Sturdy
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Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good
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It's Bandcamp Friday and I've remembered we have a Bluesky account so head on down to thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com and get some (or all) of our stuff (This is Mat btw but you can tell that from the accent)
The People With The Telly Heads, by The Wind-up Birds
track by The Wind-up Birds
thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's Bandcamp Friday and I've remembered we have a Bluesky account so head on down to thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com and get some (or all) of our stuff (This is Mat btw but you can tell that from the accent)
The fact there's even the tiniest hint of a debate about whether or not this very obviously racist man who has built his entire career on being a racist is a racist or not. I... I just can't.
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The fact there's even the tiniest hint of a debate about whether or not this very obviously racist man who has built his entire career on being a racist is a racist or not. I... I just can't.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.
Just did put this to the test and wow, it's absolutely true 🥹
I saw the video for the Dead's "Touch of Grey" not long ago and started idly reading the comments---just so much sadness, regret, loss, resilience. Broken friendships and marriages, dead parents and siblings, failed jobs: one after the other. a heartbreaking & kind of beautiful collection
same! @lukeoneil47.bsky.social had a good roundup of these a few years back www.welcometohellworld.com/youtube-comm...
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Just did put this to the test and wow, it's absolutely true 🥹
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Just called my boss and told him I have explosive diarrhea. It’s my day off but I like to keep him informed
May 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Just called my boss and told him I have explosive diarrhea. It’s my day off but I like to keep him informed
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wife: i want another kid
me: yeah, fuck brian
me: yeah, fuck brian
November 18, 2024 at 4:54 PM
wife: i want another kid
me: yeah, fuck brian
me: yeah, fuck brian
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interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
me: [picturing a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape in which i compete with my neighbors for scraps of food] management
me: [picturing a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape in which i compete with my neighbors for scraps of food] management
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?
me: [picturing a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape in which i compete with my neighbors for scraps of food] management
me: [picturing a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape in which i compete with my neighbors for scraps of food] management
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How many times do we need to see the same type of shitehawks being slimed into top jobs by the same media outlets, only to explode almost instantly on contact with power? At some point, we have to admit the problem is: trying to permanently prop up fucked Thatcherism, by lying to the public.
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
How many times do we need to see the same type of shitehawks being slimed into top jobs by the same media outlets, only to explode almost instantly on contact with power? At some point, we have to admit the problem is: trying to permanently prop up fucked Thatcherism, by lying to the public.
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They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
This is just revolting cruelty, done to pander to racists who won't give it the time of day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
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I am speechless
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I am speechless
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People who "create" AI slop should be forced to consume only AI slop and not be allowed to watch, read or listen to anything made by a human. Let them wallow in the cesspit of their creation.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
People who "create" AI slop should be forced to consume only AI slop and not be allowed to watch, read or listen to anything made by a human. Let them wallow in the cesspit of their creation.
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
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He connects Charli XCX to Aaron fucking Copland.
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
He connects Charli XCX to Aaron fucking Copland.
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No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?
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Nothing shows the bloatification of car sizes more than the Ford Ka and the Nissan Micra. The new models are fucking huge. Stop building American sized cars for our tiny British roads. They. Don't. Fucking. Fit.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nothing shows the bloatification of car sizes more than the Ford Ka and the Nissan Micra. The new models are fucking huge. Stop building American sized cars for our tiny British roads. They. Don't. Fucking. Fit.
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The strategy makes perfect sense if he's spent the last 15 years having his obviously hateful, racist self soft soaped, ingratiated and welcomed by every facet of the media instead of having his feet held to the fire. He expects it to blow over if he just keeps his head down, and he's probably right
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The strategy makes perfect sense if he's spent the last 15 years having his obviously hateful, racist self soft soaped, ingratiated and welcomed by every facet of the media instead of having his feet held to the fire. He expects it to blow over if he just keeps his head down, and he's probably right
@octopus.energy Can you confirm how early in the morning one has to get up to get one of the free Nero tokens on Octoplus? No matter how early I try they always seem to be gone!
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@octopus.energy Can you confirm how early in the morning one has to get up to get one of the free Nero tokens on Octoplus? No matter how early I try they always seem to be gone!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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Just found this old graphic I made when Starmer was running for Labour leader
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just found this old graphic I made when Starmer was running for Labour leader
This got me thinking, we're probably not too far off a time where we can choose whether to visibly age. Don't want grey hair/wrinkles/beer belly/saggy neck/baldness etc? Fine, take some tablets, have an injection, whatever, done. I'd jump at it obvs. But what happens once it's a choice for everyone?
I'm considering dyeing my hair grey. Saw myself in the mirror - a slightly overweight, pasty-skinned guy in my late forties, with a full head of thick, dark hair that looks like I must be faking it. Looked ridiculous.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This got me thinking, we're probably not too far off a time where we can choose whether to visibly age. Don't want grey hair/wrinkles/beer belly/saggy neck/baldness etc? Fine, take some tablets, have an injection, whatever, done. I'd jump at it obvs. But what happens once it's a choice for everyone?
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Every time Dominic Cummings spouts forth again I am reminded of @daveyjones.bsky.social's Dogshit Puppet Master from 2021 in @vizcomic.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Every time Dominic Cummings spouts forth again I am reminded of @daveyjones.bsky.social's Dogshit Puppet Master from 2021 in @vizcomic.bsky.social
Holy shit.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Holy shit.