Bart Crisp
@crispybart.bsky.social
Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
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We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
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The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The British public yearns for the creations of autistic elderly shed-hermits and their well meaning grandsons
Very excited to get to attend one of these in person at long last
Who will be attending the Origin Story live show tonight?
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Very excited to get to attend one of these in person at long last
The inevitable downside of 40K becoming more generally popular through Space Marine 2 is an influx of people who don't understand that the basic truth of 40K is that everyone bar the GEoM is definitely going to die
Games Workshop has sparked shock and anger among Warhammer 40,000 fans after it killed off two main characters from Space Marine 2 via a brief lore update posted on its website.
'Is There Anything More Grimdark Than to Die Offscreen?' — Games Workshop Just Killed Two Space Marine 2 Characters via a Brief Lore Update Post and Warhammer 40,000 Fans Are in Tatters
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The inevitable downside of 40K becoming more generally popular through Space Marine 2 is an influx of people who don't understand that the basic truth of 40K is that everyone bar the GEoM is definitely going to die
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You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You are essentially stuck between an ageing society desiring nostalgia and / or risk removal and a shrill social media cacophony demanding everything is sorted out now. With glib supposedly edgy one-liners far too often passing as serious commentary.
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As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.
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bees.leaflet.pub/3m5f5jfimlc2... Democratic Senators make healthy choices for themselves and their families, by not being online and living in reality where most people aren't insane white hats and black hats, and that's why us too-online folks get frustrated with them - and we're right
Hyperreality & Resistance - Bees and Spiders and Other Stuff
Democratic Politics in Heightened Reality in the Second Trump Era
bees.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
bees.leaflet.pub/3m5f5jfimlc2... Democratic Senators make healthy choices for themselves and their families, by not being online and living in reality where most people aren't insane white hats and black hats, and that's why us too-online folks get frustrated with them - and we're right
FWIW my position on Labour, as a Lib Dem, has pretty much always been that having to come back from the catastrophe of Corbyn was going to involve a very steep learning curve. I actually think they do show the capacity to learn, but there just isn't time to wait for them to get their act together
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
FWIW my position on Labour, as a Lib Dem, has pretty much always been that having to come back from the catastrophe of Corbyn was going to involve a very steep learning curve. I actually think they do show the capacity to learn, but there just isn't time to wait for them to get their act together
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The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Exactly the right analogy
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Exactly the right analogy
Look, Man On Fire and Edge of Tomorrow rule but quite apart from them being pretty dated by now, posting about them to demonstrate that you DO have a rich inner life, ACTUALLY, is incredible weaksauce
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Look, Man On Fire and Edge of Tomorrow rule but quite apart from them being pretty dated by now, posting about them to demonstrate that you DO have a rich inner life, ACTUALLY, is incredible weaksauce
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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York's Clifford’s Tower is to be given a new setting. York Council approved plans for a £10 million redevelopment of the surrounding area, replacing the Castle car park with green parkland, walkways and "spaces for reflection." The mound beneath the tower was the site of the 1190
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
York's Clifford’s Tower is to be given a new setting. York Council approved plans for a £10 million redevelopment of the surrounding area, replacing the Castle car park with green parkland, walkways and "spaces for reflection." The mound beneath the tower was the site of the 1190
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Part of the Problem is that people want a whistleblower martyr but when the Inevitable Fate of Whistleblowers hits that person like a freight train at full speed it becomes a lot more Common to blame nebulous hitmen than "Wow, fucking sucks trying to rebuild your life in your 30/40s huh"
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Part of the Problem is that people want a whistleblower martyr but when the Inevitable Fate of Whistleblowers hits that person like a freight train at full speed it becomes a lot more Common to blame nebulous hitmen than "Wow, fucking sucks trying to rebuild your life in your 30/40s huh"
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Bring back reading comprehension
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Bring back reading comprehension
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Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Seeing so many posts about who “Starmer and Nandy” will appoint as director general. Easy mistake but the government does not appoint the director general! The BBC board, whose members are appointed for rolling terms by the culture secretary, appoints the director general.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
Kind of incredible that Tim Davie found the one way to resign that makes me annoyed he's resigned, given how crap I think his tenure has been
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Kind of incredible that Tim Davie found the one way to resign that makes me annoyed he's resigned, given how crap I think his tenure has been
I've rarely been more fortunate than I was to get to work closely with Steve Higgins and Rob Coe early in my career, and am very glad to be able to count both as professional friends. Incredibly thoughtful, kind, hard working and generous people
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've rarely been more fortunate than I was to get to work closely with Steve Higgins and Rob Coe early in my career, and am very glad to be able to count both as professional friends. Incredibly thoughtful, kind, hard working and generous people
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We have eaten
The pants
That were in
Your garden
The pants
That were in
Your garden
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We have eaten
The pants
That were in
Your garden
The pants
That were in
Your garden
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The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
ok are you working to fix those problems?
"No."
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The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The BBC should have values more similar to my own not because my values are good or correct but because lefty lib people like me are huge idiots who love the concept of the bbc and alienating us leave it with no defenders
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