Peter Sketch
@petersketch.bsky.social
Dragonfly-obsessed environmental consultant
Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
train to Oxford yesterday and from Oxford today both cancelled, lovely free weekend trip thanks to Delay Repay, love travelling on British trains
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It is weird how much travelling in this country is just making a short term interest free loan to a train company/government.
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A sure sign that my cat has been up to no good is when she sees me and immediately tries too hard to act casual.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A sure sign that my cat has been up to no good is when she sees me and immediately tries too hard to act casual.
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AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
AI Chatbot Obviously Trying To Wind Down Conversation With Boring Human https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-down-conversation-w-1850146151/
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If you're afraid of Reform ... why would you *copy the Conservative administrations that lost so badly to Reform*?
What even is the logic operating here?
What even is the logic operating here?
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you're afraid of Reform ... why would you *copy the Conservative administrations that lost so badly to Reform*?
What even is the logic operating here?
What even is the logic operating here?
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Refugees will continue to exist and the right will continue to be able to attack their presence. I am baffled by the apparent belief that voters will change course because you can point to a figure in a statistical bulletin about something distinct from what voters were complaining about anyway.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Refugees will continue to exist and the right will continue to be able to attack their presence. I am baffled by the apparent belief that voters will change course because you can point to a figure in a statistical bulletin about something distinct from what voters were complaining about anyway.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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Note from my notebook (2017). Still true. Still ok.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Note from my notebook (2017). Still true. Still ok.
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The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
The horse will be flogged until it sprints.
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A counterclaim might be an interesting idea
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A counterclaim might be an interesting idea
If Lord Glasman is so upset about sharing the country with refugees, I have a simple solution. Deport him, and allow refugees to stay.
Yes, I know deporting him wouldn't be legal. No, I don't actually care any more.
Yes, I know deporting him wouldn't be legal. No, I don't actually care any more.
November 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If Lord Glasman is so upset about sharing the country with refugees, I have a simple solution. Deport him, and allow refugees to stay.
Yes, I know deporting him wouldn't be legal. No, I don't actually care any more.
Yes, I know deporting him wouldn't be legal. No, I don't actually care any more.
So if a business hires a refugee, trains them up and so means they aren't a burden on the welfare budget, their reward is that their employee is taken away from them at zero notice because there's been a change of government in their home country? What sort of an incentive is that?
"The moment your home country is safe to return to, you will be removed"
This is patently over-spinning language that is untrue: govt can't do this (capacity), there would be processes
Is the HO really saying it is the right principle for every single refugee, regardless of personal circumstance?
This is patently over-spinning language that is untrue: govt can't do this (capacity), there would be processes
Is the HO really saying it is the right principle for every single refugee, regardless of personal circumstance?
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
So if a business hires a refugee, trains them up and so means they aren't a burden on the welfare budget, their reward is that their employee is taken away from them at zero notice because there's been a change of government in their home country? What sort of an incentive is that?
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What a Grade A fuckwit AI is.
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What a Grade A fuckwit AI is.
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There is an amber weather warning. That means you need to stay inside with a book all weekend.
If you haven't got a book... we're open for another hour and a half, and currently not under water.
If you haven't got a book... we're open for another hour and a half, and currently not under water.
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There is an amber weather warning. That means you need to stay inside with a book all weekend.
If you haven't got a book... we're open for another hour and a half, and currently not under water.
If you haven't got a book... we're open for another hour and a half, and currently not under water.
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In the end the UK will be left with absolutely no choice but to reapply to rejoin key European markets. Just as Macmillan and Wilson reluctantly concluded. They didn't much want to do it either. Reality doesn't care.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In the end the UK will be left with absolutely no choice but to reapply to rejoin key European markets. Just as Macmillan and Wilson reluctantly concluded. They didn't much want to do it either. Reality doesn't care.
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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Nostalgia was so much better back then.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Nostalgia was so much better back then.
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Things I did today instead of doomscrolling
1. Began needlefelting a fox
2. Mended a patchwork throw from papa's I originally made 40 years ago
3. Made clay decorations
4. Met with some friends
5. Rescued the recycling bags from a field (gosh, it's wet and windy!)
1. Began needlefelting a fox
2. Mended a patchwork throw from papa's I originally made 40 years ago
3. Made clay decorations
4. Met with some friends
5. Rescued the recycling bags from a field (gosh, it's wet and windy!)
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Things I did today instead of doomscrolling
1. Began needlefelting a fox
2. Mended a patchwork throw from papa's I originally made 40 years ago
3. Made clay decorations
4. Met with some friends
5. Rescued the recycling bags from a field (gosh, it's wet and windy!)
1. Began needlefelting a fox
2. Mended a patchwork throw from papa's I originally made 40 years ago
3. Made clay decorations
4. Met with some friends
5. Rescued the recycling bags from a field (gosh, it's wet and windy!)
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Imagine a 100+ seat majority in the hands of even Wilson and Callaghan, never mind Attlee, Blair or Brown.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Imagine a 100+ seat majority in the hands of even Wilson and Callaghan, never mind Attlee, Blair or Brown.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
Every one of those Labour Prime Ministers did something or would have done something far more transformative than Starmer's strategic timidity.
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Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
If you think Labour will get clobbered politically if we drop the pledge not to increase income tax (which of course we will), just wait until you see what happens if we don't deliver the highest profile pledge, which everyone remembers: "Change."
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If you think Labour will get clobbered politically if we drop the pledge not to increase income tax (which of course we will), just wait until you see what happens if we don't deliver the highest profile pledge, which everyone remembers: "Change."
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Experts do not regard English as a tonal language, and yet the wide variety of meanings of "fuck" displays an undeniable tonal quality. In this essay I will
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Experts do not regard English as a tonal language, and yet the wide variety of meanings of "fuck" displays an undeniable tonal quality. In this essay I will
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Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...
“We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignit...
TikTok video by usbishops
www.tiktok.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Catholic bishops collectively taking to Tik Tok to decry the war on immigrants is very notable: www.tiktok.com/@usbishops/v...
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The thing about the Catholic Church is that it doesn’t map onto current conservative/progressive axes because it predates them and so isn’t defined by them.
It does, however, *mean* it. Start denying the Eucharist to those in detention for being immigrants, you’re going to press a lot of buttons.
It does, however, *mean* it. Start denying the Eucharist to those in detention for being immigrants, you’re going to press a lot of buttons.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The thing about the Catholic Church is that it doesn’t map onto current conservative/progressive axes because it predates them and so isn’t defined by them.
It does, however, *mean* it. Start denying the Eucharist to those in detention for being immigrants, you’re going to press a lot of buttons.
It does, however, *mean* it. Start denying the Eucharist to those in detention for being immigrants, you’re going to press a lot of buttons.
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Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng only lost control of their Budget after it had been delivered...
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng only lost control of their Budget after it had been delivered...