Celestial M Weasel
@celestialweasel.bsky.social
I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die
Vaporise the BBC
Starmer must go
Criminalise bike theft
Vaporise the BBC
Starmer must go
Criminalise bike theft
Pinned
I know it is a small thing in the scheme of things, but the thing that grates is that this (gestures expansively) demonstrates that every pious word we have read from Americans about their glorious constitution, free and fearless press, separation of powers, free speech, checks and balances has
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I like this
Make the McGuffin in the new Bond film notionally something to do with quantum computing. Have Q explain the many-worlds hypothesis. "So there might be a universe where, I don't know, you were born in 1921, or died in 2021. Anyway, that's not the point..."
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I like this
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Moffat has a treatment for everything.
eg
Stephen Moffat's The Resistible Rise of Nigel Farage
eg
Stephen Moffat's The Resistible Rise of Nigel Farage
Maybe they SHOULD let Moffat have a go - he got a go at Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes after all , why not give him number 3 too?
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Moffat has a treatment for everything.
eg
Stephen Moffat's The Resistible Rise of Nigel Farage
eg
Stephen Moffat's The Resistible Rise of Nigel Farage
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pfft don't even joke about that. he'll have treatments in a drawer.
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
pfft don't even joke about that. he'll have treatments in a drawer.
Maybe they SHOULD let Moffat have a go - he got a go at Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes after all , why not give him number 3 too?
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Maybe they SHOULD let Moffat have a go - he got a go at Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes after all , why not give him number 3 too?
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Unless they faithfully remake the Fleming Bonds, complete with egg obsession and deranged politics then really what's the point? I want audiences to gasp as Bond eats an avocado or categorises the races
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Unless they faithfully remake the Fleming Bonds, complete with egg obsession and deranged politics then really what's the point? I want audiences to gasp as Bond eats an avocado or categorises the races
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out for a midday run.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out for a midday run.
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This would be a really good time for a Panorama episode on the links between Trump, Epstein and Maxwell
Just saying
Just saying
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This would be a really good time for a Panorama episode on the links between Trump, Epstein and Maxwell
Just saying
Just saying
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Also bagpuss should be M, and professor yaffle Q
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Also bagpuss should be M, and professor yaffle Q
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It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.
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James Bond Michael Bond
🤝
Just Saying
🤝
Just Saying
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
James Bond Michael Bond
🤝
Just Saying
🤝
Just Saying
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You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
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One of them is an alcoholic womaniser with a gambling problem and a thirst for violence, the other is James Bond.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
One of them is an alcoholic womaniser with a gambling problem and a thirst for violence, the other is James Bond.
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
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in Planning terms, the failure to use the greenfield housing estates [for which Sleaford is a national champion] to leverage a single brownfield block is extraordinary and inexcusable
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
in Planning terms, the failure to use the greenfield housing estates [for which Sleaford is a national champion] to leverage a single brownfield block is extraordinary and inexcusable
In the manner of Better Man, James Bond should be Paddington Bear BUT NO ONE SHOULD MENTION IT.
This would lean into Paddington Bear as the being who escorts people to the afterlife, but in this scenario he would be being more proactive about it
This would lean into Paddington Bear as the being who escorts people to the afterlife, but in this scenario he would be being more proactive about it
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In the manner of Better Man, James Bond should be Paddington Bear BUT NO ONE SHOULD MENTION IT.
This would lean into Paddington Bear as the being who escorts people to the afterlife, but in this scenario he would be being more proactive about it
This would lean into Paddington Bear as the being who escorts people to the afterlife, but in this scenario he would be being more proactive about it
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The border between the well-off, red-trousered gentleman’s-entrance class whose forebears were not necessarily nobility as such, and the titled people who may be rich or broke but are ineffably posh regardless of circumstance, seems like a very hard one to cross.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The border between the well-off, red-trousered gentleman’s-entrance class whose forebears were not necessarily nobility as such, and the titled people who may be rich or broke but are ineffably posh regardless of circumstance, seems like a very hard one to cross.
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This... just seems mad. The whole point of a register of interests is to allow it to be judged whether there are conflicts. If the information is hidden, the register has no value.
I put in a freedom of information request for her register of interests, which would reveal if she owns OpenAI shares. The government refused to share it, claiming it contains ‘personal information’.
For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
3/5
For context, the PM’s previous AI Adviser’s register of interests *was* published.
3/5
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This... just seems mad. The whole point of a register of interests is to allow it to be judged whether there are conflicts. If the information is hidden, the register has no value.
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NO ONE CARES!
No one cared when he turned into an australian for a movie and then back to the grumpy scotsman.
No one cared when Judi Dench was still M even though that screwed the timeline.
No one cares that Bons should now be in his nineties...
We just want a fun spy movie.
No one cared when he turned into an australian for a movie and then back to the grumpy scotsman.
No one cared when Judi Dench was still M even though that screwed the timeline.
No one cares that Bons should now be in his nineties...
We just want a fun spy movie.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
NO ONE CARES!
No one cared when he turned into an australian for a movie and then back to the grumpy scotsman.
No one cared when Judi Dench was still M even though that screwed the timeline.
No one cares that Bons should now be in his nineties...
We just want a fun spy movie.
No one cared when he turned into an australian for a movie and then back to the grumpy scotsman.
No one cared when Judi Dench was still M even though that screwed the timeline.
No one cares that Bons should now be in his nineties...
We just want a fun spy movie.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that new housing estates in Lincs go on floodlands of South Holland never on the gigantic raised brownfields of Kesteven
This is what brownfield looks like. Why the laissez-faire since the fire in - wait for it - 1976? #Lincolnshire
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that new housing estates in Lincs go on floodlands of South Holland never on the gigantic raised brownfields of Kesteven
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Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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A man will be playing the trumpet in the office at 11.00 today.
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A man will be playing the trumpet in the office at 11.00 today.
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Fool me once, shame on you.
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fool me once, shame on you.
Did anyone track down the wall of gammon nine I wonder and has anyone tracked down how many (if any) have died?
Quite possibly none as they don't actually look that old
Quite possibly none as they don't actually look that old
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Did anyone track down the wall of gammon nine I wonder and has anyone tracked down how many (if any) have died?
Quite possibly none as they don't actually look that old
Quite possibly none as they don't actually look that old
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Prediction: The true unit of local government is going to end up being river catchment areas @celestialweasel.bsky.social @oldtrotter.bsky.social
London has joined the Swimmable Rivers Alliance.
Our rivers have been neglected and damaged for far too long, with shameful levels of pollution harming our waterways. I’m determined to clean them up.
Our rivers have been neglected and damaged for far too long, with shameful levels of pollution harming our waterways. I’m determined to clean them up.
Mayor Khan commits to clean our rivers as London joins Swimmable Cities alliance - Outdoor Swimmer Magazine
London joins cities including Paris, Rotterdam and Budapest in the global drive to restore urban waterways and make them safe, clean, and accessible for swimming
outdoorswimmer.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Prediction: The true unit of local government is going to end up being river catchment areas @celestialweasel.bsky.social @oldtrotter.bsky.social