Castle’s Last Howl
@jw1958.bsky.social
Politics, bikes, history, running, economics, music, art, swimming, photography, environment. Culture, an appreciation of beauty, very bad language and barely suppressed rage are my superpowers.
If you visit Vienna & have time, try & visit stunning art deco Amelienbad swimming pool not far from the centre of the city. A working class area boasting facilities provided in the 1920s in the heyday of ‘Red Vienna’. Went with my daughter last year: magical, like a Wes Anderson set come to life
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If you visit Vienna & have time, try & visit stunning art deco Amelienbad swimming pool not far from the centre of the city. A working class area boasting facilities provided in the 1920s in the heyday of ‘Red Vienna’. Went with my daughter last year: magical, like a Wes Anderson set come to life
This is the UK National Grid electricity generation at this moment in time - 10:20am, on Saturday morning, on the first day of November. It’s breezy and light out so that helps, but we are meeting over 84% of our needs from renewables - and over 70% from wind alone.
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the UK National Grid electricity generation at this moment in time - 10:20am, on Saturday morning, on the first day of November. It’s breezy and light out so that helps, but we are meeting over 84% of our needs from renewables - and over 70% from wind alone.
Trump couldn’t even be arsed to find out the names of the scientists rewarded by the Nobel Committee for the work he claims credit for that they started in - er - the 1980s, when Trump was just a young mobster and lesser known kiddyfiddler.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, btw.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, btw.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Trump couldn’t even be arsed to find out the names of the scientists rewarded by the Nobel Committee for the work he claims credit for that they started in - er - the 1980s, when Trump was just a young mobster and lesser known kiddyfiddler.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, btw.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, btw.
Quite apart from the positive impact on NYC’s falling crime rates, is the Santos “family” part of his next fucking scam to defraud the gullible rubes of MAGA of what‘s left of their money after Trump and his gang of pirates looted them with false promises?
October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Quite apart from the positive impact on NYC’s falling crime rates, is the Santos “family” part of his next fucking scam to defraud the gullible rubes of MAGA of what‘s left of their money after Trump and his gang of pirates looted them with false promises?
The fake ‘independent journalist’ Evita Duffy-Alfonso - daughter of Fox presenters is more evidence that Fox News needs to be shut down. It’s not about free speech: it is a Party propaganda channel entirely devoted to supporting One Party Rule & is entirely comfortable with silencing dissent itself.
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The fake ‘independent journalist’ Evita Duffy-Alfonso - daughter of Fox presenters is more evidence that Fox News needs to be shut down. It’s not about free speech: it is a Party propaganda channel entirely devoted to supporting One Party Rule & is entirely comfortable with silencing dissent itself.
GOP Pedoligarch Overlords: "And it has this really cool feature: when you wind the watch mechanism backwards it actually makes the child victims even younger..."
October 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
GOP Pedoligarch Overlords: "And it has this really cool feature: when you wind the watch mechanism backwards it actually makes the child victims even younger..."
To be fair, Trump is fucking obsessed with stairs: walking down them, walking up them, dancing on them, holding people‘s hands for safety on them, the perils of stairs. This is part of his speech to the collective military leadership of the US - all gathered together in person, for this shite.
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
To be fair, Trump is fucking obsessed with stairs: walking down them, walking up them, dancing on them, holding people‘s hands for safety on them, the perils of stairs. This is part of his speech to the collective military leadership of the US - all gathered together in person, for this shite.
Killing off even that most Trump of sports (and turning US fans and players into entitled, unsporting dickheads).
Everything Trump touches dies.
Everything Trump touches dies.
September 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Killing off even that most Trump of sports (and turning US fans and players into entitled, unsporting dickheads).
Everything Trump touches dies.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Chad Mizelle
On the take; Epstein / child abuse allegations; sexual impropriety?
Pick one.
On the take; Epstein / child abuse allegations; sexual impropriety?
Pick one.
September 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Chad Mizelle
On the take; Epstein / child abuse allegations; sexual impropriety?
Pick one.
On the take; Epstein / child abuse allegations; sexual impropriety?
Pick one.
Surely there comes a point when judged by almost every metric - economic, social, health, inequality, corruption, access to legal services, suicide, mental & physical wellbeing etc - and your state flounders at the bottom, you realise voting for the same venal Republican twats doesn’t work any more?
September 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Surely there comes a point when judged by almost every metric - economic, social, health, inequality, corruption, access to legal services, suicide, mental & physical wellbeing etc - and your state flounders at the bottom, you realise voting for the same venal Republican twats doesn’t work any more?
To be clear, the backpeddling & calls for a more nuanced, less vitriolic and antagonistic take on the identity of the Kirk killer by the administration, on Fox et al is because they’d been tipped off that a suspect was already in custody yesterday. Does the suspect fit the profile they’d run with?
September 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
To be clear, the backpeddling & calls for a more nuanced, less vitriolic and antagonistic take on the identity of the Kirk killer by the administration, on Fox et al is because they’d been tipped off that a suspect was already in custody yesterday. Does the suspect fit the profile they’d run with?
This is national grid in the UK for the last week. Renewables are at 50% of electricity supply - and this after over a decade of governments antagonistic to renewables.
September 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is national grid in the UK for the last week. Renewables are at 50% of electricity supply - and this after over a decade of governments antagonistic to renewables.
A Tesla in a carpark this weekend. I think the owner put it there.
September 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A Tesla in a carpark this weekend. I think the owner put it there.
AI won’t wipe us out. It will, at a mass level and an individual level, encourage us to wipe ourselves out
Because it will make money for the very human oligarchs who - like ventriloquists - determine the programming but managed to persuade us it’s all “autonomous machine learning”
Naah - it’s not
Because it will make money for the very human oligarchs who - like ventriloquists - determine the programming but managed to persuade us it’s all “autonomous machine learning”
Naah - it’s not
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
AI won’t wipe us out. It will, at a mass level and an individual level, encourage us to wipe ourselves out
Because it will make money for the very human oligarchs who - like ventriloquists - determine the programming but managed to persuade us it’s all “autonomous machine learning”
Naah - it’s not
Because it will make money for the very human oligarchs who - like ventriloquists - determine the programming but managed to persuade us it’s all “autonomous machine learning”
Naah - it’s not
Meanwhile the Trump regime allow even more pedophiles to evade justice….
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Meanwhile the Trump regime allow even more pedophiles to evade justice….
He won’t be asking Trump about his cross border act of solidarity for the Pedophile International Brotherhood then….
August 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
He won’t be asking Trump about his cross border act of solidarity for the Pedophile International Brotherhood then….
It’s part of a Pedophile International solidarity action….
August 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It’s part of a Pedophile International solidarity action….
Trump protects ALL the pedophiles he can.
August 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump protects ALL the pedophiles he can.
Don’t forget the Pedophile International acts of solidarity….
August 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Don’t forget the Pedophile International acts of solidarity….
Of course I’m old enough to remember how Trump celebrated having some scumbag who murdered three people with knives, hammer and machete in Spain and gave him a pardon.
And then there’s the ‘Pedophile International’ acts of solidarity….
And then there’s the ‘Pedophile International’ acts of solidarity….
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Of course I’m old enough to remember how Trump celebrated having some scumbag who murdered three people with knives, hammer and machete in Spain and gave him a pardon.
And then there’s the ‘Pedophile International’ acts of solidarity….
And then there’s the ‘Pedophile International’ acts of solidarity….
And who also actively and aggressively goes out of his way to protect other well-connected members of the Pedophile Inernational….
August 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And who also actively and aggressively goes out of his way to protect other well-connected members of the Pedophile Inernational….
Agreed. Like this well-connected and immune shithawk.
August 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Agreed. Like this well-connected and immune shithawk.
Meanwhile your owner’s bestest president pal and his pirate crew are getting pedophiles safely home in luxury….
August 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Meanwhile your owner’s bestest president pal and his pirate crew are getting pedophiles safely home in luxury….