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RDCK98

@comradekenobi.bsky.social
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Sometime writer interested in -Devolution and Celtic nationalism -Empire and anti-colonialism -International Relations -Climate change and biodiversity -Gàidhlig -Palaeontology All views are my own | he/him 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1h
Some lark if Burnham is somehow tangentially involved in all this
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1h
I hate to sound bitter but can you imagine how much we would have saved if the Tories hadn't banned onshore wind in England and actually utilised the low interest environment to do some infrastructure spending
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 4h
wonder what all this is about then. something really off about that charity
"homeless project scotland" posting on facebook saying that GCC have said "unborn children don't have rights"
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 5h
This one will be an excellent photo for a history book on NI for future curricula
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anliathanach.bsky.social @anliathanach.bsky.social · 8h
The NI Secretary rocking back and forth and sobbing after just over 2 months in the job.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 7h
I'm sorry but some people have lost the run of themselves
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 8h
Shabana, did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 8h
Baynes supremacy it is then
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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 11h
are LLMs just an attempt to recreate Americans from first principles
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 10h
Something of note; with the reports that Burnham is apparently swaying towards free personal care model as done in Scotland, this combined with moves to enable water renationalisation, and electoral reform...is Andy Burnham just making England into Scotland under devolution?
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 11h
Genuinely quite funny that life in the UK probably would have begin to noticeably materially improve this year if not for the war in Iran
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 18h
Me talking about someone I've posted with on the same social media site for a long time but never actually met
Still from the television show What We Do in the Shadows showing Laszlo speaking. Text reads "he's my best friend, he's my pal. He's my homeboy, my rotten soldier. He's my sweet cheese, my good-time boy."
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 21h
New Scotland manager suffering from same issue as old Scotland manager: Scotland players
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 21h
It's early days and I have my doubts this will hold, but Burnham may have the sauce after all (at least on welfare and economics)
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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 21h
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Simply astonishing to me how many Indian folk in Mumbai are United or Liverpool fans
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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
feel obligated to post Vladimir Romanov’s club statement on relegating Rangers, among the best of all time www.scotsman.com/sport/footba...
scotsman.com
In full: Vladimir Romanov’s statement on Rangers
VLADIMIR Romanov, owner of Hearts, today released the following statement concerning Hearts’ plans to vote against admitting a newco Rangers to the SPL.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your regular reminder that the basic rate on income tax has not been raised since 1975, the last time a Healey was Chancellor.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oooooof, they are going to the football big house
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It feels odd to have a prime minister whom I agree with on a lot of issues but am baffled by their strategy and tactics
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again, very WFP vibes. Lots of political pain for ultimately not a lot of of money in the grand scheme.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"immigration control weakened by Brexit" five-dimensional dogwhistle triangulation-ass line
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Weird you can whack a PM yet still be beholden to a random PDF. Committed to a document with a massive picture of Keir Starmer on the front of it
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always amazes me how many people in politics just have nothing else going on in their lives
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are going to end the triple lock, you’re better off just ending it. Talking about a process of maybe ending it in the next Parliament, following some sort of review, feels like a way of minimising the fiscal saving while maximising the political pain.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A very good article that cuts right to the heart of Drumcree
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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your toxic Ex has learned therapy-speak to absolve himself of responsibility for his actions
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Noun Verber 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸 @froblivion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Abraham Simpson sits over a typewriter,  writing a letter to the president asking him to eliminate three states. He signs off with "I am not a crackpot"
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He is going to hell but Lavrov referring to us collectively as "the Celts" is sending me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov questions UK's future
In response, Plaid Cymru said Wales' future was "not for the Kremlin to endorse, oppose or exploit".
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If Andy does his “we are going to look at it” game with the triple lock, teasing out the opposition till he decides it’s too unpopular, almost exactly as Starmer did repeatedly on other issues, I may die laughing.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kemi. Badenoch. Is. Going. To. Be. PM. I am going insane.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026
People have been asking why it has all kicked off again at Drumcree after 28 years. The reason is simple. The police said it would all be fine.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An election campaign led by this man may genuinely cause me to combust with rage
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A funeral without laughter is like a wedding with no love- pointless
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would go further than this and add, that a lot of them were in politics for little more than self-aggrandisement or a sense of "I thought I'd be good at this", rather than any wider ideological or even sectional commitments
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Confusing cabinet appointments, ranked: 1) Nandy - Visibly disinterested, openly insubordinate, and a vital role. 2) Healey - When you thought the main issue with Rachel Reeves was her haircut. 3) Bryant - Consistent bungler, very little experience in either NI or Home, also not willing to learn.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'LL LET A THOUSAND ASSEMBLIES COLLAPSE BEFORE I TELL 35 ORANGEMEN TO WALK SIX MORE MINUTES
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a tough race, by Chris Bryant stands out to me as the most bizzare and bad cabinet appointment of Starmer-Burnham.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My year long strategy of ignoring the French elections in the hope that they get better appears to have failed
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fundamentally you are an unserious person if you conflate necessary concessions to unionists as a group to surrendering whole sale to loyalists and the OO.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jamie Bryson furiously tweeting "ENFORCE THE LAW" each hour as he commands the PSNI to go in and batter a load of taigs off their own street so the Orangemen can march through. Eternal 1969 of the spotless mind.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My two thoughts on this 1) I was the only Scottish person in my postgrad class (5 English, 3 yanks, 1 German, 1 Chinese) which resulted in my lecturer calling on me to literally explain Lanarkshire sectarianism 2) Janettas has transformed from a nice wee cafe to an American malt shop
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
guess quds force decided now was the time to remind everyone they aren't a solely regional entity
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Finn @finnob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t think the man who thought the simpsons rake meme was a threat of violence is temperamentally capable of being NI secretary, I hope I’m wrong
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This being a reply to the below- couldn't make it up
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
i love star wars so much but i am increasingly of the opinion that we dont need anymore
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