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Alasdair

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a thoroughly uninteresting man. he/him

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It is IMO important to recognise that Labour were *cheered to the rafters* by the national press and by their politician colleagues for telling their own supporters to fuck off. Probably worth bearing in mind, as we watch the same people scratch their heads and now ask: where did it all go wrong?
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Bug 🐞♾️ @bugtismttv.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
chiikawa-ification for @awibee.bsky.social (transp. in replies)! Thanku so much for ur support, darlin~!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 04/11/2025
the ratfucking the media will do to mamdani is going to be unreal but the right wing cope might just make it all worthwhile
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
oh christ
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/10/2025
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Can anyone explain how exactly a tiny clique of wankers that nobody likes managed to not only seize power within their own party, but won a national election
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This will be remembered as the most shameful period in UK history. A 🧵
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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
the thing that makes this story so extremely awful is that Brianna had a supportive and loving community online even though she struggled with anxiety in her day to day life. Her mother is looking at an unspeakable crime in Brianna's in-person school and blaming it on Brianna having online friends
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Christian McIntire @christianmcintire.com · 02/09/2025
From Geoffrey Macnab for The Independent, and who seemingly has never read a fucking book in his life.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
DWP quietly replacing new-style ESA with "Unemployment Insurance" Buried in recent DWP legislation was the proposal to do away with ESA for disabled people and replace it with a new time-limited benefit www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...
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DWP quietly replacing new-style ESA with "Unemployment Insurance"
Buried in recent DWP legislation was the proposal to do away with ESA for disabled people and replace it with a new time-limited benefit
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
A dog, walking a parade route to a cheering crowd
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Alasdair @awibee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Meanwhile another team is playing in the UEFA qualifiers despite not being in Europe. But football isn't political...
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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Do NOT talk about how sad it is that 🇵🇸children are starving without talking about WHY! This is NOT "a humanitarian crisis": it's DELIBERATE, CALCULATED GENOCIDE... ORCHESTRATED with the FULL backing of imperialist western countries. 🇮🇱, 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺, & 🇨🇦 are ALL Fascist States... and there are more.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 20/08/2025
Big Issue is outside Westminster Magistrates Court this morning as @kneecapceol.bsky.social’s Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) is set to return for a second appearance. John Finucane, Sinn Féin MP for Belfast North, spoke to crowds outside the court. 🚨Stay tuned for updates on this thread.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
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How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"...despite the clear unacceptable behaviour of the students, The Telegraph still ran the story with the headline: 'Jewish schoolchildren kicked off plane after ‘singing Hebrew songs.’ So Tory, so Telegraph. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...
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Scottish community-owned island announces full boycott of Israel
The Isle of Eigg has announced a full boycott of Israel amid its genocide in Gaza ...
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Ben Chadwick Elks @ben-wild.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I joined @greenparty.org.uk recently for the exact reasons that @zackpolanski.bsky.social talks about in this video. This is a fight for nature, but as nature defending itself. We need to come together to defend our common interests and protect our communities against those who would oppress us.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 25/06/2025
I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative
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progesterin @erinys.uwu.lgbt · 20/06/2025
"why are millennials so left leaning compared to every other generation" idk dude maybe it's because every single formative event in our lives has been a disaster directly caused by capitalism and american imperialism but nah it's probably the computer games
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A queen
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As Margaret Thatcher forced the sale of Public Assets at about 20% of their value, we should force their renationalisation at 20% of their value. Fair is fair.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 01/06/2025
bringing this over
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 28/05/2025
This Atlanta suburb tried to stop pro-Palestine protesters by making it illegal to protest within 8 ft. of someone without their consent 😒 Read more: interc.pt/4k3EabI ✍️ @ajajeanarnold.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.
A post on Threads from Miss Rachel, a well-known children’s educator and entertainer: “What’s it like for kids in Gaza?” my little boy asks me. 

Well, kids don’t have medical care & can’t go to the doctor like us. They don’t get to go to school like you & learn & play. They don’t have enough food or water or a safe place to live. 

“Why?”🥺

I feel my heart breaking. I can’t tell my son it’s some natural disaster. That there’s not enough food or medicine in the world. It’s that grown-ups are keeping these basic human rights away from children. It’s a choice.Two posts on Threads from Miss Rachel, a well-known children’s educator and entertainer. 

The first post says: “Leaders -

Be so ashamed that your constituents are begging & pleading for you speak out and you stay silent. 

Be so ashamed that you put money & power & your career before the lives of precious children of God. 

Be so ashamed that our religions tell us to give to the poor, feed the hungry & open our arms to all children & you pretend that they mean only for some children.”

The second post says: “Celebrities as well. If everyone says something it won’t be controversial anymore. It’s never been wrong to say starving and bombing kids is wrong. 

God help everyone have the strength to say something. Please, God.”A post on Threads from Ms Rachel, a popular children’s educator and entertainer: “If you want to be remembered for saying something about Gaza before the entire world does, now would be the time.”
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Niall McGeechan @niallmcgeechan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Police Scotland have the capacity to allow 80+ orange marches to harass our city for a month but can't deal with one band standing up for Palestine at a music festival.
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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
And also... NO, MOST PEOPLE CAN SEE IT. This is not just an exercise is creating a false equivalence between genocide and two murders, it's also about smearing the entire pro-Palestine movement as being as morally deranged as the pro-genocide crowd.
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable 
Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry “Then die”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I mean, come on lads. How are you going to have a genuine crusade to fight prejudice about one week after you were all forced to come out and defend the government over Sir Keir’s National Front migration speech, amid all these Blue Labour thinkpieces? You can’t.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
That sounds great but it’s going to go the same way as the lads’ Great Crusade Against Fake News did in 2016: they will declare war upon prejudice and charge, and then instantly realise they’re fighting the Sun, the Mail and the Times, then retreat and bitch about Russian Facebook and The Canary.
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.soc... • 1h
Thread worth reading - a govt with removing barriers to opportunity *as one of 5 key missions* should be thinking more deeply/ smartly about how racism & i suspect other forms of prejudice (similar for misogyny?) express themselves now compared to a generation ago - what's better, what's worse
• Sunder Katwala (su... @sund... • 3h
"Katwala's paradox of racism"
In a demonstrably less prejudiced society (attitudes shifted, esp across generations), I am in receipt of much more racism
Minorities in 2020s have more equal opps than ever before - esp at very top
- yet an increasingly unequal experience of more equal opportunities
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.soc... • 1h
surprised that a govt in need of reforms that don't cost much f, badly needing to show its base it's doing things a Tory govt wouldn't have, doesn't really have a flagship equality policy yet. Cameron had gay marriage. Blair did Stephen Lawrence inq, gay rights, working women. Ey
^ Johnson had..
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
#RikMayall
"The bathroom's free. Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!"
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
happy birthday to this king
Trent Reznor opening a set for Nine Inch Nails in four frames.

Frame 1: Trent Reznor speaking with a microphone to the audience. “How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have fun?”

Frame 2: Trent Reznor speaking with a microphone to the audience. “Well that was the last guys. Wrong fucking band.”

Frame 3: Trent Reznor speaking with a microphone to the audience. “We’re here to have a bad time.”

Frame 4: “(synthesizer playing)”
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TheRightIsWrong (TRIW) @therightiswrong100.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s is a great Jewish man 👇 who dares to speak the truth
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A good example here of how helpful it can be for understanding, if someone occasionally stops and asks “Wait: is all this stuff everyone has been agreeing about and repeating for years actually true”
adambienkov.co.uk
The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
UK drops six more places on the ILGA-Europe #RainbowMap to now lie at 22nd, an outlier in Western Europe. The only country to fall further is Orbán's Hungary. Ten years ago the UK was first on this list. Only six years ago it was third. "A co-ordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights."
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
#HarmerStarmer #KiddyStarver
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Stormont taking the approach that Holyrood could and should have taken www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politic...
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Supreme Court ruling: MLAs reject Assembly's own legal advice on single-sex toilets in Stormont
Sinn Fein, Alliance and SDLP MLAs have blocked changes to Stormont’s toilets policy – rejecting legal advice to introduce single-sex facilities in light of the recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
How long did Sir Keir Starmer wait following VE Day before invoking the spirit of fascism in his speech? 4 days.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Anyway, to raise money for trans charities, I’m auctioning off having your name as a character in the new Chaos Walking book. It’s gotten quite high, but if you can, it’s for a great cause. And check out all the other amazing things to bid on. www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Your Name as A Character in Next Patrick Ness Book
Auction item 'Your Name as A Character in Next Patrick Ness Book' hosted online at 32auctions.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Israel has prevented aid getting into Gaza for more than two months. Keir Starmer is still selling weapons to Israel.
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What’s the hurry Mr Starmer? Does the possibility of bereaved, tortured and seriously injured Palestinians arriving on British shores terrify you?
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Keir Starmer hates immigrants. He'll happily help genocidal regimes steal people's homes, land and lives, but they'd better not think about asking for help...
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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Another reason non Natives have vocalized that removing mascots is a "slippery slope" is because of how influential divesting "cowboys and Indians" imagery would have on folk culture.
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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 12/05/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones
The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage
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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 12/05/2025
Civ VII Disables Warmonger Penalties When Playing as Israel hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
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Civ VII Disables Warmonger Penalties When Playing as Israel
BALTIMORE — Following a recent patch to “Civilization VII,” Firaxis Games has confirmed that they have disabled all warmonger penalties when playing as Israel.  “We…
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