Mostly* Tortoise, also Anarchism.
@mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
He/Him. Tortoise posts, anarcho-socialist tendencies, physical sciences by education, British by nationality.
“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."
(*aspirational, tortoise levels may vary over time)
“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."
(*aspirational, tortoise levels may vary over time)
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Bluesky hack, if you go to my profile and click on the video tab you can ignore all my bullshit and just look at Tortoise videos. There's nothing else there, it's turtles all the way down. 🙌🐢
I have 500 followers and 3,200 tweets on Bsky so if just 16% of my output is tortoise pictures (which is consistent with randomised sampling see below) I have effectively posted at least one tortoise image or video per follower.
December 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I have 500 followers and 3,200 tweets on Bsky so if just 16% of my output is tortoise pictures (which is consistent with randomised sampling see below) I have effectively posted at least one tortoise image or video per follower.
Tort butt to compensate for my three part tweet musings on epistemic authority in the digital age. 🐢🍑💚
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Tort butt to compensate for my three part tweet musings on epistemic authority in the digital age. 🐢🍑💚
YouTube comments are weirdly unique in that nobody ever interacts with a BSky post from like 4 years ago but you'll regularly have someone read and reply to a YT comment on a video fro 10 years ago. As a fairly prolific YT commenter* I will more or less daily get notifications to this end.
December 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
YouTube comments are weirdly unique in that nobody ever interacts with a BSky post from like 4 years ago but you'll regularly have someone read and reply to a YT comment on a video fro 10 years ago. As a fairly prolific YT commenter* I will more or less daily get notifications to this end.
Just remembered that Die Welle (2005) exists and that it was an incredibly prescient bit of cinema. Like, a lot of people probably need to learn that message real quick.
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just remembered that Die Welle (2005) exists and that it was an incredibly prescient bit of cinema. Like, a lot of people probably need to learn that message real quick.
Chompin' 🐢😋
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Chompin' 🐢😋
Transphobes are clowns. Absolute clowns. Someone copied the wrong citation then immediately corrected the citation in a second draft and Forstater is big mad*.
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Transphobes are clowns. Absolute clowns. Someone copied the wrong citation then immediately corrected the citation in a second draft and Forstater is big mad*.
Installed some blinds.
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Installed some blinds.
If you concentrate wealth and political power in an imperial core like the US or EU, then there are three fundamental outcomes: Either people move into the core, the wealth gets distributed out of the core or war on the periphery. Though, obviously, these are non-mutually exclusive outcomes.
December 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
If you concentrate wealth and political power in an imperial core like the US or EU, then there are three fundamental outcomes: Either people move into the core, the wealth gets distributed out of the core or war on the periphery. Though, obviously, these are non-mutually exclusive outcomes.
He may have tortled too hard. 🐢🔃
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
He may have tortled too hard. 🐢🔃
Starmer went through the same 5 years of 'Appeasement didn't stop the N*zis and in fact just made everything worse' history lessons in school that the rest of us did, right? Like if you boiled down GCSE history to one sentence it's this point.
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Starmer went through the same 5 years of 'Appeasement didn't stop the N*zis and in fact just made everything worse' history lessons in school that the rest of us did, right? Like if you boiled down GCSE history to one sentence it's this point.
If I were Donald Trump not sure I'd throw around words like weak and decaying about other ppl. 🤷♂️
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If I were Donald Trump not sure I'd throw around words like weak and decaying about other ppl. 🤷♂️
Pleased to inform y'all that today we are tortlin' 🙌🐢💚
December 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Pleased to inform y'all that today we are tortlin' 🙌🐢💚
Ironically, new* British plastic money is troublesomely elastic when in a wad.
*Entered circulation from 2016-2020
*Entered circulation from 2016-2020
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ironically, new* British plastic money is troublesomely elastic when in a wad.
*Entered circulation from 2016-2020
*Entered circulation from 2016-2020
Tort under log.
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tort under log.
Imagine if all employment law rulings got the level of reporting that Transphobic employment law rulings got.
a man in a suit and tie is looking at a cartoon of people holding hands in front of a rainbow and sun .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at a cartoon of people holding hands in front of a rainbow and sun .
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Imagine if all employment law rulings got the level of reporting that Transphobic employment law rulings got.
Left: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.
Right:, Donald Trump placing the FIFA Peace Prize [sic] around his own neck.
Right:, Donald Trump placing the FIFA Peace Prize [sic] around his own neck.
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Left: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French.
Right:, Donald Trump placing the FIFA Peace Prize [sic] around his own neck.
Right:, Donald Trump placing the FIFA Peace Prize [sic] around his own neck.
If Nigel Farage wasn't Nigel Farage he'd probably already have been kicked out of Reform over his racist comments in order to detract from Nigel Farage's racist comments.
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If Nigel Farage wasn't Nigel Farage he'd probably already have been kicked out of Reform over his racist comments in order to detract from Nigel Farage's racist comments.
Winter. ❄🐢💚
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Winter. ❄🐢💚
Arboreal Bud! 🌳🍃🐢🥰
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Arboreal Bud! 🌳🍃🐢🥰
Perhaps the biggest unspoken truth of British politics is that: Helping people into work is expensive and difficult and as such is a responsibility the State has abnegated for a generation or more. Cutting benefits* does not achieve this, indeed it has the opposite effect on a statistical level.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Perhaps the biggest unspoken truth of British politics is that: Helping people into work is expensive and difficult and as such is a responsibility the State has abnegated for a generation or more. Cutting benefits* does not achieve this, indeed it has the opposite effect on a statistical level.
Re NHS Mental Health Review: If you want to get people into work and to stay in work accurate diagnosis of mental health conditions is a net benefit, undiagnosed, unmedicated, unwell people will not reliably remain in employment and will be no less unwell for the lack of a diagnosis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Re NHS Mental Health Review: If you want to get people into work and to stay in work accurate diagnosis of mental health conditions is a net benefit, undiagnosed, unmedicated, unwell people will not reliably remain in employment and will be no less unwell for the lack of a diagnosis.
Grump tortoise. 🐢😠💚
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Grump tortoise. 🐢😠💚
Did a bunch of politics posting so have a wonky headless tortoise as compensation. 🐢💚
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Did a bunch of politics posting so have a wonky headless tortoise as compensation. 🐢💚
Streeting seemingly still has his head in the sand over the recruitment/retention crisis facing the NHS if the long term degradation of pay isn't addressed. Pay needs to return to at least 2010 levels at a minimum and that's not accounting for the decline in conditions resident doctors are facing.
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Streeting seemingly still has his head in the sand over the recruitment/retention crisis facing the NHS if the long term degradation of pay isn't addressed. Pay needs to return to at least 2010 levels at a minimum and that's not accounting for the decline in conditions resident doctors are facing.
Hard not to link Russia's belligerence as a partial consequence of decarbonisation. As the EU uses less oil and (possibly more significantly) gas Russia sales diminish, by provoking EU armament Russia drives up the prices of their remaining fossil fuel assets even if it's not the EU that's buying.
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hard not to link Russia's belligerence as a partial consequence of decarbonisation. As the EU uses less oil and (possibly more significantly) gas Russia sales diminish, by provoking EU armament Russia drives up the prices of their remaining fossil fuel assets even if it's not the EU that's buying.