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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 1h

Decent people said: “The extreme #transphobia and appalling behaviour of #BridgetPhillipson is truly sickening. #AndyBurnham can’t shrug this off as one bad apple. Every Labour councillor, candidate or party member found to have such despicable views must be thrown out of #Labour immediately.”

Quote from a Guardian article, 15 Oct 2026.

Reads Bridget Phillipson MP, chair of the Labour party, said: “The extreme racism and appalling behaviour exposed by this investigation is truly sickening. Nigel Farage can’t shrug these latest revelations off as being a few bad apples. Every Reform councillor, council candidate or party member found to have made such despicable comments must be thrown out of Reform UK immediately.”

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 9h

Haha. You can't even see the ideological content of your models of the world. I suppose it's not bleak in your world. Ignorance is bliss, and all that. Have fun with your life.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h

Under the current UK legislation the works of Sally Rooney now can't be published in the United Kingdom but those of Adolf Hitler can be. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

irishtimes.com

Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action

Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13h

The WSJ appears to think that the murder of Latin American fishermen was meant to stop cocaine getting into the country, which is a bit weird.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14h

The War on Drug is more than half a century old, and it's been being lost every day of those five decades and more. It's like they looked at Prohibition, and decided that making lots of Al Capones had been a) the point and b) useful.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13h

Hopeless. I'm tired of going into bookshops to look at their #comics section (invariably labeled "graphic novels" grumble grumble) and finding tons of Manga, a small amount of rubbish US comics, even fewer good US comics, the occasional British title, and nothing European.

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The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · 15h

Minister for further education James Lawless promotes government’s AI summit… … with picture of a six-fingered hand typing on a laptop

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 15h

Just imagining if I did this to some rich person wanting to verify they paid their taxes and whether I'd be called a "socialist content creator" or "terrorist"

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 17h

#OTD 1913 • An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, killed 439 miners and one rescuer ⛏️ www.library.wales/discover-lea... #Wales #History

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13h

Fucking hell. I cannot believe this is considered acceptable.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 13/10/2026

'Lola Salem was charged by Thames Valley Police in May this year along with Henry Hopwood-Phillips, a historian and geopolitical analyst with whom she worked with at the Critic Magazine

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 19h

Ethical generative AI *does not exist*.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 19h

ICE *are* cops. And all cops are too stupid to be cops. #acab

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Miller favorably compared what Trump insiders privately call his “war on terror” against the US left to COINTELPRO, the FBI’s notorious campaign of surveillance and dirty tricks targeting Black civil rights and other civil society leaders

Privately, according to two people familiar with the matter, Miller has (favorably) compared the Trump administration’s actions on this to COINTELPRO, the notorious Cold War-era FBI surveillance programs that routinely violated fundamental constitutional protections. But it’s a little more than a year of his iteration of MAGA COINTELPRO, and Miller wants more – a lot more. The sources add he’s berated other senior government officials about why more left-wingers haven’t been arrested or criminally charged, and why it is taking so long to dismantle certain liberal nonprofits; Miller has told colleagues that it would be an “existential threat” to the Republican Party if the Trump era were to end without the obliteration of the political network connected to liberal billionaire George Soros.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 21h

What happened is that ICE was created, you racist shill. #acab #amerikkka

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is incredibly sad. I once interviewed RJ Mitte on the Southbank and he was very friendly and joyful on a sunny day by the river. He leaves a legacy of disability representation on the screen; something that is far from easy to achieve and still too rare. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

theguardian.com

RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad, dies aged 34

Actor who played Walter White Jr on the acclaimed show and advocated for disability representation remembered by Bryan Cranston as ‘my sweet son’

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Buddahcjcc @buddahcjcc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Last night, at one of his rallies, Trump egged on 4 men who beat the shit out of a woman as she hurt his feelings. THIS is the face of #MAGA The mask is fully off.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23h

This is now common in various countries at this late stage of mainstreaming of far-right politics For centrists, the threat is no longer the far right which is treated with respect, as a reasonable contender for power The threats are the very extreme right and anything left of centre

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

they're talking about changing the bbc licence fee to a mandatory levy on your broadband bill so we won't even get the option to opt out of funding hatred like this anymore

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Suella Braverman made a solemn affirmation, while holding he Buddhist Dhammapada text. There was no controversy about this. www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever. Your lack of self-reflection, and your insistence that modern North American conventions should be the norm for everyone else, is quite something. Insisting on the concrete realism of your culture-specific ideology is very illuminating. As I said, I see you. I see your supremacist ways.

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Apples n Spice @applesnspice.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We have a Caelan Conrad discussion for that topic as well. "Harry Potter did nothing for literacy" youtu.be/LmfFpg15ECI?...

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Harry Potter did NOTHING for literacy

YouTube video by Caelan Conrad

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Looks like being against HMOs is just another way of being racist without admitting it. Based on my experience living in Moss Side (two decades ago), I‘d say the self appointed social media ‘auditors’ should target the private landlords who own the houses. manchestermill.co.uk/whats-happen...

manchestermill.co.uk

‘Migrant HMOs’ in Salford are under attack. But is everything as it seems?

How one city became the centre of a social media circus

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Exactly, nothing differentiates them. So why do northern Americans insist on othering them?

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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Test on Vivisectors; They have NO Feelings #ScientificFraud

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Really, no, it's not unhelpful. But OK. I see you are a proud North American who doesn't want to be seen to be linked to those other people *down there*. Whatever. *shrugs*

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On the birthday of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to remember what a cruel, heartless piece of shit she was.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just call him Russia's Ambassador to the US and be done with it.

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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Imagine a politician insulting his own followers' IQ to their faces with "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap" and having them prove him right in real time by cheering for it. Comedy writers couldn’t script a better cult parody. #Blues

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That’s Not Quite All Folks: A Looney Tunes Podcast @thatlooney.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Coming December 1st from Warner Archive: TEX AVERY-THE DEFINITIVE SCREWBALL CLASSICS COLLECTION: Featuring EVERY Tex Avery-directed short from his MGM era. SPECIAL FEATURES! A 72-PAGE BOOKLET! 4 DISCS ON BLU-RAY! Simply put, put this on your holiday list NOW!

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Christopher @chrisworcs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In Britain you have to pay the state broadcaster to spread transphobic hatred or you will go to prison

The North Korean defecting woman from the meme

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Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

cambridge.org

Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

the bbc really has been going all-out for the last half a decade to completely destroy their reputation around the world and then they whine about funding issues.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

but i bet there's a whole lot of poppy-shagging content coming up over the next few weeks that won't be blurred out at all, because CLEARLY that's not political enough to get censored like a 'Protect the Dolls' t-shirt

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵

Title card reading "Who the autoblocker blocked". Three figures: 1,271 accounts blocked in eleven days, against twelve in the two years before. 46% of the readable bulk-loaded accounts had never replied to, quoted or mentioned him this year. 2.5× the odds of being blocked for a trans-identified account, against others who wrote equally harsh posts. Below, a quote from Aaron Rodericks, 1 Oct 2026: "These do not factor in your bio or your identity. I have zero clue who you are."

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The #BBC is the most vehemently transphobic media platform that we have, worse even than the usual suspects in the printed press and GB News. Utterly hateful. Utterly vicious. #transphobia #StopFundingHate #LicenceFee

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But Unison won't disaffiliate from the Labour Party, and keeps funding pro-genocide MPs, so...

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's worth noting that fr.wikipedia defines America as an English term for the USA, and l'Amérique as the continent. That's because across Europe it is one continent. Obviously, that South Americans largely speak European languages other than English has reinforced that. 2/2

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Northern and southern America (plus central America, of course) were long known as America, a single continent. The convention of dividing the continent, an entirely political exercise, started in North America in the 19th century, spreading to the rest of the English-speaking world in the 1950s 1/2

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

That is true (hence the division of the Eurasian plate into continents). But plates have never been the basis of continental naming. India isn't on the Eurasian plate; the Caribbean is on neither the North American plate nor the South American plate; Kenya isn't on the African plate.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Arctic has ne er been considered a continent, by anybody! The AI tools will follow USAmerican convention, of course.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The US is shorthand for the USA, and perfectly acceptable because it is clear what it refers to. It's not pedantic to make clear whether you are referring to the country (USA) or the continent (America).

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Americans in the north of the continent who insist that Americans in the south of the continent inhabit a different continent are engaging in a discourse designed to other non-anglosaxon culture Americans. 2/2

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The division of the continent in North and South America is not conventional internationally, and only very common in the anglo-saxon world. Crucially, it's not recognised in the southern part of the continent of America, whose people consider themselves Americans, not South Americans. 1/2

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Home Office is accused of giving false hope to the people of Gaza after it emerged that a new safe route for Palestinian refugees will only be open to those who have already escaped to Lebanon or Jordan, for “a very small number of extremely urgent cases” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

UK accused of giving people of Gaza false hope over new refugee safe route

Only ‘very small number’ of people already in Lebanon or Jordan will be referred, says organisation running scheme

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The UCC is a mainline church with a very strong commitment to LGBTQ+ rights. Seriously, if it's UCC (see the alt text), you don't need to ask!

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