Rippers
@ripley123.bsky.social
Lead software engineer, veteran game developer, boulderer, music maker, to the left of politics, remoaner.
In the UK.
In the UK.
Watched it this evening based on this recommendation, and it was great so thank you.
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Watched it this evening based on this recommendation, and it was great so thank you.
Paywalled articles are fine - it’s journalists/newspapers that link to paywalled articles (on Bluesky go example) without flagging them as such that annoys me.
It’s just advertising in that case.
It’s just advertising in that case.
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Paywalled articles are fine - it’s journalists/newspapers that link to paywalled articles (on Bluesky go example) without flagging them as such that annoys me.
It’s just advertising in that case.
It’s just advertising in that case.
I saw the Mail’s comment section response to that article - it stoked up the audience in exactly the way it was intended to do.
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I saw the Mail’s comment section response to that article - it stoked up the audience in exactly the way it was intended to do.
Of course someone has mad a mirror site of the Epstein files - so every time some DOJ stooge deletes something incriminating to Trump, we can see their crimes in real time
epstein-files-browser.vercel.app
epstein-files-browser.vercel.app
epstein-files-browser.vercel.app
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You could name some prisons after him.
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
You could name some prisons after him.
It’s great that they provided this clear evidence of manipulation though.
December 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It’s great that they provided this clear evidence of manipulation though.
Drive through Warrington earier and the flag shaggers have been busy there too.
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Drive through Warrington earier and the flag shaggers have been busy there too.
Also, please stop posting paywalled articles without indicating that they are paywalled - it’s just a waste of everbody’s time.
December 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Also, please stop posting paywalled articles without indicating that they are paywalled - it’s just a waste of everbody’s time.
1. How on earth are they making £3000 per year off £20000 (which I believe is the threshold), and
2. Why don’t they just pay their tax?
2. Why don’t they just pay their tax?
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
1. How on earth are they making £3000 per year off £20000 (which I believe is the threshold), and
2. Why don’t they just pay their tax?
2. Why don’t they just pay their tax?
All Reach publications are the same.
They are a blight on local news.
It must be company policy to produce this clickbait as all their “local” news sites have basically identical content.
They are a blight on local news.
It must be company policy to produce this clickbait as all their “local” news sites have basically identical content.
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
All Reach publications are the same.
They are a blight on local news.
It must be company policy to produce this clickbait as all their “local” news sites have basically identical content.
They are a blight on local news.
It must be company policy to produce this clickbait as all their “local” news sites have basically identical content.
This is an interesting article about what is going behind the scenes :
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
Exclusive: Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say | CNN Politics
Frustration is mounting inside the Justice Department as it races to redact thousands of pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein before they must be released Friday, multiple sources familiar with t...
edition.cnn.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is an interesting article about what is going behind the scenes :
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...
Can’t complain at being compared to John Lennon!
December 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Can’t complain at being compared to John Lennon!
That’s the kind of dependence on technology that the tech oligarchs dream of!
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
That’s the kind of dependence on technology that the tech oligarchs dream of!