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DanC

@danc.bsky.social
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Ex-English teacher, writer & editor, anti-fascist, linguist, LUFC-enjoyer & 6Music dad. EngLangBlog: tinyurl.com/5n8kmxwy Lexis podcast: tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh Pronouns: He/him Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa

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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone know if there will be screenings of NAZA? I know it's going to be online soon but was interested in cinema screenings.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Always good to reinject a bit of Death Cab into the system. Helps that the new album is one of their best in ages.
Death Cab for Cutie on stage at the Troxy
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think it's time to repost this blog post on #AI, ¢metaphors and 'control' (and 'going rogue') makingsciencepublic.com/2026/08/07/a...
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AI, metaphors and control
In the early 2000s, during the dramatic but now almost forgotten outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle, I wrote about war metaphors and the issue of projecting control over an ‘out of …
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a very important corrective by @casmudde.bsky.social to the bursts of coverage - and then radio silence - of much of the media when responding to recent European elections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas Mudde
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde
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Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We spoke on the podcast a little while ago to different experts about some of the issues raised in this article. theconversation.com/how-the-emoj...
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How the emojis and fashion choices of Germany’s far-right supporters get around the ban on Nazi symbolism
The extreme right has learned to navigate Germany’s strict laws on extremist symbols
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting read - plausible deniability and in-group codes at the heart of this. Oh and lots of fascism.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great to see Labour getting to the heart of the real discrimination issues in society like frothing racism & RNLI crews being assaulted... Oh hang on. “I don’t think it’s fair for football fans to be singled out in that way and I do believe there is a case to remove that discrimination."
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Presumably he was interrupted as he started railing against the Lügenpresse and smashing his fist off the desk?
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amid the pessimism that we're sinking back to late 70s levels of far-right street activity - or worse - this is a positive piece about lessons we can learn from the past and how they are being implemented in some places now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj Ali
Young men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration, says Taj Ali, author of Come What May, We’re Here...
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Would be amazing to see Burnham and co set up an agency to fight information warfare from the likes of these sinister foreign powers.
Shit Daily Express front page rambling about forins.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Would DC Price of @thesquareball.net care to comment on this description of his 'big boy bowl'? bsky.app/profile/fess...
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is where 'legitimate concerns' gets you.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why not go the whole hog and call it Super Trump Intelligence, or STI for short?
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Grandad's on the crack again.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hard to believe, I know.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bloody hell, have accidentally heard about 10 minutes of Nick Robinson on the radio. Never again.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The playing of stupid games continues at pace. I can’t wait to see what the prizes will be. Good ones probably.
Per the BBC: “ "More freedom handed to new arrivals than British citizens" reads the headline on the front page of the Daily Express.
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In an exclusive for the Daily Express, leader of the Conservatives Kemi Badenoch tells the paper "more freedom [is] given to new arrivals in Britain than British citizens." She was pictured with residents of Piddington, who have voted to leave the UK in a symbolic referendum to protest the government housing migrants nearby.”
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That relative clause is doing a lot of work for the far-right. Let's face it, a plumber, teacher, delivery driver, care worker or even a politician from outside the principality itself, WHO COULD BE A MURDERER, may move unchecked into the area.
ASYLUM seekers who could be murderers may move unchecked into the planned camp near Piddington with more freedom than protesting villagers, Kemi Badenoch has claimed.

The Tory leader was told by local women that police have advised them to run and hide if they fear danger.

She said: "This is not just an immigration issue. This is a women's issue, a safeguarding issue. People will not be
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does every picture of Ratcliffe make him look like a man who's been sent to the wall to live out his days as a nightsoil collector in Moletown after an incident with a goat?
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Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
A report by Claire Hardaker on how her funding application to study the risk of misplaced confidence in fluent-sounding AI systems was rejected by AI-based review. #ForensicLinguistics #AI
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I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a...
I've had some pretty special rejections over the years, but this one, received at 16:51 on a Friday (today) has shot to the top of my all time Hall of Fame. For context, Georgina Brown and I put a pro...
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's almost like he has not read a word of Empireland
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Commentators on the state of the UK should be ignored in direct proportion to how often they cite our past glorious Empire in their diatribes, and how we won two World Wars
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cole Palmer appealing to the ref there.
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Simpsons Cletus
ALT: Simpsons Cletus
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Prettiest pumpkin 2025 @wikihowtologout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Important piece and I would add that this has been our experience in Bristol as well. Time & time again Bristol has shown we don't want fascists on our streets & intimidating refugees. Cops however seem determined to use batons, boots, horses & pava spray to force marches where they are not welcome
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Mr Socko @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Gah, clean sheet gone but otherwise pretty darn good.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We live in such profoundly debased times.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So this is where being 'apolitical' gets you. Great work, Ed.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I'll have to whisper it" 🤣
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Silo season 3 is bloody great - a real step-up from the first two.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Egg Foo Young
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Throwing Mushies
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Big Starch
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Feels like a lifetime ago, given the current balance of forces. And we can't say that we weren't warned by AFA of exactly what has now happened.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not now, Duo. We've had enough fascism for one day.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Remember guys, Farage simple cannot be bought.
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Searchlight magazine @searchlightmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Danny Tommo doxxes his mum, gets a £64,000 fundraiser, then bottles it in Portsmouth when police announce a ban on masks at this weekend’s 'patriots' rally. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/dann...
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Danny Tommo strikes gold with the great mum-doxxing fundraiser | Searchlight
Danny Tommo doxxes his mum, gets a £64,000 fundraiser, then bottles it in Portsmouth when police announce a ban on masks at this weekend's rally
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seems dodgy that Delo is also deeply connected to extreme right-wing individuals and groups, including a personal friendship and funding an ex-academic esoteric Nazi that lost a defamation case in the UK
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So that massive crypto donation to Reform is all over the front pages. Have just been reading the Nerd Reich by @gilduran.com Duran where he states: "...crypto is a weapon for capturing government through the maximization of political corruption."
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🔴 NEW Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group By @mc00.bsky.social and Olly Haynes Read below. ↓
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Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to "stop importing an invasive foreign serf class"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@gilduran.com as featured in Nerd Reich 😳 bsky.app/profile/atru...
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DanC @danc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh well, at least Bard had a good game. Sadly #LUFC appeared to retreat as rapidly as his hairline after 50 minutes.
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