James C
@iguandonjim.bsky.social
New name, same pastry face, emigrating from The Bad Place
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Anyone in my network been to Udine? Any recommendations?
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyone in my network been to Udine? Any recommendations?
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
She's a woeful Chancellor for a supposedly socially-democratic party, and her biggest failing is that she is a creature/sleeper agent of the Treasury but I cannot stand the rampant misogyny
I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
She's a woeful Chancellor for a supposedly socially-democratic party, and her biggest failing is that she is a creature/sleeper agent of the Treasury but I cannot stand the rampant misogyny
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I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.
This sounds fun!
People talk about trying not to put on weight at Christmas, when a Christmas tradition my friends and I share is weighing ourselves on the morning and evening of Christmas day to see what percentage of us is Christmas Dinner. (The goal is to become 10% Christmas Dinner, but the current record is 7%)
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This sounds fun!
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To charm a dragon
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
To charm a dragon
Fuck me. Calamity after calamity
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Fuck me. Calamity after calamity
It's all a ploy by Big Turkey to get people to buy even more of the stupid tasteless meat from the gobblers
What's your hottest Thanksgiving food take?
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's all a ploy by Big Turkey to get people to buy even more of the stupid tasteless meat from the gobblers
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Ross on Rachel's prom night
Incredibly sad and unbecoming when you have to briefly use microsoft edge for something and it asks to be made your default browser. Have a little self respect.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ross on Rachel's prom night
Orobusos
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Orobusos
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The fuel duty freeze will cost ~ twice as much as completing the MML electrification programme. She won't get any credit for the freeze, but would for a visible and beneficial investment in the North's rail infrastructure.
Naturally, she choses the former.
"The adults are back in charge" my arse.
Naturally, she choses the former.
"The adults are back in charge" my arse.
about half of that
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The fuel duty freeze will cost ~ twice as much as completing the MML electrification programme. She won't get any credit for the freeze, but would for a visible and beneficial investment in the North's rail infrastructure.
Naturally, she choses the former.
"The adults are back in charge" my arse.
Naturally, she choses the former.
"The adults are back in charge" my arse.
Democratic check aside, I felt that going through a jury trial taught me so much about law and society, it should be mandatory for everyone to do early in their adult life
INCREASE JURY TRIALS is what I say
INCREASE JURY TRIALS is what I say
I've done more than my fair share of jury service - 4 cases in total - and am in favour of it as a direct result of that experience. It works. Feels like an important democratic check (not least) on the power of judges - who, through no fault of their own - must inevitably get jaded by experience.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Democratic check aside, I felt that going through a jury trial taught me so much about law and society, it should be mandatory for everyone to do early in their adult life
INCREASE JURY TRIALS is what I say
INCREASE JURY TRIALS is what I say
What
I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
What
Honestly, I'm going to scream. BBC's local news network is full of green ink crap stories but this one takes the biscuit.
I guess the alternative to spending £1.2 million before it is built is... Not designing it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I guess the alternative to spending £1.2 million before it is built is... Not designing it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council spends £1.2m on Peterborough bridge before construction - BBC News
Work on the delayed Cygnet Bridge project in Peterborough is due to start in 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Honestly, I'm going to scream. BBC's local news network is full of green ink crap stories but this one takes the biscuit.
I guess the alternative to spending £1.2 million before it is built is... Not designing it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I guess the alternative to spending £1.2 million before it is built is... Not designing it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
@secondmentions.bsky.social "underrated crucifer"
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IDGAF about American politics anymore, but Dim Philby is fantastic 😂
Dim Philby at work.
Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
IDGAF about American politics anymore, but Dim Philby is fantastic 😂
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pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
It is amazingly horrifying in how little Labour leaders have zero, even negative faith in the values that their party's supposed to stand for. I have the deepest sympathies for the party ground floor workers and supporters who're disgusted by this grotesque betrayal of their values. It's despairing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
Classic Chancellor move - do something to solve the current problem by giving an even bigger headache in the future.
All this will do is reduce people's private pensions, after what a decade and a half of the state trying to encourage people to invest in their private pension?
MADNESS
All this will do is reduce people's private pensions, after what a decade and a half of the state trying to encourage people to invest in their private pension?
MADNESS
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Classic Chancellor move - do something to solve the current problem by giving an even bigger headache in the future.
All this will do is reduce people's private pensions, after what a decade and a half of the state trying to encourage people to invest in their private pension?
MADNESS
All this will do is reduce people's private pensions, after what a decade and a half of the state trying to encourage people to invest in their private pension?
MADNESS
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Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.
RIP a legend
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
RIP a legend
Wheezing
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Wheezing
Actually it's not even close. Of course the British state would make a key plank of our governance and taxation system in theory simple but completely over-complicate it
Fuck me. Between Companies House and Lufthansa, it's quite the competition of "who has the worst on-line service". I think CH shades it though for sheer frustration
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Actually it's not even close. Of course the British state would make a key plank of our governance and taxation system in theory simple but completely over-complicate it
Fuck me. Between Companies House and Lufthansa, it's quite the competition of "who has the worst on-line service". I think CH shades it though for sheer frustration
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Fuck me. Between Companies House and Lufthansa, it's quite the competition of "who has the worst on-line service". I think CH shades it though for sheer frustration