Ged Yates
gedyates.bsky.social
Ged Yates
@gedyates.bsky.social
Writer.
The rotten Bassetts.
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I’m hoping that you’ll write a follow up about Compost Lillian.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Up a chimeney.
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Bloody woke Cadbury’s. They’ve stopped putting Happy Christmas on them because of all the snowflakes.
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Burn it. It’s a witch.
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It’s hard to tell what I’m doing with my life through the haze of boozy mince pies and liqueur chocolates, but I’ve just liked this. Send help?

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Look, I'm sorry that Andy got all locked up in Shawshank, and had to crawl through all that shit to get out, but 500 yards is not "just shy of ½ mile".
It's not even a ⅓ mile!
I know Red is an old con, but would it have killed him to be truthful and say, "that's just over ¼ a mile"?
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“To restore decorum and professionalism…”

And they say Americans don’t get irony.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“I was only arson around…”
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Indeed, but the point still stands. Most people don’t think that deeply about it, or they wouldn’t keep electing people and parties that widen inequality and, ultimately, make their lives (and society) worse.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don’t think he’s worse than any of the last five. It was more of a general comment on the run from 2010 up to him.
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
That may be true for people who consider what voting really means, but I’ve done a lot of canvassing over the years and most people just want a government (or a council) that sorts stuff out and makes their life better, not worse. They don’t give that much thought beyond who they’ve seen and liked.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You’re right but if you ask people on doorsteps you’ll find an awful lot of them are voting based on personality as much as party (if not more).
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Or maybe we should stop voting in PMs who are successively worse than the previous one?
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I’d quite like a quiet social media platform.
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I’ll think you’ll find it was Punching Pigeons. It even had a theme tune:

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Alexei Sayles Stuff - punching pigeons, poking penguins & pissing on puffins
YouTube video by Tony Ross
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November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It makes me so angry how the Arts have taken such a kicking in this country over the last fifteen years. Our cultural output has been such a phenomenal soft power on the world stage for decades now but that power is waning rapidly.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM