@tomaustin.bsky.social
Deeply unimportant NHS-working, non-wingnut, left-ish, film-obsessed, Brit-Kiwi IT guy, based in London.
Anti-Brexit, anti-hate, anti-stupid; so very probably "liberal", "leftist", "woke" or something. Who knows.
Anti-Brexit, anti-hate, anti-stupid; so very probably "liberal", "leftist", "woke" or something. Who knows.
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me when the AI bubble bursts
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
me when the AI bubble bursts
Maybe Labour can distract from all this BBC kerfuffle by announcing another “kick the immigrants” policy.
Not as if anything more important going on.
Not as if anything more important going on.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Maybe Labour can distract from all this BBC kerfuffle by announcing another “kick the immigrants” policy.
Not as if anything more important going on.
Not as if anything more important going on.
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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HOW TO BE A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST
[SOUND ON 🔊]
[SOUND ON 🔊]
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
HOW TO BE A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST
[SOUND ON 🔊]
[SOUND ON 🔊]
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November 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords
Which mammal would make the best benevolent ruler of Earth?
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I can't help but think that capybaras would be immensely chill overlords
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Maybe I read too much Gibson and other cyberpunk and, well…
…I didn’t think AI would be quite … this disappointing.
…I didn’t think AI would be quite … this disappointing.
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Maybe I read too much Gibson and other cyberpunk and, well…
…I didn’t think AI would be quite … this disappointing.
…I didn’t think AI would be quite … this disappointing.
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Whatever the fuck this virus is going around London at the moment, it is now my firmly held belief that all you should STAY THE FUCK AWAY from it.
I always thought hot-sweating through to cold-shivering was movie exaggeration.
Not now.
I think I just gave myself a full-body shuddering.
I always thought hot-sweating through to cold-shivering was movie exaggeration.
Not now.
I think I just gave myself a full-body shuddering.
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Whatever the fuck this virus is going around London at the moment, it is now my firmly held belief that all you should STAY THE FUCK AWAY from it.
I always thought hot-sweating through to cold-shivering was movie exaggeration.
Not now.
I think I just gave myself a full-body shuddering.
I always thought hot-sweating through to cold-shivering was movie exaggeration.
Not now.
I think I just gave myself a full-body shuddering.
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Just checking Dick Cheney’s dead
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just checking Dick Cheney’s dead
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If you can’t think of anything good to say about a politician who has recently passed away, just say nothing, and express your feelings through the medium of nude interpretive dance.
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If you can’t think of anything good to say about a politician who has recently passed away, just say nothing, and express your feelings through the medium of nude interpretive dance.
John Christopher’s “Tripod” trilogy introduced me to “Ozymandias”.
Little 11yo me became obsessed with the name.
I love — fucking love — everyone taking the piss at the moment.
Always take the piss out of something you love.
Little 11yo me became obsessed with the name.
I love — fucking love — everyone taking the piss at the moment.
Always take the piss out of something you love.
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
John Christopher’s “Tripod” trilogy introduced me to “Ozymandias”.
Little 11yo me became obsessed with the name.
I love — fucking love — everyone taking the piss at the moment.
Always take the piss out of something you love.
Little 11yo me became obsessed with the name.
I love — fucking love — everyone taking the piss at the moment.
Always take the piss out of something you love.
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Hesitate to give advice but Billy Paul needs to know that if he's still not calling Mrs Jones by her first name their relationship isn't as serious as he seems to believe.
#SoundsOfThe70s
#SoundsOfThe70s
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hesitate to give advice but Billy Paul needs to know that if he's still not calling Mrs Jones by her first name their relationship isn't as serious as he seems to believe.
#SoundsOfThe70s
#SoundsOfThe70s
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.
[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].
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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown
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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.
[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives
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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage
[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]
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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?
FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.
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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.
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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?
FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!
PRESENTER:
Ha ha
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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.
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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]
FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey
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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...
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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:
*Am I the only option for Britain?*
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[Cut back to studio]
PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidseyojvyqngmitl76iafvvbvgg4a3i7a26642c2c3gacoi7pwtbi@jpeg)
Not sure I could AMEN this hard enough
Will Hayward: "Beyond this campaign, the aim of the party to appeal to Reform voters that are never coming back (and often were never Labour voters anyway) at the expense of left and centre left traditional supporters has been a catastrophe."
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Not sure I could AMEN this hard enough
“BuT hoW Will I shOw evry ONE that I Made A jokE???”
Facebook should, IMHO, abolish the laugh emoji.
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“BuT hoW Will I shOw evry ONE that I Made A jokE???”
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Good Morning from Global Britain.
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Good Morning from Global Britain.
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guys cmonnn. it’s time to leave Prince Andrew alone
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
guys cmonnn. it’s time to leave Prince Andrew alone
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As Trump remodels the White House in his own image, he once again backs down from confronting Putin. He’s all ballroom, no balls.
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
As Trump remodels the White House in his own image, he once again backs down from confronting Putin. He’s all ballroom, no balls.
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)