Elliot
@els76uk.bsky.social
🇩🇪 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 Gym. Cycling. Relocation coach. Woke, tofu eating, Guardian reading twitterati. Lover of all things four-legged and furry. Married to @eliotlovell.bsky.social
My dad told me the reason he'd never vote Labour is because of the strikes and 3 day weeks. It made him a lifelong Tory voter.
Britain wasn't better 50 years ago.
Britain wasn't better 50 years ago.
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My dad told me the reason he'd never vote Labour is because of the strikes and 3 day weeks. It made him a lifelong Tory voter.
Britain wasn't better 50 years ago.
Britain wasn't better 50 years ago.
I started watching this yesterday; after shouting at the telly bc it was so ridiculous, I turned off.
An arrogant, self centred man moves in. The neighbour doesn't like him, yet still accepts his lunch invitation.
Why not just stay away from him, like any normal person would?
0 stars from me.
An arrogant, self centred man moves in. The neighbour doesn't like him, yet still accepts his lunch invitation.
Why not just stay away from him, like any normal person would?
0 stars from me.
The Beast in Me review – Claire Danes’s astonishing new thriller is instant top–tier TV
This taut psychological two-hander between Danes and Matthew Rhys will surely win awards. You cannot look away
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I started watching this yesterday; after shouting at the telly bc it was so ridiculous, I turned off.
An arrogant, self centred man moves in. The neighbour doesn't like him, yet still accepts his lunch invitation.
Why not just stay away from him, like any normal person would?
0 stars from me.
An arrogant, self centred man moves in. The neighbour doesn't like him, yet still accepts his lunch invitation.
Why not just stay away from him, like any normal person would?
0 stars from me.
#NowReading this.
None of the latest revelations in the Epstein files are a surprise to me. But reading it makes me shocked and saddened about just how many powerful and eminent men are paedophiles.
None of the latest revelations in the Epstein files are a surprise to me. But reading it makes me shocked and saddened about just how many powerful and eminent men are paedophiles.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#NowReading this.
None of the latest revelations in the Epstein files are a surprise to me. But reading it makes me shocked and saddened about just how many powerful and eminent men are paedophiles.
None of the latest revelations in the Epstein files are a surprise to me. But reading it makes me shocked and saddened about just how many powerful and eminent men are paedophiles.
Age yourself with gaming…
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Age yourself with gaming…
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London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.
I did work experience at BBC TV Centre when I was 16; I kept a paper cup from the water dispenser as a souvenir. I found this at my parent's house last year while helping my my mum declutter, and it was in exactly the same place I left it when I left home, 33 years ago!
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I did work experience at BBC TV Centre when I was 16; I kept a paper cup from the water dispenser as a souvenir. I found this at my parent's house last year while helping my my mum declutter, and it was in exactly the same place I left it when I left home, 33 years ago!
No UK newspaper would stand up to the same shameless criticism of bias that that they themselves are aiming at the BBC.
And UK politicians are welcoming the attacks, because they're too spineless to defend the organisation.
And UK politicians are welcoming the attacks, because they're too spineless to defend the organisation.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
No UK newspaper would stand up to the same shameless criticism of bias that that they themselves are aiming at the BBC.
And UK politicians are welcoming the attacks, because they're too spineless to defend the organisation.
And UK politicians are welcoming the attacks, because they're too spineless to defend the organisation.
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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"The BBC is forever apologising for speaking truths which disturb the powerful…
Naturally, those with self-serving interests seek to destroy it. If they get hold of the microphone, everything else is finished."
Powerful writing from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Naturally, those with self-serving interests seek to destroy it. If they get hold of the microphone, everything else is finished."
Powerful writing from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
🚨NEW - The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on the crisis at the Beeb
And Auntie's anti-Trump bias
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And Auntie's anti-Trump bias
Click for more:
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...
The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on the crisis at the Beeb
Auntie's anti-Trump bias
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"The BBC is forever apologising for speaking truths which disturb the powerful…
Naturally, those with self-serving interests seek to destroy it. If they get hold of the microphone, everything else is finished."
Powerful writing from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Naturally, those with self-serving interests seek to destroy it. If they get hold of the microphone, everything else is finished."
Powerful writing from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Excellent opinion about the latest BBC nonsense.
The editing was unfortunate, but didn't change the fundamental message: Trump incited the mob on January 6th.
The editing was unfortunate, but didn't change the fundamental message: Trump incited the mob on January 6th.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Excellent opinion about the latest BBC nonsense.
The editing was unfortunate, but didn't change the fundamental message: Trump incited the mob on January 6th.
The editing was unfortunate, but didn't change the fundamental message: Trump incited the mob on January 6th.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
The UK's leasehold system of "owning" homes is a scam, benefiting no-one but greedy scum "land owners", sponging off others. They need to get rid of this throwback to feudal society.
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 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The UK's leasehold system of "owning" homes is a scam, benefiting no-one but greedy scum "land owners", sponging off others. They need to get rid of this throwback to feudal society.
My dad was a hoarder. After her died last year, I helped by getting rid of stuff – just found a carefully filed box of free cover disks from Computer Shopper, some time in the 90s, still in their plastic wrapping!
Look mom, real live "Save" icons :)
Look mom, real live "Save" icons :)
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My dad was a hoarder. After her died last year, I helped by getting rid of stuff – just found a carefully filed box of free cover disks from Computer Shopper, some time in the 90s, still in their plastic wrapping!
Look mom, real live "Save" icons :)
Look mom, real live "Save" icons :)
My first ever post on Reddit has 480 upvotes so far…I feel validated :)
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www.reddit.com/r/AskGermany...
From the AskGermany community on Reddit: Why do 2nd hand shops put clothes in order of colour, not size?
Explore this post and more from the AskGermany community
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My first ever post on Reddit has 480 upvotes so far…I feel validated :)
www.reddit.com/r/AskGermany...
www.reddit.com/r/AskGermany...
In 2023, staffers estimated that Facebook and Instagram users each week were filing about 100,000 valid reports of fraudsters messaging them. But Meta ignored or incorrectly rejected 96% of them.
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In 2023, staffers estimated that Facebook and Instagram users each week were filing about 100,000 valid reports of fraudsters messaging them. But Meta ignored or incorrectly rejected 96% of them.
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Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Stunning investigation by Reuters reveals income from ads for scams and banned goods on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may have amounted to 10% of Meta global revenue in 2024, with 15 billion (!) scam ads being shown to users daily - based on company's own figures.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"this image was used in a media textbook to illustrate how a picture can lie. I look like the typical conservative middle-England Tory voter (which I’m not), objecting to the protest. The truth is, I felt bloody angry that day."
That’s me in the picture: Ros Sare passing the poll tax protest, London, 1990
‘A line of about 10 riot police, with batons and shields were chasing people up Regent Street. It was horrible’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"this image was used in a media textbook to illustrate how a picture can lie. I look like the typical conservative middle-England Tory voter (which I’m not), objecting to the protest. The truth is, I felt bloody angry that day."
"Hallo mama/papa?" New number, but sent from a different number?
I'd say the scammers aren't really trying very hard any more 😂
I'd say the scammers aren't really trying very hard any more 😂
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"Hallo mama/papa?" New number, but sent from a different number?
I'd say the scammers aren't really trying very hard any more 😂
I'd say the scammers aren't really trying very hard any more 😂
Germans love 2nd hand clothes stores. But they almost always display in order of colour, not size. This makes no sense to me. It means I have to hunt through all of them, hoping for something that fits.
I don't go shopping for a specific colour t-shirt, I go shopping for a t-shirt that fits me!
I don't go shopping for a specific colour t-shirt, I go shopping for a t-shirt that fits me!
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Germans love 2nd hand clothes stores. But they almost always display in order of colour, not size. This makes no sense to me. It means I have to hunt through all of them, hoping for something that fits.
I don't go shopping for a specific colour t-shirt, I go shopping for a t-shirt that fits me!
I don't go shopping for a specific colour t-shirt, I go shopping for a t-shirt that fits me!
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'mean-spirited'
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'mean-spirited'
Superb Cautionary Tale by economist Tim Harford about whistleblowers and why people don't call out bad behaviour… because they fear being outcast, losing their job or worse.
He doesn't say, but there's a direct correlation between whistleblowers at banks, and Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and #MeToo
He doesn't say, but there's a direct correlation between whistleblowers at banks, and Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and #MeToo
Cautionary Tales – Whistleblower on the 28th Floor
Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing risks your job, your friends and even your life. So why do it? Financial expert Ray Dirks (played by Jeffrey Wright) exposed one of the biggest corporate crimes of…
timharford.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Superb Cautionary Tale by economist Tim Harford about whistleblowers and why people don't call out bad behaviour… because they fear being outcast, losing their job or worse.
He doesn't say, but there's a direct correlation between whistleblowers at banks, and Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and #MeToo
He doesn't say, but there's a direct correlation between whistleblowers at banks, and Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and #MeToo
Lock him up.
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.
Nero would be proud.
Nero would be proud.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Lock him up.