the lyrics sound like they could have been written yesterday. Slightly disconcerting to be honest.
open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQ...
open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQ...
Where The Humans Eat
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This album is more than twenty years old but a lot of the lyrics sound like they could have been written yesterday. Slightly disconcerting to be honest.
open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQ...
open.spotify.com/album/0wz3WQ...
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Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.
Tenants union calls on council to strike off guilty Leith landlords
Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.
www.scottishhousingnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Living Rent has urged the City of Edinburgh Council to strike off two landlords who have been found guilty of serious misconduct at the First Tier Tribunal.