Sean Kenny
@sean73.bsky.social
Mostly grumpy.
Quite likes climbing rocks.
London.
Quite likes climbing rocks.
London.
Obviously for most of human history these things have not been particularly affordable.
Then for a while most people could afford these things but not a whole bunch else.
Then for a while most people could afford these things but not a whole bunch else.
Children are supposed to be affordable.
Housing is supposed to be affordable.
Food is supposed to be affordable.
Transport to get to work is supposed to be affordable.
Energy is supposed to be affordable.
Housing is supposed to be affordable.
Food is supposed to be affordable.
Transport to get to work is supposed to be affordable.
Energy is supposed to be affordable.
"don't have children if you can't afford them" lol it's not like getting a horse. Children are supposed to be affordable. Besides, when rich people have kids the kids become influencers or start t shirt brands and I can't think of anything worse for growth than having more of these ppl
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Obviously for most of human history these things have not been particularly affordable.
Then for a while most people could afford these things but not a whole bunch else.
Then for a while most people could afford these things but not a whole bunch else.
Cambridge academics making the basic mistake of thinking that fascists are just politicians like any other.
Still, when Enlightenment values no longer pay the mortgage and your kids’ school fees, I guess they must be junked.
Still, when Enlightenment values no longer pay the mortgage and your kids’ school fees, I guess they must be junked.
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Cambridge academics making the basic mistake of thinking that fascists are just politicians like any other.
Still, when Enlightenment values no longer pay the mortgage and your kids’ school fees, I guess they must be junked.
Still, when Enlightenment values no longer pay the mortgage and your kids’ school fees, I guess they must be junked.
Oh, university students are a bit limp and listless you say?
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Oh, university students are a bit limp and listless you say?
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Muscular Christianity.
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Muscular Christianity.
None of the details of this story come as a surprise.
Most healthcare workers act as if long covid is trivial or a joke. They ignore patients in order to cover up their own lack of knowledge about the condition.
Most healthcare workers act as if long covid is trivial or a joke. They ignore patients in order to cover up their own lack of knowledge about the condition.
CW: Death, Distressing Content
Devon Live: 'Devon woman killed by train after Long Covid struggle'
'A 58-year-old Teignmouth woman was struggling with debilitating long Covid symptoms when she took her own life, an inquest has heard.'
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Devon Live: 'Devon woman killed by train after Long Covid struggle'
'A 58-year-old Teignmouth woman was struggling with debilitating long Covid symptoms when she took her own life, an inquest has heard.'
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Devon woman killed by train after Long Covid struggle
Her heartbroken partner says she was 'let down' by the health service
www.devonlive.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
None of the details of this story come as a surprise.
Most healthcare workers act as if long covid is trivial or a joke. They ignore patients in order to cover up their own lack of knowledge about the condition.
Most healthcare workers act as if long covid is trivial or a joke. They ignore patients in order to cover up their own lack of knowledge about the condition.
This evening’s listening: a very special and wonderful piece of music.
open.spotify.com/track/21Aapi...
open.spotify.com/track/21Aapi...
Raga Surdasi Malhar-Drut Gat-Teental
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This evening’s listening: a very special and wonderful piece of music.
open.spotify.com/track/21Aapi...
open.spotify.com/track/21Aapi...
Licking an ice cream makes you look gay?!
Jeez, modern young men are more pathetic than I thought.
Jeez, modern young men are more pathetic than I thought.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Licking an ice cream makes you look gay?!
Jeez, modern young men are more pathetic than I thought.
Jeez, modern young men are more pathetic than I thought.
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In 1874, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity. This unorthodox discovery kicked off descriptive set theory, a field that works to organize and define abstract collections of mathematical objects. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In 1874, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity. This unorthodox discovery kicked off descriptive set theory, a field that works to organize and define abstract collections of mathematical objects. www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...
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People in the UK with #ME and #LongCOVID can complete the Big Survey, which is run every five years. There is a separate survey for under 17 year olds. The deadline is 27th January 2026. You can complete the survey online or on paper.
Our 2025 Big Survey is now open! 🎉
For more information, our FAQs, and to take part, head to our web page: www.actionforme.org.uk/research-campaigns/our-research-work/big-survey/
Thank you for supporting our research💙
🤝in collaboration with
@durhamimh.bsky.social @kacheston.bsky.social
For more information, our FAQs, and to take part, head to our web page: www.actionforme.org.uk/research-campaigns/our-research-work/big-survey/
Thank you for supporting our research💙
🤝in collaboration with
@durhamimh.bsky.social @kacheston.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
People in the UK with #ME and #LongCOVID can complete the Big Survey, which is run every five years. There is a separate survey for under 17 year olds. The deadline is 27th January 2026. You can complete the survey online or on paper.
No safety rules and you can stand up on landing (or take off)?
May I suggest a Sri Lankan bus?
May I suggest a Sri Lankan bus?
[I apologise in advance]. Fifteen years of prime ministerial travel ruined me for the real world. Planes held for you if there was traffic on the M25. No safety rules. When I flew on a real plane after a couple of years, I caused an incident because I'd forgotten you can't stand up on landing.
The one time I got to travel on a Prime Ministerial plane, the thing that sticks in my mind is that it turns out to be entirely OK to stand around chatting over a glass of champagne *while taxying to the runway*, so long as you sit down for the actual take-off. Any safety announcement? Forget it.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
No safety rules and you can stand up on landing (or take off)?
May I suggest a Sri Lankan bus?
May I suggest a Sri Lankan bus?
Can I get a GP appointment on any day of the week?
Yes I can.
Can I get the GP to take my long covid seriously at said appointment?
Generally, no.
Yes I can.
Can I get the GP to take my long covid seriously at said appointment?
Generally, no.
I am constantly so impressed with my local GP clinic. It is impossibly efficient. There is no relationship with an individual doctor - I don't want one - but the moment you have a concern about something they sort a call back that day or a walk-in appointment that week. They're just brilliant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Can I get a GP appointment on any day of the week?
Yes I can.
Can I get the GP to take my long covid seriously at said appointment?
Generally, no.
Yes I can.
Can I get the GP to take my long covid seriously at said appointment?
Generally, no.
Once again we can see the 25-30% of the population who are socially conservative/reactionary and want a society of “oneness and sameness”. They are loud and angry, which unfortunately makes politicians believe there are more of them than there actually are.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Once again we can see the 25-30% of the population who are socially conservative/reactionary and want a society of “oneness and sameness”. They are loud and angry, which unfortunately makes politicians believe there are more of them than there actually are.
It wasn’t far from this to the Threads traffic warden.
Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It wasn’t far from this to the Threads traffic warden.
Nice Asian boy in “can deal with toxic uncles” shocker.
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Nice Asian boy in “can deal with toxic uncles” shocker.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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My Dad was on the frontline trying not to catch Covid, ferrying passengers on his unsafe London bus, from Ealing hospital through Brent, where Covid levels were high. He washed his hands so much they bled. He had no PPE. He died of Covid 03 May 2020.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My Dad was on the frontline trying not to catch Covid, ferrying passengers on his unsafe London bus, from Ealing hospital through Brent, where Covid levels were high. He washed his hands so much they bled. He had no PPE. He died of Covid 03 May 2020.
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A devastating thread
One guy got locked up in immigration detention without his medication. He went blind. Lost all his vision. He wasn’t deported. They threw him out of detention for being blind and made him homeless
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A devastating thread
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Today, as the #CovidInquiry releases its module 2 report, we are thinking especially of everyone who will have to relive the trauma of that time, who will have to hear of the government failings that led to their loved ones' deaths.
We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️
We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Today, as the #CovidInquiry releases its module 2 report, we are thinking especially of everyone who will have to relive the trauma of that time, who will have to hear of the government failings that led to their loved ones' deaths.
We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️
We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️
Yet.
TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHITE HOUSE SAYS
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yet.
How your email finds me, etc.
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
How your email finds me, etc.
Obviously visas for the rich, a kicking for the destitute and desperate was EXACTLY why I voted Labour.
More! Give me MORE of this!
More! Give me MORE of this!
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival on.ft.com/44n8xnA
High earners to be eligible for UK settlement within 3 years of arrival
Home secretary says ‘brightest and best’ will be fast-tracked while others will have to wait up to 30 years
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Obviously visas for the rich, a kicking for the destitute and desperate was EXACTLY why I voted Labour.
More! Give me MORE of this!
More! Give me MORE of this!
The government who cannot pick advisers who understand their brief will be able to successfully pick the immigrants we need.
Oh yes.
Oh yes.
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The government who cannot pick advisers who understand their brief will be able to successfully pick the immigrants we need.
Oh yes.
Oh yes.
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Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
Intellectually adrift, where does Labour’s liberal wing go from here?
The tradition of Gaitskell, Crosland, Jenkins, Blair and Brown stands at a crossroads.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...