Old Hobbit🐸
@oldhobbit.bsky.social
Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
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Another scandal they're walking straight into.
There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Another scandal they're walking straight into.
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US President saying the UK would be at the back of the queue for trade deals post-Brexit = terrible slight on the UK, "symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British empire"
US President suing national broadcaster for $1bn = we must grovel and apologise.
US President suing national broadcaster for $1bn = we must grovel and apologise.
Trump then pardoned thousands of those involved, including violent offenders who have already gone on to commit more crimes. That doesn’t erase his own record, or the facts of the event.
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
Why is the shadow culture secretary demanding the BBC “grovel” to a foreign leader for telling the truth?
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
US President saying the UK would be at the back of the queue for trade deals post-Brexit = terrible slight on the UK, "symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British empire"
US President suing national broadcaster for $1bn = we must grovel and apologise.
US President suing national broadcaster for $1bn = we must grovel and apologise.
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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One day, I'd love to write a book about the far-right origins of most of the British environmentalist movement. The Soil Association emerged out of Kinship in Husbandry, which was properly Deep Soil fascist.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
One day, I'd love to write a book about the far-right origins of most of the British environmentalist movement. The Soil Association emerged out of Kinship in Husbandry, which was properly Deep Soil fascist.
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I wonder how this will play for Farage. Trump is very unpopular here; the BBC much loved.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I wonder how this will play for Farage. Trump is very unpopular here; the BBC much loved.
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
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Recent read is @jamesbrogden.bsky.social's Dwimfolk. Highly recommend (especially if you like Alan Garner's work)
4/5
#booksky
Short review here www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
4/5
#booksky
Short review here www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Stephanie's review of The Dwimfolk
4/5: Read this in one sitting. A dark tale which touches on how society views those who live on its edge - shown in the microcosm of a village which borders an area few venture into (the Trod). As the...
www.goodreads.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Recent read is @jamesbrogden.bsky.social's Dwimfolk. Highly recommend (especially if you like Alan Garner's work)
4/5
#booksky
Short review here www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
4/5
#booksky
Short review here www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’
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Schumer’s resume:
- gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments
- consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters
- folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure
- thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates
It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.
- gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments
- consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters
- folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure
- thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates
It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Schumer’s resume:
- gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments
- consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters
- folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure
- thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates
It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.
- gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments
- consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters
- folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure
- thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates
It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.
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Eric Honecker was the head of the Free German Youth until he was 43
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Eric Honecker was the head of the Free German Youth until he was 43
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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It’s funny because it’s true…
*UK Labour furiously scribbling notes 🤪🔥
*UK Labour furiously scribbling notes 🤪🔥
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It’s funny because it’s true…
*UK Labour furiously scribbling notes 🤪🔥
*UK Labour furiously scribbling notes 🤪🔥
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Anyway if we lived in a rational world the Telegraph would sack Allison Pearson for persistently promoting hatemongering claims like this and Ofcom would be clamping down on GB News.
/ rant ends
/ rant ends
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Anyway if we lived in a rational world the Telegraph would sack Allison Pearson for persistently promoting hatemongering claims like this and Ofcom would be clamping down on GB News.
/ rant ends
/ rant ends
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White House Maid Shrieks After Spotting Melania On Ceiling — theonion.com/white-house-...
White House Maid Shrieks After Spotting Melania On Ceiling
WASHINGTON—Expressing horror as an unidentified slimy substance dripped on her shoulder from above, White House maid Carla Ovares reportedly shrieked Tuesday after spotting first lady Melania Trump on...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
White House Maid Shrieks After Spotting Melania On Ceiling — theonion.com/white-house-...
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Reminder that Tim Davie, who's just resigned as BBC Director-General, stood in an election for the Tories in Hammersmith, was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party and in 2020 spent his first day in the job visiting BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reminder that Tim Davie, who's just resigned as BBC Director-General, stood in an election for the Tories in Hammersmith, was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party and in 2020 spent his first day in the job visiting BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
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This bit is kind of right: the change from sombre remembrance to Tinseltown War Christmas coincided with coffins in Wooton Bassett, because the government getting a fuckton of squaddies killed just to curry favour with the Americans was awkward and hard to explain, for the flag-humpers.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This bit is kind of right: the change from sombre remembrance to Tinseltown War Christmas coincided with coffins in Wooton Bassett, because the government getting a fuckton of squaddies killed just to curry favour with the Americans was awkward and hard to explain, for the flag-humpers.
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In 1945 we said ‘never again’, yet already we’ve forgotten
After the second world war, leaders vowed to build back better. Now, as bullies dominate the world stage, we risk losing the lessons learned
✍️ Anthony Seldon
https://bit.ly/4nJFXDS
After the second world war, leaders vowed to build back better. Now, as bullies dominate the world stage, we risk losing the lessons learned
✍️ Anthony Seldon
https://bit.ly/4nJFXDS
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In 1945 we said ‘never again’, yet already we’ve forgotten
After the second world war, leaders vowed to build back better. Now, as bullies dominate the world stage, we risk losing the lessons learned
✍️ Anthony Seldon
https://bit.ly/4nJFXDS
After the second world war, leaders vowed to build back better. Now, as bullies dominate the world stage, we risk losing the lessons learned
✍️ Anthony Seldon
https://bit.ly/4nJFXDS
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Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted"
"How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"
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It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄
Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆
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It would be funny if Eli Roth said this because the only David Lynch movie he’s seen is The Straight Story.
Just imagine... if David Lynch... had done a surreal movie once.....?
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It would be funny if Eli Roth said this because the only David Lynch movie he’s seen is The Straight Story.
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River, frog, scorpion, et cetera.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
River, frog, scorpion, et cetera.
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New York, London, Paris, Munich, everyone talk about, poppy music.
Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌
Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New York, London, Paris, Munich, everyone talk about, poppy music.
Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌
Off key #Respectival entertainment 👌
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Charles has an awful lot of medals for someone who was in the RN for just five years... in peacetime... largely on ships operating off Portsmouth and the Welsh coast...
Just a thought, but... what else was he likely to be doing tonight? Headline news, really?
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Charles has an awful lot of medals for someone who was in the RN for just five years... in peacetime... largely on ships operating off Portsmouth and the Welsh coast...