Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26mWeirdest coup of all time. Well no one can say this place isn’t relevant anymore 2153
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 2hAmazing you learn while getting fillings put in while the dentists just chat to each other- my dentist is an antivaxxer lol 020
Reposted by AmrkAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 3hPeople in say Germany clearly think of people from France as a different category to people from Morocco (and are just as psycho as Brits about people from Morocco). Brits just don’t, Nigeria or France they’re all foreign keep em out. Which approach is more racist, discuss 231
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 4h(There are lots of British people quoting this with variations on “having complex feelings about the death penalty shows how barbaric America is” and that’s pretty naive about our country. It famously had majority support in the UK until recently. *Political elites* hate it, lots of Brits like it) 2201
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 4hI am against the death penalty on principle but I acknowledge that if it was Hitler, Anders Breivik or Rose West you might find prison staff perfectly comfortable just shooting them in the head with a gun, though I think that’s still net bad. If you’re not comfortable with that, don’t do it. 180
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 14hI think it is straightforwardly true that lots of people watched lots of unredacted footage from Gaza in a way that just wasn’t possible wrt Rwanda or Bosnia and it caused serious mental health issues in some and sent others spiralling into political extremism Thing is that’s bad 1567
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 16hIMO dock them 100 points with an additional 100 points suspended and fine them a billion so it’s impossible for them to comply with PSR bc 2x their revenue goes in fines and the next 100 points is triggered 130
Reposted by AmrkAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him 11701135
Reposted by AmrkAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service 231387
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is something that gets missed I think. In an ideal world the league would like the most successful clubs to be 1. United 2. Liverpool (Slight gap mostly bc Africa is poorer than Asia) 3. Arsenal (Big gap) 4. Chelsea 5. ….Wrexham (HUUGE gap) 6. City 150
Reposted by AmrkAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s not even like they’re good for the bottom line, Arsenal, Liverpool and (above all) United are the giant global fanbases that sell the shirts and tv subs. You want *them* back on top 191
Reposted by AmrkAmrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do think everyone is so convinced they’re going to get a slap on the wrist and it’s like, lads the premier league is 95% owned by the opponents they screwed over 1121
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New frontiers in putting “Moderate” when you mean conservative on dating apps Politics: Moderate Job: Policy advisor at Westminster 000
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a purely factual matter, is it in fact protected by the US constitution to breach court anonymisation and expose the identity of a sexual assault complainant? Because that’s completely insane 2100
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Bourne movies (which are brilliant btw) are a real insight into edpol and how different the left was in the 2000s. It’s the 2007 version of resist fanfic except it’s incredibly conspiratorial, the career deep state people are evil and the politicians find out and shut down their scheme 2111
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thing is this theory isn’t… obviously insane? The idea is to deter us arming Ukraine. That evidently is not working. 1384
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This includes sixth formers and you know what, go for it, if you want to try to force 17 year olds to have mandatory singing assemblies where their teachers attempt to persuade them to sing All Things Bright and Beautiful in front all their friends, that will if nothing else be very funny 250
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well we complain parties aren’t targeting a kind of voter who actually exists. He definitely is. 0120
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I kind of think this is the monoculture. I am a person in my 20s, I’ve never seen eastenders etc etc, but every summer there are gigs at Wembley and I can tell because scrolling instagram, every single one is attended by 5 or more people I went to school with, independently 081
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Look I’m in favour of this because unlike all other cartoon depictions of Andy Burnham this one makes him look less, not more, like me 183
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I do feel extremely sorry for this guy who for the crime of misunderstanding how American universities work (for Americans reading, many other countries have no concept of minors, you only take classes in what your degree is in), is being dogpiled like he said history classes are evil 4426
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am reiterating my pet theory that the reason Bond casting is taking so long is any conceivable criteria for who it should be leads you to ROBERT PATTINSON in big red letters then about 3 blank pages before your second choice, but he won’t do it 71096
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is a reference to a speech made when Powell, Haigh and Burnham were all not born, (neither was Nigel Farage), John Healey was 3 and Keir Starmer was 1 160
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh good I’ve acknowledged on Bluesky that in the UK older people typically vote to the right of younger people. Less than a minute to get someone in their feelings in my mentions 1292
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tbh this seems a fairly unfair criticism, the premier league is not a law enforcement agency and can’t execute search warrants, it’s a private entertainment business, if clubs file false accounts what can you do 130
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think I have a reverse one, the self-imposed restriction apparently relatively common at large British companies that all candidates must be asked the same questions in the same order at interview to preclude any lawsuits due to bias via easier questions being asked 190
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I broadly agree but I’m genuinely not taking the piss - this is reverse racism and the bigotry of low expectations against white people, who Shabana Mahmood thinks are deeply bigoted and liable to lose control of their senses and descend into base violence if people try to explain things to them 109315
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Incredibly the substance of this is all benefits claimants should automatically be enrolled in weight loss programmes, implicitly ozempic which is ~£100 a month, representing an effective 25% boost to universal credit to own the libs 0357
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I really think this must be an American thing because the case for appears to be that “you are not supposed to be eating or drinking at a certain level of serious meeting with serious people” and somewhat famously tea and biscuits are provided at meetings of the British Cabinet 2140
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Who could have predicted proscribing Palestine Action would lead to all of Britain doing the Peep Show sectioning bit but about proscription except everyone UK Lawyers For Israel wants Amnesty proscribed 1588
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So being serious here - if I’m the league I think past titles is a Pandora’s box you do not want to open but to avoid it being opened, City need to go down. 2120
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People are indignant about this but frankly there’s the issue from her normal job’s end, how do you accommodate a middle manager at your EV company being the Prime Minister’s wife and being followed at all times by armed bodyguards. 2130
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 3️⃣2️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/toys.jamesomalley.co.ukMP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain. 040
Reposted by AmrkHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026Sorry, what? Diplomats talk to each other. Miliband has also spoken to his Israeli counterpart. The French foreign minister also met Araghchi this week. X is such a sewer of bad, motivated takes. 2828243
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We’ve all learned in the last year is the true mark of the elite class is talking to your friends and family via email. I don’t think I’ve ever sent an email that isn’t for some formal purpose or forwarding important documents. Even colleagues, chatting is via WhatsApp, email is strictly business 190
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’ve watched the whole video and I sincerely don’t know which fight he means 130
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It is like an ancient curse then whenever you try to think of what the Lib Dems should do, you keep describing strategies that naturally conclude “they should promise to abolish tuition fees” 1296
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is still mildly infuriating to me that the census in Wales refuses to ask people which of the two official languages they speak at home/consider their first language 152
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is my favourite stupid history claim, yes historically there were many more public holidays, largely in compensation for the fact that the first recorded use of the word weekend is in 1879 2394
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This argument (Kisin’s not Sunder’s) is so profoundly stupid because the “British not English” formulation is almost literally unique to England in making any sense. Is Humza Yousaf British but not Scottish? Good luck telling him that. Is Kylian Mbappé French but not Parisian? 0133
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I know nothing about German politics and not much about Freidrich Merz but I do know that Joe Biden and Keir Starmer can both tell you, as soon as people on your side are saying “well we’d like to remove them but [process hurdle]”static.klipy.comJeff Goldblum - Life Finds A WayALT: Jeff Goldblum - Life Finds A Way 3283
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I understand there’s a higher bar to VONC for a chancellor than a British PM but genuinely, is it any more survivable in practice for your party to make clear they don’t want you anymore? It’s not like Starmer ever faced a formal legal attempt to remove him by parliament 280
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Funny thing is Spanish media does about *their own elections*. The PP is commonly referred to in Spain - more so than in English coverage - as having “won” the 2023 election, after which their opponents formed government 0111
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Again it’s a very very funny insight into Bluesky that you can make an argument which takes *as a first principle* the nonexistence of souls, by extension the afterlife and presumably god, and get dogpiled exclusively by hardline anti LLM people 1170
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026TIL Sahra Wagenknecht is no longer leader of the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance. They should change the name really. 3315
Reposted by AmrkTyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible 201071247
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This just does not pass the smell test of “labour and the greens so well with students and people in inner cities” and “have you actually checked where spoons are” 110
Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is the only website where Will Stancil effectively very belligerently arguing against souls and the existence of god is controversial primarily because he’s praising AI lol 0141