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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 4h

I'm gonna do something hugely important tomorrow and ... nobody knows about it. Weird. Shoulda done it 9 years ago. Oh well.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 5h

The BBC DG is welcoming AI. Follow the example of a *real* Doctor.

Christopher Ecclestone as the 9th Doctor.
"Never paid for my license."

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 5h

How dare Robert Evans behave so poorly (and so accurately) about a wonderful movie? (Watch "A New Leaf." It's amazing.)

Robert Evans in The Offer, dismissing one of my favourite films of all time. He was right, though. It did not do well on release.

"A new leaf. Bomb. What else?"

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 9h

Doctor Who is one of the few things I gave the slightest of shits about from the BBC, and if I had to lose it to put that propaganda machine in the ground then so be it. Looks like another posh-idiot DG will do it for me. Salt the earth. #FuckTheBBC

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the ppl cheering that burnham speech on are the same ppl who describe starmer as a ‘decent man’. those ppl were locked in on voting labour anyway. the ppl deriding his speech are the ppl he needed to convince and i don’t think he did.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The kid just got off the bus!! Some awful brat, inculcated by some cruel caregiver to talk in that over-childish affectation (e.g."I'm scayuwd"), has been yelling out as we pass things, "bye twee, bye house, bye peepawl," and I resisted the urge to yell at her nan, "SHUT UP HER DAMN HOLE!" 1/2

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ive been listening to "Oh Lord" by Foxy Shazam lately and it's a fantastic warning about neoliberalism. There will always be a wrong to your right, And there will always be a war somewhere to fight, It pops into my head every time I see some tool from the Labour Party Conference.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

labour's racism continues to kill ppl.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fiscal rules are 16 years old. They were invented by George Osborne. That they are constantly referred to as some sort of immutable part of political reality drives me around the bend.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Toby from the Office was the Scranton Strangler THE WHOLE TIME!

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lost at 22? If it were "100 most effectively promoted shows" or "100 most erratically plotted shows" or "100 shows you look back and think what tf was i thinking" then sure, but "100 *BEST*?" FFS

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s weird that flat earth rabbit holes go so deep.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should give us all hope. The ascientific, fash-friendly mindset that encourages witless biological essentialism of *any* type ... not only creates this crap ... but immortalises, and shares it *AS THOUGH IT IS GOOD*! Who would leave this world worse for such toxic efforts? #FuckTERFs

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've just made arrangements for an ancient wrong to be righted. It was done 15 years ago, but became wrong about 8 years ago. Although many may see it only about 5 people know it is wrong. And I'm doing it for the most important 1. ... And it will look great. #ObscurePosting

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey, @jamesgunn.bsky.social. Is the stylised "S" from the El family gonna become the traditional hooked and looped "S" in order to distance it from fashy Kryptonian parents? (I hope not cuz some people plobably have the tat already, and that would make it kinda ... creepy.)

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"A dog can be born in a stable but that don't make it a f**king horse," - Some great thinker on biological essentialism. Either Germaine Greer or Bernard Manning; I forget which. I hope most of England slides into the channel.

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𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i *love* time travel films, but i evaluated tenet and watched about 15 minutes of it before turning it off, insufferable mumbly shite anyway this is a decent joke

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

|Prime Minister Andy Burnham has insisted he will get the welfare bill down, for example by tackling but number of young people not in education, employment or training, but not through "crude cuts".| Yeah. That education sure will get you a job, won't it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Tories would prevent long-term jobless spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes

The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heartbreaking VIDEO for all my cis followers on here (please share with any other cis people you may know) It’s about Andy Burnham’s new Transphobic Section 28 in schools and the harm caused to one trans child as a result. I never say this but I will now; Please watch don’t scroll.

youtu.be

Trans kids are no longer safe in UK schools

YouTube video by Cool2BTrans

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 23/09/2026

Meet Juliet Brown. She cancelled hundreds of evidence-based gender-affirming surgeries across all of Wales three weeks ago. Brown isn't a doctor. Or any sort of clinician. She's a businessperson, formerly a director of the service commissioning Tavistock.

•• Cwiar
Cymru
Cymraeg →
Meet the person that cancelled hundreds of surgeries for trans people
Juliet Brown, NHS Wales
Chief Commissioner

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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8:02 pm 22/09/26
Hundreds of people are out in Gosport facing a police line.
Crowds of masked protesters are now confronting a police line to chants of "let them drown" sung by a child over a megaphone.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This used to be known as "Manufacturing Consent." Our glorious leaders were jubilant, however, when they discovered that the guy who coined this phrase turned out to be in the Epstein files. ...despite all our glorious leaders *also* being in the Epstein files but ... shhh.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way this occurred to me; I overheard someone say, "Dw I." I thought - a proud Welshman stating bravely, in his native tongue; "I am." ... No. Someone asking in English, "Do he?" Which means NOTHING!! ... (You can barely see, 2 hours later, where my head bashed against that brick wall.)

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Grammar Nazi" is more than just the way that her child relatives referred to Ann Widdecombe, it is also a mean response thrown at (mostly autistic) people when linguistic laziness actively conspires to thwart their (our) understanding of the world. I used to use it about myself. 1/3

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's incredible to live in this country where the 6th largest military budget needs to be inflated to insane numbers, but one of the weakest state pensions in Europe is an unaffordable excess.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

labour have spent the last month loudly shouting that organised neonazi militias, who are doxxing and targeting members of the rnli, have a point.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My body: What's that? A cough? A succulent phlegmy cough? I know exactly how to combat this. All the tendons at the top of your left leg and the bottom of your right leg have turned to rotten, electrified jelly. You're welcome, guy.

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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My other blog piece on how terfs are also abelist and the trans and disabled communities are in it together We have the same people attacking us, lets not join them in it jojostoday.blogspot.com/2021/02/kind...

jojostoday.blogspot.com

Kindness and Cruelty: The Empathy of Humanity

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's quite horrifying, the knots into which they will tie themselves to avoid saying, "we're murdering the correct brown ones to further our interests." I am disgusted by my government, as I have been for most of my life. I'm 55.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I didn't do much today. But I kinda did a lot today. Yeah, I did a bunch of the silently staring, screaming into the void stuff, but I stopped my phone from torturing me every time I opened it. To celebrate I will do nothing tomorrow. ... (...except pick up that scrip for my kid)

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is *so* true. The overlap of disability with trans identity is neither "social contagion" nor a coincidence. Disability forces you to constantly reassess your position in and relationship to society just to survive. Gender is wrapped up in that. Me identifying eggs is like Popeye laughing.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An "imaginary" conversation between two persons, T - a person deeply in love with F, and F - a person thinking that theyre probably gonna break up with T in a month or two. 1/5

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Daily Record gave away a free Diana poster and we put it up in our student kitchen and drew a seat belt on it

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I hear Rebellion are developing a new DLC level for their next game in their Nazi-killing Sniper Elite series, set in Piddington.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20-yr-old me would be driven to his knees by the realisation that he was autistic, and epileptic, and that the immune system disorder that fucked his pancreas would continue to fuck his health for a further 35 years. When he stopped weeping I would ask how impressed he was.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fuck you, Independent. This wasn't an "Anti-Migrant" protest where people accepted our country's international duty to accept refugees but thought the numbers of economic migrants were excessive and should maybe be curbed. This was a racist protest hating on refugees and migrants. Cowards.

"RNLI vloses Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI we're branded 'traitors' after bringing migrants ashore"
Selective propaganda from the Independent

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

there are no 'moderate' democrats. stop describing capitulation to fascism as 'moderate'.

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Given the obscure self-righteous, manipulative horseshit I've had to endure over the past few months I find myself replaying Portal and tbh, Glados is more sincere and moral than most of the people I've been dealing with.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Life in Newport for the last two years.

Domnhall Gleeson being direct with a narcissist. "No, you'll make this all about yourself."

Sabrina Impacciatore pleading "A loving, nice person is not a narcissist."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Streisand Effect. Congrats, Robert Kraft and pro genocide supporters. You've just made Macklemore and his speech mentioning "Free Palestine" into a global issue, galvanizing the majority.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/09/2026

Gonna tell my kids this is Ed Sheeran

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