Martin Wellbourne
@martinwellbourne.bsky.social
Trying to carve out a new life from the best bits of the old one!
This lack of state is the exact reason why apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, that the Romans never did anything for anybody
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This lack of state is the exact reason why apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, that the Romans never did anything for anybody
Love Saturn at this time of year
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Love Saturn at this time of year
If zero sugar gingerbread pepsi isn't what the baby jesus would have wanted I don't know what is
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If zero sugar gingerbread pepsi isn't what the baby jesus would have wanted I don't know what is
Stairway to Hell? More like Stairway to Hello 👋
September 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Stairway to Hell? More like Stairway to Hello 👋
Maybe the parents should get on the bus too:
Carnage
noun [ U ]
uk /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ us /ˈkɑːr.nɪdʒ/
the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war
Carnage
noun [ U ]
uk /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ us /ˈkɑːr.nɪdʒ/
the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war
September 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Maybe the parents should get on the bus too:
Carnage
noun [ U ]
uk /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ us /ˈkɑːr.nɪdʒ/
the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war
Carnage
noun [ U ]
uk /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/ us /ˈkɑːr.nɪdʒ/
the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war
The guardian there doing it's very best to imitate the telegraph Sunday supplements
August 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The guardian there doing it's very best to imitate the telegraph Sunday supplements
This guy drinks his own. Ultimate recycling
August 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This guy drinks his own. Ultimate recycling
Tom Clancy's Five Go to Mystery Moor
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Tom Clancy's Five Go to Mystery Moor
I wish to make a complaint to the Journalism regulator - Why on earth don't any of the people in this article have clothes pegs on their noses??? Or at least pinching their nostrils while wafting their other hand in front of their face?
August 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I wish to make a complaint to the Journalism regulator - Why on earth don't any of the people in this article have clothes pegs on their noses??? Or at least pinching their nostrils while wafting their other hand in front of their face?
Fairly sure "Churchtown Stinkpipe" was a story title in "Reverend Ramsden's Ringpiece Cathedral" in Viz back in the day
August 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fairly sure "Churchtown Stinkpipe" was a story title in "Reverend Ramsden's Ringpiece Cathedral" in Viz back in the day
Ok, my poor choice of words, the point I was trying to make is that the UK passed a law that mandates ID verification for certain things but has made no provision for protecting that process for UK citizens making the average lay-person / user possibly more open to abuse of their personal data.
August 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Ok, my poor choice of words, the point I was trying to make is that the UK passed a law that mandates ID verification for certain things but has made no provision for protecting that process for UK citizens making the average lay-person / user possibly more open to abuse of their personal data.
Is there also an issue that a UK law now mandates that users submit their personal ID data to potentially non-UK based companies where that sensitive data may be stored outside of the UK and covered by different / non-UK controlled data privacy laws?
August 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Is there also an issue that a UK law now mandates that users submit their personal ID data to potentially non-UK based companies where that sensitive data may be stored outside of the UK and covered by different / non-UK controlled data privacy laws?
One spurt or two?
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
One spurt or two?
4th and last lines designed to incite rage
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
4th and last lines designed to incite rage
I have it on DVD and watched it not long ago, to whom should I absolutely complain?
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I have it on DVD and watched it not long ago, to whom should I absolutely complain?
Whenever I see DM on socials it immediately makes me think of this dude and if everybody thought the same I think that would be better
July 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Whenever I see DM on socials it immediately makes me think of this dude and if everybody thought the same I think that would be better
"There'll be Swallows* over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see!"
*Laden or maybe unladen, airspeed velocity unknown
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see!"
*Laden or maybe unladen, airspeed velocity unknown
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"There'll be Swallows* over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see!"
*Laden or maybe unladen, airspeed velocity unknown
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see!"
*Laden or maybe unladen, airspeed velocity unknown
I prefer my vegan meat to be a little less meaty
July 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I prefer my vegan meat to be a little less meaty
Or maybe even in modern English "linguistic infelicity" FFS
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Or maybe even in modern English "linguistic infelicity" FFS
Any of the Ologys will be fine
July 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Any of the Ologys will be fine
The old "desire to reduce immigration leading to becoming an expat" paradox
June 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The old "desire to reduce immigration leading to becoming an expat" paradox
He also taught Sun Tzu everything he knew
June 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
He also taught Sun Tzu everything he knew
Has this made you reconsider your view on them ripping each other's clothes off?
June 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Has this made you reconsider your view on them ripping each other's clothes off?
Even if this were remotely possible, imagine the horror and trauma after they turn 16. And how backward they would appear to the rest of the world
June 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Even if this were remotely possible, imagine the horror and trauma after they turn 16. And how backward they would appear to the rest of the world