Reposted by flyingrodentIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 1hwell done lads, it's 2026 & you've managed to allow the fucking Sun to position itself as slightly less hostile to people who support LGBT+ rights than The Big Supposedly Gay Dancing Show 1126381
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1hI mean, come on lads. The only way I’m going to believe the Russians are to blame for the hard far right turn in British politics and media is if it turns out they secretly infiltrated and took over Oxford University some time around 1971. 050
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1hIt’s just not lost on me that whenever I hear that (x) is actually Russian propaganda, it’s usually little different in tone or content than the kind of thing you’d find on the front page of The Sun. 2405
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1hThat would certainly be both nice and helpfully convenient, but I note that if you want to hear theories about e.g. your Bolshevik leaders conspiring with ethnic villains against white Britons, you can get that off the news stands pretty much any day of the year. You can hear it on Radio 4. 26412
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2hI don’t doubt it mate but if a person wanted to hear about how e.g. Britain is ruled by Bolsheviks conspiring against white people with ethnic villains, then they can get that off the news stand any day of the week. They can get it off Radio 4. 030
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2hIt’s not so much what they were threatening him over - I’m sure that is what it was - as the fact they bothered to make the threat at all, rather than just doing as they pleased. That’s what they’d do to someone who isn’t one of the lads. And then, not doing it. 081
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h“Sadly, Reform have had to become racist, out expediency” guys you can just not bother trying to make it all sound credible: just say the wacky things you want to say and then brazen them out. You look like idiots trying to make it all make sense. 68713
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3hI remember that time the Telegraph did an article instructing Gove to come clean about something, or else the paper would reveal it to the world. And then, nothing. I imagine it was some kind of crude blackmail over a personal matter that isn’t the paper’s business, but who knows? 1273
Reposted by flyingrodentwariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 4hreally odd. this Spectator article from just 2 DAYS AGO seems to have been deleted from the live site along with her author page. hope the Spectator's web team are on top of this and will fix because it could look a bit, from certain angles, like they've caved to the woke mob archive.ph/yE35Aarchive.ph 14119
Reposted by flyingrodentMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4hIt is very interesting that the Mail’s story on Michael Gove’s recent ex-girlfriend being charged with CSAM offences has been memoryholed two days after it was published. Public records show she appeared at Oxford Combined Court centre on September 30 and pleaded not guilty. 13275111
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hThe business of the British print press is the recruitment and promotion of malignant wingnut crackpots, to further their own horrible agendas. 716939
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hDamn, I guess those Russkies are even more slippery than we first thought 020
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hDoes the narrative not require they would’ve intervened *against* Johnson and Brexit, in that case 120
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hBut: we all saw what happened, and I think it could not be any more clear who was to blame. 1352
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hTL:DR - Britain loudly clowned itself because our politicians and media outlets are absolutely disastrous, and primarily focused on maintaining their own clout at everybody’s expense. If fooling ourselves that it’s Russia’s fault makes it easier to mitigate the damage then fine, fuck it, why not. 1545
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hIt all seems especially silly, given we ended up leaving the EU in the way that we did because almost the entire British political/media class unified to either Get Brexit Done with Boris, or to scream at the public not to vote for the terrorist Hitler opposition party. 3426
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hLike, yes, I can entirely believe a bunch of Facebook wingnuts are actually stealth Russians. But look at the sales job for their clown Genghis war: do these people strike you as ingenious masters of propaganda? I am going to say, No. 1383
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hFine, if casting it as enemy action makes it easier to sell to people as an obviously fucking stupid thing to have done. But I do not see how Russian interference could amount to as much as a tiny fraction of the blame that should be laid on the Conservative Party, the Sun, the Mail and others. 2119646
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11hThat is at very least awkward, and it’s noticeable that it’s just handwaved. 1554
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11hYeah, this is kind of the problem: whatever the original idea was, the state we “must support” now has a fascist government pursuing expansionism, torture, ethnic cleansing and genocide with full public support, and any possible government will pursue the same project. 1413423
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13hDo people at your work behave like this? What would happen if they did 0454
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13hDoes "I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me" sound like a comment made by a semi-rational human being 3759
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13hAside from anything else: this is Camilla Long in the Sunday Times asking the public to imagine the ludicrous, would-never-happen scenario that is “the racist far right is welcomed into the heart of mainstream politics and treated as legit by the British press”. Gee whizz, can you imagine 315940
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hYeah, I think we have seen how much of an excuse the lads need to go apeshit as they please. 1330
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hAt least in 2016-19 it felt somewhat organic, even as it was almost entirely Morgan McSweeney and pals feeding drivel and bullshit to the press and mobbing together with a gaggle of deeply unpleasant right wing cranks. This time, the press are fully radicalised to screaming rage immediately. 210211
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hThis stuff took *years* last time, ramping up slowly, gently and incrementally to bring people along to wackier, crazier, nastier positions. This time, it’s just the foot stamped right down on the accelerator, straight up to maximum screaming terror instantly. 112010
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hOr does it seem like some very nasty and extremely dishonest and dangerous stuff has been going on here, for a very long time. 31468
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hNot for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right? 19489143
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hI just expected the cops would take exception to e.g. Labour, the Tories and a pack of far right crackpots monstering a senior officer out of his job by screaming about him secretly conspiring with “Islamists”. Apparently not. 0392
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hIs there a upper limit to the number of times that cranks and wingnuts can launch vexatious campaigns to prove that the police are Hamas? The answer appears to be “no”, thus far. 118014
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15hA real screams-abuse-at-employees kind of guy, and that was well known a long time ago. 020
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15hYou’d think it would’ve been understood what had happened, when it came out that people not in the party had a rule that women shouldn’t be left alone in his company. 0596
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15hScottish newspapers *still* running with the idea that those nine women were a bunch of liars, I see 810213
Reposted by flyingrodent☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026as much as i hate trump voters i'll never achieve the levels of contempt he has for them 251544213
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Very funny that the usual all-out, all-channels outrage hasn’t made Polanski less popular than Starmer managed, just by being himself and doing Sensible Centrist Politics 715032
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The Bush admin were told by authoritative figures that the war was unwinnable *in 2005*, and one government after another lied about it for fifteen years. 261
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yeah, “the war crimes were regrettably necessary” is pretty much what I expect, and I imagine it’ll work too. 159322
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s also because the next few months are going to be one miserable piece of terrible news after another, so it’s best to milk this stuff as hard as possible now 020
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I imagine they are very nervous indeed about what could happen if, say, Peter Mandelson ever got a bit too chatty. 120
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Can you imagine what it would look like, if the lads decided to expose the views and behaviour of e.g. individual Tories or Reform members, if they trawled their social media accounts for incriminating comments. 26413
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Is it good, that parts of the British press have spent much of the last decade Discovering The Networks Of Secret Influence, by which they usually mean “here are some black and brown people we don’t like”? I would say: no 18316
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I invite you to notice that the Times is yet again targeting individual, named members of the public, a thing they’ve been doing at least since they were naming and “exposing” individual black students who wanted to move a statue or change the English lit reading list ten years ago. 1414944
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Back in 2018-19, you used to get smart Sensible people saying “Well, this wouldn’t happen if” and the bottom line here is: this idiotic bullshit keeps happening because smart, Sensible people simply *will not stop acting the dick*, no matter how awful it gets. 06012
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Me: (Head to toe in black, standing in front of a billowing union flag and behind a podium with “Mandatory Remigration Now” written on it) The left’s racial hatred terrifies me, I have to sleep with the light on 29527
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“Clown country”, is pretty much all that can be said here. This is what happens when your ruling class turns to the far right to save them from the left, in short. 914834
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026(I’m joking: getting paid off is brutal, wildly stressful stuff, and I’m sure it’s doubly so in a dying industry with few open positions. People generally have to take shittier, worse-paid employment with worse conditions, further from their houses. But you know, it’s the Telegraph). 5463
