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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A system that turns to *Boris fucking Johnson* to rescue it from the public is not much of a democracy, I think. It’s an insulting kakistocracy where our openly corrupt leaders and their media allies load boulders onto one side of the scales of justice, then give you the finger with both hands.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 02/10/2026
look no hate intended, but: the people making the environmentally catastrophic mass plagiarism job killing antihuman hallucinations Clippy are calling AI sentient, capable of feelings, actually alive, and literal gods; I don't think it's the people who think it sucks that are out of touch. also,
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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why are AI fliers so prevalent? In my opinion, it's not just that they're easy and cheaper than a designer, it's because most people have terrible taste and think they are cool. I will not see this in my online art bubble, but the fact is, most people think bad shit is better than good shit.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Atac: 100 Dam: 0
Tortie kitten Jimmi Pickles VICIOUSLY ASSAULTING orange kitty Benne
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.
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Terry "Loki Nash" Fuck @terryfuck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh that is liquid new labour right there
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1 month progress selfie
A mudskipper with its mouth wide open
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/09/2026
two button meme labour politicians choose between:
Outlaw £36m party donations
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Figure out how to get their own £36m donations
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fascists: behave fascistly. The Guardian: why would the anarchist left do this?
The apparent modus operandi of Patriot Platform – generating coordinated flashmobs and maintaining discipline in dress and conduct – appears to borrow heavily from the anarchist left as well as from groups such as Extinction Rebellion.
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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 08/09/2026
“Umm actually, my graph says I’m allowed to be racist!”
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/09/2026
*guy whose wallet is getting inspected* wallet inspection will actually change what it means to be human
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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Freebesieged @freebesieged.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The famous Battle of Cable Street in 1936 - people assume the Left fought with Mosley's fascists that day - but in fact the pitched battle was fought between the Left and the police. The cops were trying to clear the streets so the Fascists could march through the Jewish East End. They lost. Badly.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sure, and I can tell you that the police know who all of these guys are, not least because they’ve had to fight them on the street multiple times. The cops in Scotland know exactly who all our fascist protestors are, where they live and what their seat number at Ibrox is.
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social • 1h
A high level of organisation and coordination requiring extensive networking and careful communication.
Which makes it all the more surprising *IF* the UK internal security service (MI5) and Counter Terrorism Command of the Metropolitan Police (SO15) were unaware of the planned 'storm' action. 6/13
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If MI5 and SO15 were aware of the operation being planned, then they clearly either chose not to inform Kent Police and withheld vital operational information needed for adequate policing.*
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If they were unaware, which indicates a massive intelligence failure, undermining
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/09/2026
Homer protecting his sugar
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol
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The actual number of moves that are not utterly stupid in chess is tiny and chess will be fully solved one day
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly betterThere are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers. One day, it will be fully solved like checkers. 

Between now and then, or even after, have fun. People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. 

(Here I am arguing with some random intern at a chess website 🤦‍♂️)
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even my friends don't text me back that fast
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Long John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mr Prime Minister there’s roaming bands of masked fash in Dover Andy:
Gareth Keenan and David Brent. Brent is pointing, with text reading: GO AND GET THE GUITAR.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
your tax dollars are paying for federal government lawyers to file hysterical lies with federal government courts about whether a federal government employee can write his own name on a federal government building
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Under capitalism, the president withholds disaster relief if your state didn't vote for him, and sometimes if your state did but your city didn't
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The big fella is really hitting the Unconscious In An Open Parachute stance strongly here. It's been some time since he broke this one out.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's very bad that we've developed a new dominant breed of debate pervert who spends their entire lifecycle insisting nobody will let them say the things they've said a thousand times and insisting everyone has to have the same debate with them every single time
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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
it’s all for you, mr president, it’s all for you!
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what will be the funniest vehicle this guy is going to get hit by? first thought is cybertruck but I think it's a school bus.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/08/2026
cruel people everywhere, but the british polical-media complex are basically class solipsists - they are real, nobody else is, you are just playthings, like cats with baby mice
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Man of the people" latest
"I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies," Farage tells supporters
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 12/08/2026
how could they tell
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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
every generation gets the “now watch this drive” it deserves
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
PETE HEGSETH: Napoleon, how do we defeat Iran? AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines? You have vaccines? PETE HEGSETH: Yes but they're woke and gay AI NAPOLEON: Send me typhus vaccine PETE HEGESTH: No, I need your help with Iran, we're running low on artillery AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines then Iran
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is correct: Farage was recruited by the press to 1) front up their endless outrage campaigns over nothing, and 2) troll the Tories from the right. Under no circumstances was he employed to 3) become the editors’ boss and control things like press regulation. So they’re revoking his legitimacy.
John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.so... • 59m
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Is this the end of the Reform revolution?
The latest polling showing Nigel Farage's plummeting approval ratings will no doubt make grim reading for the Reform UK leader, but the problems he and his party face go far deeper.
His personal approval ratings have fallen almost vertically since the start of July, according to the latest research from More in Common. For a party as dependent on the energy, charisma and ability of a single man as Reform UK, a rating of
-32 - down 10 points in just a fortnight - is potentially catastrophic.
Mr Farage has come through various crises before - he has survived a plane crash, leadership challenges and come out of retirement twice - so some will reasonably ask why this time is different. The answer lies in what he was attempting: not just leaving the EU, the cause that defined his career, but becoming prime minister and forming a government with a start-up party.
That strategy has now been badly exposed.
Reform's 15-month run at the top of every poll ended this month when Andy Burnham replaced the unpopular Sir Keir Starmer and took Labour back into the lead, while Kemi Badenoch's Tories, with a far higher approval rating than Mr Farage's, have begun to gain ground too.
Insiders blame a failure to sort out candidate selection and build "a coherent narrative," with one admitting: "I have never known Nigel to be so grumpy and tired. He is fed up."
Most in Reform will admit that without Farage, the party cannot win - so if he stops being a political asset, the challenge may be finished.
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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Martin Prince with a speech bubble
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It may not be more complex than “the 08 crisis made it impossible to pretend any longer that the super-wealthy hoarding all the assets for themselves is good for society, so they went full bore for the other things right wing voters like: racism, vandalism and dumb spectacles of needless cruelty”
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sorry lxds, it's fascism forever. Look I don't make the rules. Bt I can only support you in your all-our-lives-depend-upon-it mission to crush the fash if you don't make the occasional online gaff. Otherwise, I just gotta keep endorsing the bigots & fash enablers, you know?
Punter on here giving their tuppence worth on GuillotineGate:

a lot of the defenses here seem to be like, "well obviously it was a stupid thing to do but the other guys" there's kinda no but. if you decide your mission in politics is to *defeat fascism* and *replace the labour party*, you dont get to be a stupid fucking moron online. what are we doing here
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midgieeeek! @midgie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
crying because the cats love each other
pan is snuggling up to hux and hux has a paw draped across the top of pan’s head. they’re both asleep. pan looks smiley
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figure…
Figure at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 22/07/2026
some democracy where the umpteenth time you tell a cunt to get tae fuck at the polling booth, they stop even trying and just install him as a literal lord over you instead
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Long John Dipshit 💀🎃 @wokeoaf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Now strutting on to the stage for the charity bachelor auction but it’s Starmer Starmer stood with various Springfield residents under a banner reading REJECTS
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Reminds me of the time a giggling Matt Chorley and colleague asked another Times Radio employee what her favourite Boris The Legend moment was, and she said she didn’t have one, because her mother and everyone on her mother’s floor of her care home were killed by Covid 19 within about three weeks.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There can’t be punishment or accountability for this stuff because, for real: once you start investigating the Conservative Party for malfeasance and corruption, then where does it end? We end up having to ask why there’s so much politics in our corruption, theft and influence-peddling system.
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Actually it wasn't. Dame Heather Hallet found
*no* evidence of cronyism or corruption on the part of ministers or officials. Mistakes
*were* made. Honest mistakes. I take full responsibility for that. But the allegations of corruption are unfounded nonsense
sy Sky News @SkyNews •4d
"The VIP lane was a textbook case of corruption and cronyism."
The daughter of Christina Fulop, who died from COVID, speaks out after it was rev...
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