Painting of a woman riding a bicycle on a seaside boardwalk. She's wearing an old-timey bathing costume.
Artist: Louis Valtat
07.10.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@ediparolev.bsky.social
Veteran cyclist. Novice runner. Politically progressive. Waiting for the Great Leap Forward. I follow back humans. UKRI Innovate UK (Wales) Views are my own. Builth, Cymru ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Painting of a woman riding a bicycle on a seaside boardwalk. She's wearing an old-timey bathing costume.
Artist: Louis Valtat
07.10.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We have let cars break our brains. Seriously.
07.10.2025 11:56 โ ๐ 76 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0That he kept his job after saying that says plenty about the state of the Conservative Party.
07.10.2025 11:27 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Hello Wiggy, have you been having a nice time?"
"Yes, Gobert, I've Geen Grinking Gots of Geer and Geing a Git Gascist."
"Good for you, I'm going to shit out a lot of Far Right clichรฉs & run down the judicial system to prepare for leadership."
"Ge-ing a Gunt as usual, then."
What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels
06.10.2025 19:29 โ ๐ 1404 ๐ 248 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 5Is it really as bad as the photos suggest?
06.10.2025 20:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cameron's cowardice and Johnson's treachery did this. The centre right destroyed and replaced by fascism.
06.10.2025 17:47 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Rory Stewart, because heโs open to debate but from the landowner side of countryside politics.
Iโm intrigued by Dominic Cummings, though I donโt know much beyond his role in Brexit and his reputation as a strategist.
With Irish unity now a real possibility, Gerry Adams would be fascinating.
They seem to have a knack for picking progressively worse leaders. We know whoโs next.
06.10.2025 13:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0They're finished. Boris Johnson did this.
06.10.2025 12:54 โ ๐ 61 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0Some interesting suggestions there
06.10.2025 10:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Cartoon. Caption says โThose who donโt study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.โ
Happening right now - to a country near you
06.10.2025 07:10 โ ๐ 220 ๐ 51 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2In forthcoming book called Prosperity Through Growth, Johnson admitted that when Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed up gas prices, it became clear that the UK's net-zero strategy had to change, The Daily Telegraph reported.
not sure this is as logical as you think it is
06.10.2025 06:59 โ ๐ 131 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 3How many seats were they 2nd in last time? Thatโs the key.
05.10.2025 17:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How are they getting to Dublin?
05.10.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is why they want all human rights restraints removed. #ECHR
04.10.2025 20:35 โ ๐ 250 ๐ 105 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 3Half of Reformโs members are probably Russian bot farm workers.
04.10.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Why aren't the mainstream media all over this? Usually if he breaks wind it makes the headlines (or is it because it doesn't make him look good)
04.10.2025 10:25 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0BBC News - Thousands of trees given away in Cornwall
www.bbc.com/news/article...
photo: @alivevidal on Insta
04.10.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 3What sort of people vote for a party to block measures to help save our planet and remove rights to protect the humans living on the planet?๐คทโโ๏ธ
04.10.2025 08:07 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My dad was a sales rep in the 70s, and over that decade he had a string of Ford Cortinas as company cars โ I think he worked his way through every version.
04.10.2025 07:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It's so much cheaper to buy a country's politicians than to defeat it militarily.
03.10.2025 22:50 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Stop glancing at your phone while driving.
Every glance is a roll of the dice. What are you going to miss in those 2 seconds? Maybe nothing, but you are risking lives. Yours and others.
One glance down you miss a dog , a car, a person.
Please. Stop gambling a hundred times every time you drive
Zack Polanskiโs response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship.
Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.
And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.
Thank you Zack. ๐ช
Weโre in a de facto war with Russia. Putinโs bankrolling of the far right across Europe, inc Nigel Farage and Reform UK, is part of his arsenal.
03.10.2025 20:16 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Heโs right too
03.10.2025 15:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It ought to be the role of our security services to brief journalists like Chris Mason and Laura Kuenssberg, making clear how Russia is funding and influencing the far right across Europe, and encouraging more measured reporting of Reform UK and Farage.
03.10.2025 10:52 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0