War is over! If you want it.
(He didn’t want it.)
@politicanimal.bsky.social
politic_animal from the Musk shop. Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
War is over! If you want it.
(He didn’t want it.)
Can’t believe that exception will last long.
09.03.2026 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You may laugh at this, but actually it’s a sign of Reform’s growing maturity. In long-established, properly functioning parties, all policy debate and personal rivalry is played out through the means of fights over clipboards and the allocation of leafleting rounds. discover.swns.com/2026/03/refo...
09.03.2026 21:49 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0I like going to the polling station too much to permanently have one (I do have the advantage that the polling station is 30 seconds walk from our front door, tbf).
09.03.2026 21:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Reminds me, must apply for my postal vote for May when I’m going to be away.
09.03.2026 21:42 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0‘Hairy creature’. This is Bigfoot erasure!
09.03.2026 21:11 — 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 0BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"
Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station
09.03.2026 19:17 — 👍 101 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0Strange. You'd think that the British people would be persuaded by such compelling arguments as 'we don't have a plan for regime change but a friend of a friend does' or 'Keir Starmer smells!'
09.03.2026 17:53 — 👍 495 🔁 72 💬 26 📌 7Old money always wins through.
09.03.2026 13:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My favourite bit of this is where Tice says we need to back the ‘hard-working people of Iran’, seamlessly merging BritPol boilerplate with geopolitics.
We must bomb Tehran in order to empower l’Iran qui se lève tôt, smash the Ayatollahs on behalf of Alarm Clock Persia.
And yet I bet if I tried to use a 30-year old West Yorkshire Metro Saver Strip, the driver would kick me off.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, consistent outliers on almost every issue.
09.03.2026 12:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The expanded Reform support base since then is likely, simply by force of numbers, to be less pro-Trump, certainly.
09.03.2026 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We have an astoundingly crowded political and media market for a 13% proposition, it must be said.
09.03.2026 11:47 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0If you're going to fake parts of your articles with AI, you can't expect anybody to trust anything you post on your 'news' website.
09.03.2026 09:18 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Indeed, well into five figure membership at one point.
09.03.2026 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Women’s Equality Party, back in 2024?
09.03.2026 08:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03
■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!
目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026
friends, I have brought you a gift
08.03.2026 22:01 — 👍 4263 🔁 595 💬 72 📌 186
Magnificent. When I was growing up the railway was covered in signs saying ‘Be alert’
re IRA bombs. My dad, each time we saw a sign, would say ‘Be alert! The world needs lerts!’
I’d accept that as a deviation from the roundel norm!
08.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Clara’s first Sunday outing to a National Trust property for stroll and scones. Morden Hall Park looking very New England-y today (5 minutes walk from a fully-accessible Tube station).
08.03.2026 14:43 — 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Glad not just me.
08.03.2026 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah - @diamondgeezer.bsky.social (of course!) wrote up somone’s FOI request on this a couple of years back and it is those 3 with the most routes diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/06/bus-...
08.03.2026 13:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m pretty sure that’s the most. Those three stops are the highest number of routes overall, and I can’t imagine anywhere beats them for N routes. They start to split up too much once you get to Trafalgar Square.
08.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She’s already got on and off the 161 there!
08.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Indeed, one of the most constrained stations on the system!
08.03.2026 12:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She does indeed at this point.
08.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not sure the jokes do, though.
08.03.2026 12:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘The next station is Oval.’
‘No it isn’t, it’s the same shape as all the others.’
The dad jokes aren’t quite landing yet.
Well spotted - absolutely correct!
08.03.2026 00:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0