Reposted by AlexLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Analytically, this is why it's important to consistently talk about the political media class, to treat them as a single ecosystem of shared & mutually reinforcing interests, rather than as members of different parties & discreet professions that also overlap or interact 14370164
Reposted by AlexSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions. 372356660
Reposted by AlexEthel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Incidentally, to do this would require rejecting the authority of the European Court of Human Rights, abandoning the human rights framework established in the wake of the holocaust, ripping up international treaties, and the UK becoming a hellhole, pariah state on the level of Russia or Belarus. 712432
Reposted by AlexKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 26/05/2026Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham 6198313460
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A mere ten years after this was absolutely obvious to the point of undeniable. Ten years pissed away by Britain’s Sensible Moderates on an insanely destructive, self-indulgent temper tantrum, because the public won’t agree they’re special golden boys and girls who deserve treats and applause. 1028070
Reposted by Alexlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!! 1536385
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed 31852229
Alex @alexton-burandra.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I can't get over how nakedly Islamophobic this is. I mean, The Spectator is trash but this is.... 020
Reposted by AlexPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026As Homer put it the better part of 3,000 years ago, the blade itself incites to deeds of violence; if you put these guys anywhere, they're going to brutalize people, because they're lazy, stupid thugs and that's what they've been hired to do 17967181
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Well, I think that says it more eloquently than I ever could. 46220
Reposted by AlexNelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 21/03/2026A quick reminder of Starmer's leadership pledge number 4. 17577197
Reposted by AlexJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026It cannot be emphasized enough, the notion that the states of the imperial core care about human rights in the global South is an extraordinary farce. They are quite happy to produce open-air slave markets in a failed state if it suits their interests. 26914
Reposted by AlexAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care. 608177194751
Reposted by AlexJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris. 582448602
Reposted by AlexZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st... 13334251565
Reposted by AlexChai Patel @chaipatel.net · 05/03/2026This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year. 28747
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Welcome to the Museum of Thatcherism! I’m afraid we’ve had to increase prices for tickets and refreshments again, sorry, but it’s “what the market will bear”, isn’t it. You can purchase tickets to use the gender-policed toilets by downloading this data-scraping app 49825
Reposted by AlexPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026That seems pretty suboptimal 918518
Reposted by AlexCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I love how the main impact of the internet on government seems to be to enable them to offload bureaucratic bullshit onto the general public, and this is mis-sold to us as "cutting red tape". No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people. 79614
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Summary here: Sir Keir foolishly asked a good faith actor to investigate what happened in the Labour racism scandal and when he produced a report saying it was *wildly* different to what the public had been told about it, ignored him. The party later sent him menacing letters for talking about it. 412743
Reposted by Alexᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026Be wary of people calling themselves the "silent majority" because they are never silent and most definitely not the majority. Even mobilising every gender critter in the UK they could only muster a few thousand objections 534997
Reposted by AlexJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close. 13814335
Reposted by AlexMicroplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The IEA got everything they wanted and believed in when Liz Truss came to power, and her government and their ideology didn't survive two months of contact with reality before being totally exposed and collapsing. Total frauds, but still screaming that they need to be the ones in charge. 323039
Alex @alexton-burandra.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Nothing nice or wholesome or joyful or community based is allowed to exist. 000
Reposted by AlexBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025ICE whistles work.motherjones.comThe horns and whistles workWhat it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid. 15199632788
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/12/2025The default position of the British gutter press is roughly around the level of Der Sturmer in 1938, and everyone has to politely tiptoe around this to avoid calling it what it is. 110318
Alex @alexton-burandra.bsky.social · 10/12/2025There are currently 8 political prisoners in the UK (on remand for alleged actions taken in solidarity with Palestine) on hunger strike. Most have been on strike for well over a month. Their health situation is critical. Here is a Toolkit actions you can take: shorturl.at/kBwT8 021
Reposted by AlexThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever. 202326667
Reposted by AlexNatalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comUK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled toWoman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement 05230
Reposted by AlexCatherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya... 1554229848
Reposted by AlexZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire. 12236671005
Reposted by AlexZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions. 19864350
Reposted by AlexSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "we have a govt that is always talking about tough choices. Why are they always tough choices for working class people, for unemployed people, for disabled people? It's time to make tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires. It is time to tax the rich" 3368120
Reposted by AlexAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy. 4/5 71500207
Reposted by AlexAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5 71440232
Reposted by AlexPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I remember being told that it was me that was the Hitlerian menace to civil liberties, and that these people were the antidote to my racist hatred. Chat, would we say this seems like that's turned out to be true? 110727
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism 736987
Reposted by AlexSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 02/11/2025In Drogheda, fireworks thrown at an asylum accommodation centre resulted in a fire, with four children including in infant needing hospital care. 28 people resided in the hotel. In addition to arson, Garda is looking at attempted murder charges - which we had been calling for in the Norththetimes.comCCTV catches moment intruder torched asylum centre housing childrenGardai have rebranded attack in Drogheda as a potential attempted murder after camera footage was released 33815
Reposted by Alexflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Yes, this is wingnuts and cranks all over: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or by kicking the poor. Every concession you give them, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more. 1218632
