Dave Hudson
@davehud.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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His defining character trait for half a century.
Well, Sunfire's an asshole.
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
His defining character trait for half a century.
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Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Extraordinary story from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social: A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived.
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
One woman: “It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car...He has just wiped me out.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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"More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee."
"[T]rolled a thread about an upcoming vigil honoring Charlie Kirk."
#Tennessee #USA #Policing #Incarceration
"[T]rolled a thread about an upcoming vigil honoring Charlie Kirk."
#Tennessee #USA #Policing #Incarceration
Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee
Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.
theintercept.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"More than a month after he was arrested for sharing a meme on Facebook, 61-year-old Larry Bushart Jr. walked out of the Perry County jail in Linden, Tennessee."
"[T]rolled a thread about an upcoming vigil honoring Charlie Kirk."
#Tennessee #USA #Policing #Incarceration
"[T]rolled a thread about an upcoming vigil honoring Charlie Kirk."
#Tennessee #USA #Policing #Incarceration
They like to tell us that the immigrant is our enemy, but we know who the real enemy is.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
They like to tell us that the immigrant is our enemy, but we know who the real enemy is.
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The editorial board of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post has been a regressive nightmare for years, virtually indistinguishable from the Wall Street Journal.
A thread.
Let’s start with the last few weeks.
A thread.
Let’s start with the last few weeks.
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The editorial board of Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post has been a regressive nightmare for years, virtually indistinguishable from the Wall Street Journal.
A thread.
Let’s start with the last few weeks.
A thread.
Let’s start with the last few weeks.
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1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency.
Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.
🧵
Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.
🧵
3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency
During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or two of coverage.
popular.info
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
1. Last week, there were 3 Trump corruption scandals in 4 days that would define any other presidency.
Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.
🧵
Most people are probably not even AWARE of all three scandals.
🧵
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This morning's public finances release is the final set of meaningful number we get before the Budget. Borrowing was £20.2bn in September, close to official and market expectations BUT is running around £7.1bn above the OBR forecast year to date. Short thread to follow...
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This morning's public finances release is the final set of meaningful number we get before the Budget. Borrowing was £20.2bn in September, close to official and market expectations BUT is running around £7.1bn above the OBR forecast year to date. Short thread to follow...
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This is one helluva debunk from @monkemma.bsky.social and a real case study in disinformation.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/no-kids-were...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/no-kids-were...
No, kids weren't told they'd "all be Muslim by year 6"
A handful of parents, a far-right outrage machine, and the damage misinformation does to real communities: A simple school assembly in Swansea, where a visitor from a local mosque spoke about her fait...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is one helluva debunk from @monkemma.bsky.social and a real case study in disinformation.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/no-kids-were...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/no-kids-were...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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has it gotten worse over time? sure. trump is probably the worst president in american history at this point.
but...he's not the worst because he's a massive break with the past. he's the worst because he's a lot of horrible things coming to fruition.
but...he's not the worst because he's a massive break with the past. he's the worst because he's a lot of horrible things coming to fruition.
October 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
has it gotten worse over time? sure. trump is probably the worst president in american history at this point.
but...he's not the worst because he's a massive break with the past. he's the worst because he's a lot of horrible things coming to fruition.
but...he's not the worst because he's a massive break with the past. he's the worst because he's a lot of horrible things coming to fruition.
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If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services.
Get in touch!
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
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AI still can’t do this
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI still can’t do this
Okay this is long but very much worth reading.
“The only reading is rereading.” - Nabokov
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Okay this is long but very much worth reading.
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“The only reading is rereading.” - Nabokov
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“The only reading is rereading.” - Nabokov
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
Wound up doing my third or fourth tour through this heartbreaking work of staggering genius today. 1/n
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cud...
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I'm told GB News accredited half a dozen journalists to attend Green Party conference in Bournemouth - and none of them turned up. As one staffer puts it to me: "It's probably for the best..."
October 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm told GB News accredited half a dozen journalists to attend Green Party conference in Bournemouth - and none of them turned up. As one staffer puts it to me: "It's probably for the best..."
Someone just asked for the new Taylor Swift album...
Enid, the surprising and eccentric owner of the brilliant Sound Records in Stroud, UK, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, soul, funk, ocean fish and wool.
October 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Someone just asked for the new Taylor Swift album...
What?
(Digs out copy of CD and prises apart case)
Holy Shit!
(Digs out copy of CD and prises apart case)
Holy Shit!
I was prejudiced against Kid A at the time because it was hyped as legitimizing 90s electronic music, as if that music wasn’t the coolest music of all time. But I love the album now. I did love discovering the secret booklet behind the jewel case.*
*did you know it was there? Check your copy.
*did you know it was there? Check your copy.
Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...
October 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What?
(Digs out copy of CD and prises apart case)
Holy Shit!
(Digs out copy of CD and prises apart case)
Holy Shit!
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So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
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Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
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There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
Thread:
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract.
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
Thread:
There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m...
Thread: