I think it's safe enough to add Reeves to the muted word list, rather than placing excessive strain on Bluesky's servers by using the full 'Rachel Reeves.' There's little enough Chaucer content here that will be suppressed. This isn't Twitter, after all.
With the death yesterday of General Sir Mike Jackson (famously 'Utrinque Paratus'), the last remaining retired general of the old school in HM Forces is General Sir Peter de la Cour de la Billière, always fondly known to his men as Pongo Pete, for reasons unknown.
trump is melting down in a way that is actually getting the attention of cable news so he is probably going into hiding. the question is whether news anchors will badger the campaign about it (no)
Adobe unveils latest reason to stop using Adobe products
There's so much "I'm not a Sinn Féin supporter, but ..." here today from notorious closet Shinners.
*Donald Trump strokes out live on national TV, foams at mouth while screaming hard R repeatedly, reduced to a vegetable* NYT: Donald Trump shows tremendous passion while highly energized, decides to take a vacation
A magic amulet to protect you from WiFi signals? Is it made of a British train? www.thepoke.com/2024/10/15/r...
Russell Brand has taken a break from preaching about his unlikely conversion to Christianity to sell something equally hard to believe in – magical amulets to protect you from WiFi and WotNot. Russell...
P G Wodehouse was born 143 years ago today. So many wonderful sentences. Here’s one: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
At the heart of the Badenoch pamphlet’s remarks on autism and anxiety is a kind of fairytale conservatism, that there are no rising demands on the exchequer that aren’t, at their core, undeserving. (You also see this with the pivot to softcore climate denial)