flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hIs it not the word “intelligence” that is particularly silly here, rather than “super” or “artificial” 2226
Reposted by flyingrodentJason @jasonoflondon.bsky.social · 12hCity have previously said they'd appeal but todays PL statement is basically "oh you want to appeal? We fucking dare you". Maybe the PL was right to spend so long on it afterall. 0145
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6hAre we not even calling them “terrorist suspects” any more? We really are slacking since the heyday in the 2000s 5565
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8hVery good news here because they have as yet done and said nothing about Gaza. The sanctions relate to murder and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, which is a related but separate crime, even if the perpetrators are the same people. 34717
Reposted by flyingrodentLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8hI don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted. 718836
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9hThanks Lewis. At least ten years too late like, but better late than never. 911318
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9hConcealing more than 830 million quid in secret football spending isn’t even financial doping, unless it’s the crazy rage-monster steroid from Alien Nation 2232
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9hEvery year of Westminster politics since at very least 2008 has been worse, nastier, uglier, dumber, more cruel and insulting than the one that preceded it. It’s possible 2027 will be the one that bucks the trend - it’d be hard for it to be worse. But I’ll wait and see. 4331
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10hWe can conclude here that either 1) these lads have been assured none of this is going to happen, or 2) somewhere in Labour HQ there is a drawer full of evidence against them that’s so utterly damning, all of these guys will squeak “Oh yes I love nationalising things” like their nuts are in a vice. 410629
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11hYeah, some good stuff here and some frankly dubious bits. I’d wait and see what happens, because if you generally assume you are being cynically bullshat in Britain, then you are seldom pleasantly surprised. 13999
Reposted by flyingrodentElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 20hThis notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous. 8310106
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21hIt doesn’t matter what a majority of Brits think. There’s no democratic element to the American military operating out of Britain, and there never has been one. 318837
Reposted by flyingrodentGift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 21hMeans testing is just wedge used to turn the obviously outrageous "should we have this social net at all" into "who deserves this social net?". Every edge case is then used as an argument to diminish provision until it's gone. Cynically using people's sense of fairness to fuck everyone over. 517052
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22hThe iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year. 921273
Reposted by flyingrodentmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23hthe only rule is that if you're in their little club, you can do whatever you want to. that's why guys like brand rush to join when they get in trouble bsky.app/profile/russ... 220620
Reposted by flyingrodentNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man. 101265184
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah, I think people probably made their minds up one way or the other, after the first 75 years or so 7628
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OMG can you imagine if extremists were in charge of America, it doesn’t bear thinking about 428443
Reposted by flyingrodentHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The powerful generally do not want a free press to exist. This is not a matter of political partisanship so much as it is an observation of reality. And a more urgent one to acknowledge today, because they are closer to winning. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...hamiltonnolan.comThe Free and Unfree PressJournalism, and its adversaries. 432083
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’d rather these things didn’t happen but I do note that America is maybe one natural disaster and one global financial crash away from an “and then as farce” replay of the Bush II second term. 3467
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, it’s always been a big laugh to this type of person, a way to have a good giggle at all those angry-faced leftists who were so sad about whichever bunch of inferior semi-humans we or one of our horrible allies was bombing the fuck out of that week. 511124
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A rare example of pets coming to resemble their owners 66119
Reposted by flyingrodentNaadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 28/09/2026If you define the centre as the far right, then there's no far right problem in Europe. The more likely conclusion is unthinkable: that centrists like Rachman have actually radicalised into the far right. 56317
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026All this is basically unknowable at present so there’s little point in speculating. But I will say that all these incidents have turned out to be way dumber and weirder than they first appeared www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...independent.co.ukThe RAF Fairford bomb plot was designed to fail. So who was behind it?If this was a ploy to use old school techniques in the age of drones it was doomed from the start, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley 6368
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026TBF there was a period when social media - never unmediated, but comparatively free - helped do big things, from getting wealthy sex offenders convicted; bringing out huge protests against racism and being used to bring down bad governments that had ruled by force, propaganda, patronage and inertia. 34612
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, this ambassador may just be an arse, and yet I think this has been well understood throughout the entire Pax Americana period. 711023
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The answer here may be that when the Guardian’s staff had their big election endorsement meeting, the rank and file weren’t keen on endorsing politicians who very openly hate them and went out of their way to insult them. But the senior politics desk and commentary dorks went hard in for Labour. 22811
Reposted by flyingrodentRishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Damning. www.equator.org/articles/bid... 13519
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s podcast and LOL yes lads, everyone was gloomy in 2024 because “Keir Starmer didn’t want to be too upbeat”. It definitely wasn’t because the most horrific and malicious people in the party were in charge and it had dawned on everyone that they had pledged themselves to the cause of Evil. 45416
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Again, this just raises urgent questions about how an MP who has no observable political skills and little interest in politics or governing, who has very few allies and even fewer friends, came to be a glove puppet Derek Zoolander proxy Prime Minister for Peter Mandelson’s mates. 86313
Reposted by flyingrodentJack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026look, I was here through every other round of benefit cuts, benefit conditionality youth employment schemes, crack downs, new criteria etc. since the 1990s. At no point did reducing support or making it harder to get have some transformative effect in the targeted population. 111125
Reposted by flyingrodentJack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I will believe all the sad-eyed stuff about NEETs, lost generations, opportunity crisis etc. when the people saying it are talking about in terms of investment rather than cuts 113538
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well, there certainly does seem to be quite a lot about our relationship with America that is unclear, and deliberately hidden from the public 129819
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just looking back at the fun scenes from Conference 2024, the first after a landslide election victory heralded a bright new dawn and rebirth of social democracy, and so on. 4459
Reposted by flyingrodentDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132483815
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The scale is horrifying but for real, everyone fully understood what was going on throughout, and they behaved like that anyway. They behaved that badly *specifically because* because it’s so obviously horrific and indefensible. 318454
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026She’s saying stuff you could’ve picked up off any news stand for decades. She’s just doing it without any of the pompous window dressing, because she is for real a performing seal and a dumbass. 1417619
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The more glaring inconsistency is IMO that we call it an RAF base and Trump calls it “our fort”. 6759
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Welcome I suppose, but look: the time to recognise that most of these people work for gambling outfits, privatised utilities and tech companies, and that they protect those interests in exchange for sweet private sector jobs further down the line, was fifteen or ten years ago. It is too late now. 59517
Reposted by flyingrodentSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh... 22695195
Reposted by flyingrodentᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed 16284100
Reposted by flyingrodentPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"The base shares a long history with the American military, and has recently been used by US warplanes as a staging post for defensive strikes on Iran." now thats a sentence 5498
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sing along at the chorus, kids: they are building a permission structure, and this is no more a moral crusade than the Big Society was. 610737
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I suggest the new PM should probably ignore anything that the speechwriter for the last one has to say now. 91097
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We didn’t only waste those two years: we pissed away the four preceding years watching them tell journalists they were building a new coalition of themselves, Reasonable Tories and racist pensioners via flag-fucking, crackdowns, belligerent war speeches and shouting abuse that their own supporters. 618535
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Our fort” being an unusual way to describe what is at least theoretically an RAF base 76311
Reposted by flyingrodentAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4953701185
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If we’re talking “when you were a child”, then 10301
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Like I say, the crazed right wing backlash wasn’t so much prompted by pronouns or Black Lives Matter or trendy HR diversity training. It was mostly about MeToo, and the idea that sexually harassing your colleagues and employees would badly damage your reputation, your career and maybe your liberty. 113235
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