Richard Francis
@linguafrancis.bsky.social
Twitter exile. Data Architect and #LUFC Fan
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Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.
Nothing quite like a big bowl of mince. Delicious.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nothing quite like a big bowl of mince. Delicious.
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What’s a matter you?
Gotta no respect
Sam Matterface
Gotta no respect
Sam Matterface
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
What’s a matter you?
Gotta no respect
Sam Matterface
Gotta no respect
Sam Matterface
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
Waiting for the podcast of “Samuel Pepys’s 12 Years of Mast Prices”
To my office and there made an end, though late, of my collection of the prices of masts for these twelve years to this day, in order to the buying of some of Wood, and I bound it up in painted paper to lie by as a book for future use.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Waiting for the podcast of “Samuel Pepys’s 12 Years of Mast Prices”
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Always thought this was a way better track than Firestarter
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Always thought this was a way better track than Firestarter
Just remove the whip from Streeting. Leadership challenge over and it would be exceedingly funny.
Starmer's leadership under threat - as PM's aides turn on Wes Streeting
trib.al/Xl8HUkH
trib.al/Xl8HUkH
Starmer's leadership under threat - as PM's aides turn on Wes Streeting
Sir Keir Starmer was accused of 'extraordinary paranoia' amid rumours he is under threat of a leadership challenge
inews.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Just remove the whip from Streeting. Leadership challenge over and it would be exceedingly funny.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Speaking as a drummer, this is true. It’s nice to have a treat from time to time.
The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Speaking as a drummer, this is true. It’s nice to have a treat from time to time.
“With my good friend Laura Loomer”
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“With my good friend Laura Loomer”
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Normally you don't get a response like this from New York without actually busting some ghosts.
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Normally you don't get a response like this from New York without actually busting some ghosts.
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It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
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The new John Lewis ad will be chimps staring at pictures of Jane Goodall while Sean Dyche growls Lonely This Christmas by Elvis
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The new John Lewis ad will be chimps staring at pictures of Jane Goodall while Sean Dyche growls Lonely This Christmas by Elvis
I see People Magazine’s vendetta against me continues.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I see People Magazine’s vendetta against me continues.
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🎶What a difference a day makes... 🎶
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🎶What a difference a day makes... 🎶
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NEWS! Keir Starmer demands to see trick-or-treaters' digital IDs buff.ly/w9jYl5q
Keir Starmer demands to see trick or treater’s digital IDs
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to give out any sweets to trick or treaters this Halloween until they show him evidence of their digital ID, it’s been revealed.
newsthump.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
NEWS! Keir Starmer demands to see trick-or-treaters' digital IDs buff.ly/w9jYl5q
These are all brilliant
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
These are all brilliant
Wow, seems like an overreaction to allegations from someone he never met but paid £12m to for no reason
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Wow, seems like an overreaction to allegations from someone he never met but paid £12m to for no reason
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Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.
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I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
Probably fine.
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Probably fine.