Ricardo 🇵🇸
@thoughtcat.bsky.social
Lefty London bloke into painting, coffee, photography, trees and buns. “An awkward mix of the very serious and the very silly” - Lulu. I also make up quotes. #freepalestine
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The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
Admit it, you can't not warm to them
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Admit it, you can't not warm to them
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Why does everything have to have a happy ending these days?
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Why does everything have to have a happy ending these days?
The blue notification dot on direct messages is annoying when all it says is you haven’t verified your age yet. Yeah I know that, I don’t intend to, I’m pretty relaxed with the concept of not handing over my ID to an unknown entity in return for features I’m not bothered about.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The blue notification dot on direct messages is annoying when all it says is you haven’t verified your age yet. Yeah I know that, I don’t intend to, I’m pretty relaxed with the concept of not handing over my ID to an unknown entity in return for features I’m not bothered about.
Yes I should think that's the idea behind it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Yes I should think that's the idea behind it.
They’re just making up shop names now
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
They’re just making up shop names now
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spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens
Apologise to Trump?! Keir Starmer is probably on a plane as we speak with the cheque in his pocket and a letter from King Charles saying “So sorry for all the fuss”
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Apologise to Trump?! Keir Starmer is probably on a plane as we speak with the cheque in his pocket and a letter from King Charles saying “So sorry for all the fuss”
Was it only me, or if you got a white spot on a fingernail as a kid your gran would say “ooh, you’ve got a present!” explaining it was some “excess calcium”?
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Was it only me, or if you got a white spot on a fingernail as a kid your gran would say “ooh, you’ve got a present!” explaining it was some “excess calcium”?
So glad that Tim Davie's resignation has restored Donald Trump's reputation and nobody now has any reason to think he's a fascist
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
So glad that Tim Davie's resignation has restored Donald Trump's reputation and nobody now has any reason to think he's a fascist
Streaming services are so rubbish. I always end up either watching Terminator for the 25th time or an incomprehensible French film made in 1976 which looked vaguely saucy but is just two people arguing for three hours
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Streaming services are so rubbish. I always end up either watching Terminator for the 25th time or an incomprehensible French film made in 1976 which looked vaguely saucy but is just two people arguing for three hours
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Ah yes, all of the genders
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Ah yes, all of the genders
At this rate there may be more housing, of which none will be affordable, in places with no nature left to make you want to live there anyway
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
At this rate there may be more housing, of which none will be affordable, in places with no nature left to make you want to live there anyway
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Well GB news live so far in the past they probably saw this in black and white.
If they only knew how to zoom in, they might just be able to make out the red poppy too....
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Well GB news live so far in the past they probably saw this in black and white.
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a touching tribute to our saviour, the lord jesus crust
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a touching tribute to our saviour, the lord jesus crust
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He put a semicolon on a plate.
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
He put a semicolon on a plate.
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Some good news at last.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Some good news at last.
We are not people, we are merely extras in the shittiest, most overblown, over-budgeted, worst-cast Hollywood blockbuster ever made
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
We are not people, we are merely extras in the shittiest, most overblown, over-budgeted, worst-cast Hollywood blockbuster ever made
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Even I thought this was one of mine!
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Even I thought this was one of mine!
Me trying to save the planet: *soaks peanut butter jar for 2 days, empties it down the loo to not block the sink, wipes the remainder with tissue, puts jar in recycling*
Tech bro: yo I made a website that boils a lake so you can save 20 seconds replying to an email with the wrong information
Tech bro: yo I made a website that boils a lake so you can save 20 seconds replying to an email with the wrong information
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Me trying to save the planet: *soaks peanut butter jar for 2 days, empties it down the loo to not block the sink, wipes the remainder with tissue, puts jar in recycling*
Tech bro: yo I made a website that boils a lake so you can save 20 seconds replying to an email with the wrong information
Tech bro: yo I made a website that boils a lake so you can save 20 seconds replying to an email with the wrong information
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants