spud

“Our official position is that the internet is for adults so don’t let your mum catch you” would solve all this silly shit

Brick up your letterbox

This is true, I can say my postman’s a woman without experiencing any cognitive dissonance at all

The Nigel Front adopting black bloc seems a concerning development

I read this thing in the guardian about how it’s unfair to call everyone in Clacton credulous fuckwits:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/12/farage-clacton-human-zoo-truth-town

You’re all thick, racist, gullible, hateful, toothless, jobless old fools, we were told. You deserve him. The worst of the snobbery was, sadly, on my lefty social media platform of choice, Bluesky

Oh no not bluesky! You musn’t generalise! Some of us are ok!

Fuck that, nuke Clacton

I still think the BBC is worth preserving but I’ve no idea how it should be done

Direct gov funding seems out of the question as independence is required for reputational reasons at least

Extending license regs so you need one to watch youtube/netflix/etc an obvious non-starter (hopefully)

Expanding commercial operations so they can sell access to archives through iplayer, overseas subscriptions, Huw Edwards merch etc might be ok but unlikely to raise the billions required to operate

At this point is it saveable?