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it’s not that i’ve been dishonest, it’s just that i loathe reality

[S @_itsobvious]

@GingerWildheart

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. https://t.co/yfhmXPTYWt

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

Before I was an MP, I worked on the current series of polymer banknotes at the Bank of England.

So I know how decisions about our currency are made, and why they matter.

Nigel Farage clearly doesn’t.

What he conveniently ignores is that central banks regularly issue new banknote series. It’s how they stay ahead of counterfeiters and keep our currency secure.

It’s technical. It’s essential. And it’s completely routine.

So why is he manufacturing outrage?

Because Farage and Reform UK have spent months attacking the Bank of England itself.

They’ve demanded the Bank halt quantitative tightening. 💷

They’ve pushed to stop interest being paid on central bank reserves, which would completely destroy monetary policy transmission. ⚠️

And Farage has even suggested replacing the Governor with someone aligned to his agenda.

Let’s be clear:

Politicians leaning on central banks is how you spook markets and undermine confidence in the economy.

Bank of England independence, brought in by the last Labour government, exists for a reason.

To keep markets and household finances stable.

I back the Bank to keep our currency secure, not to be dragged into political point-scoring.

So if Farage spent half as much time understanding how the Bank works as he does attacking it, we’d hear a lot less of this nonsense. ❌

[S @_itsobvious]

@repusnaketion my boy only breaks his favourite toys

[S @_itsobvious]

@comedyray https://t.co/VMQzVQFCTM

[Lady Gaga @ladygaga]

Happy Valentine's Day everyone. If you have someone special, give them a kiss. If you don't, make a voodoo doll of your ex and cast spells.

[S @_itsobvious]

@Tiasayas I’d be interested if these are still going

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

The BBC Doesn’t Want Viewers — It Wants Hostages

So let me get this straight.

I pay Netflix for Netflix.
I pay YouTube for YouTube.
I do not watch the BBC.

And yet the BBC still thinks it has a divine right to rummage around in my wallet?

This isn’t public service broadcasting anymore.
It’s institutional arrogance wrapped in nostalgia.

The licence fee was built for an age of three channels, static screens and enforced national attention.
That world is dead. Buried. Gone.

Instead of competing like everyone else, the BBC’s response to losing relevance is essentially:

👉 “If people won’t choose us, we’ll force them.”

Charging people because they watch Netflix or YouTube isn’t modernisation —
it’s a state-backed shakedown.

And what really grates?
The moral superiority.

This organisation still talks down to the public like it’s the nation’s conscience, while repeatedly failing to get its own house in order.
Maybe before demanding more compulsory cash, it should stop posturing as the moral compass of Britain and start asking some very hard questions about itself.

How many scandals does it take?
How many internal failures quietly managed, minimised, or brushed aside?
How many times does the public have to be told “lessons have been learned” before trust is completely gone?

You don’t get to lecture the country, alienate huge swathes of the audience, pump out bias, repeats and self-regard…
…and then demand payment from people who’ve actively walked away.

That’s not public service.
That’s monopoly thinking on life support.

Imagine Tesco billing you because you shopped at Aldi.
Imagine Spotify invoicing you because you bought a CD.
You’d call it insane — because it is.

If the BBC’s content is good, people will pay voluntarily.
If they won’t, you don’t get to threaten, guilt-trip, or criminalise them for refusing.

The future is choice.
The BBC hates choice — because choice exposes irrelevance.

No more reverence.
No more compulsory funding.
No more pretending this is about anything other than control.

[Screen Slate @ScreenSlate]

When David Bowie & Prince died in early 2016, my coworker said, "It's like the birds are scattering," and it has haunted me ever since.

[Sarah @idlewildgirl]

Man who doesn’t know what he’s talking about:

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

What happened to those days when ITV or ITV2 would be showing The Mummy and/or The Mummy Two every other weekend, country’s gone to the dogs

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.

And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.

If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.

Saw this & thought I'd repost.

[S @_itsobvious]

absolutely agree

[⋆⭒˚ᶠᵃⁿ she thinks her piss is wine ⋆⭒˚ @grxndesenigma]

oh my fucking god that was the best concert i have EVER been to in my entire life

[p @catchmeorlgo]

in a way, i hate her for releasing this. genuinely no pop song has sounded exciting to me ever since hearing this. she just set the bar way too high...she really runs this pop music shit like no one else

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

*Murdered

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

So what's the plan here? We just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments?

And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time?

We're just meant to be cool with that? And go on living like it's normal?

I'm genuinely curious. How exactly is everyone planning to go about living their lives after that point? How does that work, exactly?

[S @_itsobvious]

#Wimbledon not using human line judges this year is truly purging its prestige, so many electronic errors

[S @_itsobvious]

@deafhavana Ayeeee

[PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 @prideukorg]

Let’s do this! Rt👏

https://t.co/WymI7gvjBe