@butchandriley.bsky.social
Old git in rural Wiltshire. Durhamite in exile. Likes evidence, facts. Likes Lowdens and Naim, Good food, wine and real beer. Atheist.
possibly the funniest political moment of the year
24.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 98 🔁 28 💬 10 📌 0
🔥 🇨🇦 👇🏽The premier of Ontario responds to Trump’s claim the anti-tariffs ad is fake by posting the original Reagan speech showing it isn’t.
Mic drop 🎤 🏆
The video: youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
"Rob, when everything the government is doing is a mess, why do you spend so much time mocking Kemi's decisions?"
"Because they're there."
This is stark and dark. The FT! Not some reactionary start up paper.
24.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 0
"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview"
- Guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
![Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreib7rzofmrqb5cvnyccnb7ftj6qroxtp55i4dqqnbp2ozun6gaxbkm@jpeg)
Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]
Shielding Chart
xkcd.com/3158/
One wonders what's left of the non hard right wing of the Conservative party if all they can do is whinge, anonymously, to The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
As a species?
Doomed.
Masterful sarcasm from @peterwalker99.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
From the archive
22.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 111 🔁 48 💬 1 📌 4It is not “broadly in line”. It is *exactly in line* because it is literally the policy as set out in a “draft bill” presented to parliament as the law a Badenoch government would enact.
22.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 178 🔁 57 💬 8 📌 2Put a book through menopause:
HRT of Darkness
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
22.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 5680 🔁 1670 💬 100 📌 123
22.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"as ever when it comes to his time in office, it’s possible to think that some questions might have been just about answerable in advance. Like, for instance, “if we’re planning to close all the schools, should we mention that to the Department for Education?”
Deservedly brutal. And hilarious.
Whomp
21.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 1310 🔁 362 💬 85 📌 23
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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20.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
20.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 7810 🔁 2368 💬 46 📌 87This suggests that at least a third of the current combined Tory Reform vote think it was wrong to leave the EU
20.10.2025 07:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Offered without comment
19.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 47 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
18.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 126 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 7
From the archive #nokings
18.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 78 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 4Perfect.
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🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary.
#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky
Know the Welsh solicitor but the rest?
Tumbleweed.
Loud amen!
17.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
