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Damian Corbet 🍉

@damiancorbet.bsky.social
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Ex-copywriter, now a gardener. Woke, Antifa & Radical Leftist Scum. Love books, history, music, geopolitics, old maps, geography, trees, moss, nature writing, sci-fi & stuff. Based in Bexhill, UK.

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Engel René @engelren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is he dead yet?
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 27/09/2026
The terrorists had infiltrated the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Thankfully, steadfast police officers discovered old ladies with deadly weapons such as signs with unapproved words. They have been dragged off to cells and now face up to 14 years in prison. Isn't this brilliant?
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Any jobs evaporated by AI probably don’t qualify as ‘real work’ anyway” ~ Sam Altman
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“If Vance manages to succeed Trump, Thiel - his benefactor, mentor, and maker - will become the most powerful man in the world.” ~ @gilduran.com
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Love doesn’t scale.” That says all you need to know about these fuckers. a16z.com/the-techno-o...
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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Was reading and writing inevitable?
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Telegraph is at it again.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another stunning success for Baron President Trump-Harkonnen to add to his list of achievements that are making America great again. #ReflectingPool #ETTD
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
PERSON OF THE DAY. 1 August 1944. Anne Frank wrote the final entry in her famous diary, writing, “I get cross, then sad, and ... keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be … if only there were no other people in the world.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why I’ll be supporting Spain.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Clacton, you know what to do.
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just a reminder for those not familiar with UK media, please don't circulate posts or articles by the Daily Mail, the paper has been aligned with the far-right since the 1930s and continues to promote the forces of modern fascism.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nigel Farage is a grifter and a traitor. Pass it on.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A west Belfast grandmother has launched a legal challenge against the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror organisation. Good for her 🍉
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
BlueSky really needs to do something about fake accounts. It’s ruining the platform.
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Gotta love Kathy
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The world’s first trillionaire. Enjoy.
Elon musk trillionaire
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.
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Tiollamp @tiollamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nearly 400,000 young Americans gave their lives fighting fascism and NOW THIS??? ‼️‼️
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thinking about the Russian troll factory who totally failed to have any impact on the election despite producing hundreds of fake news clips about Nikol over the last few years.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I arrived in the UK from Zimbabwe 40 years ago today.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This has arrived! Can’t wait to read it, @jeremylent.bsky.social 💚
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Jeremy Lent @jeremylent.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We are all integral parts of complex systems, and the ecosystem for transformative change is no exception.  Read about what we can learn from the success of the most successful movement in recent history. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyle...
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How the Neoliberals Won — and What We Can Learn From Them
How movements working for a life-affirming future can learn from history — and from each other
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🔴 What if Reform wins I interviewed Peter Chappell, who’s written a new book about exactly that
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What if Reform wins
🎥 An interview with Peter Chappell...
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There is only one word for this.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As a gardener, I sometimes have to do short back and sides.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 01/06/2026
This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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Two US political commentators banned from entering UK
Home Office says presence of Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker in UK ‘may not be conducive to the public good’
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Do we stop life to allow capitalism to continue, or do we stop capitalism to allow life to continue?” (George Monbiot).
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tony Blair, a lobbyist with close ties to the Trump administration and fossil fuel industries, says the UK should drill more oil and get closer to the Trump administration
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Let this image be seared onto your memory and go down in history.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Our unique, precious home. Time to start treating it as such.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/05/2026
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu’s minister of national security, has fulfilled the nightmares of Israel’s liberals—and the fantasies of its enemies, Avi Issacharoff argues:
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Israel’s Human Wrecking Ball
And the prime minister who empowers him
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
When I started this book I thought Paul Kingsnorth was making some really good points. But by half way through I gave up as I realised he’s just another privileged reactionary. The worst kind: a former ‘eco warrior’ turned conservative. Yawn.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper
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My View
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Farage's finances are deeply revealing
Reform UK leader has ushered in a new era of politics
In times to come, British politicians, historians and voters will try to figure out how, in the first quarter of the 21st century, Nigel Farage became one of the most
›powerful operators on these isles.
How did he lure and captivate so many? Why did they not question his fibs and postures?
This chap was born into a wealthy family, attended a private school, was a city trader, wears fine suits,
belongs to the most excuisive of London clubs, and socialises with millionaires and powerful elites.
But Martha, 65, a neighbour who worked for years as a shop assistant, and is a former Tory but now Reform voter, tells me: "He cares about working people. He will make this country great again." Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy, It does my head in.
Farage gives off the appearance of a spiv - defined in most dictionaries as a flashy, shady dealer. He dresses ostentatiously and plays the political system. His well-practised grins and glasses of ale, his choreographed moments of patriotic fervour and emotionally-charged nationalism, and various
other manipulations have created an avatar. The real Mr Farage is a grubby, shameless distorter of truths, a dissembler who ducks accountability.
As the former Green leader, Caroline Lucas recently wrote about his part in getting the Brexit vote through: "There is a particular kind of audacity required to spend decades dismantling something then point to the rubble and declare it someone else's fault. Nigel Farage has that audacity in spades. He has built an entire political career on it."
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Just a reminder…
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
These words by Paul Kingsnorth seem rather fitting today.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
As a gardener, I occasionally come across little wonders like this. The rotting log is a perfect home for mosses and lichens (and lots of tiny critters).
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why does Farage keep getting away with it??? 👇👇👇 youtu.be/BuVgqWG8Ucs?...
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Why Does Nigel Farage Keep Getting A Free Pass?
YouTube video by HarryEccles
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 14/05/2026
This is real patriotism.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Some pics of Jasper, just because.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Oh and this front page from @bylinetimes.bsky.social June 2025 edition should rightly haunt Streeting
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Loz @lozq76.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
More than 40 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have sent an open letter to Keir Starmer, condemning him for linking attacks on Jews with pro-Palestine marches by @skwawkbox.org
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Holocaust survivors condemn Starmer for linking Palestine marches to attacks
More than 40 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have sent an open letter to Keir Starmer, condemning him for linking attacks on Jews with pro-Palestine marches.
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Damian Corbet 🍉 @damiancorbet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Christian Zionism: What it is and how it affects the US and Israel - www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/ch…
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Christian Zionism: What it is and how it affects the US and Israel
Supported by Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee among others, the Evangelical Christian belief is regarded as offensive by many Jews
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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