Darren Nash
@darrenanash.com
Freelance editor, retired 🏏, ⚽️ tragic, practising 🍺 & 🥃 snob. SFF, comics, facts, science, progressive politics. Views expressed are my own (unless I’ve obviously nicked them).
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Earlier today I bought some sterling and Euros for my kids’ upcoming trip. I just checked the exchange rate and between ordering the currency and now, the pound has dropped to its lowest level against the dollar in months. Because of course it has. 🤬
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Earlier today I bought some sterling and Euros for my kids’ upcoming trip. I just checked the exchange rate and between ordering the currency and now, the pound has dropped to its lowest level against the dollar in months. Because of course it has. 🤬
There may come a day when I stroll onto the train to start my office day, relaxed, unhurried, organised. But It is not this day.
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There may come a day when I stroll onto the train to start my office day, relaxed, unhurried, organised. But It is not this day.
Apropos of nothing but if there’s a compelling reason why we shouldn’t all be referring to Karoline Leavitt as “the Mouth of Sauron” I’ve yet to hear it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Apropos of nothing but if there’s a compelling reason why we shouldn’t all be referring to Karoline Leavitt as “the Mouth of Sauron” I’ve yet to hear it.
Reposted by Darren Nash
Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Booklovers in Victoria, help me out.
🙋♂️ Nope. Never have. Don’t intend to. Apart from the fact that it’s not, in fact, artificial intelligence, it’s built on the theft of intellectual property and sustained by the destruction of the environment. It’s a fundamentally unethical creation and it can fuck off into the sun.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🙋♂️ Nope. Never have. Don’t intend to. Apart from the fact that it’s not, in fact, artificial intelligence, it’s built on the theft of intellectual property and sustained by the destruction of the environment. It’s a fundamentally unethical creation and it can fuck off into the sun.
I’ve never done No. 9 because, to paraphrase Charlie, I’m not a monster. And we had an encyclopaedia set in the house, but it wasn’t strictly *mine*, so maybe I don’t get to count No. 20 either. Otherwise … hand me my spectacles and start the phonogram – I am old …
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’ve never done No. 9 because, to paraphrase Charlie, I’m not a monster. And we had an encyclopaedia set in the house, but it wasn’t strictly *mine*, so maybe I don’t get to count No. 20 either. Otherwise … hand me my spectacles and start the phonogram – I am old …
Just finished another issue. Really good stuff! On to more adventures!
I just read my first issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my word! Cracking stories. I’m now a subscriber.
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just finished another issue. Really good stuff! On to more adventures!
How much of the United States’ population is evil, racist, greedy or stupid?
I’m glad you asked. Recent research suggests …
I’m glad you asked. Recent research suggests …
Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to one of its lowest points, with only 37% of Americans expressing approval of his performance as president.
Trump approval rating falls to second-term low of 37%
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
How much of the United States’ population is evil, racist, greedy or stupid?
I’m glad you asked. Recent research suggests …
I’m glad you asked. Recent research suggests …
Trump calling anyone else “low IQ” is like the grand wizard of the KKK calling someone “racist”. Jasmine Crockett and AOC should challenge the mango Mussolini to a live IQ test. They’d be five questions in before Trump worked out which end of the pencil does the drawing lines.
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Trump calling anyone else “low IQ” is like the grand wizard of the KKK calling someone “racist”. Jasmine Crockett and AOC should challenge the mango Mussolini to a live IQ test. They’d be five questions in before Trump worked out which end of the pencil does the drawing lines.
I just read my first issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my word! Cracking stories. I’m now a subscriber.
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I just read my first issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social and my word! Cracking stories. I’m now a subscriber.
I have lost 45 minutes trying to get Word to open properly on my iPad – so far! The filthy one-star review I just left has made me feel a bit better, but I’ve still lost almost an hour and now I’m in too foul a mood to edit, so thanks a bunch Apple and Microsoft. You owe me a day’s work. Wankers.
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I have lost 45 minutes trying to get Word to open properly on my iPad – so far! The filthy one-star review I just left has made me feel a bit better, but I’ve still lost almost an hour and now I’m in too foul a mood to edit, so thanks a bunch Apple and Microsoft. You owe me a day’s work. Wankers.
There may come a day when it is not a challenge for the handle to come off your umbrella. But it is not this day. ☔️
October 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
There may come a day when it is not a challenge for the handle to come off your umbrella. But it is not this day. ☔️
To be fair, this might be the most honest thing the tangerine traitor has ever posted.
October 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
To be fair, this might be the most honest thing the tangerine traitor has ever posted.
What’s the best one-liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What’s the best one-liner in movie history?
Reposted by Darren Nash
Bluesky, a little help?
Any experts in #peppercorn / #leasehold law please?
I'm trying to find the answer to a legal question, and am being given the kind of runaround you'd associate with a Wile E Coyote cartoon.
Reskeets appreciated, thank you! 🙏
Any experts in #peppercorn / #leasehold law please?
I'm trying to find the answer to a legal question, and am being given the kind of runaround you'd associate with a Wile E Coyote cartoon.
Reskeets appreciated, thank you! 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bluesky, a little help?
Any experts in #peppercorn / #leasehold law please?
I'm trying to find the answer to a legal question, and am being given the kind of runaround you'd associate with a Wile E Coyote cartoon.
Reskeets appreciated, thank you! 🙏
Any experts in #peppercorn / #leasehold law please?
I'm trying to find the answer to a legal question, and am being given the kind of runaround you'd associate with a Wile E Coyote cartoon.
Reskeets appreciated, thank you! 🙏
*sigh* It appears to be time to upgrade my laptop. The trusty old 2012 MacBook Pro just isn’t cutting it anymore – seems like every week I lose support for some piece of software I’m using. Farewell, trusty servant. It isn’t you, it’s m— no, hang on, it’s you. It’s definitely you. 💻 🚫
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
*sigh* It appears to be time to upgrade my laptop. The trusty old 2012 MacBook Pro just isn’t cutting it anymore – seems like every week I lose support for some piece of software I’m using. Farewell, trusty servant. It isn’t you, it’s m— no, hang on, it’s you. It’s definitely you. 💻 🚫
Just received an email offering me a customised list of “book stroes in the United States”.
Thanks, buddy, but I think I’ll pass.
Thanks, buddy, but I think I’ll pass.
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just received an email offering me a customised list of “book stroes in the United States”.
Thanks, buddy, but I think I’ll pass.
Thanks, buddy, but I think I’ll pass.
@imogenwrites.bsky.social 👋
Really enjoyed talking with you over the con, Imogen. Just think: in another timeline, we could both be facing down harassment charges if we’d reacted differently to MAGA-hat-guy in the casino!
Enjoy the last day!
Really enjoyed talking with you over the con, Imogen. Just think: in another timeline, we could both be facing down harassment charges if we’d reacted differently to MAGA-hat-guy in the casino!
Enjoy the last day!
October 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
@imogenwrites.bsky.social 👋
Really enjoyed talking with you over the con, Imogen. Just think: in another timeline, we could both be facing down harassment charges if we’d reacted differently to MAGA-hat-guy in the casino!
Enjoy the last day!
Really enjoyed talking with you over the con, Imogen. Just think: in another timeline, we could both be facing down harassment charges if we’d reacted differently to MAGA-hat-guy in the casino!
Enjoy the last day!
Conflux: where you can make a joke about the Kelvin scale and everyone gets it. 👍
October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Conflux: where you can make a joke about the Kelvin scale and everyone gets it. 👍
I am in line to board my plane but my Fitbit isn’t. Damn their insecure wrist straps. ☹️
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I am in line to board my plane but my Fitbit isn’t. Damn their insecure wrist straps. ☹️
On the train into Melbourne and thence to the airport for my flight to the nation’s capital. Conflux 19, here I come. Looking forward to catching up with old* friends and making new ones.
* Look, sorry, but I don’t think there’s any point denying it any longer 🤷♂️☹️😂
* Look, sorry, but I don’t think there’s any point denying it any longer 🤷♂️☹️😂
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
On the train into Melbourne and thence to the airport for my flight to the nation’s capital. Conflux 19, here I come. Looking forward to catching up with old* friends and making new ones.
* Look, sorry, but I don’t think there’s any point denying it any longer 🤷♂️☹️😂
* Look, sorry, but I don’t think there’s any point denying it any longer 🤷♂️☹️😂
Breaking news: Rand Paul literally doesn’t know what ‘literally’ means.
September 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Breaking news: Rand Paul literally doesn’t know what ‘literally’ means.
Trump is now a matter of months away from decreeing that all government buildings must be made of cheese. Coincidentally, Don Junior and Eric will have invested the Trump family business heavily in dairy farming just days before this executive order.
September 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Trump is now a matter of months away from decreeing that all government buildings must be made of cheese. Coincidentally, Don Junior and Eric will have invested the Trump family business heavily in dairy farming just days before this executive order.