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thoughtcat.bsky.social
Ricardo 🇵🇸
@thoughtcat.bsky.social
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Lefty London bloke into painting, coffee, photography, trees and buns. “An awkward mix of the very serious and the very silly, but he gives it to you straight” - Stewart Lee. I also make up quotes and can’t see direct messages. #freepalestine
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thoughtcat.bsky.social
Throwback to this day in 2016 when at the height (i.e. nadir) of Brexitmania the Daily Mail complained about increasing EU migrant numbers at the same time as mourning, as a British national treasure, a German migrant most famous for playing a Spanish migrant in a racist TV show
Daily Mail front page 2/12/16 "Migrant numbers hit new records - record numbers of EU migrants came to the UK in the run-up to the referendum" / "Farewell Manuel, king of crackpot comedy" reporting the death of actor Andrew Sachs
December 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Could it be because you’ve been writing a column pretending to be old and befuddled for about the past 200 years? It truly is a mystery
Tim Dowling: how did I end up on a helpline for the old and befuddled?
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Honestly the absolute nerve of this prick
Guardian headline: Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge and scrapping two-child benefit cap was 'my longstanding ambition'
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Chief Brody in Jaws saying “we’re going to need a smaller violin”
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
🎵 A good fried egg these days is hard to find 🎶
Feargal Sharkey.
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Shocked, I tell you
Guardian story: Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Now I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do ya
Pope singing meme
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Your daily piece of Guardian nonsense. Honestly how do these people keep their jobs?
Opinion: What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little - Aditya Chakrabortty. Illustrated by a hilarious cartoon of the chancellor’s red briefcase open with a deflating balloon labelled “wealth tax” zooming out of it and racing around the room.
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
This pricing is definitely a Tesco thing, by the way. You can get a smaller tube (75ml vs the 125ml in the first post) for £2.50 in Lidl. The 75ml tubes were over £5 in Tesco. #daylightrobbery #shoparound
Display of 75ml Colgate Total in Lidl branch in west London today priced at £2.48
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
This is the same columnist incidentally who wrote 20 years ago that we should "hold our noses" when voting Labour to ignore the stench of the Iraq war.
Guardian column "Now is not the time for a Labour leadership election" - Polly Toynbee
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Yeah god, I mean I see these all over the place, can’t get away from them
Headline from (where else) The Guardian: Untie me! Why big bows are everywhere - feminine, ironic and strangely subversive. Illustrated by a photo of the rear of a woman’s head with her blonde hair in a massive bright red shiny bow.
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Everything’s okay folks, a tube of toothpaste is now £8. (Or, er, £3.50 if you give us access to your data)
Colgate Total 125ml on the shelf of Tesco’s priced at £8.10 or £3.50 for Tesco Clubcard holders. Photo taken in west London today, 17/11/25
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Like he needs this. What do these people do all day, sit around thinking up new ways of making themselves even less popular than they already are?
Guardian headline: Starmer facing growing backlash from Labour MPs as Mahmood sets out asylum plans. Photo of Starmer speaking to some anonymous and indifferent audience.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Admit it, you can't not warm to them
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, both dressed in dark blue suits, standing side by side wringing their hands and gazing blankly into the distance. Behind them is a group of young people in dark blue overalls looking by turns unimpressed, uninspired and bored.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Yes I should think that's the idea behind it.
David Shrigley's piles of old rope on sale for £1m. Intrepid BBC arts reporter says: "Money for old rope?" Close-up on "Money for old rope?" subtitle in case it wasn't clear in the first image.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
They’re just making up shop names now
Shopfront of “Until” in Charing Cross Road, London, with display of trendy seating
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Apologise to Trump?! Keir Starmer is probably on a plane as we speak with the cheque in his pocket and a letter from King Charles saying “So sorry for all the fuss”
Guardian headline: Minister suggests BBC should apologise to Trump over documentary as president threatens $1bn lawsuit
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Ah yes, all of the genders
Store sign saying IN THIS STORE 2 Women Men Divided Sport H&M Home Pay & Returns
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
“Jail for just saying you’re English these days” created with the Mamdani political sign generator https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
We are not people, we are merely extras in the shittiest, most overblown, over-budgeted, worst-cast Hollywood blockbuster ever made

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Thanks, guys," Musk said, after briefly dancing on stage alongside the company's Optimus robots. Musk described the Optimus robots, which have not gone into mass production, as the future of the company and of humanity. He reiterated a claim that it would be "the biggest product of all time", and suggested they could be used in everything from healthcare to prisons. "You now get a free Optimus and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime," Musk said. "You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's really wild to think of the possibilities."
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
#gbbo Jasmine’s cake looks the most dangerous cake ever made. Has it been risk-assessed?
Jasmine with a long cake with large spiky shards of hard caramel sticking out of it Long cake, full length Close up of caramel shards in cake
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Nice out there this morning
Pathway between a fence, hedge and tall maple tree with brown leaves on the ground and yellow and green leaves on the trees, the sun shining from behind the tree
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Frenchest headline ever
Headline “Louvre suspects 'partially admit' their role in jewel heist” Above it is a photo with the caption “Prosecutor Laure Beccuau told the media the jewels had not been recovered, but told the thieves ‘there is still time to give them back’.”
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
Another reason (as if we needed one) for having a properly green government
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
The proposed legislation is likely to exacerbate these problems because housing developers will be able to build on once-protected green spaces, without having to replace the loss of nature in the nearby areas. Nature areas, parks and community gardens created to offset the removal of green spaces to make way for housing developments may not even have to be in the same county.
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
thoughtcat.bsky.social
An email I got today. It’s almost as if you could just… do it yourself and not use AI
Subject line: Webinar: Why personality matters more in an Al world
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM