Tom Groat
@tomrg.bsky.social
Reporter for my local newspaper, former teacher. Used to be Shazom123 on the bird site. History, politics, football, TV and plenty of random stuff.
This hits the nail on the head and explains a lot of what has been going on. Is it caused by a tiny media elite who think they need to cosplay working class? Is it because they are all addicted to Twitter and Facebook? And has what they foretold become a reality?
grafted on top of this is media discourse that has been desperate for decades to present all the most reactionary opinions as being the most authentic (and therefore most working class ones) - so basically establishes "being a horrible closed-minded bastard" as a class test
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This hits the nail on the head and explains a lot of what has been going on. Is it caused by a tiny media elite who think they need to cosplay working class? Is it because they are all addicted to Twitter and Facebook? And has what they foretold become a reality?
How about this for a popular easy cost-of-living policy? End auto renewal subscriptions. Every subscription has to email you when the renewal time is up and if you don’t click resubscribe it ends.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
How about this for a popular easy cost-of-living policy? End auto renewal subscriptions. Every subscription has to email you when the renewal time is up and if you don’t click resubscribe it ends.
Preview of the next UK general election, but with Reform and Labour.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Preview of the next UK general election, but with Reform and Labour.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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The left should put a 300% tax on political donations.
Idk man but if billionaires have so much money they can blow 20 million on races that mean nothing, maybe they can pay a little more in taxes so folks can have reliable transportation, childcare, food and— dare I say it— health care?
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The left should put a 300% tax on political donations.
One of the most genuinely heart warming things you’ll read today. A fantastic story, bravely shared.
This is how we do it: ‘My cancer is terminal, but sex is its own form of healing’
This is how we do it: ‘My cancer is terminal, but sex is its own form of healing’
When they met, Joe awakened Jess’s sexuality. Now, after his cancer diagnosis, Jess is helping Joe enjoy his body, ‘the way he taught me to find pleasure in mine’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
One of the most genuinely heart warming things you’ll read today. A fantastic story, bravely shared.
This thread, but published as a book with this as the title!
That’s like something Harry Worth would do. What happened?
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This thread, but published as a book with this as the title!
What? Why? Can someone please explain for me why that massive unfrosted window is there - it’s actually giving me the boak just thinking about this - before we even get to the gold.
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What? Why? Can someone please explain for me why that massive unfrosted window is there - it’s actually giving me the boak just thinking about this - before we even get to the gold.
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Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent
It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sum up how it’s going to be for a Dons supporter this season…
And it's off. Fuckin boo
Come backs on
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sum up how it’s going to be for a Dons supporter this season…
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Frankenstein is in cinemas? Awful. He should be in prison!
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Frankenstein is in cinemas? Awful. He should be in prison!
Is this really a shock?
🚨 NEW: Reform UK is on course to return 22 MSPs at next year’s Holyrood election — making Nigel Farage’s party the second largest in the Scottish Parliament, a new Survation poll suggests. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2557131...
Poll shock as Reform storms into second place in Scotland
Reform UK is projected to win 22 seats in the Scottish Parliament, overtaking Labour to become the second-largest party according to a new Survation…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Is this really a shock?
Post a pic of your parents from before you were born.
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Post a pic of your parents from before you were born.
It seems that the Republicans have an over inflated view of how much they can persuade people to let them do anything, and the Dems don’t believe they can change anyone’s mind and have to mindlessly following what ever polls say.
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It seems that the Republicans have an over inflated view of how much they can persuade people to let them do anything, and the Dems don’t believe they can change anyone’s mind and have to mindlessly following what ever polls say.
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Instead of buying cheap, disposable products, they should buy higher quality versions that result in the employment of craftspeople. If they buy high-quality items, they create jobs for makers, sellers, and repairers.
Otherwise, these trades could disappear.
Otherwise, these trades could disappear.
October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Instead of buying cheap, disposable products, they should buy higher quality versions that result in the employment of craftspeople. If they buy high-quality items, they create jobs for makers, sellers, and repairers.
Otherwise, these trades could disappear.
Otherwise, these trades could disappear.
After starting brightly Aberdeen find them selves 7-0 down at half time. 🤦♂️
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
After starting brightly Aberdeen find them selves 7-0 down at half time. 🤦♂️
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Amid the ruins of The Blitz, HG Wells once visited George Orwell and his wife Eileen for dinner and ate so many servings of chicken curry that he had to be hospitalised.
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Amid the ruins of The Blitz, HG Wells once visited George Orwell and his wife Eileen for dinner and ate so many servings of chicken curry that he had to be hospitalised.
“Literary fiction” is just a term for writers who can’t do plot properly.
- yeah it just kind of meanders all over the place, but let’s say it’s examining a theme and throw in a lot of convoluted metaphors.
Also, editors do half the work of the author. Start crediting them.
- yeah it just kind of meanders all over the place, but let’s say it’s examining a theme and throw in a lot of convoluted metaphors.
Also, editors do half the work of the author. Start crediting them.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“Literary fiction” is just a term for writers who can’t do plot properly.
- yeah it just kind of meanders all over the place, but let’s say it’s examining a theme and throw in a lot of convoluted metaphors.
Also, editors do half the work of the author. Start crediting them.
- yeah it just kind of meanders all over the place, but let’s say it’s examining a theme and throw in a lot of convoluted metaphors.
Also, editors do half the work of the author. Start crediting them.
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Certainly if even one per cent of the people who voted Cameron in 2015, Remain in 2016 and Labour thereafter who is now unhappy with Labour joined the Tories we would all be better off.
October 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Certainly if even one per cent of the people who voted Cameron in 2015, Remain in 2016 and Labour thereafter who is now unhappy with Labour joined the Tories we would all be better off.
Watched How Are You with Alan Partridge twice already this weekend.
A work of brilliance, second viewing better than the first.
Alan and Lynn are the perfect team. Any Lynn centric episode is genius.
A work of brilliance, second viewing better than the first.
Alan and Lynn are the perfect team. Any Lynn centric episode is genius.
October 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Watched How Are You with Alan Partridge twice already this weekend.
A work of brilliance, second viewing better than the first.
Alan and Lynn are the perfect team. Any Lynn centric episode is genius.
A work of brilliance, second viewing better than the first.
Alan and Lynn are the perfect team. Any Lynn centric episode is genius.
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"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?
October 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"it might be conscious but unable to express it! You can't know."
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?
O-kay... That sounds like you are trying to argue for existence of a soul. Why have you never argued this for animals or other objects that didn't have multibillion dollar marketing campaigns?
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Fuck, we're winning
October 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fuck, we're winning