Lois
@loismcewan.bsky.social
Deranged nihilist, heathen husk, accidental croneburger
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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What the actual fuck is going on?
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What the actual fuck is going on?
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jesus honly christ
![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
jesus honly christ
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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Sound of penny dropping at the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row
Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie Gibb
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sound of penny dropping at the BBC www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Is there a good language teaching app? Duolingo insisting that I'm saying café wrong unless I'm practically doing a Kenneth Williams camp version is driving me mad
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Is there a good language teaching app? Duolingo insisting that I'm saying café wrong unless I'm practically doing a Kenneth Williams camp version is driving me mad
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There is no way to win 😪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
There is no way to win 😪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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*lashes self to mast*
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
*lashes self to mast*
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
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The word SNEEZE used to be FNESE, as in "He speketh in his nose And fneseth faste" (Canterbury Tales)
FNESE faded out in the 15thC, superseded by NESE/NEEZE. Then an s- was added, maybe to strengthen it or to align with other nose-related sn- words
Anyway I think we should bring FNESE back
FNESE faded out in the 15thC, superseded by NESE/NEEZE. Then an s- was added, maybe to strengthen it or to align with other nose-related sn- words
Anyway I think we should bring FNESE back
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The word SNEEZE used to be FNESE, as in "He speketh in his nose And fneseth faste" (Canterbury Tales)
FNESE faded out in the 15thC, superseded by NESE/NEEZE. Then an s- was added, maybe to strengthen it or to align with other nose-related sn- words
Anyway I think we should bring FNESE back
FNESE faded out in the 15thC, superseded by NESE/NEEZE. Then an s- was added, maybe to strengthen it or to align with other nose-related sn- words
Anyway I think we should bring FNESE back
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Odd, really. If 10 people die in a raid on Kyiv, everyone calls for Putin's bonce on a plate. If someone accidentally dispatches 23000 souls through bungling incompetence, it's fine. Funny old world.
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Odd, really. If 10 people die in a raid on Kyiv, everyone calls for Putin's bonce on a plate. If someone accidentally dispatches 23000 souls through bungling incompetence, it's fine. Funny old world.
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It was a work by Mat Colishaw & as I expected was deliberately designed as a twisted digital hellscape, not an example of AI taking jobs. I wish people would engage brains before immediately getting angry. I was chatting to Mat recently about his digital process & this would have taken a lot of time
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It was a work by Mat Colishaw & as I expected was deliberately designed as a twisted digital hellscape, not an example of AI taking jobs. I wish people would engage brains before immediately getting angry. I was chatting to Mat recently about his digital process & this would have taken a lot of time
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Seems surprising that Cecil Beaton was a war photographer then went straight back to party with the Mitfords etc. Hardcore posh
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Seems surprising that Cecil Beaton was a war photographer then went straight back to party with the Mitfords etc. Hardcore posh
Thought husband was saying the cat had a jazz beard but apparently it had appeared
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Thought husband was saying the cat had a jazz beard but apparently it had appeared
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Which is mad, because he only went there to sell a Makita drill and a bunch of vintage body building magazines.
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Which is mad, because he only went there to sell a Makita drill and a bunch of vintage body building magazines.
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Gifu Shimbun has a map which plots monthly bear sightings and reports of suspicious individuals. The result looks like a strategy game, pitting bears against perverts. www.gifu-np.co.jp/articles/-/3...
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gifu Shimbun has a map which plots monthly bear sightings and reports of suspicious individuals. The result looks like a strategy game, pitting bears against perverts. www.gifu-np.co.jp/articles/-/3...
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Starmer’s Britain
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Starmer’s Britain
One of my son's friends, who works for a socialist bookseller, was expelled from Labour without explanation. Doesn't even know how they found out
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of my son's friends, who works for a socialist bookseller, was expelled from Labour without explanation. Doesn't even know how they found out
Our candidate Aston Line was replaced weeks before the election, which should have been an indication. Don't know if he's still in the party now
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our candidate Aston Line was replaced weeks before the election, which should have been an indication. Don't know if he's still in the party now
Apologising to family members for persuading them to vote Labour to get the Tories out
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Apologising to family members for persuading them to vote Labour to get the Tories out
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Polish-Jewish prisoners having their jewelry ‘confiscated’ by the Nazis in Schindler’s List, right down to the gold in their extracted teeth.
Wonder why this is on my mind today.
Wonder why this is on my mind today.
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Polish-Jewish prisoners having their jewelry ‘confiscated’ by the Nazis in Schindler’s List, right down to the gold in their extracted teeth.
Wonder why this is on my mind today.
Wonder why this is on my mind today.