Rich
@pibasedlifeform.bsky.social
We won the League at Ewood Park - Burnley FC
Centrist dad
History/Ancient History lover, huge fan of mountains and hills - finished the Wainwrights 2025
Centrist dad
History/Ancient History lover, huge fan of mountains and hills - finished the Wainwrights 2025
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Also Labour MPs know it’s not a vote winner, they just want to do it because they think it’s right. How’s that become such an alien concept in our politics?
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Also Labour MPs know it’s not a vote winner, they just want to do it because they think it’s right. How’s that become such an alien concept in our politics?
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As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
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 1:30 PM
As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.
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1/2 Guerre d'Ukraine | 26/11/25
Secteurs :
🌐 Vovchansk🔹U251126-1346
🌐 Borova-Svatove🔹U251126-1353
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251126-1357
🌐 Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad-Rodynske🔹U251126-1400
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
Secteurs :
🌐 Vovchansk🔹U251126-1346
🌐 Borova-Svatove🔹U251126-1353
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251126-1357
🌐 Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad-Rodynske🔹U251126-1400
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
1/2 Guerre d'Ukraine | 26/11/25
Secteurs :
🌐 Vovchansk🔹U251126-1346
🌐 Borova-Svatove🔹U251126-1353
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251126-1357
🌐 Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad-Rodynske🔹U251126-1400
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
Secteurs :
🌐 Vovchansk🔹U251126-1346
🌐 Borova-Svatove🔹U251126-1353
🌐 Lyman-Siversk🔹U251126-1357
🌐 Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad-Rodynske🔹U251126-1400
#UkraineRussianWar #GuerreEnUkraine
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[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
[blind date]
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
WOMAN: When I saw your photo I assumed you would be the man *holding* the fish.
FISH: [flipping and flopping about on the table] Can we talk about this later.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Life goals: batting in greaves instead of pads.
Richard Burton playing cricket on the set of Alexander The Great during filming in Spain in the summer of 1955
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Life goals: batting in greaves instead of pads.
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Britain:
American taxes and Scandinavian public services for the old.
Scandinavian taxes and American public services for the young.
American taxes and Scandinavian public services for the old.
Scandinavian taxes and American public services for the young.
having gone to university as the last cohort of the 3k/year system never fails to give me a brief taste of that "last chopper out of Saigon" feeling boomers and, to an extent, Gen Xers have been getting for most of the past fifteen years or so
Student loan repayment thresholds frozen for a further three years.
More debt burden falling on graduates.
And even more reason to cut university places by 20-30%.
More debt burden falling on graduates.
And even more reason to cut university places by 20-30%.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Britain:
American taxes and Scandinavian public services for the old.
Scandinavian taxes and American public services for the young.
American taxes and Scandinavian public services for the old.
Scandinavian taxes and American public services for the young.
Cold Kebab meat pizza
Mount Rushmore of foods that taste better the next day is a great idea
Beef Stew
Gumbo
Chicken Adobo
What's the 4th one?
Beef Stew
Gumbo
Chicken Adobo
What's the 4th one?
What’s your Mount Rushmore of foods that taste better the next day?
Inspired by making gumbo tonight
Inspired by making gumbo tonight
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cold Kebab meat pizza
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Not enough credit is given to the safety feature of switching off the lightsaber if your hand has been chopped off.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Not enough credit is given to the safety feature of switching off the lightsaber if your hand has been chopped off.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Recently digitised - off the Burma coast, during amphibious operations against the Japanese, Royal Navy destroyer HMS Eskimo conducts a shore bombardment; March 1945. Shot by Lt Ferris. #navalhistory #ww2 #filmcataloguing
Full film: IWM JIN 27 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM JIN 27 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Recently digitised - off the Burma coast, during amphibious operations against the Japanese, Royal Navy destroyer HMS Eskimo conducts a shore bombardment; March 1945. Shot by Lt Ferris. #navalhistory #ww2 #filmcataloguing
Full film: IWM JIN 27 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM JIN 27 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Me and Mrs PBLF bought a house together in 2001
Cos me and Mrs PBLF already had houses, and we sold them to buy a bigger house we have a very nice house that has increased in value by a stupid amount
We've done nothing to earn that
Nothing
That is the reality of people moaning about yesterday
Cos me and Mrs PBLF already had houses, and we sold them to buy a bigger house we have a very nice house that has increased in value by a stupid amount
We've done nothing to earn that
Nothing
That is the reality of people moaning about yesterday
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Me and Mrs PBLF bought a house together in 2001
Cos me and Mrs PBLF already had houses, and we sold them to buy a bigger house we have a very nice house that has increased in value by a stupid amount
We've done nothing to earn that
Nothing
That is the reality of people moaning about yesterday
Cos me and Mrs PBLF already had houses, and we sold them to buy a bigger house we have a very nice house that has increased in value by a stupid amount
We've done nothing to earn that
Nothing
That is the reality of people moaning about yesterday
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I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I also think that part of this is the weird disappearance of economics from our national debate.
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
It just... doesnt seem to matter that much to many people
If the Leader of UKIP in Wales was one then its a perfectly reasonable question
I mean, its not like we have clips of Farage on Russian State TV is it....oh
I think we really do need to move on from the
"How can he be a Russian asset, he wears Union Jack shoes" idea of what constitutes a patriot
I mean, its not like we have clips of Farage on Russian State TV is it....oh
I think we really do need to move on from the
"How can he be a Russian asset, he wears Union Jack shoes" idea of what constitutes a patriot
‘Is Nigel Farage a Russian asset?’
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
‘Are you seriously asking me that?’
@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social refuses to back down while questioning Reform’s Zia Yusuf.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
If the Leader of UKIP in Wales was one then its a perfectly reasonable question
I mean, its not like we have clips of Farage on Russian State TV is it....oh
I think we really do need to move on from the
"How can he be a Russian asset, he wears Union Jack shoes" idea of what constitutes a patriot
I mean, its not like we have clips of Farage on Russian State TV is it....oh
I think we really do need to move on from the
"How can he be a Russian asset, he wears Union Jack shoes" idea of what constitutes a patriot
Trying to persuade my bright 17 year old that University is probably worth considering
Pretty sure this is not going to help
Pretty sure this is not going to help
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Trying to persuade my bright 17 year old that University is probably worth considering
Pretty sure this is not going to help
Pretty sure this is not going to help
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the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
Christ
I get there is a far amount of electioneering in this, but its still a stark reminder that the US has gone completely off the rails if you are an ally of it
I get there is a far amount of electioneering in this, but its still a stark reminder that the US has gone completely off the rails if you are an ally of it
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Christ
I get there is a far amount of electioneering in this, but its still a stark reminder that the US has gone completely off the rails if you are an ally of it
I get there is a far amount of electioneering in this, but its still a stark reminder that the US has gone completely off the rails if you are an ally of it
"Could" doing some mightily heavy lifting here!
Homeowners living in properties worth more than £2m will pay thousands of pounds more in tax each year after the chancellor unveiled plans for a new mansion tax
Mansion tax ‘could drag 190,000 homeowners into financial ruin’
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"Could" doing some mightily heavy lifting here!
Has anyone sat poor old Allister down and said
"Mate, you won't last if you continue at this speed, there are almost four years to go, you have to pace yourself"
At this rate by Xmas he'll be claiming to posting from a Gulag on a remote part of the Shetlands
"Mate, you won't last if you continue at this speed, there are almost four years to go, you have to pace yourself"
At this rate by Xmas he'll be claiming to posting from a Gulag on a remote part of the Shetlands
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Has anyone sat poor old Allister down and said
"Mate, you won't last if you continue at this speed, there are almost four years to go, you have to pace yourself"
At this rate by Xmas he'll be claiming to posting from a Gulag on a remote part of the Shetlands
"Mate, you won't last if you continue at this speed, there are almost four years to go, you have to pace yourself"
At this rate by Xmas he'll be claiming to posting from a Gulag on a remote part of the Shetlands
Evidence?
Nah mate, you can't the MSM*, I do my own research
*unless it tells me exactly what I want to hear
Nah mate, you can't the MSM*, I do my own research
*unless it tells me exactly what I want to hear
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Evidence?
Nah mate, you can't the MSM*, I do my own research
*unless it tells me exactly what I want to hear
Nah mate, you can't the MSM*, I do my own research
*unless it tells me exactly what I want to hear
Watched 20 mins of the Liverpool performance
Lot of players not putting the work in at all
Lot of players not putting the work in at all
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Watched 20 mins of the Liverpool performance
Lot of players not putting the work in at all
Lot of players not putting the work in at all