Twlldun
@twlldun.bsky.social
Pragmatism. Is that all you have to offer?
Spending the last day of the holidays proper (before the dread Sunday of the soul) - eating cheese and pate and crackers and watching Winter’s Bone.
January 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Spending the last day of the holidays proper (before the dread Sunday of the soul) - eating cheese and pate and crackers and watching Winter’s Bone.
Mixed day. On the one hand, Donald Trump has I would say quite resoundingly destroyed the remnants of the global international order, that were already pretty frayed after Ukraine and the Gaza war, but on the other we did all get to laugh at Ian Leslie so
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Mixed day. On the one hand, Donald Trump has I would say quite resoundingly destroyed the remnants of the global international order, that were already pretty frayed after Ukraine and the Gaza war, but on the other we did all get to laugh at Ian Leslie so
January 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Honestly I’m not sure Avon and Somerset police have jurisdiction over Venezuela
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Honestly I’m not sure Avon and Somerset police have jurisdiction over Venezuela
Final December book haul (Xmas, birthday, charity shops)
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Final December book haul (Xmas, birthday, charity shops)
Don’t call it being a shitposter, call it embracing
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Don’t call it being a shitposter, call it embracing
Rational measured reaction from Galloway, here
January 3, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Rational measured reaction from Galloway, here
The thing is, the Venezuelan economy is essentially a corrupt autarky run for the whims of its disgusting authoritarian president so are we sure Trump hasn’t kidnapped him for tips?
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The thing is, the Venezuelan economy is essentially a corrupt autarky run for the whims of its disgusting authoritarian president so are we sure Trump hasn’t kidnapped him for tips?
Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure President Trump has a thought through plan for what happens to Venezuela after they abduct Maduro and it won’t descend into chaos
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure President Trump has a thought through plan for what happens to Venezuela after they abduct Maduro and it won’t descend into chaos
I spent most of the last two decades arguing that no, whatever else you want to say about Iraq, it wasn’t really about “oil” in the incredibly crude* way that anti-war protestors claimed.
Anyway, this is about oil in the incredibly crude way that anti-war protestors claim.
*see what I did there?
Anyway, this is about oil in the incredibly crude way that anti-war protestors claim.
*see what I did there?
I attended the huge anti-war march in 2003, and this news just had me muttering "well at least Iraq had *some* justification"
NEW: Trump administration launches direct military strikes on Venezuela. Explosions reported in Caracas. Aircraft reported flying over the city.
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I spent most of the last two decades arguing that no, whatever else you want to say about Iraq, it wasn’t really about “oil” in the incredibly crude* way that anti-war protestors claimed.
Anyway, this is about oil in the incredibly crude way that anti-war protestors claim.
*see what I did there?
Anyway, this is about oil in the incredibly crude way that anti-war protestors claim.
*see what I did there?
Normalise starting your posts “I don’t think Bluesky needs my uniformed takes”.
I don’t think Bluesky needs my uniformed takes on Venezuela, but this is pretty appalling.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Normalise starting your posts “I don’t think Bluesky needs my uniformed takes”.
I mean when you put it like that, it sounds a lot more forgivab…
What? Why are you all looking at me
What? Why are you all looking at me
Except instead of just getting themselves killed (although I think it’s not unlikely that they will) they’re committing war crimes and destroying the entire American experiment to produce content for their posts. It’s all for retweets, all for Content
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
I mean when you put it like that, it sounds a lot more forgivab…
What? Why are you all looking at me
What? Why are you all looking at me
He’s going to start wars until we give him The Nobel Peace Prize for ending one.
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
He’s going to start wars until we give him The Nobel Peace Prize for ending one.
Second movie in a month in which Mark Hammill plays a gravelly voiced old fuck, which is a real memento mori tbh
January 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Second movie in a month in which Mark Hammill plays a gravelly voiced old fuck, which is a real memento mori tbh
You people are mad, this looks great
For connoisseurs of utterly mental extensions on mundane houses (via reddit)
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January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
You people are mad, this looks great
Yes. Big chunk riffing off the Dark is rising sequence as well, please.
I’m kind of serious, how great would it be to have a four or five season Garner-esque folklore-based drama riffing on the best of 60s-70s wyrd, sf, folk horror etc series
Our Stranger Things
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Yes. Big chunk riffing off the Dark is rising sequence as well, please.
Happy birthday to my favourite Conservative, and also to John
Anyway, B'sky doesn't do the balloons thing, so I have to be nakedly transparent. It is my birthday today*, give me attention.
*And also Kemi Badenoch's.
*And also Kemi Badenoch's.
January 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Happy birthday to my favourite Conservative, and also to John
So where are you emigrating to when Reform get in? I was thinking Canada
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
So where are you emigrating to when Reform get in? I was thinking Canada
Yes, I’m pretty sure the discussion of reparations was “the Caribbean nations are advocating for them and Lenny Henry has written a book” “ok, but we can’t afford it” “ok, moving on”
I'm also betting if you added up all cabinet time spent discussing reparations, and subtracted that from time it takes to read Ovenden's shitty column, you'd still have long enough to make a brew for the whole office.
January 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Yes, I’m pretty sure the discussion of reparations was “the Caribbean nations are advocating for them and Lenny Henry has written a book” “ok, but we can’t afford it” “ok, moving on”
Reposted by Twlldun
It's definitely got the whiff of 'this happened perhaps one time, and not to the level described here, but I've chosen to self-mythologise it'.
I feel like if this had really been a significant and frequent focus of the government they'd have found those horrible tweets much sooner.
I feel like if this had really been a significant and frequent focus of the government they'd have found those horrible tweets much sooner.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
It's definitely got the whiff of 'this happened perhaps one time, and not to the level described here, but I've chosen to self-mythologise it'.
I feel like if this had really been a significant and frequent focus of the government they'd have found those horrible tweets much sooner.
I feel like if this had really been a significant and frequent focus of the government they'd have found those horrible tweets much sooner.
Just as a matter of record here, this is just a lie isn’t it? I do not believe this version of events, and I am not saying that to defend this government (who I have broadly written off), I just don’t believe this happened
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Just as a matter of record here, this is just a lie isn’t it? I do not believe this version of events, and I am not saying that to defend this government (who I have broadly written off), I just don’t believe this happened
Anyway, I think it’s really important while there is turmoil in Iran and the possibility of regime change that we do our bit by aggressively posting at people we feel we can tar with being soft on the ayatollahs. I’ve got two hours of tweeting aggressively at Jeremy Corbyn pencilled in.
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Anyway, I think it’s really important while there is turmoil in Iran and the possibility of regime change that we do our bit by aggressively posting at people we feel we can tar with being soft on the ayatollahs. I’ve got two hours of tweeting aggressively at Jeremy Corbyn pencilled in.
It’s an irregular verb:
I am the representative of a key business constituency
SHE represents the stakeholder state
YOU* are a green ink crank
*by “you”, I mean Chaminda
I am the representative of a key business constituency
SHE represents the stakeholder state
YOU* are a green ink crank
*by “you”, I mean Chaminda
Just like the Tories, Labour's centrist hacks think themselves omniscient and infallible - they cannot fail, they can only be failed. So when they do fail, they blame everyone else.
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
We saw it with the Tories, and it's already started from the Starmerites with this idiotic dreck: archive.ph/rHoXA
January 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
It’s an irregular verb:
I am the representative of a key business constituency
SHE represents the stakeholder state
YOU* are a green ink crank
*by “you”, I mean Chaminda
I am the representative of a key business constituency
SHE represents the stakeholder state
YOU* are a green ink crank
*by “you”, I mean Chaminda