Phedro
phedro.bsky.social
Phedro
@phedro.bsky.social
Programmer, loves the seaside
Not the most urgent of news today, but Weetabix shrinkflation 🤬
Left one is from a new box. No mention of weight on the packaging, still just the same number of bix, but they're smaller.
Scumbags
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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This is a great example that the US president is a lunatic. Listen carefully 🙈
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Our 50 Favourite Funny Bluesky posts of 2025.
www.thepoke.com/2025/12/17/o...
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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OK, strap in….

Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!

🎄🎅🤶🎄

TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.

And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.

Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait

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December 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Trump’s disastrous admissions in this interview reveal again that he is profoundly, catastrophically unfit to be making any of these decisions. trib.al/wrKdKPX
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of it all.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website.

No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes.

"He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise"
open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I didn't think a US World Cup would be able to top Diana Ross's "penalty" for embarrassment, but here we are.
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🚨Some personal news.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.

A profile of Jonathan Gullis.

"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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"The core of our problem in the UK is housing. Using long-term nationwide data, John noted that the average UK house in 1956 – the year of his birth – cost £1,884.

By 2025, that figure was £271,000. That is a 144-fold rise in nominal terms"
Is Britain at the peak of a great financial wave?
Britain is living at the end of a decades-long inflationary wave. What comes next depends on whether we confront our financial model
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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George Monbiot delivers a perfect analysis of where we're at with capitalism on the new episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.

Premiering on YouTube now: youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee?

£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?

It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Let’s have a look at a crazy Twitter to newspaper pipeline story and debunk as we go! 🔎👍🏼

16th Nov the “Britain is Broken” account shared the following post claiming “Tesco are no longer celebrating Christmas”

With a picture of their “Evergreen” Trees

2.2Million views to date🙄

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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.

Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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"The X algorithm prioritises sending new users right-wing leaning content", a Sky News Data and Forensics investigation reveals

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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One minute you’re promising to torch bureaucracy, the next you’re begging the markets not to set fire to your manifesto.

Fiscal gravity is a helluva thing - and Nigel Farage has found that out this week, in spades.
Nigel Farage vs The Bond Market: Round One (He Lost)
Farage has discovered what every populist eventually does - you can’t outshout mathematics.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM