WoollyLiberal
@woollyliberal.bsky.social
Husband to @OldRatEssex, Uncle to #NotOurCat. Fairweather cyclist and recovering LibDem.
Wishing things could only get better
Wishing things could only get better
This is probably very true.
But it also occurs to me that the same could well be said of the idealistic Left. It's easy to shadow-govern when there are no real world consequences to your policies.
But it also occurs to me that the same could well be said of the idealistic Left. It's easy to shadow-govern when there are no real world consequences to your policies.
Reform UK are learning the hard way that it's easy to shout insults at the players from the touchline. Far harder to get up on the pitch and play. They've been an absolute disaster wherever they are elected.
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is probably very true.
But it also occurs to me that the same could well be said of the idealistic Left. It's easy to shadow-govern when there are no real world consequences to your policies.
But it also occurs to me that the same could well be said of the idealistic Left. It's easy to shadow-govern when there are no real world consequences to your policies.
This is just fucking bonkers.
No, I am not sending a bloody Christmas Card to a nonce-adjacent
No, I am not sending a bloody Christmas Card to a nonce-adjacent
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is just fucking bonkers.
No, I am not sending a bloody Christmas Card to a nonce-adjacent
No, I am not sending a bloody Christmas Card to a nonce-adjacent
I simply do not fucking understand why the RW commentariat here mindlessly regurgitates Russian talking points.
Getting the UK out of the EU was a Putin project start to finish.
Getting the UK out of the EU was a Putin project start to finish.
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I simply do not fucking understand why the RW commentariat here mindlessly regurgitates Russian talking points.
Getting the UK out of the EU was a Putin project start to finish.
Getting the UK out of the EU was a Putin project start to finish.
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Found these in the loft, which brought back fond memories of decorating the Christmas tree at my old school.
December 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Found these in the loft, which brought back fond memories of decorating the Christmas tree at my old school.
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A new holiday tradition? A Santa, accompanied of course by his elves, robbed a major supermarket chain— and deposited $3,000-worth of food at the local food bank.
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/9...?
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/9...?
Des «pères Noël» dérobent 3000 $ de denrées dans un Metro pour les redistribuer
L’acte a été revendiqué par un groupe militant se faisant appeler «Robin des ruelles».
www.ledevoir.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A new holiday tradition? A Santa, accompanied of course by his elves, robbed a major supermarket chain— and deposited $3,000-worth of food at the local food bank.
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/9...?
www.ledevoir.com/actualites/9...?
Has the Express gone full ballistic over this betrayal of Brexit yet?
Now confirmed
EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Has the Express gone full ballistic over this betrayal of Brexit yet?
Isn't this wonderful?
A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Isn't this wonderful?
Arkell v Pressdram won't work here
Trump filing a £billion lawsuit against the BBC should result in a loud and resounding “Fuck Off” from all the UK including the government.
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Arkell v Pressdram won't work here
Spot the fucking self described patriot
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Spot the fucking self described patriot
What's the highest gallantry honour available in Australia?
Give it to him
Give it to him
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What's the highest gallantry honour available in Australia?
Give it to him
Give it to him
I thought Liberati was a comedy piano player
And it looks to have been every bit as fatuous as you might expect. I especially liked the disdain for the concept of ethical sourcing. What would Jesus have said, eh? Bah, let's have child labourers make our myrrh? And the hopelessly convoluted idea that Jesus came "to be cancelled in our place".
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I thought Liberati was a comedy piano player
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Interesting point
At this point in time, AS LONG AS we also had a Brownite at the Treasury, it might be the best we could reasonably expect to have.
At this point in time, AS LONG AS we also had a Brownite at the Treasury, it might be the best we could reasonably expect to have.
I never thought Id say this but on so many things I *wish* we had a Blairite govt
December 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Interesting point
At this point in time, AS LONG AS we also had a Brownite at the Treasury, it might be the best we could reasonably expect to have.
At this point in time, AS LONG AS we also had a Brownite at the Treasury, it might be the best we could reasonably expect to have.
OT1H, yes hydration breaks are a good idea in hot weather.
OTOH, how handy for the advertisers
OTOH, how handy for the advertisers
News: Every 2026 World Cup match will feature two "hydration breaks," no matter the weather.
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
2026 World Cup to feature three-minute hydration breaks in every half throughout tournament
Every game will pause for three minutes in the middle of each half, which will essentially split the match into quarters.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
OT1H, yes hydration breaks are a good idea in hot weather.
OTOH, how handy for the advertisers
OTOH, how handy for the advertisers
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Aston Villa’s Goal of the Month contest for August, cancelled because we scored no goals, has more footballing credibility than the FIFA peace prize for Trump.
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Aston Villa’s Goal of the Month contest for August, cancelled because we scored no goals, has more footballing credibility than the FIFA peace prize for Trump.
Looks like a win-win to me
Farage also wants an apology from the BBC "for all of your appalling output" or he won't speak to them again. He sounds very, very rattled.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Looks like a win-win to me
Labour build alliances?
A left leaning party can't go a month without fracturing
A left leaning party can't go a month without fracturing
“This strategy simply papers over cracks of a politics in which the Overton window moves steadily towards the hard right & likely big victory of the party that represents a full-fat rather than semi-skimmed version of national populism” - great from Neal Lawson on need for Labour to build alliances👏
Farage and the Tory right will unite because they want power. Will the left just stand by? | Neal Lawson
It’s time for a harsh reality check. A progressive bloc of parties refusing to see a common threat risks disaster, says Neal Lawson of Compass
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Labour build alliances?
A left leaning party can't go a month without fracturing
A left leaning party can't go a month without fracturing
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
Everyone I know out here in Southend around is utterly horrified. This is where Brexit and xenophobia have taken us
This should be the main story on all TV news programmes. The University of Essex is closing its Southend campus because of the fall in the number of foreign students and the loss of income they provided for the University. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2566689...
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Everyone I know out here in Southend around is utterly horrified. This is where Brexit and xenophobia have taken us
So what happens when they (chortle) win a General Election? Do they time share #10?
This is a very Your Party thing to do. Instead of picking a leader they've gone down the collective party leadership role route.
That will just lead to a lot more internal jostling for power and in fighting while media won't know who to invite on to their programmes.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/30/p...
That will just lead to a lot more internal jostling for power and in fighting while media won't know who to invite on to their programmes.
metro.co.uk/2025/11/30/p...
Your Party won't be led by Jeremy Corbyn or Zarah Sultana after this major vote
The twist we didn't see coming.
metro.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So what happens when they (chortle) win a General Election? Do they time share #10?
I don't actually use the tube all that much now I no longer live in London but I have never, ever, in all the years I did, see anything remotely like this
Tucker Carlson is a rightwing conspiracy theorist and Putin apologist who was sacked by FOX.... yes FOX
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
BUT The Spectator is happy to pay him to talk down our capital city... despite it thriving and crime falling.
Whose side are you on Mr Gove?
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I don't actually use the tube all that much now I no longer live in London but I have never, ever, in all the years I did, see anything remotely like this
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
I think this idea has merit
Various policy initiatives, including tax incentives, have made a significant difference to alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Gambling is the next big, socially corrosive "sin" that needs to be tackled.
Various policy initiatives, including tax incentives, have made a significant difference to alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Gambling is the next big, socially corrosive "sin" that needs to be tackled.
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I think this idea has merit
Various policy initiatives, including tax incentives, have made a significant difference to alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Gambling is the next big, socially corrosive "sin" that needs to be tackled.
Various policy initiatives, including tax incentives, have made a significant difference to alcohol and tobacco abuse.
Gambling is the next big, socially corrosive "sin" that needs to be tackled.
It's just a giant fucking cookbook.
That's all. Just petabytes of data being remixed and fed back out.
If you think it's conscious, I submit it says more about how you view consciousness than about AIs and LLMs in particular
That's all. Just petabytes of data being remixed and fed back out.
If you think it's conscious, I submit it says more about how you view consciousness than about AIs and LLMs in particular
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's just a giant fucking cookbook.
That's all. Just petabytes of data being remixed and fed back out.
If you think it's conscious, I submit it says more about how you view consciousness than about AIs and LLMs in particular
That's all. Just petabytes of data being remixed and fed back out.
If you think it's conscious, I submit it says more about how you view consciousness than about AIs and LLMs in particular