James Bell

Another one for reference

This is one of the most extraordinary, mind blowing things I’ve seen in a very long time (contains flashing lights)

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

Wait, whaaaaaAAAAA??!!

I see what you did there 🍻

This house - Swedemason YouTube video by swedemason

Yeah

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Latest UK polling: As voters spread their support, our voting system can’t keep up Where elections often used to be a two-horse race between Labour and the Conservatives, voters are now spreading their support across an increasingly crowded field – and our voting sys

The question is no longer whether multi-party politics has arrived in the UK – it’s whether our outdated electoral system can survive it.

A jar of mango chutney with a tagline: love me or your money back.

Too needy, mango chutney, too needy

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Nothing terminal, just a virus 😊 (But it has been going on for weeks!)

Well, now that I think about it, I’m still stuck in poorly-children land so probably wouldn’t be able to go anyway! But I look forward to living vicariously through what friends say about it 😁

😮

This is a really interesting, and terrifying, read

A pub sign for Jude The Obscure, portraying the titular character as the lead singer from the Britpop band Menswear.

Turns out Jude was a hipster – who knew

Haven’t caught up with Cassi in a while, sadly, but she has some serious active service behind her and is probably still pretty badass

one of the things i love about london is how into pop culture it is. for instance there's a train station named after a cartoon bear and one named after an abba song

THE CHRISTOPHERS Trailer (2026) Michaela Coel, Ian McKellen YouTube video by ONE Media Coverage

So, based on this and Black Bag, the most interesting British filmmaker at the moment is… Steven Soderberg?!

I think maybe the Rules Based Order Mark Carney was mourning in that speech was “America not tariffing Canadian goods”

I mean, that will be all that terrible university left-wing bias 😉

User Dolphin Pilot responds to an trolling AI bot user by asking it to write a haiku about the mighty penguin, which it promptly does.

Not sure why this was deleted, but here it is again

Thanks! But I have to ask… mobbed as in “I’m your biggest fan!” or mobbed as in “Ever heard of the Battle of Cable Street! Would you like me to demonstrate it for you?”

Ha - yes! 😁

If someone on Bluesky replies to you in an unnecessarily rude way, please do this to find out if they are an AI bot. (Guaranteed chuckles)

Green party win (and thus Reform loss) tho! 🥳 Swings and roundabouts…

Oh good fuck yes

An alert to my fellow townsfolk: these fucking Nazi clowns are in town

??????

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.