My family are from Willington, but they all worked in the mills, rather than farming. I grew up in Risley, and one of my best friends at the time farmed in the area. None of us became lawyers, to my … (View Post)

One interesting feature of people talking about the "echo chamber" of social media is that it all comes from a political perspective. Ok, that's understandable - both here and in the media … (View Post)

"It turns out some Tories were able to work as a team, after all." (View Post)

It tipped over for me personally a few weeks ago. My timeline was a total sewer, I was starting to see more bot tweets, largely about the US Election, and I just stopped bothering to go to the site. (View Post)

I don't do Facebook stuff, so never tried Threads. That and no-one in their 50s can detach the name from nuclear nightmare TV. I use Mastodon for tech stuff, but Bluesky suddenly feels like Twitter d… (View Post)