Dave Lauchlan
@davelauchlan.bsky.social
Cats, music, planes, weather, science fiction. Programmer Archeologist.
Too bloody right. There is no way we should pay money to Trump. Have we learned nothing from the whole Jimmy Savile business?
Yes, I'd take the role of DG of the BBC in a heartbeat. I have thoughts. For starters much of Radio 5 and the BBC News channel would go. Not a penny for gobshite phone-ins.
Yes, I'd take the role of DG of the BBC in a heartbeat. I have thoughts. For starters much of Radio 5 and the BBC News channel would go. Not a penny for gobshite phone-ins.
BBC should pay nothing to Donald Trump, ex-director general Lord Tony Hall says
BBC should pay nothing to Donald Trump, ex-director general Lord Tony Hall says
Since the corporation's retraction, Trump has indicated he may continue legal action, upping the amount he could sue for to between $1bn (£759m) and $5bn.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Too bloody right. There is no way we should pay money to Trump. Have we learned nothing from the whole Jimmy Savile business?
Yes, I'd take the role of DG of the BBC in a heartbeat. I have thoughts. For starters much of Radio 5 and the BBC News channel would go. Not a penny for gobshite phone-ins.
Yes, I'd take the role of DG of the BBC in a heartbeat. I have thoughts. For starters much of Radio 5 and the BBC News channel would go. Not a penny for gobshite phone-ins.
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From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
From @ericidle.bsky.social & Neil Innes' brilliant & criminally overlooked/unavailable RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, here's a truncated glimpse of George Harrison's Christmas 1975 guest appearance runner, where he didn't want to perform a song - He really just wanted to play a pirate...
Calgie thinks Sherlock Holmes is woke.
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Calgie thinks Sherlock Holmes is woke.
Weather still weirdly mild for November. Nic has harvested delphiniums from the garden this morning. That's just mad!
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Weather still weirdly mild for November. Nic has harvested delphiniums from the garden this morning. That's just mad!
Listening to an old Freak Zone from 2009. Quite a good one with a Sparks concept album as the featured record.
But the thing that is most remarkable about it is that the news is much shorter, around 90 seconds.
Hashtag "how the BBC News is rotting brains now" ....
But the thing that is most remarkable about it is that the news is much shorter, around 90 seconds.
Hashtag "how the BBC News is rotting brains now" ....
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Listening to an old Freak Zone from 2009. Quite a good one with a Sparks concept album as the featured record.
But the thing that is most remarkable about it is that the news is much shorter, around 90 seconds.
Hashtag "how the BBC News is rotting brains now" ....
But the thing that is most remarkable about it is that the news is much shorter, around 90 seconds.
Hashtag "how the BBC News is rotting brains now" ....
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The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement:
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement:
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."
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Them: You have too many books
Me:
Me:
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Them: You have too many books
Me:
Me:
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Pros And Cons Of A 3rd Trump Term
Pros And Cons Of A 3rd Trump Term
Last week, President Trump discussed the possibility of running for a third term in 2028, despite the 22nd Amendment’s prohibition on being elected to the office more than twice. The Onion examines th...
theonion.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pros And Cons Of A 3rd Trump Term
We have a WhatsApp group for the golden retrievers in our village and they get together at weekends for wrestling and general ear chewing. I think the collective noun for golden retrievers is a "romp"
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We have a WhatsApp group for the golden retrievers in our village and they get together at weekends for wrestling and general ear chewing. I think the collective noun for golden retrievers is a "romp"
I fixed my freesat box earlier this week, it's only been broken for about 2 years.
I've been rediscovering the joy of live television. Currently watching the Lady Mayors Show on BBC1. I have to say it is fascinating and wonderful. And it's showing how international a city London is.
I've been rediscovering the joy of live television. Currently watching the Lady Mayors Show on BBC1. I have to say it is fascinating and wonderful. And it's showing how international a city London is.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I fixed my freesat box earlier this week, it's only been broken for about 2 years.
I've been rediscovering the joy of live television. Currently watching the Lady Mayors Show on BBC1. I have to say it is fascinating and wonderful. And it's showing how international a city London is.
I've been rediscovering the joy of live television. Currently watching the Lady Mayors Show on BBC1. I have to say it is fascinating and wonderful. And it's showing how international a city London is.
I've been Dave since I was 18. My late Mom always used to call me David and my brothers still do. I guess Mom was entitled to as she was the one who gave birth to me.
But when I'm called David instead of Dave it always makes me feel like I'm about to be told off.
But when I'm called David instead of Dave it always makes me feel like I'm about to be told off.
Yep. I am Victoria and never Vicky - I hate that people who have never met me before assume that it's OK to shorten my name! Good friends call me Vic, which is fine, but never Vicky.
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I've been Dave since I was 18. My late Mom always used to call me David and my brothers still do. I guess Mom was entitled to as she was the one who gave birth to me.
But when I'm called David instead of Dave it always makes me feel like I'm about to be told off.
But when I'm called David instead of Dave it always makes me feel like I'm about to be told off.
Just fixed my Freesat box (replacement hard drive) whilst waiting for lunch to warm up. Buzzing on that repair high!
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just fixed my Freesat box (replacement hard drive) whilst waiting for lunch to warm up. Buzzing on that repair high!
Every morning, Barney waits for me to wake up and takes me for a walk round the park. Today's photo at Sparrowfart!
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Every morning, Barney waits for me to wake up and takes me for a walk round the park. Today's photo at Sparrowfart!
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This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
Sleeping in a puddle of sunshine
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Sleeping in a puddle of sunshine
Watching "Riot Women". Just superb.
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Watching "Riot Women". Just superb.
Barney does not like fireworks.
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Barney does not like fireworks.
After the infamous poisoner William Palmer was executed, the burghers of my hometown of Rugeley petitioned the government to allow them to change the town's name. The government said yes as long as they named the town after the prime minister. The PM? Palmerston! So it's still Rugeley!
Yeah, but those are low priorities compared with Hertfordshire sorting out this positively scary road name in Royston.
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
After the infamous poisoner William Palmer was executed, the burghers of my hometown of Rugeley petitioned the government to allow them to change the town's name. The government said yes as long as they named the town after the prime minister. The PM? Palmerston! So it's still Rugeley!
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Carve it on America’s gravestone.
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Carve it on America’s gravestone.
Further proof of the f*ckwitttery at HMRC. I do hope the Guardian continues with this series of stories. I'm looking forward to seeing all the different ways that HMRC buggered this up!
More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Further proof of the f*ckwitttery at HMRC. I do hope the Guardian continues with this series of stories. I'm looking forward to seeing all the different ways that HMRC buggered this up!
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I mean, the whole thread, but this is the gist.
Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I mean, the whole thread, but this is the gist.
I was talking to my wife about the recent HMRC child benefit cockup. She said it sounded like they'd been penny pinching on the project, that they hadn't wanted to spend money on having enough experienced staff writing the requirements and test cases. Austerity - penny wise, pound foolish since 2010
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I was talking to my wife about the recent HMRC child benefit cockup. She said it sounded like they'd been penny pinching on the project, that they hadn't wanted to spend money on having enough experienced staff writing the requirements and test cases. Austerity - penny wise, pound foolish since 2010
Definitely not a bubble, oh no, not at all. Nothing unrealistic about this.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Definitely not a bubble, oh no, not at all. Nothing unrealistic about this.
This is a really good thread. Read it and think. Mull over its point. I have thoughts myself. I'm sure you will have too.
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This is a really good thread. Read it and think. Mull over its point. I have thoughts myself. I'm sure you will have too.