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
"The North certainly does not remember ffs"
"Last night I heard my mama singing a song,
Ooh-wee, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep".
Ooh-wee, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep".
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"The North certainly does not remember ffs"
A reminder that I went to Brentford two years ago and we turned in quite possibly our worst ever premier league display, and missed an open goal
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder that I went to Brentford two years ago and we turned in quite possibly our worst ever premier league display, and missed an open goal
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*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
Today is the day for finding out that the Roman Empire wasn't a state apparently
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Today is the day for finding out that the Roman Empire wasn't a state apparently
Finally shamed by wife into taking her bike into the local cycle shop for repairs and service
The poor bloke took one look at it and said "well, this is going to be expensive"
Look after your bikes everyone!
The poor bloke took one look at it and said "well, this is going to be expensive"
Look after your bikes everyone!
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Finally shamed by wife into taking her bike into the local cycle shop for repairs and service
The poor bloke took one look at it and said "well, this is going to be expensive"
Look after your bikes everyone!
The poor bloke took one look at it and said "well, this is going to be expensive"
Look after your bikes everyone!
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Young pufflings almost need to fall off a cliff on their first flight.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
It's 'throw a baby puffin off a cliff' season in Iceland
Young puffins have to leave their burrows alone, without the help of their parents, and find the ocean. Every year, local Icelanders set out to help.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Young pufflings almost need to fall off a cliff on their first flight.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Village down the road from us has just surrendered to an invading bin army and they are having a victory parade down the high street
Goes without saying that I for one welcome our new bin overlords
Goes without saying that I for one welcome our new bin overlords
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Village down the road from us has just surrendered to an invading bin army and they are having a victory parade down the high street
Goes without saying that I for one welcome our new bin overlords
Goes without saying that I for one welcome our new bin overlords
Current mood
Listening to "Civil War" by Guns and Roses
Listening to "Civil War" by Guns and Roses
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Current mood
Listening to "Civil War" by Guns and Roses
Listening to "Civil War" by Guns and Roses
Got to hand it to the broadsheets over the last couple of days
Telling everyone that the budget is bad news for people with loads of money may not be having the effect that they think it is
Telling everyone that the budget is bad news for people with loads of money may not be having the effect that they think it is
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Got to hand it to the broadsheets over the last couple of days
Telling everyone that the budget is bad news for people with loads of money may not be having the effect that they think it is
Telling everyone that the budget is bad news for people with loads of money may not be having the effect that they think it is
Jesus
Look, I know its good radio and all that but surely we are at the stage where we don't let the facebook truthers on, or even better, tell them live on the air what is wrong with them?
Look, I know its good radio and all that but surely we are at the stage where we don't let the facebook truthers on, or even better, tell them live on the air what is wrong with them?
There’s not enough facepalm in the world for this LBC caller who insisted that Brighton’s Muslim mayor had cancelled a Union Flag exhibition, even after learning that the mayor isn’t Muslim.
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/28/l...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/28/l...
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Jesus
Look, I know its good radio and all that but surely we are at the stage where we don't let the facebook truthers on, or even better, tell them live on the air what is wrong with them?
Look, I know its good radio and all that but surely we are at the stage where we don't let the facebook truthers on, or even better, tell them live on the air what is wrong with them?
Asimovs three laws of Robotics are just a guideline apparently
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Asimovs three laws of Robotics are just a guideline apparently
THEY WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED EVERYONE
Immigration drops off a cliff so they twist the narrative
It quite frankly boils my piss and its deeply dishonest
Immigration drops off a cliff so they twist the narrative
It quite frankly boils my piss and its deeply dishonest
Asylum seekers now make up nearly half of net migration to the UK and the number housed in hotels has increased despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to end their use ⬇️
Asylum seekers account for almost half of net migration
New statistics showed a fall in net migration as British citizens and non-EU migrants left the UK, but the number of asylum seekers in hotels has grown
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
THEY WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED EVERYONE
Immigration drops off a cliff so they twist the narrative
It quite frankly boils my piss and its deeply dishonest
Immigration drops off a cliff so they twist the narrative
It quite frankly boils my piss and its deeply dishonest
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Our information space is dominated by a system that demands and rewards continous and immediate emotional gratification, so you can't even begin to have a discussion about complex issues. It's a bright cancer that spreads and multiplies with every interaction.
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Our information space is dominated by a system that demands and rewards continous and immediate emotional gratification, so you can't even begin to have a discussion about complex issues. It's a bright cancer that spreads and multiplies with every interaction.
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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)