Nigel Whitfield
@nigelwhitfield.uk
Former journalist, also manage @bluf.social
Here is mostly politics, food; fetish stuff on the alt. TERFs not welcome.
Here is mostly politics, food; fetish stuff on the alt. TERFs not welcome.
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Nigel Whitfield
@nigelwhitfield.uk
· Nov 11
Well, here I am; I suspect I shall be using this a little more than the old place now, where I'm nigelwuk for the time being.
Aside from anything else, that robot looks like it's wearing a corset. Does it fire lasers from its boobs, too?
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Aside from anything else, that robot looks like it's wearing a corset. Does it fire lasers from its boobs, too?
Presumably he'd have to sue in London. I'd love to see a jury either throw it out, or award him £1 damages.
Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC over the edit of a speech he made as his supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington, deepening a crisis at the broadcaster that has led to the resignation of two top executives. on.ft.com/4qLuoyF
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Presumably he'd have to sue in London. I'd love to see a jury either throw it out, or award him £1 damages.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Sky owner Comcast wants to gobble up ITV.
Comcast is another organsisation that, in the US at least, has to keep on the good side of the Trump admin to realise some of its corporate goals.
This is really not a good time for independent UK public service broadcasting.
Comcast is another organsisation that, in the US at least, has to keep on the good side of the Trump admin to realise some of its corporate goals.
This is really not a good time for independent UK public service broadcasting.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Sky owner Comcast wants to gobble up ITV.
Comcast is another organsisation that, in the US at least, has to keep on the good side of the Trump admin to realise some of its corporate goals.
This is really not a good time for independent UK public service broadcasting.
Comcast is another organsisation that, in the US at least, has to keep on the good side of the Trump admin to realise some of its corporate goals.
This is really not a good time for independent UK public service broadcasting.
If the right (especially the US right) manage to successfully neuter the BBC, and bend it more permanently towards their viewpoint, I imagine that having taken on the 'big beast' of public service broadcasting, they'll be going after others next, the likes of RTE, France Televisions and so on.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If the right (especially the US right) manage to successfully neuter the BBC, and bend it more permanently towards their viewpoint, I imagine that having taken on the 'big beast' of public service broadcasting, they'll be going after others next, the likes of RTE, France Televisions and so on.
Tech nonsense in ITV's Trigger Point: armed officers sweeping a building saying "We're coming up on the location of the IP address"
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tech nonsense in ITV's Trigger Point: armed officers sweeping a building saying "We're coming up on the location of the IP address"
Diane Abbott for Director General!
It gives her a way to bow out of the Commons gracefully, and will make so many heads explode, it's worth it just for that.
It gives her a way to bow out of the Commons gracefully, and will make so many heads explode, it's worth it just for that.
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Diane Abbott for Director General!
It gives her a way to bow out of the Commons gracefully, and will make so many heads explode, it's worth it just for that.
It gives her a way to bow out of the Commons gracefully, and will make so many heads explode, it's worth it just for that.
Hah! Whiny right wingers have made so much fuss about the BBC that the most right wing DG in years has been forced to quite.
I hope Starmer gives the job to Diane Abbott, just to spite them all
I hope Starmer gives the job to Diane Abbott, just to spite them all
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hah! Whiny right wingers have made so much fuss about the BBC that the most right wing DG in years has been forced to quite.
I hope Starmer gives the job to Diane Abbott, just to spite them all
I hope Starmer gives the job to Diane Abbott, just to spite them all
US government racist culture war shit is even affecting war graves, it seems.
How utterly, utterly despicable.
How utterly, utterly despicable.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
US government racist culture war shit is even affecting war graves, it seems.
How utterly, utterly despicable.
How utterly, utterly despicable.
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Have finally found the glitch in an app posting to the Insta Graph API. Even when uploading images now, it takes time. You have to check the status of your media container before publishing - something the docs only really refer to for video.
Why does Meta do this shit?
Why does Meta do this shit?
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Have finally found the glitch in an app posting to the Insta Graph API. Even when uploading images now, it takes time. You have to check the status of your media container before publishing - something the docs only really refer to for video.
Why does Meta do this shit?
Why does Meta do this shit?
If a small group of people can completely capture the BBC and make it pro-trans (which is risible; these fuckwits consider anything other than outright hate to be favourable), it doens't say much about the corporations internal processes, does it?
Or, it wouldn't if it were remotely true.
Or, it wouldn't if it were remotely true.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If a small group of people can completely capture the BBC and make it pro-trans (which is risible; these fuckwits consider anything other than outright hate to be favourable), it doens't say much about the corporations internal processes, does it?
Or, it wouldn't if it were remotely true.
Or, it wouldn't if it were remotely true.
Jeez #r4today really is going all out culture war shit this morning. Woke up to some idiot blathering about BBC capture by trans ideology, and now the usual wank about how horrid those brown people were to Kate Clanchy
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Jeez #r4today really is going all out culture war shit this morning. Woke up to some idiot blathering about BBC capture by trans ideology, and now the usual wank about how horrid those brown people were to Kate Clanchy
Have been watching Trigger Point on ITVx. Honestly, if Lana Washington tells you to stay calm, you're as good as dead, aren't you?
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Have been watching Trigger Point on ITVx. Honestly, if Lana Washington tells you to stay calm, you're as good as dead, aren't you?
If there was any more soft soap in this PM feature on Lee Anderson, it would be a full on shower scene, like that one with Sid and Jolene in #TheArchers #radio4
Why not ask him why he wants to treat disabled people like shit and take away their cars, Evan? Are you too busy with the loofah?
Why not ask him why he wants to treat disabled people like shit and take away their cars, Evan? Are you too busy with the loofah?
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If there was any more soft soap in this PM feature on Lee Anderson, it would be a full on shower scene, like that one with Sid and Jolene in #TheArchers #radio4
Why not ask him why he wants to treat disabled people like shit and take away their cars, Evan? Are you too busy with the loofah?
Why not ask him why he wants to treat disabled people like shit and take away their cars, Evan? Are you too busy with the loofah?
Popped into the local baby Tesco to grab a sandwich, and have ended up leaving two out of their three self service tills requiring staff attention to unlock them.
The screens are so unresponsive (to my fingers, at least) they just assumed I'd abandoned them, no matter how many times I hit "Pay"
The screens are so unresponsive (to my fingers, at least) they just assumed I'd abandoned them, no matter how many times I hit "Pay"
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Popped into the local baby Tesco to grab a sandwich, and have ended up leaving two out of their three self service tills requiring staff attention to unlock them.
The screens are so unresponsive (to my fingers, at least) they just assumed I'd abandoned them, no matter how many times I hit "Pay"
The screens are so unresponsive (to my fingers, at least) they just assumed I'd abandoned them, no matter how many times I hit "Pay"
The problem with #r4today is that the presenters all imagine themselves to be of the calibre of John Timpson and Brian Redhead, back in the 80s, but they lack the talent and gravitas while the programme itself is of far less consequence.
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The problem with #r4today is that the presenters all imagine themselves to be of the calibre of John Timpson and Brian Redhead, back in the 80s, but they lack the talent and gravitas while the programme itself is of far less consequence.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"We've seen you in your speedos, and we'd like to invite you to our polycule" #TheArchers
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"We've seen you in your speedos, and we'd like to invite you to our polycule" #TheArchers
Poor Emma must be biting her tongue all the way through the programme today, furious someone who didn't shit on trans people actually won an important election. Will she get a dig in before 9am? #r4today
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Poor Emma must be biting her tongue all the way through the programme today, furious someone who didn't shit on trans people actually won an important election. Will she get a dig in before 9am? #r4today
Thing is, Wes, the party in government, the one of which you are a member, has repeatedly vacillated, and only called out racism when it's almost too late, when people are screaming "for god's sake, say something."
Should have stepped up months ago, if you really cared.
Should have stepped up months ago, if you really cared.
An “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and NHS staff are bearing the brunt of it, Wes Streeting has warned
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thing is, Wes, the party in government, the one of which you are a member, has repeatedly vacillated, and only called out racism when it's almost too late, when people are screaming "for god's sake, say something."
Should have stepped up months ago, if you really cared.
Should have stepped up months ago, if you really cared.
Oh, Evan, querying how long a government can blame the conditions they inherited.
Why did no one on the BBC ever question when the Tories used that excuse for over a decade, not just a year.
#radio4
Why did no one on the BBC ever question when the Tories used that excuse for over a decade, not just a year.
#radio4
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Oh, Evan, querying how long a government can blame the conditions they inherited.
Why did no one on the BBC ever question when the Tories used that excuse for over a decade, not just a year.
#radio4
Why did no one on the BBC ever question when the Tories used that excuse for over a decade, not just a year.
#radio4
I was going do a nice slow cooked chicken and paprika dish today but it took too long to pair a sodding light bulb with the home network.
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I was going do a nice slow cooked chicken and paprika dish today but it took too long to pair a sodding light bulb with the home network.