Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2hThis is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 23856157
Reposted by aceplymThe Edge of Midnight @eomproject.bsky.social · 8hThe LP-8 "Clanulsta" Long Range Patrol Craft. The last in a long line of failed small patrol and attack craft, the Clanulsta would see service with Starfleet, Memberworld defences forces and neutral star fleets from the late 2250s until the end of the 23rd century. 38115
Reposted by aceplymAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16hTrue, I mean it's not a great result for him personally, but the impact of standing a leader is probably overdone imo. Farage lost seven by-elections in a row and I don't remember that ever being a leadership crisis for him 71047
Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23has his brain melts he's lost most of his touch, but Trump does have a natural bullies intuitive understanding of how to use this type of dynamic. the winning move is to tell him to fuck off but that's not a battle a lot of people will want to pick with the president. 641228
Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm against the death penalty in most cases for consequentialist reasons (you almost never are preventing future harm by killing someone already in jail for life), but even if I thought it was justified here, to livestream it is the policy choice of a toddler who masturbates while torturing pets. 636342
Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026 you never have to believe a word these people say about how it's a Hard World and Hard Things Must Be Done. they get off on this shit. one thing to think Hassan being executed is justified, another entirely to do it one handed while jacking yourself off like this. 1575089
Reposted by aceplymThe Greasy Thumb @greasythumb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Monbiot: "We need a massive overhaul of land ownership where we identify the dark money controlling UK real estate, tax them effectively, and rein in their worst excesses." Also Monbiot: "Do you know who I think is up to the task? Lisa Nandy!" 0399
Reposted by aceplymjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 08/10/2026the only false flag i’m detecting is these weirdos calling themselves maoists when their only real output is a “journal” about how everyone else is doing communism wrong. that’s certified trot behavior 1522
Reposted by aceplymjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 08/10/2026seeing a few people label this a false flag and while there could very well be a few agitators in there, this is overall clearly the real deal. if it was a false flag everyone would be carrying signs that say “we love hamas and killing jews.” these people aren’t subtles 3622
Reposted by aceplym👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026She also believes in "border security" been against "dr" Andrews since day 1 She's a hack 2485
Reposted by aceplymobseyxx.bsky.social @obseyxx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Kinds illuminating that @zackpolanski.bsky.social using the wrong term to describe his work with Red Cross was national news for days but this Labour candidate, and council head, apparently outright lying about charity work is confined to this one publication. 0328
Reposted by aceplymelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 08/10/2026the absolute funniest thing i’ve been told about JD Vance from people who cover him is that he’s obsessed with charles de gaulle and thinks he’s his american reincarnation. 40899109
Reposted by aceplymConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oifig na Gcigirí Sparán was established in 1922 by Michael Collins was a means to raise revenue for the Free State 1432
Reposted by aceplymDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit. 641658351
Reposted by aceplymSam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I had to painstakingly remake a meme I already made but can’t find. I hope you’re happy. 0165
Reposted by aceplymKelira Telian @keliratelian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026On this FlipFlappiversary I guess I should mention that I have a blog (untouched for 8 years) that among other things has an index of articles and interviews about Flip Flappers. Including some by myself flipflapping.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/i...flipflapping.wordpress.comIndex of Flip Flappers Reviews and ArticlesThis post will serve as an index for Flip Flappers reviews, articles, blog posts, translations, videos and anything else that is seems appropriate. 38649
aceplym @aceplym.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Point of order, she's about twenty years too early with Barnes and Wright 000
Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On here this is a preaching to the choir thing to say, but the turn against Indian immigrants is the sharpest possible example of ‘real debate, fake debate’ wrt heritability of IQ. 90% of the guys Just Following The Science are now waxing rhapsodically about white indigenous ways of knowing. 856272
Reposted by aceplymfoaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train 394613784
aceplym @aceplym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Problem is the more they do it the more essential it is to fight back against it 010
Reposted by aceplymJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've always been deeply insulted by the idea that "social stories" are because you're scared of war and military history, as if the social history of war is not the most viceral and frightening element of it 2629
Reposted by aceplymWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 06/10/2026Hang it in the Louvre. Also, a room full of...medals is the most boring, middle-aged white salmon-pants wearing exhibit in the world. Why are we holding this up as something that really brings in the crowds? 5451
aceplym @aceplym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The billions may hold off the real consequences of Glinnerfication but eventually the symptoms start showing 010
Reposted by aceplymJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is basically impossible to get people to understand how completely insane JKR is nowadays 916430
Reposted by aceplymApril of the Beast Coast @spaghettisauceress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Capitalism breeds competition” suck my fucking nuts 12311
Reposted by aceplymDwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yes. It *is* the enforcement of a particular kind of insanity: cruelty as class privilege. 081
Reposted by aceplymJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist. 47783159
Reposted by aceplymflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Even if we don’t consider that a baby born the day Northern Rock went boom is 19 this year: I am 48 years old and I have no memories of the 1970s, because I was a toddler when they ended. 7722529
aceplym @aceplym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Manu's Bizarre Gaullism, there's got to be something to work with there 010
Reposted by aceplymWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology. 1529144
Reposted by aceplymMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...brokenbottleboy.substack.comAllison Pearson’s Action Man fetishA deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. 97630
Reposted by aceplymvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s like telling someone whose neighborhood Robert Moses is about to bulldoze that the Interstate Highway System will boost GDP and in the long run lead to more connection in America. I’m happy for y’all but that’s my house they’re about to knock down, etc 437327
Reposted by aceplymvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol 20833126
Reposted by aceplymPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It can't be accurate at the level of the single person. So in trying to become accurate it either produces way too much intrusive bureaucracy and surveillance, too much error, or both. 131
Reposted by aceplymPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Because it doesn't work out like that. It feels like it does to people who are too clever by half, but it's trying to solve a problem at the wrong scale. Big, ugly, inelegant policies that don't try to target down to the individual person work better because of the scale the state works at. 371
Reposted by aceplymPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At least we didn't all lose our minds and inflict ten years of the Tories on ourselves in order to eventually try and sneak a watered down version of the 2019 Labour manifesto back in and hope nobody notices and asks awkward questions. 69029
Reposted by aceplymDracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Burnham is promising to make a break with neoliberalism by ending the last secure pillar of the social safety net and increasing military spending. 14911
Reposted by aceplymBrynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026New Lib Dem front is launchedruralroar.org.ukThe Rural ROAR: Green Not GreyPlanning devolution for rural parishes. Villages are not spaces between towns. 331
Reposted by aceplymChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Praise for Burnham's speech is OK; it was better than Healey's vacuous drivel. But it misses a key point about politics - that we over-rate words & under-rate power, interests, administration etc. 24012
Reposted by aceplymSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Noticing a curious absence of sensibles going “oh is Andy Burnham going to plant them all himself?” About this incredibly pathetic number designed to overwhelm people who don’t understand scale. 818535