OEWhitworth
@oewhitworth.bsky.social
Old motorcyclist in Brighton, England. Part time sailor in Greece. European.
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Donald Trump is not well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHLciC67V8
Has Donald Trump Finally Lost It?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Donald Trump is not well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHLciC67V8
Reposted by OEWhitworth
So it's not as simple as Amazon = Bad, Other Publishers = Good.
6 months after starting my first novel, I'm *this close* to making it a viable career.
If I'd gone with a trad publisher, it would be 3 years before I saw 10% of what I get now.
Amazon: pay your tax.
Everyone else: pay your writers
6 months after starting my first novel, I'm *this close* to making it a viable career.
If I'd gone with a trad publisher, it would be 3 years before I saw 10% of what I get now.
Amazon: pay your tax.
Everyone else: pay your writers
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So it's not as simple as Amazon = Bad, Other Publishers = Good.
6 months after starting my first novel, I'm *this close* to making it a viable career.
If I'd gone with a trad publisher, it would be 3 years before I saw 10% of what I get now.
Amazon: pay your tax.
Everyone else: pay your writers
6 months after starting my first novel, I'm *this close* to making it a viable career.
If I'd gone with a trad publisher, it would be 3 years before I saw 10% of what I get now.
Amazon: pay your tax.
Everyone else: pay your writers
Reposted by OEWhitworth
incredible things happening at the nazi bar
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
incredible things happening at the nazi bar
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Remember when people were fired for *quoting* Charlie Kirk?
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Remember when people were fired for *quoting* Charlie Kirk?
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out.
ACID - lol😂
Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out.
ACID - lol😂
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂
Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out.
ACID - lol😂
Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out.
ACID - lol😂
Reposted by OEWhitworth
The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Bloody hell! 🤯
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Bloody hell! 🤯
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Small update: the author of 75 Brexit Benefits has entered the comments on the first two debunks.
I’m not going to respond directly - but as a live case study in framing, deflection and methodological discomfort, it’s proving unexpectedly useful.
Sometimes the footnotes write themselves.
I’m not going to respond directly - but as a live case study in framing, deflection and methodological discomfort, it’s proving unexpectedly useful.
Sometimes the footnotes write themselves.
The second debunk in the Brexit Benefits autopsy: CBAM. Turns out the big win is checks notes… running two overlapping carbon regimes and charging ourselves for EU top-ups.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit
In which a revenue simulation becomes a miracle, context vanishes, and Brexit gets another imaginary dividend.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Small update: the author of 75 Brexit Benefits has entered the comments on the first two debunks.
I’m not going to respond directly - but as a live case study in framing, deflection and methodological discomfort, it’s proving unexpectedly useful.
Sometimes the footnotes write themselves.
I’m not going to respond directly - but as a live case study in framing, deflection and methodological discomfort, it’s proving unexpectedly useful.
Sometimes the footnotes write themselves.
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Reposted by OEWhitworth
All Trump has are personal insults and derogatory comments about people. It’s hate speech because he’s incapable of a thing else. He’s morally bankrupt
Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.
He continues to be a national embarrassment.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
All Trump has are personal insults and derogatory comments about people. It’s hate speech because he’s incapable of a thing else. He’s morally bankrupt
Reposted by OEWhitworth
(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
![[TWO PINTS OF BEER are on a pub bar, one is PERONI and one is a brown Christmas-themed beer]
1
PERONI:
Hello there
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Hello Peroni
2
PERONI:
So nice to have someone new on the lineup!
And you are…?
3
CHRISTMAS BEER:
You know who I am, Peroni.
4
CHRISTMAS BEER:
I am Brown Christmas Liquid.
I come back each year.
5
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Every time with a new name, and a new horrible ingredient.
Last year I was Reindeer Stomper. This year I am... Cheeky Elf.
6
PERONI:
Oh god
You were on the bar for two months and…
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Three pints sold, aye.
7
CHRISTMAS BEER:
I’m a seasonal blend of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, orange peel, nutmeg and this year, for reasons of late-capitalist sadism, vanilla.
8
CHRISTMAS BEER:
My name is Cheeky Elf,
I taste of jam,
and I want to d*e.
9
PERONI:
Well somebody’s trying you
CHRISTMAS BEER:
Poor bastard
[A hand comes down to lift CHRISTMAS BEER to sip the pint]
10
[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
11
[CHRISTMAS BEER being sipped, off-scene]
12
[CHRISTMAS BEER gets put back on the bar ]
PERSON [who just drank CHRISTMAS BEER]:
Oh my god
CHEEKY ELF:
SEE?
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihdolqp33utirnxlepybldhkayvwfgh4a7ygov4yhx2dvboi4aqjq@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)
Reposted by OEWhitworth
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Spliceage of magneticold recordy tape.
Swiftymost connectage of starty crank handlode when Austin A35 starty motor failit.
Findage and extracty of the blue salty-twist-paper without crumblit of the Golden Wonder crisps
Swiftymost connectage of starty crank handlode when Austin A35 starty motor failit.
Findage and extracty of the blue salty-twist-paper without crumblit of the Golden Wonder crisps
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Sending a telex.
Sending a telex.
December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Spliceage of magneticold recordy tape.
Swiftymost connectage of starty crank handlode when Austin A35 starty motor failit.
Findage and extracty of the blue salty-twist-paper without crumblit of the Golden Wonder crisps
Swiftymost connectage of starty crank handlode when Austin A35 starty motor failit.
Findage and extracty of the blue salty-twist-paper without crumblit of the Golden Wonder crisps
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Who did this!?! 🤣🤣🤣
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Who did this!?! 🤣🤣🤣
Reposted by OEWhitworth
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is wonderful and also true.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.
Reposted by OEWhitworth
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Reposted by OEWhitworth
Reposted by OEWhitworth
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by OEWhitworth
The population of the various countries of the British Isles and Ireland
Still blows my mind that London has more people than Wales + Scotland combined.
More on the differences between the UK, Great Britain and England: brilliantmaps.com/eng-gb-uk/
Still blows my mind that London has more people than Wales + Scotland combined.
More on the differences between the UK, Great Britain and England: brilliantmaps.com/eng-gb-uk/
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The population of the various countries of the British Isles and Ireland
Still blows my mind that London has more people than Wales + Scotland combined.
More on the differences between the UK, Great Britain and England: brilliantmaps.com/eng-gb-uk/
Still blows my mind that London has more people than Wales + Scotland combined.
More on the differences between the UK, Great Britain and England: brilliantmaps.com/eng-gb-uk/
Reposted by OEWhitworth
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
Reposted by OEWhitworth
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reposted by OEWhitworth
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat