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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bit of a shame, that, considering it's the hegemonic ideology of my time on this earth. ah well.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ok but is influence "send a diplomat and discuss" or is it the CIA school of "influence"

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He has done more than almost anyone alive to demystify the vaunted institutions of American government! Noone was talking about court packing in 2000 even when they awarded Bush the election by complete fiat. Now normie Libs are talking about it. The old illusions fall away.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I also think his completely naked contempt for the usual kayfabe has been quite positive in a lot of ways. A lot more people are now talking openly about the Supreme Court being nakedly political rather than regarding it as some kind of out-of-the-game neutral referee. That's good!

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A pretty decent proportion of people enjoyed their self-appointed role of Correct Covid Conduct Martial, and yearn to go back to tutting at people who don't scrub their mangos with antiseptic in Tesco. Whether the behaviour did or did not prevent the spread of Covid was secondary.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's traditional for the Labour leader to offer PR, grab some well-intentioned voters out of it, then abandon the pledge the second polls close.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1/Every time I post about this/private education I get in trouble so I'll point out something different. There is no new age of industrialization.

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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am once again pointing out that when politicians say they want less people to go to university or more people to work in a factory, they never mean their own kids.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They hold up. I only ever read her Earthsea work as an adult and found it really compelling.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm going to second the Tchaikovsky pitch. Children of Time is big ideas science fiction at its best. His fantasy stuff is great too - the Tyrant Philosophers series is a great meditation on the impossibility of order and categorisation in a messy and dynamic world.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The chair from Use of Weapons haunts me....

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's the best Culture novel in my view, and always the one I recommend to new readers of Banks.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

inews.co.uk/news/politic... A couple of million pounds is a rounding error in the budget of the United Kingdom - a rounding error that decides whether hundreds of thousands of people starve. The WFP predicts "acute levels of food insecurity". That is famine and death in plain English.

inews.co.uk

'Stuff of nightmares': UK cuts aid to UN's Gaza food operations by 78%

The revelation risks reigniting left-wing anger at Labour’s approach to Gaza

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Worth noting that the British govt also required Kindertransportees to migrate to other imperial territories once they became adults. This was not enforced in the end, but that had been the policy.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every day I wake up and think "I should use AI porn bots to scam American boomers out of their pensions, it would be so much easier than working", but then I am held back by my own stupid morality.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One would think he could stay in character long enough to tell us the Minion's clear preference is "banana!". My immersion is shattered.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He thinks they've already won, and that they can use their reputation for being an established political party to launder the reputations of these thugs. Good luck with that. Even the most right-wing bits of the British Right are pretty damn keen on Law and Order.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

...with *current* policy towards universities - if neglect constitutes a policy - probably doing the exact opposite.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really enjoyed this conversation. Lots to think about, and I found Davies' placing of the intellectual in a historically constituent place in the C20th really useful. It does beg the question of what kind of material and social conditions could improve the quality of the UK's public square...

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(even with support - outcomes are simply not good enough!) www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/sites/defaul...

ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NHS guidelines say children should receive a diagnosis within 13 weeks. The average waiting time is over a year, and more than 200,000 are on that list. Without the diagnosis, children with acute needs cannot access the necessary support.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Despite all the media attention paid to stories of 'overdiagnosis' of autism, the real story is that many families are desperate to access support for their children and are langouring on waiting lists. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.com

‘Her mental health deteriorated’: family forced to wait years for autism diagnosis

A mother describes the frustration of endless waiting lists and difficulties getting appointments so her teenage daughter can get the help she requires

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's simple. I just need a government that cuts through all the bureaucracy and red tape and gets things done but that also doesn't inconvenience anyone in any way at all.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Quite odd even in media pieces too - endless "ah, we don't know what to call this radical new form of politics" articles when I, in fact, know exactly how I could categorise those politics

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But he's terminally online with a 4x weakness to touching Grass :(

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah Will's just...always on one isn't he.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The person in question did say recently they had 16 hours a day screen time, which probably didn't help.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Taylor Lorenz pulling a "Why I'm Leaving the Left" is perhaps the most predictable thing ever to have occurred, narrowly edging out "housecat slowly pushes cup off edge of table"

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't think those are mutually exclusive!

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean we lived on a council estate and I rather imagine Joanne did not, which might explain things...

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah I lived down the road from a Chinese family circa 1995 in the bustling cosmopolitan metropolis of Scarborough.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also like....even if you did not personally know any Chinese people, when naming your character - wouldn't you engage in the most minor amount of research? I mean I know this is the woman who Google translated "magic castle" into ten random language to name all the magic schools but come on.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, the whole "has anything ever got better ever" discourse is stupid, but we don't need to embrace the idea that the industrial revolution was some kind of unambiguous good.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is not true! Mechanisation reduced the amount of available work in agriculture pushing people to seek work elsewhere. Plenty of people resisted proletarianisation and mechanisation, and living standards in C19th cities were awful.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not even subtle is it? He's a long-time Tory PR operator, brother to former govt minister, bought the Jewish Chronicle - a lifelong career in right-wing comms. The idea he'd be some kind of principled warden of Beeb impartiality is laughable.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the Right has successfully characterised itself as transgressive and the Left as nagging, nanny-state, politically correct and effeminate in the culture at large. That's hard to undo, and is possibly behind a lot of Centrist Dads being Not So Centrist After All.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the 'reactionary centrist' concept is probably the best way of describing a lot of these people. They feel they are liberal because they're cosmopolitan and wordly; they have dinner parties, eat hummus, have gay friends. But they *are* conservatives in their actual politics.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean, the BBC has been the subject of an extremely successfully campaign of right-wing entryism since the Cameron years. It is routinely criticised as wet and woolly and liberal whilst their news programming is helmed by people slightly to the right of Genghis Khan.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's the same Zero Sum thinking that animates Art of the Deal. Someone has to be getting fucked over, someone has to be losing.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's also corrosive to democratic representation more widely. If MPs are scared to meet the public at surgery, scared to read their messages, scared to open the post, how are people meant to let their views be known to their representative?

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh yeah. John Hammond played by Richard Attenborough! Derp.

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