Dan Etchells
@danetchells.bsky.social
Retired civil servant.
Bit of walking & cycling.
Red wine. Cherry & White rugby.
Bit of walking & cycling.
Red wine. Cherry & White rugby.
If it weren't so serious, this would be fucking hilarious!!
Reform showing exactly what they think of the UK electorate!!
Reform showing exactly what they think of the UK electorate!!
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If it weren't so serious, this would be fucking hilarious!!
Reform showing exactly what they think of the UK electorate!!
Reform showing exactly what they think of the UK electorate!!
It's achieved what it set out to - massive damage to Federal government, Project 2025 advanced and large scale data theft.
Mission accomplished.
"‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mission accomplished.
"‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule
Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way out
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It's achieved what it set out to - massive damage to Federal government, Project 2025 advanced and large scale data theft.
Mission accomplished.
"‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mission accomplished.
"‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#FuckSake
"Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt.
Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper."
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
"Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt.
Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper."
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt
Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
#FuckSake
"Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt.
Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper."
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
"Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt.
Many fear competition and diversity will be diminished as Daily Mail owner wins race to buy newspaper."
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
"Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK.
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK.
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Watching the first Ashes test...
Wearing fake 'chain mail' in the crowd??
No!! Have a fucking word with yourselves!!
Wearing fake 'chain mail' in the crowd??
No!! Have a fucking word with yourselves!!
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Watching the first Ashes test...
Wearing fake 'chain mail' in the crowd??
No!! Have a fucking word with yourselves!!
Wearing fake 'chain mail' in the crowd??
No!! Have a fucking word with yourselves!!
Friday morning, Trend Setters... I'm afraid it's yet more pictures of sunlight through trees from me and the Hairy Genius... 😎
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Friday morning, Trend Setters... I'm afraid it's yet more pictures of sunlight through trees from me and the Hairy Genius... 😎
Surprise!! Oh, no it's not... 🤬
"Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say.
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say.
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Surprise!! Oh, no it's not... 🤬
"Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say.
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say.
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Which would be tricky - other than to say 'Yes, that's all completely true. It's always been obvious, hasn't it??'
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Which would be tricky - other than to say 'Yes, that's all completely true. It's always been obvious, hasn't it??'
Thanks, Xitter - but, on balance, I think fucking not!!
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Thanks, Xitter - but, on balance, I think fucking not!!
"Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tuesday morning, Trend Setters... Bit of a drama locating coffee and flapjack, but me and the Hairy Genius powered on through... 😎
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Tuesday morning, Trend Setters... Bit of a drama locating coffee and flapjack, but me and the Hairy Genius powered on through... 😎
Face eating leopard says it would be terrible if leopards happened to eat people's faces...
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Face eating leopard says it would be terrible if leopards happened to eat people's faces...
Just finished reading this - absolutely astonishing - wholly recommended!!
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Just finished reading this - absolutely astonishing - wholly recommended!!
Monday morning, Trend Setters...
A few, very brisk but gloriously sunny, miles with the Hairy Genius... 😎
A few, very brisk but gloriously sunny, miles with the Hairy Genius... 😎
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Monday morning, Trend Setters...
A few, very brisk but gloriously sunny, miles with the Hairy Genius... 😎
A few, very brisk but gloriously sunny, miles with the Hairy Genius... 😎
"High art: the museum that is only accessible via an eight-hour hike.
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
High art: the museum that is only accessible via an eight-hour hike
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"High art: the museum that is only accessible via an eight-hour hike.
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
The Frattini Bivouac is part of a Bergamo gallery’s experiment to ‘think like a mountain’. But in the thin air of the Italian alps, curatorial ideas are challenged in more ways than one."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Reposted by Dan Etchells
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Speed camera. Longford Lane / A40. 08.45
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Speed camera. Longford Lane / A40. 08.45
Reposted by Dan Etchells
From one immigrant to another, thank you, Adam Hills.
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
From one immigrant to another, thank you, Adam Hills.
Sit Down. Golden Brown. Born Slippy.
Superb!! 😀
"Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest.
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Superb!! 😀
"Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest.
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sit Down. Golden Brown. Born Slippy.
Superb!! 😀
"Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest.
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Superb!! 😀
"Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest.
Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Dan Etchells
Yesterday in Parliament I said that the government should leave X.
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday in Parliament I said that the government should leave X.
Thursday morning, Trend Setters - the usual drills with The Hairy Genius... 😎
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thursday morning, Trend Setters - the usual drills with The Hairy Genius... 😎
Thursday morning's least surprising news, ever... 🤬
"World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds.
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds.
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Thursday morning's least surprising news, ever... 🤬
"World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds.
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds.
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...