Matilda
@junklight.bsky.social
she/her - Queer - Trans
music & pictures & other nonsense.
ultimately disappointing
born at 322.18ppm
https://linktr.ee/junklight
music & pictures & other nonsense.
ultimately disappointing
born at 322.18ppm
https://linktr.ee/junklight
the uk waiting with baited breath to see _quite_ how much of a weasel Starmer is
January 3, 2026 at 12:26 PM
the uk waiting with baited breath to see _quite_ how much of a weasel Starmer is
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Guys relax, I'm sure today will have zero unintended consequences.
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Guys relax, I'm sure today will have zero unintended consequences.
please to discover all my young people are readers - I've never pushed them but I read ALL the time, the house is full of books & I read to them as children (nice as well - talking to one of my sons, asking what he remembers: way more than I expected (but my childhood memories are sadly lacking)
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 3, 2026 at 12:22 PM
please to discover all my young people are readers - I've never pushed them but I read ALL the time, the house is full of books & I read to them as children (nice as well - talking to one of my sons, asking what he remembers: way more than I expected (but my childhood memories are sadly lacking)
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I wonder how Starmer is eventually going to come out on this matter, without kissing up to Trump? midday Saturday UK time now - so far - tumbleweed blows by..... #venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I wonder how Starmer is eventually going to come out on this matter, without kissing up to Trump? midday Saturday UK time now - so far - tumbleweed blows by..... #venezuela
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It amazes me that so many Brits, a country where copious country house museums, trooping the colours & the Edinburgh tattoo all represent Imperial history, thinks that those they oppressed should shut up & move on.
It’s the same mindset that says ‘no one can do pomp & ceremony like Britain’
It’s the same mindset that says ‘no one can do pomp & ceremony like Britain’
January 2, 2026 at 8:36 PM
It amazes me that so many Brits, a country where copious country house museums, trooping the colours & the Edinburgh tattoo all represent Imperial history, thinks that those they oppressed should shut up & move on.
It’s the same mindset that says ‘no one can do pomp & ceremony like Britain’
It’s the same mindset that says ‘no one can do pomp & ceremony like Britain’
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Folks, this year will see from me:
-1 new novel.
-1 new edition of an old novel in a shiny new format + new art
-1 novella
-1 short story in an anthology
There's another new novel that's finished, but we haven't reached an agreement on the contract yet.
Plus the usual kids and karate posts.
-1 new novel.
-1 new edition of an old novel in a shiny new format + new art
-1 novella
-1 short story in an anthology
There's another new novel that's finished, but we haven't reached an agreement on the contract yet.
Plus the usual kids and karate posts.
January 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Folks, this year will see from me:
-1 new novel.
-1 new edition of an old novel in a shiny new format + new art
-1 novella
-1 short story in an anthology
There's another new novel that's finished, but we haven't reached an agreement on the contract yet.
Plus the usual kids and karate posts.
-1 new novel.
-1 new edition of an old novel in a shiny new format + new art
-1 novella
-1 short story in an anthology
There's another new novel that's finished, but we haven't reached an agreement on the contract yet.
Plus the usual kids and karate posts.
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First book finished in 2026.
Very enjoyable.
Unclear where things are landing until - possibly - the last page (or a sequel). In a very @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Europe, just not fractured in the usual way.
Part espionage story, part shaggy-dog story.
Very enjoyable.
Unclear where things are landing until - possibly - the last page (or a sequel). In a very @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Europe, just not fractured in the usual way.
Part espionage story, part shaggy-dog story.
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 AM
First book finished in 2026.
Very enjoyable.
Unclear where things are landing until - possibly - the last page (or a sequel). In a very @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Europe, just not fractured in the usual way.
Part espionage story, part shaggy-dog story.
Very enjoyable.
Unclear where things are landing until - possibly - the last page (or a sequel). In a very @hutchinsondave.bsky.social Europe, just not fractured in the usual way.
Part espionage story, part shaggy-dog story.
people who say "echo chamber" REALLY mean "why won't you listen while I abuse you" (while regurgitating the same ignorant rubbish that we've all heard a million times)
People who think and question have something to offer. I've learned so much interacting with queer & trans people.
People who think and question have something to offer. I've learned so much interacting with queer & trans people.
I've seen people say Blusky is an echo chamber.
An "Echo chamber" is when you put yourself in circumstances where you aren't presented with new or divergent ideas.
Avoiding spaces where such ideas are presented exclusively in toxic ways isn't an echo chamber-
It's self care.
An "Echo chamber" is when you put yourself in circumstances where you aren't presented with new or divergent ideas.
Avoiding spaces where such ideas are presented exclusively in toxic ways isn't an echo chamber-
It's self care.
January 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
people who say "echo chamber" REALLY mean "why won't you listen while I abuse you" (while regurgitating the same ignorant rubbish that we've all heard a million times)
People who think and question have something to offer. I've learned so much interacting with queer & trans people.
People who think and question have something to offer. I've learned so much interacting with queer & trans people.
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I live in a majority non-white working class area and I have never felt safer. What is really damaging London is money: high rents, chainification and blandification, the forces of gentrification pushing long standing working class and/or ethnic minority communities and local businesses out.
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I live in a majority non-white working class area and I have never felt safer. What is really damaging London is money: high rents, chainification and blandification, the forces of gentrification pushing long standing working class and/or ethnic minority communities and local businesses out.
Labours MO when it becomes apparent they've made a mistake is doubling down but hey everyone loves them and they are riding high in the polls.......
oh.
oh.
Begum may be 'distasteful', but it is pretty clear she was a victim of grooming and trafficking. The decision to make her defacto stateless is also clearly incompatibile with the principles of international law. Labour doubling down doesn't change that it is bad. 1/2
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shamima Begum: Home secretary to 'robustly defend' citizenship decision
The ECHR questions whether it was considered if Shamima Begum was a victim of grooming and trafficking.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Labours MO when it becomes apparent they've made a mistake is doubling down but hey everyone loves them and they are riding high in the polls.......
oh.
oh.
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I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?
t.co/jIObxTAoeL
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if you keep eating the bullshit they serve they are going to keep serving it forever.
This isn't hard guys. Just don't share their shit. don't talk about it. don't click it. don't read it. your quips are shit and not helping us even if they were good. fucking stop.
This isn't hard guys. Just don't share their shit. don't talk about it. don't click it. don't read it. your quips are shit and not helping us even if they were good. fucking stop.
December 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
if you keep eating the bullshit they serve they are going to keep serving it forever.
This isn't hard guys. Just don't share their shit. don't talk about it. don't click it. don't read it. your quips are shit and not helping us even if they were good. fucking stop.
This isn't hard guys. Just don't share their shit. don't talk about it. don't click it. don't read it. your quips are shit and not helping us even if they were good. fucking stop.
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This stuff is infuriating cos these women were as famous as male authors that everyone remembers, it's just we don't memorialise women. And that is WRONG. We need these female role models to understand that we all come from amazing - men & women. That's our real history. x /ends
December 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This stuff is infuriating cos these women were as famous as male authors that everyone remembers, it's just we don't memorialise women. And that is WRONG. We need these female role models to understand that we all come from amazing - men & women. That's our real history. x /ends
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we are going to live in a world without billionaires
December 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
we are going to live in a world without billionaires
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I love media exposing that they really only ever think of white people as people
To the point they try and dog whistle it because someone Brown wins a thing
To the point they try and dog whistle it because someone Brown wins a thing
December 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I love media exposing that they really only ever think of white people as people
To the point they try and dog whistle it because someone Brown wins a thing
To the point they try and dog whistle it because someone Brown wins a thing
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The BBC does NOT “tell the story of Britain.”
And nor does The Guardian.
Our mainstream media is overwhelmingly run by posh establishment journalists amplifying lazy & predictable “acceptable” narratives.
And nor does The Guardian.
Our mainstream media is overwhelmingly run by posh establishment journalists amplifying lazy & predictable “acceptable” narratives.
The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
I love many shows on the streaming channels, but the BBC is our storyteller. It defines a nation and its culture – and we must defend it, says former BBC director general Tony Hall
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The BBC does NOT “tell the story of Britain.”
And nor does The Guardian.
Our mainstream media is overwhelmingly run by posh establishment journalists amplifying lazy & predictable “acceptable” narratives.
And nor does The Guardian.
Our mainstream media is overwhelmingly run by posh establishment journalists amplifying lazy & predictable “acceptable” narratives.
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Several of the largest protest marches in the UK were trans rights marches in the the past few years. You probably wouldn't know this because the BBC coverage of them has been next to non-existent.
Meanwhile they will gladly headline a single transphobe staging a one-person protest.
Meanwhile they will gladly headline a single transphobe staging a one-person protest.
December 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Several of the largest protest marches in the UK were trans rights marches in the the past few years. You probably wouldn't know this because the BBC coverage of them has been next to non-existent.
Meanwhile they will gladly headline a single transphobe staging a one-person protest.
Meanwhile they will gladly headline a single transphobe staging a one-person protest.
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We can’t keep doing government this way, guys. Tax the rich and regulate their power to influence government because this isn’t working. And if the rich don’t like that plan, there’s always:
a picture of a ladder that says mnf on the top
Alt: a picture of a ladder that says mnf on the top
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We can’t keep doing government this way, guys. Tax the rich and regulate their power to influence government because this isn’t working. And if the rich don’t like that plan, there’s always:
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Notable that the hearty folk calling for the restoration of traditional English countryside practices have the support of a massive nine percent of the population. And can’t even muster a quarter of the Tory rump…
Britons support a ban on trail hunting by 50% to 29%
Support by 2024 vote
Green: 64%
Labour: 62%
Lib Dem: 50% (net +22)
Reform UK: 45% (net +5)
Con: 34% (net -13)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support by 2024 vote
Green: 64%
Labour: 62%
Lib Dem: 50% (net +22)
Reform UK: 45% (net +5)
Con: 34% (net -13)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
December 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Notable that the hearty folk calling for the restoration of traditional English countryside practices have the support of a massive nine percent of the population. And can’t even muster a quarter of the Tory rump…
Those live sets are superb (I've had them for ages - still exploring them )
Autechre have gotten better and better over the years
Autechre have gotten better and better over the years
Quick PSA, but Bleep's 50% off Warp sale is now on. Just dropped £15 on 19 Autechre live sets, which equates to just over 22 hours of pure ae: bleep.com/warp-boxing-...
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Those live sets are superb (I've had them for ages - still exploring them )
Autechre have gotten better and better over the years
Autechre have gotten better and better over the years
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Quick PSA, but Bleep's 50% off Warp sale is now on. Just dropped £15 on 19 Autechre live sets, which equates to just over 22 hours of pure ae: bleep.com/warp-boxing-...
December 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Quick PSA, but Bleep's 50% off Warp sale is now on. Just dropped £15 on 19 Autechre live sets, which equates to just over 22 hours of pure ae: bleep.com/warp-boxing-...
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A cultural catastrophe for whom?
The entitled White Middle class who the BBC cater for?
Because for everyone else it’s just Establishment propaganda, and the promotion of post-colonial delusions.
The entitled White Middle class who the BBC cater for?
Because for everyone else it’s just Establishment propaganda, and the promotion of post-colonial delusions.
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
A cultural catastrophe for whom?
The entitled White Middle class who the BBC cater for?
Because for everyone else it’s just Establishment propaganda, and the promotion of post-colonial delusions.
The entitled White Middle class who the BBC cater for?
Because for everyone else it’s just Establishment propaganda, and the promotion of post-colonial delusions.
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You “cultural catastrophe” has already happened. Any version of the BBC worth defending is long dead. What remains is a vehicle for corruption, propaganda and the normalization of prejudice.
It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.
It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You “cultural catastrophe” has already happened. Any version of the BBC worth defending is long dead. What remains is a vehicle for corruption, propaganda and the normalization of prejudice.
It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.
It deserves to be destroyed and I will cheer its passing.
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There's something grimly ironic about some defenders of generative AI not being able to think their way out of a wet paper bag.
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
There's something grimly ironic about some defenders of generative AI not being able to think their way out of a wet paper bag.