Mr. Scruff Monkey

As seems to be a new tradition here now, I offer proof of cat. Meet Pat, Pat the Cat.

Tonight I saw the Manic Street Preachers for (insert unknown large number) nth time, may they long stay manic and keep preaching. Almost boring in how reliable they are for a bloody good show.

and now for something completely racist

Crypto has bought US politics - and now it's doing the same in the UK As Reform takes £100m+ from crypto tycoons, I sat down with Hollywood's most vocal sceptic @benmckenzie.bsky.social to talk crypto, corruption and how to fight back democracyforsale.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

read and fucking weep! www.maptap.gg October 2 100🎯 88🎉 98🔥 97🔥 97🔥 Final score: 966

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...

when ai leaves u behind

just learned this today

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

For anyone that didn't get a chance to watch Channel 4 Dispatches exposé on Tommy Ten Names last Wednesday night. Here's the YouTube video, you can watch at your leisure with some🍿🍺 🍷and enjoy 😇 youtu.be/7wvdzAco-Y4?...

Come ask @kieraevebutler.bsky.social anything about her reporting on the mainstreaming of far-right extremism on Reddit this morning!

Spent the evening in the company of Nish Kumar, much recommended, much righteous anger, much c word usage. Good for all the family, my 75 year old mother loved it.

This is insanity. It appears the entire Seanad voter register has been junked without letting any of the voters know and we all (TCD and NUI) have to re-register on this 1996-flavoured website to use our vote. seanadvoter.ie/indexEN.shtml

noice www.maptap.gg September 8 99🎯 90👑 100🎯 94🏅 94🏅 Final score: 953

Ever so sorry about all this... Artist: hYpe https://b3ta.com/board/11430862 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/productplacementbooks/popular/ #ProductPlacementBooks

mother fucker! www.maptap.gg September 6 97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 91👑 Final score: 970

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

James Orr in this excellent undercover sting of dodgy funding to Reform UK (expose Channel 4 news) describing the electoral commission officers in less than charitable terms. If you want to know who Orr is, my report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social gives context. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...

Tonight I saw the Super Furry Animals" again, they were great, <eom>

Heheheh (It’s low quality scruff jokes here 24/7)

Typical convo with my ma “I’ve got a horrible cold, think I got it visiting your uncle” Me, do a rona test, “It’s not corona” Me, sounds like rona, “Oooh your uncles nursing home has corona cases” Me, ffs! “I did a test, I’ve corona”

"Trump's cohort has a universal plan that they apply to every region in the world: they split a country up and sell it for parts. They exacerbate preexisting divides, which they're doing in Canada now. Their model is the pillaging of the former USSR in the 1990s." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdI...

I am at greenman since Thursday, it’s incredible how nice the world is when you’ve no phone signal (found a WiFi spot). In other news I suspect I’ve joined a cult where every one is lovely and nice.

For years I’ve been cc”ed on the weekly golf scores of a bunch of yanks (one of whom must have an email similar to mine but without the dot). At first I thought it was a pain in the hole but I now find it kinda charming. Good for them for having mates and all that. I might rebroadcast here.

I am so smart, smet, I mean smart. www.maptap.gg August 15 92🏆 96🔥 98🎯 99🎯 98🎯 Final score: 975 I lucked out big time!

Well, not great but as best as I could get with a pair of eclipse glasses and an iPhone

little less impressive on the main but still good good good www.maptap.gg August 8 100🎯 98🔥 100🎯 93🏆 90👑 Final score: 947

fuck a doodle dooo!!! ⚡ MapTap Challenge Round - Aug 8 www.maptap.gg/challenge 90🎉 84🌟 99🔥 99🔥 100🎯 Score: 969 in 23.4s (2.1s to spare!)

For cat day, my fav pic of my better halfs cat

Wandering around Basel with an absolutely stinking hangover and 3 teenagers. I did not sign up for this.

I think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

"Suddenly, I feel a calming hand on my left hindquarter. I look down, and there’s Sam Neill. He smiled at me and, with a kindness in his voice unmatched by any other actor alive or dead, said, 'It’s ok. You can do this. Don’t act like you’re shaking the cup, shake the cup.'" 🥹

Nice work, everyone! Keep it up!

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Watching the other islands game, where the fuck did that fan get a tin of Stella in Miami, respect to his game.

No chance of them throwing an effigy of Jeffrey up there?

Just to remind ourselves, here are our initial @bylinetimes.bsky.social's investigations into Cottrell's role in helping Farage become a true 'Man of the Paypal' er.... checks notes... 7 years ago

Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

In a disturbing fit of how bad could it be, i shaved off my beard. I am now potato, thank fuck i've a month before going on hols and interacting with people IRL again.

Saw the new Spielberg in 70mm, he really knows how to emotionally manipulate, ending doesn’t really come off but the lad still has it.

I see the porn bots have been let out again.