Sign in

Basman

@basman.bsky.social
255 followers 350 following 17 posts

Impotent Extremist.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Basman
Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 13h
Like, you're all old enough to remember how 2015-19 went. You've all seen the quotes from the British Establishment boasting about how they used every dirty trick in the book to smash the left. You've seen how ineffective the "just one more capitulation" strategy is. We fight or we lose.
07011
Reposted by Basman
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h
"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
7899378
Reposted by Basman
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17h
At some point in the next couple of years a lot of people are going to realise that "we have to keep the press happy and not do anything the press won't like!" is actually quite a bad tactic for a political party in the dying days of neoliberalism.
016221
Reposted by Basman
5th Iranian White Van Regiment 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 12h
I keep saying this, but they need to get rid of the old guard, who think the party is their own personal PR department, and have some quite frankly repellent views
26911
Reposted by Basman
Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 11h
Believing some people can never be persuaded is itself a view that can change. That's the work we're doing at Basic Income Action. We believe everyone is a supporter, they just don't know it yet.
1257
Reposted by Basman
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11h
A campaign to be proud of. A huge thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
Quote graphic featuring Green Party leader Zack Polanski, with his photograph on the right against a grey background. The headline reads: “A BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGN TO BE PROUD OF.”
Below, the graphic identifies Zack Polanski as Leader of the Green Party and features the quote:
“I'm incredibly proud of the campaign we did run. We got 30% of the vote, and in fact John Curtice, an independent pollster, said this shows that the Green Party are more of an electoral threat in these seats than we've ever been before.”
The Green Party logo appears at the bottom left, alongside the imprint: “Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL.”
1431057
Reposted by Basman
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 12h
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
341076234
Reposted by Basman
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h
Read history. The ONLY time the people have ever benefited is when the Left Wing wins. When the Right wins all you ever get is poverty and war.
010829
Reposted by Basman
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mick Lynch "Zack Polanski isn't inciting hatred for Jews he believes he is an agent of peace and that Israel is carrying out Mass Murder in Gaza and the West Bank, and I believe that too." When Mick Lynch speaks sense, he speaks sense.
41708237
Reposted by Basman
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20h
“What I've seen over the last few weeks are people who are excited about our plans. We are going to build and grow.” Zack Polanski reflects on the Holborn & St Pancras by-election as we more than tripled our vote share in the constituency from the last general election.
2133887
Reposted by Basman
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...
617256
Reposted by Basman
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h
Thank you Holborn & St Pancras. Our second best byelection result ever. 💚
661116223
Reposted by Basman
Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
583838537
Reposted by Basman
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/10/2026
From International Women's Day '21
Margaret Hamilton drawing
346367
Reposted by Basman
Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
433996
Reposted by Basman
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As previously noted: the end of this trajectory isn’t “two states”. The consequence is us sitting here in twenty years with the Palestinians long eradicated, watching the Robo-IDF “fight terrorism” in its Lebanese and Syrian provinces. And it’s not like our leaders don’t understand this.
1020760
Reposted by Basman
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
292125932661
Reposted by Basman
Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact check: when the chips are down, this fella will graft his knackers off, he's got your back and he doesn't half put a shift in. A new kind of politics, a new kind of politician. Starmer II talks about hope, but Zack Polanski come prepared with a skip-full of hope, AND, real, tangible, change. 💚
511732
Reposted by Basman
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
21 years of Sensible, Moderate government lads. This is the common sense stuff, shunning extremist, magical unicorn nonsense. The triumph of the Grown Ups, whom are back In Charge.
Jessica Elgot
@jessicaelgot
X.com
EXC - Bleak new forecasts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggest soaring energy and housing costs mean Labour could be set to preside over the worst parliament for living standards in modern history
725469
Reposted by Basman
Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 07/10/2026
You're right, it didn't start on October 7. Palestinian children have been attacking innocent Israeli tanks in Gaza for decades 👀
8452121
Reposted by Basman
The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 12/05/2022
A thread: Why socialist Labour was stopped... ‘We will launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs.’ – Labour Manifesto, 2019. #CouldHaveHad & #WhyWeWereStopped
88533
Reposted by Basman
acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my family has been in america for too many generations to count but it's still important that if we ever felt unsafe here we'd be able to murder a family overseas and steal their home
0292
Reposted by Basman
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
12251672261
Reposted by Basman
obseyxx.bsky.social @obseyxx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the shit that makes you feel insane. By any measure Labour is a profoundly racist party and its racism has an enormous body count. But cos its racism primarily impacts non-white and non-British people, they get to do this asinine posturing and the press lap it up.
97924
Reposted by Basman
morticia toastems @toasty.cx · 07/10/2026
she's a real one for the ages 🫡 youtu.be/g70XbYd0bZ8
youtu.be
Courtney Love Warning Actresses of Harvey Weinstein in 2005
YouTube video by ohyouresilly
24910
Reposted by Basman
ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
152108362343
Reposted by Basman
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Put it this way: if the Greens, Kneecap and Gary Lineker are prompting enraged all-channels screaming fury but e.g. an army seizing, depopulating and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon of its racially undesirable populace doesn’t make anyone blink, then I am going to conclude - bullshit
329460
Reposted by Basman
B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
66142266199
Reposted by Basman
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dr Ellie Chowns, "If we're talking about security against things that kill many people, covid, killed 250,000 people in this country and cost us hundreds of billions" "But I don't hear anybody in this country talking about pandemic preparedness - why is that?"
21424132
Reposted by Basman
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?
74614157
Reposted by Basman
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You should understand this stuff not as analysis of public opinion - since when did the lads give a fuck about that? - and not even as threats. These are promises: we, the press, are now going to fuck you up, and we won’t stop screaming until your lives are utterly miserable.
Pippa Crerar
@PippaCrerar • 6h
ANALYSIS: Zack Polanski may regret not using his influence when Greens needed him to act - by @peterwalker99Daily Mail @@DailyMail • 1h
DAN HODGES: History will record Zack Polanski as a coward and charlatan who led his once-decent party into political oblivion
1738999
Reposted by Basman
DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay
71014510
Reposted by Basman
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
100% the vibe that Lanterns poster gives off
A two panel cartoon the first showing someone peeing at a urinal, and a second person walking past.  Second panel shows rhe second person peeing at the Urinal next to the first.  Underneath that is the Lanterns poster with Hal Jordan looking straight forward and John Stewart giving him the angry side eye, the ol’ hairy eyeball.
34394618
Reposted by Basman
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
27369501090
Reposted by Basman
We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 05/10/2026
This is the kind of ambition Andy Burnham must show to tackle the disaster that is water privatisation We Own It is independent of all parties. We cannot wait to praise Andy Burnham, Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey for delivering or calling for public ownership of our water
17230
Reposted by Basman
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My feed is full of Labour MPs expressing anger tonight. Yet when the daughter of a Holocaust survivor was arrested outside their own party conference for a non-violent protest, silence. Principles mean little if outrage only appears when it is politically convenient.
830172
Reposted by Basman
Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
3158181874
Reposted by Basman
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Actually have you tried my ingenious method for protecting civilians from war criminals: shutting up and doing as I’m told
117519
Reposted by Basman
Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a certain point you see stuff like this and think "just do it already" because it's been the logical endpoint of all the hysteria around any left-of-Labour or pro-Gaza candidate after the last election. They want to make voting for anyone left of Labour illegal. Do it already and let's dance.
722156
Reposted by Basman
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Was bored with work, wanted to do something rewarding, I volunteer a few hours once a month for a charity. It's amazing. A boring Fess, but it is rewarding. Just do something good for someone, it will make you and more importantly someone else feel better. Do it, please.
2061644
Reposted by Basman
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
5162691732
Reposted by Basman
the samsara enjoyer @rubot.ie · 05/10/2026
hearing reports so-called pollution haters breathed polluted air this week.
1622135
Reposted by Basman
David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
31127863984
Reposted by Basman
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
6695001808
Reposted by Basman
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the highest crimes humanity has ever committed
226368
Reposted by Basman
Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024
now that it's october im legally allowed to post this
1052272710775
Reposted by Basman
Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 13/06/2025
"So a dog walks into a bar, an-" Bluesky user interrupting: hey, why is there a dog in that bar? do you know how unsanitary that is?? X user interrupting: I know that dog is a fucking Jew. Threads user interrupting: how long do wallet inspectors take to do their job? cause mine's taking a while.
640657
Reposted by Basman
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.
1157220617
Reposted by Basman
hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
359208735032
Reposted by Basman
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/10/2026
A £276 increase in bills in January would be the final straw for millions across the country. The Prime Minister must turn words into actions and stop bills going up on his watch.
Green graphic image with Hannah Spencer's photo quoting her: 'The Prime Minister must commit to stopping bills rising'. Full quote reads:

“Andy Burnham keeps talking about giving families breathing space. But actions speak louder than words and bills are still going up on his watch when people can’t afford it.  

A £276 increase in January would be the final straw for many people in the constituency I represent and for millions across the country.

The Prime Minister must commit now to stopping bills going up in January, starting with moving more costs off energy bills, properly funding a national home insulation scheme, clamping down on rampant profiteering by energy companies, and rapidly scaling up cheaper, cleaner energy.”
919284