Rob
@glastronomer.bsky.social
Food Systems Researcher, mostly. Used to do Libraries. It’s a play on Glasgow and Gastronomer. Gastronomy as in academic field, not like I pull faces in restaurants (I mean, sometimes). He / Him 🏳️🌈🏴 #Food #SocialImpact #Sustainability #Agroecology
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Rob
@glastronomer.bsky.social
· Nov 22
It wasn’t the porn that did it, it was the fascism.
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
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Maybe Isaac Herzog should be more concerned about the genocide of Palestinians his country Israel is carrying out, rather than worrying the name of a small park in a country 3,000km away.
Israel's President Isaac Herzog has said he is concerned by the proposed removal of the name of former Israeli president and his father Chaim Herzog from a park in south Dublin.
Israeli president condemns motion to rename Dublin park
Israel's President Isaac Herzog has said he is concerned by the proposed removal of the name of former Israeli president and his father Chaim Herzog from a park in south Dublin.
www.rte.ie
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Maybe Isaac Herzog should be more concerned about the genocide of Palestinians his country Israel is carrying out, rather than worrying the name of a small park in a country 3,000km away.
I honestly can’t imagine the degree of shamelessness needed to be Kemi Badenoch standing up accusing anyone of lying or being unfit for office.
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I honestly can’t imagine the degree of shamelessness needed to be Kemi Badenoch standing up accusing anyone of lying or being unfit for office.
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Christmas at the BBC
![Title panel:
CHRISTMAS… AT THE BBC.
The Traitors Christmas Special:
Who in the BBC Boardroom is trying to bring down the gaff from within?
[Image: The Traitors scene with Claudia Winkleman looking like “ooh-er” while the BBC board sit at a table looking suspiciously at each other]
Apologising To The People Who Want To Destroy Us At Christmas:
A festive extravaganza of self-flagellation before our enemies
[Image: A cozy fireside scene with Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch standing, while at their feet lots of BBC employees are kneeling before them and begging for forgiveness].
Donald's Big Distraction:
Heartwarming Julia Donaldson animation in which a dragon sues the BBC to draw his friends' attention onto something else
[Image: Julia Donaldson’s ‘Zog’ with a Donald Trump wig, holding up a lawyer’s letter to show his dragon friends while trying to block their view of a pile of box files and computer drives some with ‘Epstein’ written on them].
The King's Speech:
We let Nigel Farage tell you the BBC is left wing as if that's some kind of fact
[Image: Nigel Farage as the King delivering his Christmas speech to camera].
A Ghost Story for Christmas:
A venerable British institution is haunted by Boris Johnson's appointees
[Image: A BBC studio with a window, outside in the dark snowy night a spectral apparition in the form of Robbie Gibb taps at the window and wails “I want to destroooy you”]
Christmas Labour Inertia-Time:
Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy present four hours of total silence from under their desks
[Image: Show them both under their desks holding up glasses of sherry]
Rightward Drift Christmas Special:
A bonanza of trust-corrosion with confected immigration panic and Reform coverage
[Image: A computer and a smartphone in a cute snowy scene, both displaying the BBC News website with multiple headlines and LIVE feeds and and BREAKING NEWS stories headlined: “IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS? IMMIGRANTS!”]
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November 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Christmas at the BBC
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The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe
Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
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One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cambridge University cosies up to Reform
The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies
www.thetimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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I know it's been memory holed, but we really do need to keep saying: the British political establishment was absolutely wanking itself furious about the Trump administration when it came to power, and couldn't wait to copy everything they did.
Mind this?
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I know it's been memory holed, but we really do need to keep saying: the British political establishment was absolutely wanking itself furious about the Trump administration when it came to power, and couldn't wait to copy everything they did.
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This is worth a wee shooftie if you're looking for Christmas presents #MadeInScotland
#SupportLocalScotland
#keepScotlandTheBrand
www.thenational.scot/news/2564300...
#SupportLocalScotland
#keepScotlandTheBrand
www.thenational.scot/news/2564300...
‘Gift List’ campaign under way to present Scots with the perfect picks for Christmas
A campaign has been launched to encourage shoppers to support Scotland’s artists and makers this festive season
www.thenational.scot
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is worth a wee shooftie if you're looking for Christmas presents #MadeInScotland
#SupportLocalScotland
#keepScotlandTheBrand
www.thenational.scot/news/2564300...
#SupportLocalScotland
#keepScotlandTheBrand
www.thenational.scot/news/2564300...
Somewhere between these two, probably.
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Somewhere between these two, probably.
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No it bloody isn't.
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
No it bloody isn't.
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Hope you're all having poppies for breakfast
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hope you're all having poppies for breakfast
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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It's like if Ceauşescu had a social media account.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It's like if Ceauşescu had a social media account.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
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“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...
theonion.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services
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“Your party has made people feel genuinely unsafe to walk the streets because of the colour of their skin, and you expect equal outrage over paint on metal shutters?”
Spot on.
Spot on.
Reform very unhappy with the coverage they got from Welsh media. The message is clear: the far-right can only succeed when they enjoy the fawning treatment that English media provide.
Reform Wales regional director blasts Welsh media over Caerphilly coverage
Emily Price Reform UK’s regional director for Wales has accused the Welsh media of “anti-Reform” attacks following the party’s by-election defeat in Caerphilly last week. Torfaen Councillor David Tho...
nation.cymru
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
“Your party has made people feel genuinely unsafe to walk the streets because of the colour of their skin, and you expect equal outrage over paint on metal shutters?”
Spot on.
Spot on.
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The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace
A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The only way to take note of anything Kruger has to say…
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
through the medium of @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
“He is presented…as a man with experience of govt. In reality he has none”
Exposing Reform’s racist, Trump-styled tyranny for the ruinous idiocy it really is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Reform’s Kruger under fire for warning of ‘LGBT-supporting’ left-wing parties
East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger said the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’.
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Reform UK copies Trump
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
Promises to ignore international law
Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go?
Cronies would be hired.
Attack trade unions, employment rights
Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.