Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGraeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 23hThere's now a significant percentage of people who have real problems accepting humans can be brilliant at something while having no problem thinking AI can do things it can't. 3214
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersJon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 22hRANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING. 1102873687
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGrudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Got called a racist on Question Time last night lads" "What happened Suella?" "I was being racist" "On Question Time?" "Yeah it were on Question Time" 1633
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersLauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 06/08/2023You ever get slapped in the face by a tweet so hard that you help destroy capitalism forever and ever 922118599
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersnatemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet 141304368
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It's funny that you can immediately have a customer base just by pandering to contrarians. You can sell asbestos candy if you say the government has been lying to you about asbestos 361437174
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 29/09/2026If it actually does transpire that this was not a sinister terror plot but, in fact, fuel theft incentivised by spiralling fuel prices which all of these fuckwits are responsible for and continue to exacerbate, then all of this stuff here, frankly, is just a giant chef’s kiss 45415
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026This is actually hell, right? 201167332310
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersScuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A metaphor I will continue to flog is British politics is now little more than a customer complaints department for capitalism. On the rare occasions any of the complaints are sent upstairs to management, most of them go in the bin. 14821
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why would anyone say they're English anyway if you get sent to prison for it? Don't make no sense 151
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All the lads declared War On Fake News in 2016 to strike back at Faragery and Trumpism, then swiftly clocked that this would mean fighting against the Tories, the Sun, the Mail and the Times, and pivoted to all-out war against Twitter leftists and Russian Facebook. This will be much the same shit. 1325954
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I understand the outrage at the rampant fascists but, look: our national press has been telling the public that the streets are infested with ethnic sex offenders and migrant rapists, set loose by secret communists, for *fifteen years* now. And not sotto voce either, power-blasting it constantly. 214749
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You say creating a permission structure I say manufacturing consent Let's call the whole thing off 000
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When I first asked a GP about a diagnosis for ADHD, a locum informed me that if I had ADHD I wouldn't be able to sit in a chair for more than 30 seconds, so I'm not that surprised really. 000
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is why I hate the way "debate" gets treated as some sort of sacred ideal when it is, in fact preening intellectual masturbation. It's the thinnest veneer over an exercise in giving serious consideration to the least ethical and evil ideas going. Where slick argument strangles reason. 15412
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 19/09/2026"Yarrrr, me parents are dead in an alley" 522236
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersAndrew a9630 @a9630.bsky.social · 19/09/2026She’s clearly cheating by using both legs. 011
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026He’s been in a mutual petting society with noted race-science blog Quillette for a decade. His last book cited them as authorities on academia. The one before that made up a quotation in order to attack historians of science and talked about evopsych as an Enlightenment phenomenon. What are we doing 539199
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones. 71752285
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026And the whole of society is needed to make the technology LOOK like it is new and able to be separated from the industry it emanates and is part of, an inexorable part of. To do that, they must convince us history does not exist. 25010
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How do we like the world we’ve created 610514
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersS.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Me: 1232534560
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Welcome to the 21st century, where there's a non-zero chance our global economy will be collapse in ruins because a bunch of stupid rich imbeciles are trying to invent a technology they can upload their consciousness to and become immortal. 000
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seriously, our approach to Trump *from the start* should have been to distance ourselves from the U.S. as much as possible and as quickly as possible. All this mollycoddling didn't help us, and didn't help the U.S. 2124647
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It is absurd to talk about “our democracy is not for sale” in a system that is 100% reliant upon huge bungs from wingnut zillionaires and businesses seeking favours and contracts. What we mean is: it should not be for sale to just anyone, for the benefit of unsanctioned political parties. 27219
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026god this is good 375083956
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Given that a barely qualified psychiatrist making one 10 year old briefly go without meds warranted weeks of primetime coverage about how #ADHD is a myth, this report, which is orders of magnitude more conclusive, will surely receive even more attention. Any minute now... #TheGreatADHDMyth 316199
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersCaptain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Each day stranger than the last. 5409104
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it.static.klipy.comRocky Balboa's Championship Victory CelebrationALT: Rocky Balboa's Championship Victory Celebration 010
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists. 549941374
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The secret to comedy is I am not watching this 040
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 15/09/2026My central contention here is: we've been appeasing "legitimate concerns" for as long as I've been able to form memories and looking at the results I think it's possibly time to declare that experiment a failure and stop giving them what they want. 213939
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why. 8395113
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/04/2026There's an instructive lesson on how UK political journalism actually functions here, nestled between the first excerpt, and the convenient timing of this bombshell report on the Mandelson-McSweeney[-Starmer] alliance, for anybody with the cognitive capacity to put two and two together. 119367
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch the EU treaty negotiations in 1991" "Maastricht?" "She was a bit" 12633103
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/20262003, and *The Onion* gets it exactly spot on while all the white people world’s most prominent politicians and prestigious media outlets disastrously fuck it into the sun. 024750
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersDan Fejes @df1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lots of people were casting about for a crusade after the fall of the Soviet Union looking for some new geopolitical sense of purpose. Turns out "we're better than the Russkies" was the keystone to keeping fascist ideology out of the right, and once the Cold War ended the whole facade crumbled. 2298
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My old man's a thermos He wears a thermostat 1040882
Five Chinese Crackers @5cc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This article is one of the disingenuous pieces of shit I've read in my life. Apparently, the people in Heinlen's novel aren't fascist so Trump's space fleet uniform doesn't look like the uniforms in the film, which definitely are meant to look fascist. 010
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/05/2026Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you 332837531
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I mean, it didn’t suddenly become obvious that he’s a weird little Nazi when he became Spectator editor. It just got a bit more obvious than it already was, didn’t it. 0474
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’. 23743331491
Reposted by Five Chinese Crackersflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026There are a lot of similarities between “the hard right”, “Christian nationalists”, “ultranationalists” and “the extreme far right”, wherever they may be on Earth. Is there catch-all term? I’d go with “the global fascist movement” but I’d accept “the right”, since these are increasingly synonymous. 54913
Reposted by Five Chinese CrackersPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons. 965066850
![Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor.
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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce
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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest.
AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP
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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):
My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...
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LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May!
And then one in August!
AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?
LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?
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[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]
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LUBBOCK:
Ugh.
[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]
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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…
LUBBOCK:
Yeah
no more bank holidays till Christmas.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?
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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it!
[dog continues to scoot across floor]
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