Andy Oakley

Andy Oakley

@dasoakster.bsky.social

Politics, philosophy, data, science, nature and art. Long suffering Tottenham Hotspur fan

608 Followers 2,249 Following 79 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 months ago
John Hurt enjoying a meal in the film Alien

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

2,312 604 15 18
2 months ago

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

2,086 628 74 35
2 months ago

This call for a quick, knee jerk response to Trump goes against my personal views. This shouldn’t be controversial

Foreign policy isn’t a pissing contest. Statements are calibrated to protect Ukraine, keep allies aligned and preserve leverage. Loud words are easy. Responsible outcomes are harder.

90 28 14 1
2 months ago

Everything in this thread is bang on point and should be read by everyone- especially those who refuse to see the Russian threat and are still playing on old Cold War settings

43 16 0 0
2 months ago

Even I have to say it's a compelling image

0 0 0 0
3 months ago

Sky News is a total cess pit

0 0 0 0
3 months ago

GB News is nothing short of a hate-filled propaganda arm for the far-right

145 40 7 3
3 months ago

I've just read her speech and I'm not seeing where she 'warned of a fiscal black hole'. She does say this '…each of us must do our bit for the security of our country and the brightness of its future. ..., To build more resilient public finances – with the headroom to withstand global turbulence…

4 1 0 0
3 months ago

Some brass neck this. Jeez

5 0 0 0
6 months ago

@nottinghampost.co.uk

1 0 0 0
6 months ago
Preview
chewbacca and luke skywalker are talking and chewbacca says " i have a very bad feeling about this ... " ALT: chewbacca and luke skywalker are talking and chewbacca says " i have a very bad feeling about this ... "
0 0 0 0
8 months ago

Nothing for the Tories but oblivion or a merge with Reform with this kind of brain-dead nativism

2 0 0 0
8 months ago

Robbie Gibbs' man. Bereft of even basic journalistic ethics

9 0 0 0
8 months ago

100% this - the Tories genuinely provided a sense of 'permacrisis' they could feed off of. Without that they've just decided to make it up every day. Politics as a soap opera and it's damaging the whole system

8 1 0 0
8 months ago

Think the link is broken here

0 0 0 0
8 months ago

I mean it's easy to single out Johnson or Truss as obvious exceptions but surely this man has heard of Eden - lasted 18 months with Suez in the middle of that.

6 0 1 0
8 months ago

Terrible back injury?

1 0 1 0
10 months ago

Only one thing to do - the return of Johnson - else it's a steady flow of defections leaving a shell of a party behind

2 0 2 0
10 months ago

Stares in UK

7 0 0 0
11 months ago

Sir Thomas More: “What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law...”

“And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide ...? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

3 0 0 0
1 year ago

Read this with increasing frustration. Then saw it's written by Luke Tryl - he of More In Common so hardly surprising. Also Dudley and Merthyr were iirc strongly Leave voting areas so some basis for Reform support already there for a long time

1 0 0 0
1 year ago
Sam suggests that Trump might drop sanctions in return for Putin buying a cybertruck. Dmitry responds that this might work as an assassination attempt.

I give you the double act of @samfr.bsky.social and @explaintrade.com

812 193 12 1
1 year ago

Indeed. Predicting something along the lines of Starmer's foreign exploits mask deep problems at home / Reform surge etc. Same old

1 0 0 0
1 year ago
Preview
a group of people are standing in a living room with a man smoking a cigarette . ALT: a group of people are standing in a living room with a man smoking a cigarette .
2 0 0 0
1 year ago

The Tories really are gone aren't they. Can see them realistically dropping below 20% at this rate

22 0 1 0
1 year ago

He did and I reckon that was as much about Reform as about the AfD

6 0 0 0
1 year ago

It was astonishing and appalling in equal measure. Guess he thought he was being edgy but shows how utterly dumbed down the Today programme has become

17 2 1 0
1 year ago

Pen definitely

2 0 0 0
1 year ago

Out of his depth

1 0 0 0
1 year ago
Post image

Hallmark missing a trick 💗⚓️🌹

417 51 24 28