Ian
@bils.bsky.social
Shy, retiring, wide-awoke, Cotswold-based éminence-grise. Cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin.
Minute by minute, day after day; I think it's over but I just can't get away.
Minute by minute, day after day; I think it's over but I just can't get away.
When was it deemed necessary to give every sodding full moon of the year a twee "Live Live Laugh" name?
January 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
When was it deemed necessary to give every sodding full moon of the year a twee "Live Live Laugh" name?
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Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works
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Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
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From Geebeebies, no less.
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
December 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
From Geebeebies, no less.
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?
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If we’ve learned anything these past few years, it's that:
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers
3) Poverty is a policy choice
4) Health care is a human right
5) Strikes work
Let's keep fighting for a better world.
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers
3) Poverty is a policy choice
4) Health care is a human right
5) Strikes work
Let's keep fighting for a better world.
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If we’ve learned anything these past few years, it's that:
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers
3) Poverty is a policy choice
4) Health care is a human right
5) Strikes work
Let's keep fighting for a better world.
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers
3) Poverty is a policy choice
4) Health care is a human right
5) Strikes work
Let's keep fighting for a better world.
Xmas TV review.
Didn't bother with a minute of it.
Streamed a few movies, played board games, talked with family.
Didn't bother with a minute of it.
Streamed a few movies, played board games, talked with family.
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Xmas TV review.
Didn't bother with a minute of it.
Streamed a few movies, played board games, talked with family.
Didn't bother with a minute of it.
Streamed a few movies, played board games, talked with family.
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I’m not the only one sick to the hind teeth of Farage swerving accountability for his racism, lining his own pockets while constantly undermining and talking down our Country as a sitting MP
So how do we bring the toxic little t*rd down in 2026❓
So how do we bring the toxic little t*rd down in 2026❓
More evidence of Farage the neo-nazi, racist schoolbully as ex teacher speaks out👇🏼
Inc his publicly professed racist & neo-fascist views, including an incident where he was so offensive to a boy he had to be removed from his lesson
In my day he’d have got a hiding from peers to stop his bullying❗️
Inc his publicly professed racist & neo-fascist views, including an incident where he was so offensive to a boy he had to be removed from his lesson
In my day he’d have got a hiding from peers to stop his bullying❗️
‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims
Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m not the only one sick to the hind teeth of Farage swerving accountability for his racism, lining his own pockets while constantly undermining and talking down our Country as a sitting MP
So how do we bring the toxic little t*rd down in 2026❓
So how do we bring the toxic little t*rd down in 2026❓
Such a sad piece of news to come home to.
Those of you who came along to the 2024 Bellowhead tour will remember our wonderful helicon player and dear friend Ed Neuhauser taking centre stage for the introduction to Fire Marengo.
What you wouldn't have realised is that Ed had been diagnosed with a brain tumour twelve months previously.
What you wouldn't have realised is that Ed had been diagnosed with a brain tumour twelve months previously.
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Such a sad piece of news to come home to.
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Can we make a start at redacting King Donald the Mad for Xmas?
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Can we make a start at redacting King Donald the Mad for Xmas?
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‘Reform UK isn’t undermined by bad apples, it’s actively harvesting them’…more brilliant writing from @bearlypolitics.co.uk… open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
Reform UK Doesn’t Just Have a Racism Problem - It Has a Racism Infrastructure
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
‘Reform UK isn’t undermined by bad apples, it’s actively harvesting them’…more brilliant writing from @bearlypolitics.co.uk… open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
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This👇🏼makes me steam
Farage avoids investigation by Police re alleged illegal overspending during election on technicality❌
Electoral Commission refused to investigate as “nothing to see”❌
Nothing happened re alleged avoidance of £40K stamp duty on £800K house❌
If it was us we’d be charged / fined😡
Farage avoids investigation by Police re alleged illegal overspending during election on technicality❌
Electoral Commission refused to investigate as “nothing to see”❌
Nothing happened re alleged avoidance of £40K stamp duty on £800K house❌
If it was us we’d be charged / fined😡
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This👇🏼makes me steam
Farage avoids investigation by Police re alleged illegal overspending during election on technicality❌
Electoral Commission refused to investigate as “nothing to see”❌
Nothing happened re alleged avoidance of £40K stamp duty on £800K house❌
If it was us we’d be charged / fined😡
Farage avoids investigation by Police re alleged illegal overspending during election on technicality❌
Electoral Commission refused to investigate as “nothing to see”❌
Nothing happened re alleged avoidance of £40K stamp duty on £800K house❌
If it was us we’d be charged / fined😡
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The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
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Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Michael Sheen is just. An exemplary human being in so many ways
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The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
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I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
Well...
Either that's my Amazon delivery making it's final approach before landing, or there's something unexpected among tomorrow's Christmas cards!
Either that's my Amazon delivery making it's final approach before landing, or there's something unexpected among tomorrow's Christmas cards!
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Well...
Either that's my Amazon delivery making it's final approach before landing, or there's something unexpected among tomorrow's Christmas cards!
Either that's my Amazon delivery making it's final approach before landing, or there's something unexpected among tomorrow's Christmas cards!
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I’ve done some things in my past that I find difficult to talk about for example there was the time I picked a peck of pickled pepper.
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve done some things in my past that I find difficult to talk about for example there was the time I picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Foolishly decided to watch England play cricket again.
Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time.
a man in a military uniform with a mustache is making a funny face and says baaaah .
Alt: Stephen Fry as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC KCB DSO, in Blackadder Goes Forth. Subtitle: “Baaaaaah”
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Foolishly decided to watch England play cricket again.
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They’re on the side of working people update
People on low incomes in County Durham are about to be hit with a council tax bill for the first time.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
Reform-led Durham County Council has voted to scrap full council tax exemptions for people on the lowest incomes.
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
They’re on the side of working people update
Watching the football last night, I'm not sure my subtitles have quite synched correctly.
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Watching the football last night, I'm not sure my subtitles have quite synched correctly.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"