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Hon Raja Mantis

@honrajamantis.bsky.social
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Artist. Musician.

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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very good:-)
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is an oDD album. oDD is for the small hours or to drift over you at work. Daydream to oDD. Maybe fall asleep. oDD hopes to be stress free. odd-music.bandcamp.com/album/odd-li...
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oDD Library, by oDD
15 track album
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg. Best ever
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“As we try to keep everyone cool and calm at the rescue centre during the heatwave, I thought I'd repost a compilation of everyone's favourite clips of the dogs choosing their own toys!” #rescuedog #toys #joy IG: @fetcherdog Animal Shelter, Kent, England
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Heidi #England #UK #Europe @heidisumner63.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anyway, I thought the £5mill bung was for security??
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
AAAAAAAAAHHHHH
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Apparently £5million can’t buy you enough security to protect you from an imaginary threat.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"
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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪
Dessin dans le style du peintre belge René Magritte
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Biggus Jimmus @biggusjimmus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
You know it’s coming.
Trump stating that Belgium are two, maybe three months from developing a nuclear weapon.
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Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue · 18/06/2026
Great stuff. You can watch it muted without missing anything. Sadly visa issues meant he missed the first match, so he’s yet to go bonkers viral.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Living well will always be the best revenge. Those who look for happiness will always find it and have it heal them. Those who solely live to make others miserable will never have such satisfaction, and their hatred will consume them.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Meanwhile in the UK defence minister John Healey says “People who get their feet wet must learn to take their medicine." "When the world turns upside down, the best thing to do is turn right along with it." "Everything is possible, even the impossible." "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Arf.
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...
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Female octopuses intentionally throw debris at harassing males
YouTube video by New Scientist
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
More messaging like this.
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BooooonetteWreck @brunettewreck.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Here’s a thought - if someone is proud enough of the food they cooked or the thing they made to take a picture and put it on here just either say something enthusiastic and kind or say nothing.
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Spring is here !
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Beautiful track from Fionn Maris. Takes you off to the stars. fionnmaris.bandcamp.com/track/superl...
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Superlunar, by Fionn Maris
track by Fionn Maris
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It will make a good “24 hours in police custody” episode.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Please be careful in London. I have spent 25 years there, but I have never heard a story as frightening as this one from today in which nothing at all happened.
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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"‘Bela Lugosi Is Dead’ was the most hilarious song you’d ever imagine! An 11-minute soliloquy about Bela Lugosi! We did it seriously, and that was hilarious, too. I’d affect a vampire on stage and frighten people. It was incredibly funny.”
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The fateful story of the first-ever Bauhaus demo
A fledgling post-punk band releases a ten-minute-long, one-take debut single about the funeral of a horror star, and lo and behold, a new genre is born.
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
An excuse to remind you of this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGo...
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Jeremy Hardy Sings "Hallelujah" In The Style Of George Formby (ISIHAC)
YouTube video by József Csáth
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David Cottam @davidcottam6.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Stewart Lee just cited Cathar theology & Wittgenstein’s duck/rabbit paradox. to illustrate the difficulty of framing true political statements. (BBC R.4 : Strong Message Here) I like a comedian who doesn’t dumb down!
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I made a robot that screams.

why?
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When this is all over, every single person who voted for and enabled him should be forced to pay reparations and make a daily apology to the rest of the world.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Musk is laughing at us. There is *nothing* that’s decent or free or safe about being on X. The only responsible ‘counter narrative’ to stem the profound damage X is doing to society and democracy is to leave it, or - better still - to shut it down. (Private Eye)
ELON MUSK's plan to indoctrinate the planet with his unique worldview goes on - now X has inked a deal with the government of El Salvador.
Musk's firm says it will deliver "personalised
learning to over 1m students" via its Grok chatbot, which has previously referred to itself as "Mecha-Hitler" and promoted Holocaust denial and the "white genocide" conspiracy theory. What could possibly go wrong?


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"Woman felt ' dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes"
- BBC headline, 2 January 2026
"On X, researchers at Bellingcat discovered that Grok, the AI embedded within the platform, allows users to generate photorealistic images of any woman they like in nothing but her underwear, simply by replying to an image someone has posted with a request to Grok to 
'remove her clothes'." - Anti-Social Media, Eye 1649, 16-29 May 2025ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
READERS still planning to use X in 2026 might want to take note of the platform's updated terms of service.
Coming into force on 16 January, these have been quietly amended to ensure Elon Musk's platform of hate can use anything posted to its platform as training data for its Al systems, terminate a user's account for any reason it chooses, and to effectively monetise anything a user puts on the platform.
Specifically, the wording grants X the right
"to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content... for any purpose... these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating"
Meanwhile X is also rolling out a feature allowing anyone to use its AI, Grok, to edit any image posted to the platform directly, devaluing the work of artists and adding another layer of uncertainty around what is and isn't real.
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?” For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid. Because I care about people. You dipshit.
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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
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Hon Raja Mantis @honrajamantis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A Spaniel in John Lewis.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Chris Williams (dink) @chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Private Eye cartoon of mine from early 2024.
Private Eye Magazine Cartoon- A GB News presenter announcing " Coming up on GB News - a Tory MP interviews three other Tory MPs about BBC bias."
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Kate Jones @tryn2bkind.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Like many "feel good" stories of individuals performing acts of kindness, I'm grateful for the individual, but angry and heartbroken that we live in a society that doesn't guarantee the minimum resources to live a life without constant suffering and struggle.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines: Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty But no... "The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career" FML
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