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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Won the famous Prince George pub quiz for the first time in ages, with @bat020.bsky.social and others

bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

tangentially this has been doing the rounds on twitter recently. are there any chickens here perchance. will they be coming home to roost any time soon. /fin

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

RT 🔒 >> He also followed that Assaf Kaplan unit 8200 guy (no relation to Ivor) on twitter vefore he even got the ominous sounding 'social listening role' in labour

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

the Times of Israel is considered one of the more respectable papers in the entity for what it's worth. this isn't just some crazy guy in the Jerusalem Post. blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/liron...

blogs.timesofisrael.com

Liron Velleman's Blog

The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"Sources told Jewish News the surprise move was 'not down to any political reasons', but they remained tight-lipped about what had prompted the development." www.jewishnews.co.uk/velleman-res...

jewishnews.co.uk

Jewish councillor resigns from Barnet Council and leaves Labour Group - Jewish News

By-election will be held in Whetstone after the shock resignation

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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Tesla is hanging by a thread. With collapse in resale market they are toast.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

coming soon: 'Starmerism without Starmer'

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

one bizarre thing about that old Ford/Goodwin book on UKIP is that its data clearly showed the UKIP vote as coming from "ex Labour voters" who last voted Labour some time in the 70s/80s! – ie they would be better described as "ex Tory voters", but their narrative constantly tries to elide this.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

the other thing the report doesn't seem to go into is the allegations that HBOS parted company with Reeves when it became clear that she was taking time off to go canvas while claiming she had a dental appointment or something.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

some of the details in this BBC investigation of Reeves at HBOS are jaw dropping. this is a regulated retail finance company. every employee has to take a compliance test once a year that covers exactly why this sort of behaviour is a big fat nope. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

quick thread on how Trump's manner is gonna intensify the crises within the US's Western allies. all imho and who the f am I ofc.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

have to say I found Candy's account more plausible lol

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

one funny thing I read on wikipedia is that Bowie says he was on 10g coke a day during the shoot, didn't have to "act" since he was barely on the planet as it was etc; Candy Clark in contrast recalls that Bowie was clean as a whistle and punctiliously professional throughout.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

last time I saw it was on BBC2 as a teenager and I was kinda baffled by it so was slightly reassured to find out this wasn't just me being an ingenue.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

went to see The Man Who Fell To Earth on the big screen last night and while the shots of New Mexico are amazing and Bowie is a treat, I'd kinda forgotten that pretty much nothing happens in the final third of the film.

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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

a young lady in a green jumper and green and white flowered pinafore dress (she is prgnant tho yuou cant quite tell from this short) ginerely holds an ugly brown bony something that looks just-dug-up (earth adheres to its crevices and crannies). in the background is an old-looking british farm (with modernised elements but also a wooden cartwheel) and two men looking at her from a doorway

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Dafoe is clearly having a whale of a time.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

incidentally my favourite version of Dracula is the BBC 1977 version starring Louis Jourdain as the count with an amazing turn by Susan Penhaligan as a truly terrifying Lucy.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

thumbs up for Nosferatu, an atmospheric and original take on classic material. tips over into the hammy at times but hey it is a vampire movie. ending worked well I thought.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

read that play for English Lit O-level. loved it.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

some context from the other place

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

this is the Guardian from 2002 reporting on "chaotic scenes" as Le Pen tried to launch his presidential bid at the European Parliament. my mission that day was to take a day trip to Brussels and foment precisely such scenes. www.theguardian.com/world/2002/a...

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

seeing as the body of an enemy is floating by – here's a snap of the Anti Nazi League website in April 2003, hand coded by me in HTML using Windows Notepad. wayback machine link: web.archive.org/web/20030601...

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I wonder if he's just past caring now. there's nothing he can do to stop the rot and there's nothing the company can do to get rid of him.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

PSA: commutative diagrams in category theory are MUCH easier to read when drawn from right to left.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

there's some recent stuff too, including this one titled Syria from 2018. anyway do go see, it's fascinating and powerful and you get a free newspaper with all his work in it! /fin

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

lots of his posters from the 80s and 90s covering everything from the Gulf War to BT privatisation. oh and check out the OG transformers.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

there's some old copies of the Guardian featuring his work on show. back in 1990 the Guardian Review on Thursday would lead with an article on Walter Benjamin and commission artwork to go with it, and that was just normal.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

if you want something GOOD and FREE to do in London for an hour or so do check out the Peter Kennard exhibition Archive of Dissent which is on at the Whitechapel Gallery until 19 Jan.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

TIL >> Quine's "From A Logical Point Of View" was named after a Harry Belafonte calypso track he heard in Greenwich Village on a nite out

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tash @tashldn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

These are hard times for lots of people - sometimes too hard. Just heard my mum’s oldest friend has lost her son to suicide. I remember him from when we were kids. It feels so wrong that I’m here but he is not. Please, if you’re feeling very down, ring Samaritans first: 116 123 www.samaritans.org

Samaritans website - screenshot.

Text reads: We're waiting for your call. Whatever you're going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. We're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Call 116 123 for free.

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Colin Wilson @colinwlondon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Excellent interview with Syrian-Swiss writer/activist Joseph Daher. Detail of events on the ground - for example regarding the rebellion and the politics of HTS - with sharp analysis about international politics and how the British and American left should respond. tempestmag.org/2024/12/unde...

tempestmag.org

Understanding the rebellion in Syria

Tempest asks Swiss-Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad's rule.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

preferable to us maybe but any kind of serious popular control is anathema to each and every one of the state powers with their fingers in the pie. which is why I think there's a storm coming.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

archive of today's Bloomberg article on Labour shitting it at Starmer's political incompetence. it's a hoot. one thing to note: everyone quoted burbles on about "messaging", "boldness", "imagination": questions of political ~direction~ are still off limits. archive.is/80bIO

archive.is

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

absolutely glorious reading all these news reports about how the motive is Unknown and everyone is Baffled by how it could have happened, do keep it up chaps.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

she is gonna be such a disaster, u luv 2 c it.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

none of the powers that saved his arse ten years ago are mobilising now. the only thing going for the wretched man was his usefulness to those divers powers, and it looks like he's outlived his usefulness.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

also re corporate dynamics one of the effects of everything being determined by how much massive private equity you can attract creates a culture that incentivises bullshitters and bluffers and defers the darwinian crunch point where you actually have to deliver something useful.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

honestly I've always liked Taleb, I remember him as a contrarian loudmouth options trader before he was famous. he's like the only genuinely interesting right wing thinker atm I'd say. and good to see him on the right side re Palestine (which is a surprise given his background and prejudices).

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

yeah I agree with the last sentence, I just wonder if it's qualitative or quantitative [if you'll pardon me speaking in my theological lingo lol]

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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

surely this has been a problem with traditional anything the moment innovation became a thing historically speaking, ie the dawn of capitalist modernity.

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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

and of course this manifests suddenly, when history actually happens and events need to be dealt with, and at that moment of showdown we realise they've been bluffing with two pair all along. hence the general collapse. maybe. well it's a theory. /fin

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