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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Labour strategists will be having meetings from now until the election to figure out which way round Badenoch & Farage should go in this poster

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tbf I think this more implies his parents are dead, rather than him being a miser

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I didn't answer enough of the questions that place people on the economic and social scales."

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Even someone who wants to do away with elections should definitely be allowed to put their case on TV." "The cost of living is getting a lot higher."

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"My top issue is war" "Of course transgender women should be allowed to compete in womens' sports"

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unfortunately an all-timer, this

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think they would defend it on day 1 if the day 1 also included breaking a transfer record, as happened with Robinho. It was the same, albeit on a smaller scale with Shiniwatra. City were in a very poor financial state and on the verge of relegation - fans cared little about his human rights record

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This isn't a particularly bad article on the subject, but it's kind of amazing how this conversation even needs to be had. Fans do not care about anything other than their team winning football matches. This clip remains the last word on morality in football

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be fair to Jeffrey Archer, it’s quite a legendary run of Wikipedia subsections

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Significant is probably the wrong word yeah. Honestly I think "generous welfare system" is a bit insulting to the intelligence of anyone who's ever been on it, or tried to apply for it - hence my reaction

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What I dislike the most about welfare discourse is many journalists see that 30bn and assume large number = fraud, or in this case large number = generous. But the actual evidence says successive governments are making disabled people's lives miserable in pursuit of these incorrect assumptions

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think it's something like 50m on appeals per year, excluding staff costs and the costs of hosting. Drop in the ocean compared to the 30bn spent on PIP, but all the same a significant amount of money considering the success rate at appeal is 2/3rds

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is one example that has stuck with me for the abject cruelty involved, & that the DWP spent 50k attempting to block the release of a review into his death. I think if you spoke to welfare claimants instead of trying to think of clever quips for political sketches you might have a different view

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Errol Graham: Chances missed to help man who starved to death

Errol Graham was found dead in his flat eight months after his benefits were withdrawn.

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"not very strict welfare system" is this Britain you're talking about?

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

James Cleverly standing for the Tory leadership a year from now recounting this statement:

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rancid have been the vibes of late - Bluesky Theoden

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The long term legacy of the world cup is this still rattles round my head on a regular basis

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And the irony of it is, even if City are relegated to the National League, and even if they are forced to sell. They are a big enough global brand that when they're back in the league they'll remain in the 'big 6'. So what exactly are the rules for?

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly yeah, it protects the investments of the biggest teams while keeping the smaller ones in their place. Villa got too successful and had their team gutted, Newcastle were unable to spend their massive riches despite being state owned. All they did was pull up the drawbridge behind City

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Would a normal person describe themselves as a "free speech absolutist" and understand the implications behind that specific phrase?

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It seems unfair to have people who are actually paid to think about politics every on these things, especially when paired with people who don't

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have been finally won over to City needing to be relegated to the National League for breaching FFP/PSR by hearing an American sports podcaster call the rules "un-American"

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It really seems like a hyper-online phenomenon which has now bled into real world politics (also explains why Polanski took such a pained position on it)

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the most difficult things to square with the idea delivery drivers are genuinely self-employed is the fact they can be summarily and indefinitely suspended, often without any recourse to appeal or even given a reason for suspension. Doesn't sound v self employed

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are plenty of jobs that allow substition. Deliveroo just get access to a labour pool that if it were say, a car wash, would result in the company being investigated, prosecuted, and shut down.

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Evidence or court ruling because these are v different things? The Deliveroo case was done v differently to Uber (IWGB took the CAC to court for recognition rather than Deliveroo via an employment tribunal). Deliveroo literally revised its contracts at the 11th hour before the initial hearing

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So what you're saying is, don't bet against Jeremy Hunt being PM by 2031?

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had a very similar experience. Passed out and broke 3 of my front teeth in 2012. With the root canal I think it's now around £5k total

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recently forked out £800 for a root canal on a tooth I broke from an accident I had when I was younger. Ridiculous system

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The irrefutable evidence that exonerates City of all wrongdoing is that without the owner injecting almost a billion into the club over a 10 year period, United might've won the league twice

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Especially when the justification for Downey Jr coming back is the multiverse. No one can really die bc there's another universe where they're still alive. Good justification for the medium of comic books where people don't necessarily expect interconnectedness in their storytelling - bad for films

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Realise I'm over a year late to this but just finished season 2 of The Last of Us

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My first time reluming watch hands

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I feel like new Trek would do an episode like Who Watches The Watchers, have the captain kill all the superstitious villagers (except the one atheist) and end with this scene between captain and first mate

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Picard showing Worf decapitating someone was just like: oh you don't get this *at all*

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