AdamT
@adamt1966.bsky.social
I unfollow people that don't allow me to comment on their posts.
I'm here for community, not to receive other's output.
I'm here for community, not to receive other's output.
Is there a worse smell than someone else's popcorn?
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Is there a worse smell than someone else's popcorn?
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Ooh, look.
More Brexit benefits.
To go alongside "taking control of our borders"...
More Brexit benefits.
To go alongside "taking control of our borders"...
🚨📉 Major new paper by Stanford professor Nick Bloom and coauthors.
They find Brexit has:
⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8%
⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18%
⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4%
⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%
They find Brexit has:
⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8%
⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18%
⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4%
⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ooh, look.
More Brexit benefits.
To go alongside "taking control of our borders"...
More Brexit benefits.
To go alongside "taking control of our borders"...
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
If anyone's listening, I'm happy to have a crack at being the next Director General of the BBC.
If not that, I'm also available to be the next Duke of York.
If not that, I'm also available to be the next Duke of York.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If anyone's listening, I'm happy to have a crack at being the next Director General of the BBC.
If not that, I'm also available to be the next Duke of York.
If not that, I'm also available to be the next Duke of York.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)
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Wearing a poppy commemorates the sacrifice of those who died for our freedoms, including the freedom not to wear a poppy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Wearing a poppy commemorates the sacrifice of those who died for our freedoms, including the freedom not to wear a poppy.
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The BBC is totally spineless.
"ministers face growing pressure over a number of high-profile mistaken releases"
They are "high-profile" only because the right-wing press has stopped ignoring them, like it did under the Tory government!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"ministers face growing pressure over a number of high-profile mistaken releases"
They are "high-profile" only because the right-wing press has stopped ignoring them, like it did under the Tory government!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prisoner freed by mistake in March 2024 still at large
Three others are still missing after being released by mistake under both the Conservatives and Labour.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The BBC is totally spineless.
"ministers face growing pressure over a number of high-profile mistaken releases"
They are "high-profile" only because the right-wing press has stopped ignoring them, like it did under the Tory government!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"ministers face growing pressure over a number of high-profile mistaken releases"
They are "high-profile" only because the right-wing press has stopped ignoring them, like it did under the Tory government!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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😂
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
😂
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
"broligarchy"
Collective noun for when all the people in power have umbrellas
Collective noun for when all the people in power have umbrellas
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"broligarchy"
Collective noun for when all the people in power have umbrellas
Collective noun for when all the people in power have umbrellas
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.
The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final payout
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.
£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.
Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.
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And from Twitter.
Move all government and institutional accounts to Bluesky.
Move all government and institutional accounts to Bluesky.
🚨🚨 The UK has become too dependent on #Musk and his Space X company for the success of its space programme, and must urgently seek greater independence from it in order to stop the “politicisation” of these services , a new Parliamentary report has warned. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK's infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could 'politicise' our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
And from Twitter.
Move all government and institutional accounts to Bluesky.
Move all government and institutional accounts to Bluesky.
US election results prove that Fascism and Democracy are incompatible.
The only question for America is which will win?
The only question for America is which will win?
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
US election results prove that Fascism and Democracy are incompatible.
The only question for America is which will win?
The only question for America is which will win?
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It’s bad here, chat.
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It’s bad here, chat.
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The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
Will all the racists be praising rail worker Samir Zitouni for saving the lives of many passengers?
I'm guessing there's some immigration in his family history, so immigration is a good thing right?
BBC News - Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm guessing there's some immigration in his family history, so immigration is a good thing right?
BBC News - Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Will all the racists be praising rail worker Samir Zitouni for saving the lives of many passengers?
I'm guessing there's some immigration in his family history, so immigration is a good thing right?
BBC News - Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm guessing there's some immigration in his family history, so immigration is a good thing right?
BBC News - Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I spent a week in the middle of the atlantic this summer, on the last ocean liner in the world, and merely lost my mind 😌🌊 I wrote/drew about it for @washingtonpost.com - you can read the story here! wapo.st/4nyr7ju
A week at sea aboard the last ocean liner
A comic artist spent seven days traveling like royalty aboard the Queen Mary 2. She may have lost her mind.
wapo.st
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I spent a week in the middle of the atlantic this summer, on the last ocean liner in the world, and merely lost my mind 😌🌊 I wrote/drew about it for @washingtonpost.com - you can read the story here! wapo.st/4nyr7ju