Rob
@glastronomer.bsky.social
Food Systems Researcher, mostly. Used to do Libraries. It’s a play on Glasgow and Gastronomer. Gastronomy as in academic field, not like I pull faces in restaurants (I mean, sometimes). He / Him 🏳️🌈🏴 #Food #SocialImpact #Sustainability #Agroecology
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Rob
@glastronomer.bsky.social
· Nov 22
It wasn’t the porn that did it, it was the fascism.
Somewhere between these two, probably.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Somewhere between these two, probably.
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No it bloody isn't.
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
No it bloody isn't.
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Hope you're all having poppies for breakfast
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hope you're all having poppies for breakfast
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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It's like if Ceauşescu had a social media account.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It's like if Ceauşescu had a social media account.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
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“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...
theonion.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services
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“Your party has made people feel genuinely unsafe to walk the streets because of the colour of their skin, and you expect equal outrage over paint on metal shutters?”
Spot on.
Spot on.
Reform very unhappy with the coverage they got from Welsh media. The message is clear: the far-right can only succeed when they enjoy the fawning treatment that English media provide.
Reform Wales regional director blasts Welsh media over Caerphilly coverage
Emily Price Reform UK’s regional director for Wales has accused the Welsh media of “anti-Reform” attacks following the party’s by-election defeat in Caerphilly last week. Torfaen Councillor David Tho...
nation.cymru
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“Your party has made people feel genuinely unsafe to walk the streets because of the colour of their skin, and you expect equal outrage over paint on metal shutters?”
Spot on.
Spot on.
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The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace
A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Reform’s Kruger under fire for warning of ‘LGBT-supporting’ left-wing parties
East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger said the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’.
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Obvious point but interesting that the BBC doesn’t name any of the Home Secretaries that might have been responsible for this waste of billions of pounds in the pursuit of the votes of racists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
www.bbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Obvious point but interesting that the BBC doesn’t name any of the Home Secretaries that might have been responsible for this waste of billions of pounds in the pursuit of the votes of racists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nobody complained when chimpanzees drank tea, aliens made instant mash, ambassadors served mediocre chocolate in lieu of canapes. But portray a black couple enjoying a breakfast buffet at a Premier Inn and there will be hell to pay.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
October 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Nobody complained when chimpanzees drank tea, aliens made instant mash, ambassadors served mediocre chocolate in lieu of canapes. But portray a black couple enjoying a breakfast buffet at a Premier Inn and there will be hell to pay.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
Runcorn, i love you, but you're bringing me down.
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Three weeks ago...
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Three weeks ago...
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That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
That's racism. Plain and simple.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
No other word for it.
It's shocking beyond belief that this sort of thing is somehow acceptable.
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Try not to put yourself in a position where you have to say "I'm not actually a Nazi"
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Try not to put yourself in a position where you have to say "I'm not actually a Nazi"
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"He has been mocked, denounced and driven from his job. To the medical and political establishment, he is an outcast and an enemy.
But Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the heart of the furore over the MMR vaccination, believes he is on the brink of vindication." - Daily Mail, 11 March 2003
But Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the heart of the furore over the MMR vaccination, believes he is on the brink of vindication." - Daily Mail, 11 March 2003
Me: "I compare him to a supervillian. You can't overstate the harm he's done."
Yes, even the Daily Mail knows evil: "Return of Andrew Wakefield - the anti-vax 'supervillain'" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, even the Daily Mail knows evil: "Return of Andrew Wakefield - the anti-vax 'supervillain'" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The return of Andrew Wakefield - the anti-vax 'supervillain'
To many of those gathered at this elegant stately home in Wiltshire, just one word describes the man they have come to see.
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"He has been mocked, denounced and driven from his job. To the medical and political establishment, he is an outcast and an enemy.
But Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the heart of the furore over the MMR vaccination, believes he is on the brink of vindication." - Daily Mail, 11 March 2003
But Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the heart of the furore over the MMR vaccination, believes he is on the brink of vindication." - Daily Mail, 11 March 2003
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Agreed. These are a cancer on society.
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Agreed. These are a cancer on society.
Excellent news, let’s get the rest of the vultures off the high streets.
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Excellent news, let’s get the rest of the vultures off the high streets.
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Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.
Help a refugee into employment by donating - Refugee Council
Romia fled Sudan when she felt it was no longer safe for her and her family...
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.
Just a hard working little journalist up against a deadline and desperate to protect his dealer. Sorry, sources.
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...
Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!
Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!
Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told
Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act
www.standard.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Just a hard working little journalist up against a deadline and desperate to protect his dealer. Sorry, sources.
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Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...