Radiohead319 💙
@radiohead319.bsky.social
Retired Chartered Engineer. 'Citizen of nowhere'. 'Radical Centrist'. Anti-hunting. Breadmaker. Mainly veggie, woke, middle class. Bit of a radio nut. Broadcaster.
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Radiohead319 💙
@radiohead319.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Some noddy-level observation and comments about Bluesky after 24 hours. Hope they are useful to you:
1. For ease of discovery, set your bio text and both images to the same as Xitter. If you've lost those images, it's easy to save them from Xitter. 1/n
1. For ease of discovery, set your bio text and both images to the same as Xitter. If you've lost those images, it's easy to save them from Xitter. 1/n
If it helps I did a short thread on coming to BlueSky:
bsky.app/profile/radi...
And on deleting all content on Xitter (but keeping your old handle)
bsky.app/profile/radi...
bsky.app/profile/radi...
And on deleting all content on Xitter (but keeping your old handle)
bsky.app/profile/radi...
Thus is brilliant because it articulates exactly what I think!
However whenever I try to articulate these facts to friends and family I get shouted-down for being too political! So let's ignore it and carry on nazi-ing our way to demographic disaster!
However whenever I try to articulate these facts to friends and family I get shouted-down for being too political! So let's ignore it and carry on nazi-ing our way to demographic disaster!
Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration.
tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.
(I'm not trying to make friends)
open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.
(I'm not trying to make friends)
open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
The Indisputable Maths of Migration
How Demography, Not Dinghies, Will Decide Britain’s Future
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Thus is brilliant because it articulates exactly what I think!
However whenever I try to articulate these facts to friends and family I get shouted-down for being too political! So let's ignore it and carry on nazi-ing our way to demographic disaster!
However whenever I try to articulate these facts to friends and family I get shouted-down for being too political! So let's ignore it and carry on nazi-ing our way to demographic disaster!
Thid sounds hopeful. Better than that spiteful rule they recently brought in for Motability, removing some vehicles from the range, stopping disabled people spending their own money on a bigger/nicer car. Shades of the old fibreglass mobility cars returning - punishing people for being disabled.
The Government reviews 55-year-old legislation on mobility devices to grant users greater autonomy | Trevor Russel
Major shake-up of disability laws on the cards
The Government reviews 55-year-old legislation on mobility devices to grant users greater autonomy
centralbylines.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Thid sounds hopeful. Better than that spiteful rule they recently brought in for Motability, removing some vehicles from the range, stopping disabled people spending their own money on a bigger/nicer car. Shades of the old fibreglass mobility cars returning - punishing people for being disabled.
God, Kwasi Kwarteng on ITV *AGAIN* this morning! Why?????!
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
God, Kwasi Kwarteng on ITV *AGAIN* this morning! Why?????!
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Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
Reform UK says it would re-impose two-child benefit cap for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
WWN nail it again!
January 31, 2026 at 12:01 PM
WWN nail it again!
Please listen to the Prof. Our kids were at this stage at the time of the (original?) MMR scare due to the discredited Andrew Wakefield. Even though my wife was a GP at the time we wavered. But we did the right thing, and our adult kids are fine!
Please please vaccinate your child against measles.
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social
independentsage.org/wp-content/u...
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Please listen to the Prof. Our kids were at this stage at the time of the (original?) MMR scare due to the discredited Andrew Wakefield. Even though my wife was a GP at the time we wavered. But we did the right thing, and our adult kids are fine!
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🗞️ Some news!
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 AM
🗞️ Some news!
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.
Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢
bsky.app/profile/trum...
Anyone nodding along with this policy obviously does not have a pet or has not had to navigate private, insurance-based vetinary services. They are the obvious model for how privatised human healthcare would work in the UK. 1/2
Reform MP Andrew Rosindell tells the BBC that he "would not object" to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with private insurance
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Anyone nodding along with this policy obviously does not have a pet or has not had to navigate private, insurance-based vetinary services. They are the obvious model for how privatised human healthcare would work in the UK. 1/2
Hearing that mad Replublican apologist on @lewisgoodall.com on LBC just now makes you realise how big the gulf is, and how different we are from Americans. We should be hammering on the EUs door, expediting getting back in!
January 25, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Hearing that mad Replublican apologist on @lewisgoodall.com on LBC just now makes you realise how big the gulf is, and how different we are from Americans. We should be hammering on the EUs door, expediting getting back in!
I hope someone is cataloguing these crimes in copious detail to use as evidence *WHEN* Judgement Day comes.
A regime that finally backs down when confronted by a united Europe is still tough enough to kidnap a five year old after preschool.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 AM
I hope someone is cataloguing these crimes in copious detail to use as evidence *WHEN* Judgement Day comes.
If you feel helpless with what's going on in the world, you can fight back - avoid American Goods & Services. If you want to specifically target Musk's paedoohillia generator (X), then you can target advertisers on X: 👇
Follow the link to see the full list of X advertisers and all contact points (including emails, contact forms, and LinkedIn): stopfundinghate.info/whos-still-a...
Who’s still advertising on X? – Stop Funding Hate
stopfundinghate.info
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM
If you feel helpless with what's going on in the world, you can fight back - avoid American Goods & Services. If you want to specifically target Musk's paedoohillia generator (X), then you can target advertisers on X: 👇
That phrase terrifies me to hear from our *actual Government*.
Starmer was at pains yesterday to say it was his primary responsibility to keep us safe. To me that means wargaming and rehearsing many hypothetical scenarios.
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail", imo.
Starmer was at pains yesterday to say it was his primary responsibility to keep us safe. To me that means wargaming and rehearsing many hypothetical scenarios.
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail", imo.
Susanna Reid asks Darren Jones what British companies who export to the US should do to prepare for a possible increase in tariffs.
Darren Jones replies: "you shouldn't prepare for a hypothetical"
Darren Jones replies: "you shouldn't prepare for a hypothetical"
January 20, 2026 at 11:36 AM
That phrase terrifies me to hear from our *actual Government*.
Starmer was at pains yesterday to say it was his primary responsibility to keep us safe. To me that means wargaming and rehearsing many hypothetical scenarios.
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail", imo.
Starmer was at pains yesterday to say it was his primary responsibility to keep us safe. To me that means wargaming and rehearsing many hypothetical scenarios.
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail", imo.
It's taken a long time...
@davidallengreen.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social will know about this. I respect their points of view massively
I'm wondering what's the point of following them if they turn off any possibility of interacting with their "content" by comment or repost with comment. 1/2
@davidallengreen.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social will know about this. I respect their points of view massively
I'm wondering what's the point of following them if they turn off any possibility of interacting with their "content" by comment or repost with comment. 1/2
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
It's taken a long time...
@davidallengreen.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social will know about this. I respect their points of view massively
I'm wondering what's the point of following them if they turn off any possibility of interacting with their "content" by comment or repost with comment. 1/2
@davidallengreen.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social will know about this. I respect their points of view massively
I'm wondering what's the point of following them if they turn off any possibility of interacting with their "content" by comment or repost with comment. 1/2
Could I think of a person I'd trust *less* to ensure I'm well cared for when I'm old and vulnerable...?!
January 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Could I think of a person I'd trust *less* to ensure I'm well cared for when I'm old and vulnerable...?!
If you're not already boycotting American goods & services, I urge you to think about it. Some things like mobile phone platform it's not really possible, but most things it is.
I don't normally engage with or refer to US government social media trolling, but this* is truly terrifying. It's one word away from "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" - they're not even bothering with any meaningful attempt at plausible deniability any more.
*screenshot from X - not going to link
*screenshot from X - not going to link
January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
If you're not already boycotting American goods & services, I urge you to think about it. Some things like mobile phone platform it's not really possible, but most things it is.
Brilliant, as usual!
"Let's invade Belgium."
"All I'm saying is we pop over, we take it and we call it Greater Kent."
"All I'm saying is we pop over, we take it and we call it Greater Kent."
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Brilliant, as usual!
Worrying that our state seems so gullible
NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster.
Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Worrying that our state seems so gullible
Love it!
Scenes You Seldom See
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1120, November 2004.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1120, November 2004.
January 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Love it!
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
32 Aug 1983, Friars Aylesbury - Eurythmics. Annie photo from actual concert from www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/eurythmics83...
32 Aug 1983, Friars Aylesbury - Eurythmics. Annie photo from actual concert from www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/eurythmics83...
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
32 Aug 1983, Friars Aylesbury - Eurythmics. Annie photo from actual concert from www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/eurythmics83...
32 Aug 1983, Friars Aylesbury - Eurythmics. Annie photo from actual concert from www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/eurythmics83...
I totally agree UK & Europe need to be more on the front foot - take a leaf from Carney's approach.
There might be some earlier, softer steps that signal similar resolve - reciprocating their visa rules, removing Government from X, maybe FB too, and a sliding scale of tighter regulation.
There might be some earlier, softer steps that signal similar resolve - reciprocating their visa rules, removing Government from X, maybe FB too, and a sliding scale of tighter regulation.
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If you were to ask me, in my professional capacity, how we should respond to trump, then please feel free to read through this thread:
For too long, Europe has been forced into a reactive posture, responding to the rapid and often destabilising decisions coming out of Washington.
If you were to ask me, in my professional capacity, how we should respond to trump, then please feel free to read through this thread:
For too long, Europe has been forced into a reactive posture, responding to the rapid and often destabilising decisions coming out of Washington.
January 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I totally agree UK & Europe need to be more on the front foot - take a leaf from Carney's approach.
There might be some earlier, softer steps that signal similar resolve - reciprocating their visa rules, removing Government from X, maybe FB too, and a sliding scale of tighter regulation.
There might be some earlier, softer steps that signal similar resolve - reciprocating their visa rules, removing Government from X, maybe FB too, and a sliding scale of tighter regulation.
Reposting to a support with my massive 500 follower awareness!
Welcome to everyone joining Bluesky in the recent influx.
January 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Reposting to a support with my massive 500 follower awareness!
This looks fun!
Looking for something to do this weekend? Then try your hand at predicting what will happen in 2026.
50 questions - simply say how likely each is to occur, on a range of 0% (won't happen) to 100% (will definitely happen).
Any question can be skipped.
www.edrith.co.uk/p/2026-forec...
50 questions - simply say how likely each is to occur, on a range of 0% (won't happen) to 100% (will definitely happen).
Any question can be skipped.
www.edrith.co.uk/p/2026-forec...
2026 Forecasting Contest
A forecasting contest for 2026, featuring UK politics and global events.
www.edrith.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
This looks fun!
A brilliant bit of writing from one of my favourite journalists alongside @mrjohncrace.bsky.social and @fotoole.bsky.social. You need to follow all of them!
Peston Rigby and Kuenssberg should all be in jail for being “enemies of the country”. Former prime minister Liz Truss chews the fat with her muse Dan Wootton. It’s crazy stuff www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...
How did Liz Truss become prime minister?
Truss has launched a bizarre YouTube show steeped in conspiracy theories. Thank goodness her time in Number 10 lasted just 49 days
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 12:08 PM
A brilliant bit of writing from one of my favourite journalists alongside @mrjohncrace.bsky.social and @fotoole.bsky.social. You need to follow all of them!
I hate to say this, but has Trump accidentally actually done the RIGHT thing?
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I hate to say this, but has Trump accidentally actually done the RIGHT thing?
Blue tits nicking the creamy bit off the top of the milk.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Blue tits nicking the creamy bit off the top of the milk.