Johnny Baldry
@johnnybaldry.bsky.social
Ageing techie with a menagerie of dogs, donkeys, cows, chickens and bees. 🇬🇧 immigrant in 🇫🇷. 🏳️🌈 he/him, 🏳️⚧️ ally.
Another infuriating victory for fear and hatred in the public sphere. The Infinite Monkey Cage was a gem. It's terrible news that @robinince.bsky.social has been forced out.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Another infuriating victory for fear and hatred in the public sphere. The Infinite Monkey Cage was a gem. It's terrible news that @robinince.bsky.social has been forced out.
We've started doing one of these printed gazette things for my 88yo Mum. For the Christmas issue I wanted to do a selfie with one of my geese. They're such drama queens. They scream blue murder when you pick them up and then they shit on you. They're awkward and heavy to hold. It's not going well.
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We've started doing one of these printed gazette things for my 88yo Mum. For the Christmas issue I wanted to do a selfie with one of my geese. They're such drama queens. They scream blue murder when you pick them up and then they shit on you. They're awkward and heavy to hold. It's not going well.
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Support for trans folk seems to have collapsed in the UK. Every day the news gets worse. It's revolting and so depressing. Your occasional reminder that it doesn't have to be this way (and in France it's not).
Can someone explain the reason that The Times, a former newspaper of record ffs, and Joshua Bratt decided to misgender this person - who, by all accounts, has by this point fully transitioned - throughout the piece? Is it some sort of right-wing journalist dare now to disrespect people for clicks?
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Support for trans folk seems to have collapsed in the UK. Every day the news gets worse. It's revolting and so depressing. Your occasional reminder that it doesn't have to be this way (and in France it's not).
Just for the record, "men" is the Old English word for "people" (which itself comes from French) so the meaning is identical despite her rantings.
Male men used to be called "weremen" (hence werewolves) and females "wifmen". Over time the "were" got dropped for men and "wifmen" became "women".
Male men used to be called "weremen" (hence werewolves) and females "wifmen". Over time the "were" got dropped for men and "wifmen" became "women".
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Just for the record, "men" is the Old English word for "people" (which itself comes from French) so the meaning is identical despite her rantings.
Male men used to be called "weremen" (hence werewolves) and females "wifmen". Over time the "were" got dropped for men and "wifmen" became "women".
Male men used to be called "weremen" (hence werewolves) and females "wifmen". Over time the "were" got dropped for men and "wifmen" became "women".
actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
(not quite 50 years but close)
(not quite 50 years but close)
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
(not quite 50 years but close)
(not quite 50 years but close)
A lot of hate for Meta for this and it's a stupendous amount of money to piss up the wall for nothing. Just a thought though. Where did the money go? I suspect much of it directly or indirectly went to paying wages. It's a weird form of redistribution but better that than sat in Zuck's bank account.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
A lot of hate for Meta for this and it's a stupendous amount of money to piss up the wall for nothing. Just a thought though. Where did the money go? I suspect much of it directly or indirectly went to paying wages. It's a weird form of redistribution but better that than sat in Zuck's bank account.
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how is this real
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
how is this real
So Vecna is internalised homophobia? I feel it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
So Vecna is internalised homophobia? I feel it.
I can't help but feel that this is the wrong time of year to be posting this.
We should stop calling it a 'sun tan' and call it what it actually is - sun damage.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I can't help but feel that this is the wrong time of year to be posting this.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
I'm not a Christmas hater but it's still November and BFMTV is playing Last Christmas as a backing track for the weather. I am so not here for that.
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I'm not a Christmas hater but it's still November and BFMTV is playing Last Christmas as a backing track for the weather. I am so not here for that.
Wasn't allowed to do CS A Level (teacher didn't want me in his class). Too many mental health problems for uni. Abortive attempt to do HNC. After a decade of fucking around I got a temp job in a market research dept which turned perm and then finally a sideways move into IT dept.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Wasn't allowed to do CS A Level (teacher didn't want me in his class). Too many mental health problems for uni. Abortive attempt to do HNC. After a decade of fucking around I got a temp job in a market research dept which turned perm and then finally a sideways move into IT dept.
I left the UK in 2019. France is no utopia but there is little of the febrile culture war discourse here. French news is watchable, the problems largely quotidian; unlike the UK and US where the news is just relentlessly awful. It's hardly surprising that people are leaving he UK in droves.
It's time we asked a different question about migration: Why are so many British people leaving the UK?
inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I left the UK in 2019. France is no utopia but there is little of the febrile culture war discourse here. French news is watchable, the problems largely quotidian; unlike the UK and US where the news is just relentlessly awful. It's hardly surprising that people are leaving he UK in droves.
With the prospect of Farage in No 10 and Le Pen in the Élysée, things could potentially go very badly for recent British immigrants in France like me.
Reform now plan to cut EU nationals out of universal credit (ditch the UK-EU withdrawal treaty unilaterally). But this could have significant impacts on British citizens in Europe, and on the UK-EU relationship on economics, trade
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform would ‘cut benefits for EU nationals and hike NHS immigration surcharge’
Party claims its policies would eliminate ‘black hole’ Rachel Reeves faces in the budget – but Labour says the ‘fantasy numbers don’t add up’
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
With the prospect of Farage in No 10 and Le Pen in the Élysée, things could potentially go very badly for recent British immigrants in France like me.
UK Bluesky is now as relentlessly depressing as US Bluesky.
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
UK Bluesky is now as relentlessly depressing as US Bluesky.
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Time to turn off the internet
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Time to turn off the internet
If nothing else they connect us in the present with our ancient past. We are all, no matter when we, or our families, arrived here, part of this island story; from the Younger Dryas to this very moment. If you can't see the poetry in that, that's on you.
Nothing disappoints harder than a stone circle. The way people bang on about them you'd think they would be at least an interesting experience, preferably an emotional one. They're neither.
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If nothing else they connect us in the present with our ancient past. We are all, no matter when we, or our families, arrived here, part of this island story; from the Younger Dryas to this very moment. If you can't see the poetry in that, that's on you.
AI clusterfuck - a French politician posts an image with Brittany twice and a French soldier in a German army helmet. FFS, when will people learn?
Il me semble qu'une ex-ministre des anciens combattants vient de tweeter une image de casque allemand de la seconde guerre mondiale en hommage aux soldats français de la première...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
AI clusterfuck - a French politician posts an image with Brittany twice and a French soldier in a German army helmet. FFS, when will people learn?
I live in Normandy. There are flag-shaggers here who basically cosplay WWII all year round. They show up at every memorial service in uniforms and Jeeps. Live and let live and all that but it just seems really ghoulish to me.
Remembrance Day is now dominated by performative nonsense. You don't need a house sized poppy and a model spitfire to show you care about the sacrifices made for the country. Where's the sense of dignity and the quiet respect gone?
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I live in Normandy. There are flag-shaggers here who basically cosplay WWII all year round. They show up at every memorial service in uniforms and Jeeps. Live and let live and all that but it just seems really ghoulish to me.
Nothing. It's taken 40 years struggling with my mental health to get here but now I think he'd love this life I've built for myself. The same goes for my 8yo self too.
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Nothing. It's taken 40 years struggling with my mental health to get here but now I think he'd love this life I've built for myself. The same goes for my 8yo self too.
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
I the same problem with donkey shit and molehills year round.
Dog shit and autumn leaves. Seriously dudes, one of you needs to change colour.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I the same problem with donkey shit and molehills year round.