Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 4hA version of 1984 where Big Brother convinces everyone to carry a CCTV camera around. Nice work, humanity. Outstanding. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 21hGood job we immediately scrapped pandemic preparedness the instant Covid seemed under control. It wasn’t enhancing shareholder value, so it had to go. #plague 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Picked this up at the British Museum and cracked it open on the train home to distract me from the very noisy family annoying the entire carriage. Loving it so far. The Notebook by Roland Allen #books #booksky 170
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An informative, exhaustive, enraging and inspiring guide to who exactly owns England (clue: mostly bastards) and a manifesto for how to ruddy well get it back. Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole #books #booksky 060
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The novel based on the screenplay that’s based on the novel. It’s a little bit “nuts and bolts” but I love The Thing and I enjoyed this. The Thing by Alan Dean Foster #books #booksky #horror 060
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Andy Burnham in this single one hour speech didn’t mention the specific thing I wanted him to say, therefore the speech was rubbish and he is rubbish! Rubbish rubbish rubbish. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The third book of my read through of le Carré’s “Smiley” novels. The Great Game, fought in dreary offices and backstreet pubs and dingy hotels. Betrayal, cynicism and weariness. Shards of brutality. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. #books #booksky 050
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What a beautifully written book. A meditation on time, memory, family secrets, myth. Sort of Mike Leigh meets Alan Garner? Maybe. If it’s not one of my books of the year, I’ll eat my hat. The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong. #booksky 030
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Enjoyed this collection of short horror stories. Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow. Some very creepy tales. All killer, no filler. Perfect for Halloween. #books #booksky 050
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That’s it then, game over. Good luck, everybody, see you at the burnt out and looted Sainsbury’s looking for the last tin of Spam. #AItheguardian.comNick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanityFormer deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’ 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just watched a wasp grab, subdue and bear off a reluctant fly. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just borrowed the ebook of this tome from the library and will be reading it on my phone and on the bus. I will not be taking questions. The Rouse by China Miéville #books #booksky 090
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What if artificial general intelligence (AGI) already exists and is using Trump to destroy humanity? 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They blockaded Dover…and I arrested and prosecuted them all because this is not my first rodeo. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hey, Andy Burnham. Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? It’s what you are doing now: fuck all. 121
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What a ride this was. Body horror, vampires, Everettian weapons, Lovecraftian mercantilism, BDSM, airships and talking cactuses. Loved it! The Scar by China Miéville #booksky #books 060
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Boo fucking hoo. Where is my nano-violin?theguardian.comUnease in ‘newly independent’ Piddington as world media and Danny Tommo descendAs villagers take stock following symbolic vote, some fear far-right weaponisation of asylum dispute and influx of ‘masked people like in Dover’ 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Powerful thread. The RNLI are the best of us, those who oppose it the worst. It’s that simple. 061
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyMatt Tutt @matttutt.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Seems a nice time to remind people that - if you buy through the RNLI shop - you are directly supporting their important work saving any lives at sea - because all lives matter - not just white ones. shop.rnli.org #RNLI 33717
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The police should deploy water cannons to Portsmouth and use them to hose the mouth-breathing nonce bonnet trash who are intimidating the RNLI into the sewers with all the other turds. 001
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17/09/2026Two Gateshead Reform councillors joined Facebook group linked to far-right Patriot Platform This connection between Reform UK in the North East and the far-right group Patriotic Platform is a worrying development northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...northeastbylines.co.ukTwo Gateshead Reform councillors joined Facebook group linked to far-right Patriot PlatformThis connection between Reform UK in the North East and the far-right group Patriotic Platform is a worrying development 35625
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Fash: Bad RNLI: Good A handy print out and keep guide for Labour ministers. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have legitimate concerns about the absolutely fucking lamentable state of the Labour Party. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What is the point of the Labour Party?theguardian.comFormer Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins PalantirPeer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan 010
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyNicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...nicolakelly.substack.comThe RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroesI have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like. 341522491
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue 238284
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hello! Burnham? Government? Your “hero voters” are causing trouble again. Any plans to do anything? Hello? Is this thing on?theguardian.comLifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right actionRNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel 031
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wake up, yawn, stretch and check how the world is doing… 021
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026There is an Empire and there are most definitely vampires. The faux-medieval French setting sits uneasily, for me, with the snarky modernity of the dialogue but it rattles along and is never boring Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff 3 fangs out of 5 #books #booksky 181
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s neck and neck in the “Stupidest Country” final. Everything to play for. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Read up that book, it’s good for you. #booksky #books 061
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I love how one book leads you to another. I bought A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros. That book mentioned Rimbaud, which led me to Edmund White’s biography which mentions the Paris Commune, and now I want to read about that. A dangerous thing, a book. #booksky #books 050
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Blimey! What a read this is. Rimbaud: The Double Life Of A Rebel by Edmund White. Revolution, absinthe,sex, smut, gun-running, bottled foetuses, the Paris Commune and the Franco-Prussian War. Great art made by terrible people. Jaw-dropping. #books #booksky 060
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I haven’t bought a “Snickers” bar for a while. They’re tiny now! If this keeps going, by 2030 they’ll be smaller than a quark and cost more than the GDP of the Earth. Pretty certain of my maths. 010
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyAdrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This letter is currently on 74,000 signatures. If you want to let these brave, selfless people know how appreciated they are, please join me in signing it. Thank you, #RNLI ❤️ act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...act.38degrees.org.ukAn open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLIThis is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th... 8139102
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Tossers. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The dinosaurs lasted as long as they did because they didn’t have an AI research programme. #AI #Extinction. 000
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If, as the thought experiment goes, you’ve ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism, it’s whatever you are doing now. I’d have been sending unoriginal observations to the local paper, for example. And just generally feeling very uneasy. 000
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyGeorge E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232744736
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The nights are drawing in and it’s time for terror! And tentacles. And tea cakes. This was pretty good. Weird Shadows over Innsmouth. Personal faves: Eggs by Steve Rasnic Tem and Take Me To The River by Paul McAuley #books #booksky #horror #tentacles 040
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The offspring got me a secondhand Switch Lite for my birthday and now I, a man of decreasing youth, am attempting to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild #gaming #incompetent 000
Reposted by Clinton HuxleyJohn O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A reminder that while thugs threaten the safety of crew members to intimidate them, the volunteers of the RNLI are ready 24/7/365 to put to sea in all weathers to rescue anyone that needs help. They don't judge. They just save lives. rnli.orgrnli.orgRNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at SeaThe RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions. 091
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Quite depressing to realise that we are in the “Phoney War” bit of World War III 010
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026You don’t get to use the word “milquetoast” very often, so thanks for the opportunity, UK Labour government. 020
Clinton Huxley @clintonhuxley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hey, Europe, should we maybe not give fascism another go? We tried it and a few fundamental flaws became apparent. 1104
