Rhian Drinkwater
@rhiandrinkwater.bsky.social
Watching Stranger Things s4 and are there really schools, anywhere, where people care about the sports teams and how they do? Because they really did not at mine.
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Watching Stranger Things s4 and are there really schools, anywhere, where people care about the sports teams and how they do? Because they really did not at mine.
When my Nain died, my son started to understand about death for the first time. I still remember him saying "But if I die... Then you wouldn't have your little boy any more!"
Whatever became of the moment
when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever.
when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever.
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
When my Nain died, my son started to understand about death for the first time. I still remember him saying "But if I die... Then you wouldn't have your little boy any more!"
Had my favourite meal (tricolour salad) for tea tonight and wondering why, when I'm an adult, I don't simply have my favourite meal for tea every single night.
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Had my favourite meal (tricolour salad) for tea tonight and wondering why, when I'm an adult, I don't simply have my favourite meal for tea every single night.
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Ooh. If you've not read it, @naomialderman.bsky.social's 'The Future' is an enjoyably sadistic Neuromancer-style cyberpunk romp through the lives of the horrible, horrible tech billionaires. 99p on Kindle today. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BY3ZFZK...
The Future: The electric new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power eBook : Alderman, Naomi: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Future: The electric new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power eBook : Alderman, Naomi: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ooh. If you've not read it, @naomialderman.bsky.social's 'The Future' is an enjoyably sadistic Neuromancer-style cyberpunk romp through the lives of the horrible, horrible tech billionaires. 99p on Kindle today. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BY3ZFZK...
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Belle & Sebastian
Self Esteem
Manic Street Preachers
Rufus Wainwright
The Buzzcocks
Self Esteem
Manic Street Preachers
Rufus Wainwright
The Buzzcocks
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to.
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Tony Bennett
The Fall
Chappell Roan
Sebadoh
Wet Leg
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
Linton Kwesi Johnson
James Brown
Nirvana
Manic Street Preachers (Cardiff, blood everywhere)
The Cramps
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Belle & Sebastian
Self Esteem
Manic Street Preachers
Rufus Wainwright
The Buzzcocks
Self Esteem
Manic Street Preachers
Rufus Wainwright
The Buzzcocks
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
Now my son's at college and on his first day he had to download Microsoft Teams on his phone.
Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Now my son's at college and on his first day he had to download Microsoft Teams on his phone.
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Recommended, if you can access The Atlantic. This gift link should work.
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Recommended, if you can access The Atlantic. This gift link should work.
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What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."
All those people, including current government, who falsely claim migrants are to blame for failings with the NHS, along with infrastructure in general, are in for one hell of a shock with how much worse things will get with Labour's anti-immigration policies.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What many politicians don't realise - or want to understand - is that many of the "highly-skilled" immigrants whose labour they crave were raised by the same asylum seekers and refugees they openly despise. They take the racist political rhetoric personally, and act accordingly. Why wouldn't they?
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I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.
Really interesting piece.
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Really interesting piece.
Tomorrow I have to do a long cross-country train journey, so today I'm really just refreshing the National Rail website and getting stressed.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Tomorrow I have to do a long cross-country train journey, so today I'm really just refreshing the National Rail website and getting stressed.
The proportion of MPs who went to private school should not be more than the proportion of children nationally who do (about 7%).
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The proportion of MPs who went to private school should not be more than the proportion of children nationally who do (about 7%).
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"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.
Hung out with relatives I don't see often. Finished a sock. Good evening.
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hung out with relatives I don't see often. Finished a sock. Good evening.
Oh I had so many of these as a kid!
Not a book but a series. I used to devour these mini illustrated classics in elementary school. They turned me into a lifelong reader.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Oh I had so many of these as a kid!
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Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mandatory digital ID for all, but no phones for school kids. Also we’re making it so you can’t access the internet without giving all your information to the makers of Fortnite.
This whole piece is such a fundamental part of my personality. I've got legs!
This is how I flirt
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This whole piece is such a fundamental part of my personality. I've got legs!
YouTube video: Here's some abstract expressionism.
Stan (border collie): [BIG SIGH]
Simon: Well she can't see red so she probably doesn't get it.
Stan (border collie): [BIG SIGH]
Simon: Well she can't see red so she probably doesn't get it.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
YouTube video: Here's some abstract expressionism.
Stan (border collie): [BIG SIGH]
Simon: Well she can't see red so she probably doesn't get it.
Stan (border collie): [BIG SIGH]
Simon: Well she can't see red so she probably doesn't get it.
Trying to figure out if Bath is in Children Of The Stones or the Sex Meridian.
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trying to figure out if Bath is in Children Of The Stones or the Sex Meridian.
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Given that about 10% of Covid cases lead to "Long Covid" maybe making vaccinations free again* might be a thing to try.
* Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.
* Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Given that about 10% of Covid cases lead to "Long Covid" maybe making vaccinations free again* might be a thing to try.
* Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.
* Or at least the same price as the fly jab, that would be something.