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As I was saying: This is pretty well what you're up against in electoral politics. You cannot rationally oppose this bollocks, in fact you aren't meant to, it's meant to drag everyone down to roll in the shit and drown them in it.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 8h

I do feel that it's been done before, and I'm pretty confident our media will be happy to repeat the process. No doubt it's open season on the greens now and that will 100% fit snugly alongside legitimate concerns.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h

The New York Times has *four* people bylined on this piece — its chief UK correspondent, national security correspondent, another international correspondent based in London, and a ‘global security’ reporter based in London — and… it’s a soufflé of speculation puffed up through hyperventilating.

An Iranian Threat, 3 Vans and a Phone Call: Behind the Mystery at a U.K. Air Base
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13h

Keep going lads. Keep doing this shit, right in front of a public that watched this system do more or less fuck all about years of fascist mobs rioting in the street, seizing ports and burning houses. Show everybody what you are.

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Hesitation Marx @nparticipacion.bsky.social · 15h

is settler-colonialist ethnonationalism racist? hard to say. is the slaughter in gaza a genocide? there is some debate. however, antisemitism was, oddly, extremely easy to arrive to a unanimous definition of and implement as such in dozens of institutions

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 15h

While "reducing a contested term down to one thing" might seem compelling as an argument against calling Zionism racism, it does rather rely on at least some significant body of opinion within that ideology not being foaming at the mouth Islamophobes. A standard they've not met ever.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 15h

Personally, I think anyone advocating for an ethnostate needs to explain how the racism isn't fundamental to their political position.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

The lobby hacks are going to be loudly mystified at this stuff because the only way to understand what’s happening is if you know this system is rigged, malignant and shit, and that it can only keep going like this due to the balls-deep complicity of the British press.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h

What did Ta Nehisi Coates say? He said: people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. And the British political/media class already demonstrated they will gladly fuck everyone and wreck everything if pushed, when they forcefully shoved Boris Johnson into Number Ten.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why are we even asking whether this project is racist, as we enter *year four* of undisguised genocide, while Israel’s leadership class keep telling journos that Britain is a dark Bolshevo-Muslim nightmare led by Islamocommunist extremists? *Of course* it is extremely racist, undeniably so.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be honest, this is exactly the kind of egotistical know-nothing I'd expect rightwing politics to deliver. And Kemi isn't even the stupidest, most destructive iteration of ego, there's always more barrel to scrape.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's particularly obvious when you try to port this worldview onto any national category which doesn't have an arbitrary, secondary catch-all. What would the Irish equivalent of this even mean? "You're not Irish, of course, but we'll let you call yourself Hibernian if you like"?

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A small example of how Labour Conference works- the "Transport Reception " with the Secretary of State isnt held by Transport Unions, its funded by Amey , a privatiser "named and shamed" for breaking minimum wage laws this year. The "shame" doesn't stop Ministers doing their gigs.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Alt: a photo of Terry Pratchett sitting on a white metal bench apparently drinking from a magnum of champagne while petting a large pig stood beside him.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What the fuck are we doing here?

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm morbidly fascinated by this obsession with testosterone. They really do seem to think it makes super soldiers... Although what "super" means in the context of a military that mostly runs via joystick and keyboard I don't know.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess face eating leopards gotta do their thing.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seriously though, we're a fiver a month and will make you considerably less stupid

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How far back would you like to go, because this has been going on so long it's hard to know where to begin: www.itv.com/news/granada...

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 29/09/2026

living in Britain is listening to very Sensible People happily talking about how we need to reduce the benefits 'burden' in the cruelest way possible while being cheered to do it, but any suggestion that we abolish the monarchy or reduce our military budget is treated as the ideas of a rambling fool

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Hepatitis 5G @hep5g.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "road less travelled" here being "austerity".

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a *very* important point.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 29/09/2026

It would be interesting to look at the circumstances in which the BBC considers student protest to be very important and those in which it is silly and trivial

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The media consent machine never runs out of fucking scabs to present us. The uni is quite literally gutting its courses. This however, not the issue so far as the BBC is concerned. Honestly fuck this noise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Student: University of Nottingham strikes 'not what we signed up for'

The University of Nottingham said it was "disappointed" by the timing of industrial action.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Means 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.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly incredible the extent to which so many people have convinced themselves that opposing universal benefits is somehow a progressive position. One of the main ways the centre left has radicalised itself into austerity Osborneism, tbh.

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Sanitary Naptime @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No Mr. Bond Markets, I expect them to die

Goldfinger in the movie Goldfinger but he’s stood in front of one of those shitty HOPE AGAIN banners from the Labour conference

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is there anything less convincing than this fucking no mark. JFC trying to sell punching future you in the face, and you can fucking bet they won't deliver anything worth the trade off.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As Naadir notes: this doesn’t mean that the far right has moderated. It means that the centrists have radicalised themselves and each other over years into the politics of the National Front circa 1974. Nice and gradual like, so they don’t feel too awkward about it. But that’s what’s happened here.

Why Europe's centre will hold
The 1930s are not a good guide to the politics of the 21st century

The Italian left points to Meloni's harsher policies on immigration and asylum as indications that she retains far-right instincts. But almost all European governments are now searching for ways to limit the flow of asylum seekers.
This is a response to growing voter unease - so arguably an expression of democracy rather than its negation.
Le Pen has been moderating her party's image for many years - shedding many of its more extreme policies and associations. In the process, she has broken with her own father, the founder of the party, and ditched plans to leave the European single currency.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW | It’s more horrifying than Gove as PM… IN THE TERRIFYING WORLD OF DR. STRANGEGOVE. Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-the-ter...

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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove

Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's peak Labour to say that social care is fucked, but we'll do something about it next election. All while sitting on the kind of stonking majority that would allow them to act now. (Which they are sure to lose.)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kind of weird how Wes went from unquestioned heir apparent to tragic no-hoper, apparently all in the five minutes it took for everyone to clock Peter’s emails to Jeffrey. One moment it’s Tomorrow Belongs To Me, the next it’s King Of The Road, and no explanation.

Aubrey Allegretti • @breealle... • 4m
Sounds like Wes Streeting has ruled out another future leadership bid •e
He tells a Fabian fringe event: "I am - for the first time since I was probably about 15 years old - not running to be leader of the Labour party, and it's quite a liberating position to be in."
Asked if that's the case "for now", the defence secretary says: "That ship has sailed."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know this is an endless cycle with me but, guys, guys, you *cannot* keep being surprised when Labour Ministers have wildly reactionary views. It's been going on for decades, at this point!!

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'll also note that keeping this up will end in dark places. You cannot go on ignoring or encouraging the worst human instincts with no consequence. As we're seeing with fascism in the UK, but also if the reaction blows the other way we have no compassion and we'll be asking for none.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's always this kind of bollocks. Let's set aside that you can draw a straight line to Draconian authoritarianism at home, or that our government is doing fuck all about local issues and just point to the fact British citizens do not like or support what is happening and that is sufficient.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just say you approve of destroying the Gaza Strip, you’ll feel better for saying it

The Times and Sunday Times • • 7h
Culture war over the Ireland v Israel Nations League fixtures is less about Gaza or football than the sanctimonious expression of hollow outrage

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You'd think the death toll, generalised scrambling, and "what if I simply got my pub landlord a big novelty cheque?" of the Covid era might have illustrated some flaws in the model. Narrator: it did not.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"How do you even begin to extract yourself from this unholy mess?" is going to be the central question of this coming decade, but that can ONLY happen if you rip out 90% of the establishment class by the studs, and they will wage unholy class war to preserve their 1st class seat aboard the Titanic.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lol, no Britain isnt "prepared for war" because a) you have not given the people a serious enough reason to want to throw themselves in the meat grinder for "britain", and b) this country's defense and investment is cartoonishly obsessed with fancy toys and pretending it's a "world power" still

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It works because all the groundwork was already done, and it just needed someone to turn up the burner on the 1930s hate a wee bit higher.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They said a British FOX News could never work but sadly, it works just fine if they take e.g. the print media’s fifteen-year hate campaign of creating panics about ethnic minorities and migrants as an orc horde of rapey sex offenders, and turn it up to eleven.

Mukhtar
@I_amMukhtar. 9h
Someone on GB News called for all migrants to be castrated.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I suspect the platitudes will be enough to reconstitute most of this bloc. I'm sorry to say that the public's perception of labour is utterly skin deep. Most don't know that the party is rotten top to bottom and blew its own bloc up. Desperation will take care of the rest.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've a few pounds to spare, consider donating some to a lovely queer and trans bookshop in Glasgow who've been having their windows smashed and sadly need to install roll shutters to be safe. They're close to the target, so help push it over? www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Clive is of course correct, and the key thing here is not that Watson has succumbed to temptation: he was a bullshit artist and a crook ten years ago too. This is just what the system looks like when there is no longer any need to pretend these people work for you, not their future employers.

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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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