Mary Wombat
@littlemavis.bsky.social
UK. English. Northern. Old, grumpy, opinionated lefty Yorkshirewoman. Passionate about fairness. Retired scientist, admin person, IT bod, teacher.
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Dumpster diving for art? Naaah, will pass, thanks. Be more Leslie, be a normal human. Don’t be the tech-bro.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Dumpster diving for art? Naaah, will pass, thanks. Be more Leslie, be a normal human. Don’t be the tech-bro.
And my lovely goose-shit green boots have started leaking. Is there something I can use to seal the join between the sole & the uppers?
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
And my lovely goose-shit green boots have started leaking. Is there something I can use to seal the join between the sole & the uppers?
There's a big hole in one of the main routes through town for "emergency gas works". It's been like that for over a week & is now expected to finish on the 18th. Mucks absolutely everything up.
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There's a big hole in one of the main routes through town for "emergency gas works". It's been like that for over a week & is now expected to finish on the 18th. Mucks absolutely everything up.
For the hard of thinking, because I resent being g called irresponsible, the problem isn't the equalizing of the pension age, though there are issues with that, but with the sudden ramping up of the transition period by Cameron with little notice
'Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation. The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when' | ✍️ Tom McPhail
Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation
The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when, says savings expert Tom McPhail
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
For the hard of thinking, because I resent being g called irresponsible, the problem isn't the equalizing of the pension age, though there are issues with that, but with the sudden ramping up of the transition period by Cameron with little notice
You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier
'Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation. The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when' | ✍️ Tom McPhail
Irresponsible Waspis have no right to state pension compensation
The women who missed out when the retirement age changed should have checked how much they would get and when, says savings expert Tom McPhail
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You know, I was fine with the moving of the pension age gradually from 60 to 65. I thought that was fair. I wasn't happy though with the way Cameron ramped it up to be much steeper. My friend who is just over 3 months older than me got her pension a full year earlier
Ages ago, when asked to verify my age for Bluesky, all I did was confirm my email & it was happy. So I can see DMs on my old phone. However. I cannot on my new phone & when I confirm my email it doesn't just give me access, it wants a face scan or my credit card which I'm not going to give them
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ages ago, when asked to verify my age for Bluesky, all I did was confirm my email & it was happy. So I can see DMs on my old phone. However. I cannot on my new phone & when I confirm my email it doesn't just give me access, it wants a face scan or my credit card which I'm not going to give them
Good morning bluesky
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Good morning bluesky
‘Just as enjoyable as the Premier League’: Wythenshawe’s top-flight veterans take centre stage www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘Just as enjoyable as the Premier League’: Wythenshawe’s top-flight veterans take centre stage
Sunday league team with over 1,800 top-flight appearances has contributed to feelgood factor in community
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
‘Just as enjoyable as the Premier League’: Wythenshawe’s top-flight veterans take centre stage www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
Got rudely gestured at by a BMW driver this morning because I wouldn't let her in front of me into the left turn lane after I queued up for ages & she'd tried to jump the queue by coming up the quicker right turn lane then tried to cut in.
I can be a mean driver sometimes
I can be a mean driver sometimes
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Got rudely gestured at by a BMW driver this morning because I wouldn't let her in front of me into the left turn lane after I queued up for ages & she'd tried to jump the queue by coming up the quicker right turn lane then tried to cut in.
I can be a mean driver sometimes
I can be a mean driver sometimes
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I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I think, as an American who studied the speech to assess whether it constituted unlawful incitement, the BBC edit was poor journalistic form, but it did not convey something substantively different than reality. My thing? The apology doesn’t convey to me that the BBC gets Trump isn’t a fair broker.
Seriously bad & weird traffic this morning. Roadworks , queues, accidents. Google maps couldn't keep up with it all
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Seriously bad & weird traffic this morning. Roadworks , queues, accidents. Google maps couldn't keep up with it all
Good morning bluesky
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Good morning bluesky
I know some people like autumn and talk about the colours & crunching leaves underfoot & golden evenings but honestly ime it's mostly grey and sodden & the leaves are slippery not crunchy.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I know some people like autumn and talk about the colours & crunching leaves underfoot & golden evenings but honestly ime it's mostly grey and sodden & the leaves are slippery not crunchy.
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I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the Director General of the BBC categorically didn’t resign after one of its flagship politics shows literally photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn with a Soviet hat and painted red with the Kremlin in the background like some kind of Cold War-era communist mural.
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Richard of York: coming home?
Richard of York’s remains were discovered, then retained in the area where he fell. But should he come home to Yorkshire?
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social
Richard of York’s remains were discovered, then retained in the area where he fell. But should he come home to Yorkshire?
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social
Richard of York: coming home?
Richard of York’s remains were discovered, then retained in the area where he fell. But should he come home to Yorkshire?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Richard of York: coming home?
Richard of York’s remains were discovered, then retained in the area where he fell. But should he come home to Yorkshire?
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social
Richard of York’s remains were discovered, then retained in the area where he fell. But should he come home to Yorkshire?
By Dr Pam Jarvis
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social
Well, no. Not really as he seems to be resigning for not being right-wing enough 😳
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC?
Senior insiders admit concern about big editorial errors and fear attacks are part of ongoing campaign to undermine the broadcaster
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Well, no. Not really as he seems to be resigning for not being right-wing enough 😳
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Will Tim Davie’s resignation be enough to restore public trust in the BBC? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Without wanting to stick my oar in too far:
It's possible to recognise that we have a higher standard of living now than in the past and *also* to believe that inequitable distribution is wrong and that widespread precarity for everyone but the very rich should be fought tooth and nail.
It's possible to recognise that we have a higher standard of living now than in the past and *also* to believe that inequitable distribution is wrong and that widespread precarity for everyone but the very rich should be fought tooth and nail.
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Without wanting to stick my oar in too far:
It's possible to recognise that we have a higher standard of living now than in the past and *also* to believe that inequitable distribution is wrong and that widespread precarity for everyone but the very rich should be fought tooth and nail.
It's possible to recognise that we have a higher standard of living now than in the past and *also* to believe that inequitable distribution is wrong and that widespread precarity for everyone but the very rich should be fought tooth and nail.
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Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lol to the way old things get new names in education and then some people act as though they just invented them. 'Turn and talk' or what we used to call pair work or talk partners before the idea that group work was a bad thing got rammed down our throats. 🙄
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the term "Gaslighting" is grossly overused for things it does not apply to
But the idea that Davie and Turness are examples of woke lefty sensibilities and that the BBC is nowhere near right wing enough?.....
But the idea that Davie and Turness are examples of woke lefty sensibilities and that the BBC is nowhere near right wing enough?.....
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
the term "Gaslighting" is grossly overused for things it does not apply to
But the idea that Davie and Turness are examples of woke lefty sensibilities and that the BBC is nowhere near right wing enough?.....
But the idea that Davie and Turness are examples of woke lefty sensibilities and that the BBC is nowhere near right wing enough?.....
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I must have been living in a parallel universe in which the BBC has had openly Tory figures put in key positions from board down
Coverage of politics pushed ever further right
And relentlessly platformed/failed to challenge Reform/Tory Right/IEA/TPA/Right wing OpEd writers
Coverage of politics pushed ever further right
And relentlessly platformed/failed to challenge Reform/Tory Right/IEA/TPA/Right wing OpEd writers
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I must have been living in a parallel universe in which the BBC has had openly Tory figures put in key positions from board down
Coverage of politics pushed ever further right
And relentlessly platformed/failed to challenge Reform/Tory Right/IEA/TPA/Right wing OpEd writers
Coverage of politics pushed ever further right
And relentlessly platformed/failed to challenge Reform/Tory Right/IEA/TPA/Right wing OpEd writers
Good morning bluesky
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Good morning bluesky
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Fucking fireworks. Again
They've had 3 nights already this year. Why didn't they use one of those?
They've had 3 nights already this year. Why didn't they use one of those?
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fucking fireworks. Again
They've had 3 nights already this year. Why didn't they use one of those?
They've had 3 nights already this year. Why didn't they use one of those?
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UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.
Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.
It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.
Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.
It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.
Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.
It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.
Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.
It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.