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@gneill.bsky.social
Fortysomething centrist dad. Proud owner of two Pavement t-shirts. From east Belfast to west Wales.
I fucking love BlueSky. Never change.
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I fucking love BlueSky. Never change.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
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'Baldur's Gate' TV series is in the works
• Craig Mazin ('The Last of Us') is the showrunner
• Story takes place immediately after the events of 'Baldur's Gate 3'
• Will feature characters from the game
(via Deadline)
• Craig Mazin ('The Last of Us') is the showrunner
• Story takes place immediately after the events of 'Baldur's Gate 3'
• Will feature characters from the game
(via Deadline)
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
• No, you're ok, don't bother.
I once made Matt Smith jump when he turned into an aisle that I was walking out of in Sainsbury's and almost bumped into him.
One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’
He was visibly unamused.
He was visibly unamused.
February 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I once made Matt Smith jump when he turned into an aisle that I was walking out of in Sainsbury's and almost bumped into him.
Captain Tom.
Who is the funniest person who could show up in the Epstein files? I have thought Naomi Wolf, but Alex Jones would also be hilarious
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Captain Tom.
Glad to see the discourse is finally settling on the right opinion: David Foster Wallace was an incredible writer, Infinite Jest is brilliant, his writing of women and minorities was, um, not great at best and he acted appallingly to Mary Karr (and others).
And you should never, ever wear a bandana.
And you should never, ever wear a bandana.
February 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Glad to see the discourse is finally settling on the right opinion: David Foster Wallace was an incredible writer, Infinite Jest is brilliant, his writing of women and minorities was, um, not great at best and he acted appallingly to Mary Karr (and others).
And you should never, ever wear a bandana.
And you should never, ever wear a bandana.
The only time I've read a Pagliacci joke and been glad that I've done so. Now do that horrific plums poem next.
ME: I knew Pagliacci was a stage name, but the joke didn't work unless I pretended it was his real name.
CHOTINER: So you misrepresented the doctor.
M: Well, I didn't know it would be popular. It was just for our followers.
C: Right. It's okay to lie when it's only close friends.
M: Hold on
CHOTINER: So you misrepresented the doctor.
M: Well, I didn't know it would be popular. It was just for our followers.
C: Right. It's okay to lie when it's only close friends.
M: Hold on
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
The only time I've read a Pagliacci joke and been glad that I've done so. Now do that horrific plums poem next.
It's impossible to say why people so keen to vote for populist parties whose whole schtick is to tear down the established order. Absolutely impossible.
there's a lot in this piece but the Mandelson email about angling for some kind of job at JP Morgan because 'i do not want to live by salary alone' just exemplifies everything people hate about politicians, the City, and revolving doors between the two www.ft.com/content/91e8...
JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein
Former business secretary has quit the Labour Party in an effort to avoid causing it ‘further embarrassment’
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
It's impossible to say why people so keen to vote for populist parties whose whole schtick is to tear down the established order. Absolutely impossible.
The fact one of the campaigners is called O'Looney makes me believe this must be some sort of elaborate Chris Morris project.
Were they concerned Oxford residents?
Nope!
They are an amazing who’s who of all our old Covid conspiracy quacks and GB News regulars.
I got a mild pang of nostalgia when I saw the list!😂
Right Said Fred, Calvin Robinson, Laurence Fox, Yeadon, Cahill, Malone, Neil Oliver….
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Nope!
They are an amazing who’s who of all our old Covid conspiracy quacks and GB News regulars.
I got a mild pang of nostalgia when I saw the list!😂
Right Said Fred, Calvin Robinson, Laurence Fox, Yeadon, Cahill, Malone, Neil Oliver….
13/
February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The fact one of the campaigners is called O'Looney makes me believe this must be some sort of elaborate Chris Morris project.
I'd love to know what public service Question Time is serving. I'm not sure laundering the reputation of cranks counts as one.
The BBC is getting played here: if a contributor gets to flat out deny having his own words quoted to him on television (with the viewer not told the denial is untrue) then post about "dropping truth bombs". The mission to inform & counter misinformation is flailing if the editorial controls so weak
Konstantin Kisin has since posted on his own Youtube channel saying he 'dropped truth bombs on Question Time'.
Clearly 'alternative truth' bombs.
The video has had over 400k views and counting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AN1...
Clearly 'alternative truth' bombs.
The video has had over 400k views and counting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AN1...
January 31, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I'd love to know what public service Question Time is serving. I'm not sure laundering the reputation of cranks counts as one.
It's a shame the Louvre of BlueSky account has gone because this is a classic of the genre.
January 31, 2026 at 1:12 PM
It's a shame the Louvre of BlueSky account has gone because this is a classic of the genre.
Is it about a BlueSkycycle?
Have you long been aching to know how Flann O’Brien would have fared on Twitter? Or here on Bluesky? In the latest publication in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies, Rosemary Jenkinson reveals all!
#speirgorm
#speirgorm
Flann O'Brien and Social Media
Rosemary Jenkinson analyses how a contemporary Flann O'Brien would fare in the toxic, combative era of social media, with reference to the Flamingo edition of The Best of Myles.
parishreview.openlibhums.org
January 31, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Is it about a BlueSkycycle?
RIP Catherine O'Hara and thanks for fooling a generation of kids to believe they could afford to buy this kind of house by the time they're 35.
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
RIP Catherine O'Hara and thanks for fooling a generation of kids to believe they could afford to buy this kind of house by the time they're 35.
To be fair, "a terrible beauty is born" sounds like some absolute wank a teenage boy would say to try and impress a girl.
w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses
January 29, 2026 at 8:43 PM
To be fair, "a terrible beauty is born" sounds like some absolute wank a teenage boy would say to try and impress a girl.
Am I radicalised? I sure am. I'm radicalised by Slint, Fugazi and Minutemen documentaries and what films Jodie Foster would take from the Criterion Closet.
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Am I radicalised? I sure am. I'm radicalised by Slint, Fugazi and Minutemen documentaries and what films Jodie Foster would take from the Criterion Closet.
Would they get the tarantula as well?
Gavin Williamson on Reform defection watch reports James Tapsfield www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
January 27, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Would they get the tarantula as well?
Being paid to protest would be amazing. Where can I sign up?
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Being paid to protest would be amazing. Where can I sign up?
*Yellow* dots.
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
*Yellow* dots.
Distracting myself from everything right now by reading about how Donna Tartt was basically the coolest person alive at university. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Money, Madness, Cocaine and Literary Genius: An Oral History of the 1980s' Most Decadent College
Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex, drugs, and future literary stars--among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.
www.esquire.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Distracting myself from everything right now by reading about how Donna Tartt was basically the coolest person alive at university. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Andy Burnham is the personification of:
a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Andy Burnham is the personification of:
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I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I'd say at least half of the news lines that I read when I wake up in the morning now read like text-based exposition you find lying around in Fallout games.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
You'd have more respect for the increasing flood of face saving statements such as oul Dan's if they said "you know what? I should have listened to the warnings rather than dismissed them. I got it wrong" rather than "it doesn't matter going over who's right or wrong now...".
January 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
You'd have more respect for the increasing flood of face saving statements such as oul Dan's if they said "you know what? I should have listened to the warnings rather than dismissed them. I got it wrong" rather than "it doesn't matter going over who's right or wrong now...".
Can we finally say anyone who voted for him was a moron and we don't have to respect differences of political opinion?
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can we finally say anyone who voted for him was a moron and we don't have to respect differences of political opinion?
Daniel Hannan will never be topped as the greatest argument against the UK being a meritocracy.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Daniel Hannan will never be topped as the greatest argument against the UK being a meritocracy.
*wells up*
I'd buy an OLED Steam Deck, get the bathroom done and pay a bit more off the mortgage.
I'd buy an OLED Steam Deck, get the bathroom done and pay a bit more off the mortgage.
god I'd have such a boring answer if I were a contestant and asked what I'd do with the money: "um, I'd stick it all in my pension fund". #TheTraitors
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
*wells up*
I'd buy an OLED Steam Deck, get the bathroom done and pay a bit more off the mortgage.
I'd buy an OLED Steam Deck, get the bathroom done and pay a bit more off the mortgage.