Dave Espley
@daveespley.bsky.social
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Dave Espley
@daveespley.bsky.social
· Jan 17
Pretty poor taste, when you know my friend Matthew was involved in that tragedy with the steamroller. Not cool B&Q. Not cool at all
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The main fact that stuck with me after writing a book about British Xmases is that The Times was complaining about decorations going up in October back in the *1930s*, Selfridges has had decorations up in Oct since at least the 1950s and the whole “earlier every year” thing is generally bollocks
Middle class people love to pretend to be appalled at Christmas decorations being either early or fun to look at, the ideal Christmas tree is put up at midnight on Christmas day and decorated only by a black cloak and an unlit matchstick
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The main fact that stuck with me after writing a book about British Xmases is that The Times was complaining about decorations going up in October back in the *1930s*, Selfridges has had decorations up in Oct since at least the 1950s and the whole “earlier every year” thing is generally bollocks
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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That moment when it dawns on you that your rival gang has stolen your clothes
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
That moment when it dawns on you that your rival gang has stolen your clothes
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racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
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me: do you have any black friday deals?
doctor: you’re losing a lot of blood
doctor: you’re losing a lot of blood
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
me: do you have any black friday deals?
doctor: you’re losing a lot of blood
doctor: you’re losing a lot of blood
and...2500 pianos?
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
and...2500 pianos?
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
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this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶
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November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Stuff like this is a real helpful moment for everyone to stop and consider whether it was a good and smart idea to crush and hound the anti racism and anti austerity movement, because they were threatening the careers of the horrible clowns that are now in government. Has this worked out well?
![I don't think Danny Kruger is being taken seriously enough - this is far more extreme than anything the Conservatives were allowed to get away with. He is effectively saying that being anti-racist and being trans are contrary to British national identity and his party is leading the polls.
• Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social • 6h
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn't do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician's core views just to emphasise the urgency.
Are we talking about empire? But he's moving into an explanation of how economics and migration are only part of the problem. The real issue, the real poison, the real fight is actually with the progressive left. The flag-waving is, yes, a deliberate hostile response to what Reform sees as "dangerous and transgressive ideas".
. These fall under "the
panoply we call 'woke"", he explains, "a word that trivialises quite a substantial set of ideas that are not to be treated flippantly.
Everything from BLM [Black Lives Matter], to trans, to the Palestinian agenda, to DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] in the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5hyjbx4hnlxe5il24ydnn4sr/bafkreidgivmslziichdhjujcnjsdwdknjy4ur7uy7djdmuht74jawy67am@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Stuff like this is a real helpful moment for everyone to stop and consider whether it was a good and smart idea to crush and hound the anti racism and anti austerity movement, because they were threatening the careers of the horrible clowns that are now in government. Has this worked out well?
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Boyfriend Ready To Take Relationship To Previous Level https://theonion.com/boyfriend-ready-to-take-relationship-to-previous-level-1819568844/
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Boyfriend Ready To Take Relationship To Previous Level https://theonion.com/boyfriend-ready-to-take-relationship-to-previous-level-1819568844/
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THIS JUST IN: Socialism won
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
THIS JUST IN: Socialism won
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Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
Nathan Gill; A traitor who was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting Russian adversaries, has been sentenced today.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
Reform UK should be ashamed. Britain deserves better.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.
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“A succulent nineteen wickets?”. #ashes #thecricket
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“A succulent nineteen wickets?”. #ashes #thecricket
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This seems like a good time to remind people that everyone in politics and media knew very well that Johnson was a bent, disastrous imbecile and that he was made Tory leader *specifically because* he was the candidate the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Express would all get behind.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This seems like a good time to remind people that everyone in politics and media knew very well that Johnson was a bent, disastrous imbecile and that he was made Tory leader *specifically because* he was the candidate the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Express would all get behind.
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The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.