Reposted by Uitlander
Mine too.
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Mine too.
Reposted by Uitlander
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all
Reposted by Uitlander
Does anybody else have a bottle ready?
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Does anybody else have a bottle ready?
Reposted by Uitlander
The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
Reposted by Uitlander
It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.
Netflix added a K-Pop Demon hunters fireplace recording while I was on holiday. I may be some time.
December 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Netflix added a K-Pop Demon hunters fireplace recording while I was on holiday. I may be some time.
Reposted by Uitlander
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
The subject line from the latest piece of spam from LinkedIn.
Yes, of course people will want to employ a "no experience tutor" to help improve their child's grades.
Yes, of course people will want to employ a "no experience tutor" to help improve their child's grades.
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The subject line from the latest piece of spam from LinkedIn.
Yes, of course people will want to employ a "no experience tutor" to help improve their child's grades.
Yes, of course people will want to employ a "no experience tutor" to help improve their child's grades.
Every so often FB reminds me of the more enjoyable aspects working at my former employer, and some of the absolutely delightful people I met while there.
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Every so often FB reminds me of the more enjoyable aspects working at my former employer, and some of the absolutely delightful people I met while there.
Today's Audible daily deal is @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Service Model. This is a standalone tale of Charles, a robot who doesn't quite always get what has gone wrong.
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Service-M...
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Service-M...
Service Model
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Task List Item No. 1 – Become self-aware . . .A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Service Model is p...
www.audible.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Today's Audible daily deal is @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Service Model. This is a standalone tale of Charles, a robot who doesn't quite always get what has gone wrong.
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Service-M...
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Service-M...
At least my ongoing argument about USS is about them paying me less than they said they were going to, and then repeatedly lying to me and trying to fob me off.
So… they privatised Civil Service pension admin… and the private agency just GOT ITS SUMS WRONG, and now pensioners have to suffer?
What a country…
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
What a country…
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Retired UK civil servant ordered to pay back £25,000 after pension scheme error
Eleven years of overpayments leave 63-year-old facing hardship and return to full-time work
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
At least my ongoing argument about USS is about them paying me less than they said they were going to, and then repeatedly lying to me and trying to fob me off.
Reposted by Uitlander
Couldn't resist doing 'Christmas with the Sea Devils' for the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Out now!
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Couldn't resist doing 'Christmas with the Sea Devils' for the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Out now!
At least one of my friends thought that my DPhil was about doing the archaeology of play-dough back in the day. They were confused about how anyone would give me funding for that.
Modelling clay that can only be used to make extinct animals.
Pleistocene.
Pleistocene.
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
At least one of my friends thought that my DPhil was about doing the archaeology of play-dough back in the day. They were confused about how anyone would give me funding for that.
Reposted by Uitlander
Got a TXT from an unknown number saying that it was from my Mum who'd just bought a new mobile phone.
Mum died in 2020 so that's some impressive Poltergeisting work there.
Mum died in 2020 so that's some impressive Poltergeisting work there.
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Got a TXT from an unknown number saying that it was from my Mum who'd just bought a new mobile phone.
Mum died in 2020 so that's some impressive Poltergeisting work there.
Mum died in 2020 so that's some impressive Poltergeisting work there.
Reposted by Uitlander
Could I ask you to please take a moment to sign and share this. Education matters, and needs to be fought for.
Thank you.
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Thank you.
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
www.change.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Could I ask you to please take a moment to sign and share this. Education matters, and needs to be fought for.
Thank you.
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Thank you.
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Reposted by Uitlander
The Labour government can bring section 14 of the Equality Act into force and use the Henry VIII power therein to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision literally within a matter of hours.
But Keir Starmer is a polite bigot who cynically invokes Brianna Ghey’s name while betraying her.
But Keir Starmer is a polite bigot who cynically invokes Brianna Ghey’s name while betraying her.
April 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Labour government can bring section 14 of the Equality Act into force and use the Henry VIII power therein to reverse the Supreme Court’s decision literally within a matter of hours.
But Keir Starmer is a polite bigot who cynically invokes Brianna Ghey’s name while betraying her.
But Keir Starmer is a polite bigot who cynically invokes Brianna Ghey’s name while betraying her.
Reposted by Uitlander
![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is from my village. It is almost worthy of @hookland.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is from my village. It is almost worthy of @hookland.bsky.social
Reposted by Uitlander
Reposted by Uitlander
Steve's American cousin?
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Steve's American cousin?
Reposted by Uitlander
If I was head of the WI and an 80 year old trans woman told me it was the only place she'd ever felt respected as a woman, and the British State told me she wasn't allowed to bebin the WI any more, I'd be putting out a public statement declaring the WI to now be an armed guerilla organisation.
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If I was head of the WI and an 80 year old trans woman told me it was the only place she'd ever felt respected as a woman, and the British State told me she wasn't allowed to bebin the WI any more, I'd be putting out a public statement declaring the WI to now be an armed guerilla organisation.
Reposted by Uitlander
When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme:
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme: