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Kayla

@ghostface-kayla.bsky.social
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Web Dev / Misanthrope / Immigrant in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Interested in politics, art, philosophy, and all the cool bands you haven't heard of yet.

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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Men are not well.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just imagining a scenario where England won the world cup and Count Binface won the Clacton by election...
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The same "liberal men" who were falling over themselves to explain why *some* casual racism and misogyny is actually totally nbd now suddenly completely blindsided.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm spending my time in the hairdresser's chair this morning firing off emails to all 7 of my MSPs who voted against this. Unbelievably disappointing and with such poor reasoning - the slippery slope argument is a cheap cop out.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Indeed. On the media point, I've been stunned at the number of times I've read some variation on the words 'tricky for Starmer as his focus on the cost of living has been overshadowed by Trump's Venezuela raid'. I mean, yeah, sort of. But in another sense, the wood is being missed for the trees.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I just don't understand Labour's complete failure to recognise that these spineless, avoidant "politician's responses" are a huge factor in driving people towards right-wing populism. People are crying out for authenticity and strength and instead they keep pumping out this milquetoast nothingness.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/01/2026
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/11/2025
This is so funny. "I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
anthonymoser.github.io
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This reminds me of that famous Neil Postman blurb about the difference between Orwell and Huxley and how Huxley thought our own undoing would be a love of technologies that don't require us to think. We're being actively encouraged not to read or think for ourselves and everyone is like GREAT 👍
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
As an immigrant with ILR who volunteers voluntarily (the clue is in the word), from Brownies to animal shelters, being forced to have done so would have made me feel very separate to and disconnected from my community. Singling out immigrants for extra unpaid labour will only breed resentment.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The absolute gall to expect immigrants to work 12 hour shifts propping up the NHS and then also have to find time to perform unpaid labour that their British colleagues don't have to, all just to appease a bunch of racist flag waving assholes who have never given anything back to their communities.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15/09/2025
Racist views were something agreed to be shameful. For the people pushing racist views today, the reluctance to call them out is a tremendous boon. Even as social media brings them together, it demonstrates to them that they can be bolder without consequence. That’s why they’re now more explicit /4
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
substack.com
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It's been more & more dismaying seeing journalists and commentators parrot the "legitimate concerns" line that the Starmer government has themselves adopted. The economic situation hasn't suddenly deteriorated over this year, however, the media normalisation has massively snowballed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Calling the female journalist "slag" is really the cherry on top of the "protect women and girls" cake.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This government is really excelling at finding novel ways to be tepid.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Hey @bestforbritain.org just FYI the 'your name' placeholder in that iframe is not editable. I checked out the html and the <span> it's in is set to content editable="false" so that needs editing so people can enter their names!
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/07/2025
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
youtu.be
WATCH: U.S. Army veteran gives first-hand account of suffering, starvation in Gaza
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I had the same thought so did the math based on chatGPT estimating that an elite competitive eater with a 15 year long career will eat roughly 11,000 hot dogs. (11,000*30) = 330,000 mins 330,000/1,400 = 235 days Seems worth it, honestly ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If a podcast doesn't do it for you, it's so easy to just unsubscribe & move on. The fact that he needed you to witness his unhappiness screams lonely bloke with no friends desperate to feel seen. Which is obviously not your emotional baggage to have to carry 🚮 Bye, Felicia!
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The Great Gatsby. It was and still is some of the most beautiful prose I'd ever read and it also clearly demonstrates what a con the American Dream is; how elites are forever playing by completely different rules. It means so much to me I even got a tattoo inspired by it 🤓
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Every time I visit Paris I squeeze in a trip to one of the locations mentioned in A Moveable Feast; definitely recommend revisiting as a tourism guide!
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🛑 Anti-war protest - Edinburgh 📍Foot of the mound 📅 23 June 🕐 17:30
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sex pest solidarity.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is who is protecting you now, America.
Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S.
Terror Prevention
WEEDING OUT TERRORISM
Tom Latchem Reporter
Updated Jun. 6 2025 5:58PM EDT
Published Jun. 5 2025 7:01AM EDT
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So many genuine problems facing the UK - neither the government nor individuals have enough money, poor public services, threats from hostile foreign powers. That parts of the right obssess about "too many brown people in London" speaks volumes about their lack of solutions to the real problems.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Being an immigrant under Theresa May's stewardship of the Home Office was bleak and often frightening. This feels like it has the potential to be 100x worse. I didn't expect much from this government but fuck me, I really didn't expect them to go full Rivers of Blood.
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 12/05/2025
Since Starmer decided to make immigration a supernova-hot hot button issue... I knew Labour were piling indignities on immigrants like sprinkling confetti at a wedding, but I managed to miss this particular horror until yesterday. Perhaps you didn't know either? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
How often I give a plaintive cry of "what a world, what a world," how rarely I feel the relief of melting into the floor beneath me.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/04/2025
there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words
Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 11/04/2025
Leave it up to Donald Trump to find a way to get all of the minuses of tariffs with none of the few benefits
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This is like O.J. attending Nicole’s funeral (which he did, and for the same reason).
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s. That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.
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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
In DC:
A white protest sign being held up by the arm and hand of someone wearing a ball cap, ahead in the crowd. In green, it has the pixelated image of a covered wagon from the old Oregon Trail computer game, and it says “You have died of Republican policy.”
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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
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Kayla @ghostface-kayla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Murder the Government by NOFX
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Whiskey Pete Hegseth has a Russian burner phone which he uses to communicate in secret with someone. 👊🇺🇸🔥
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Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sends a text that remind him of the war plans He sends a text that reminds him of the war crimes #Hegseth
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