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Olly Gark

@arialadam.bsky.social
205 followers 1.4K following 712 posts

UBI, LVT, politics, science, Nottingham Forest I like to post a pithy riposte

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Kunt and the Gang @kuntandthegang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Algorithms Radicalised The UK’s OAPs Out now on kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look at the church and state of this
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can we issue some people with English passports, just so I don't have to be associated with them.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pontificating on when they've created God
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Katelin*
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ok. When you search for it, listen to the Kaitlin Tierney version 😁
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm guessing nobody sang Horse Outside
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's mostly status signalling, with a bit of networking thrown in* *exception for schools catering to special needs
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think it's online standards of behaviour seeping into the real world. But then again, there's always been oiks.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
But good luck to them meeting PSR with that squad in League 2
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
UK buys more than a billion a year of Abu Dhabi's fossil fuels. I think they could afford that fine.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I blame Burnham and net stupid zero
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026
Some think that AI could result in human extinction, which would take the shine off any future listing. It’s hard to celebrate an initial public offering that leads to a terminal public offing
bit.ly
You can’t trade your way through the AI apocalypse
It’s hard to price the threats posed by a misaligned superintelligence
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exactly as eloquent as necessary
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Tommo has been filmed slashing a dinghy in the channel containing migrants and a rescue worker on board. There is no mention of this on the BBC news website at all as far as I can see. Yet when he and his thugs turn up in masks it's all "Legitimate protestors show ankle in Dover".
theguardian.com
Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
russincheshire.substack.com
Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I lost my mind because I was on holiday and looking forward to Newcastle v Liverpool and they postponed it.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm sure you have many stories to tell
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From behind the sofa for both sets of fans
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Same as 'providing employment' like it's a charitable service, rather than an essential requirement for them to 'create wealth'.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I guess Italy, Spain, France and Germany are utterly FUBARed then
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Citizens United
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not record. But still...
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ooh look, they are asking for people to record pronunciations... Room for some creativity!!!
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Haha. Spurs are shite.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They feel it viscerally when they pay a single cent in taxes.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Musk with a few of his mates can afford it. Easy.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why Andy Burnham must remove Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses — described as “litigation terrorism” by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz — from the UK's trade deals. @labourlewis.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Caused by Trump's love for Putin and attacking Iran.
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Dave @d4v35.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jesus #NFFC
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Premier League @eng-premierleague.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🌳 @NFFC in flow state 😮‍💨
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
With two crypto billionaires donating £72m to Farage’s party in one day, there’s a good reason that for months Byline Times has featured ‘Crypto Politics’ as one of its major themes
bylinetimes.com
Crypto Politics
Crypto Politics Dark money flowing into British and American political parties from donors whose interests shape policy on tax, regulation, and public services. Political fixers operating between oligarch funders and party leadership — in the Conservatives and Labour alike. The revolving door between government, lobbying firms, and the industries they once regulated. Foreign interference channelled […]
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Television remote broken
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Where is the Shard?
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just exclude them from any prize money, since they love it so much.
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JimfromNY @dissentinator.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The new motivational posters over at Space Force are pretty good, though…
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Because the Conservatives have managed to convince the conservatives and many other groups (eg WC voters, small business owners and the wealthy) that they are the best party for them. But fine if you don't want to carry on, your call 👍
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I said conservative, not Conservative - they mostly don't think too much about policy beyond NIMBYism, taxes and national service. It doesn't make the poor immutable, it doesn't matter who is poor, as long as it's not the conservative.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
conservatives mostly just don't want their lives (and families) to get worse, and ideally they'd get better. But them being exactly as well off and the poor getting better off is a loss of status, which makes their lives worse, so they have to keep everyone else down.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It was spontaneous, just a coincidence they all dressed in black and wore balaclavas.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hmm dunno about that, Toon might not have got much from Elanga last season but he was a massive loss for Forest.
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SparkAlistair @alistairspark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Brian Clough and Peter Taylor" #NottinghsmForest #NottsForest #Nottingham #NFFC #Forest #England #footballnews #footballculture #footballnostalgia #football #soccer #retro #vintage #bluesky #viral #fyp #calcio #fútbol #futebol #futbol #foboll #fußbal #fussball #voetbal #lefootball #lefoot
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage seems to have forgotten his past success came from moving the Tories via local and European elections, not trying to replace them in Parliament.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nah, just right-wingers lack empathy.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Stephen, for left wing back 😉
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It will be fine when we are playing against a back 4, or something.
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Olly Gark @arialadam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fabulous (long) thread
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