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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The town also ain't big enough for the both of them.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aidan will correct me if I’m wrong but I understand that U2 have not scored a number one in Ireland ever since moving their corporate HQ to the Netherlands. 🇳🇱 🕶️

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can see the British media nepo babies map here. I made it in 2023 so it’s out of date and in need of a serious redesign. canva.link/3w346c3eme4y...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Zaytoon is more Irish than Carroll’s

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

GTA 6 is bringing back chores. Remember chores? They're back. In game form

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Certain demographics can even bomb infrastructure to force political change before being designated as terrorists by the English police news.met.police.uk/news/man-cha...

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Man charged in connection with ULEZ camera explosion in Sidcup

A man has been charged following an explosion at the site of a ULEZ camera in Sidcup.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Read up on the Sidcup bomb. The threshold for white, conservative males is very high before they're considered terrorists under UK law

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's almost as if their rabid Islamophobia and Transphobia had nothing to do with protecting women

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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It seems a very apposite time to ask Richard Tice to explain why he needs to head a company with no employees and no products, that appears to do nothing other than receive large amounts of money which it then swiftly transfers to the accounts of Reform Ltd.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Keir Starmer is a vindictive, petty person. You didn’t need to wait until today to know that. It’s the organising principle of the entire Labour Together faction.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TL:DR, in 2020, I got to ask Werner Herzog whether the story about him being forced to speak French to some child soldiers was true, and he gave me the most poetic, most Herzogian response I could ever have hoped for.

“Hello. Can you hear me?” asks a black screen on my laptop. I am using Zoom for the 4,000th time since the beginning of the pandemic and enjoying approximately the 4,000th technical glitch in the same time period. A few seconds later, Werner Herzog bursts into view, his familiar face framed by bookshelves and sliding drawers, which I long to believe contain a spear and the animatronic prostheses of a fully working Loch Ness Monster. For 20 minutes, I withstand the ego-shredding horror of a five-second delay in video communication, which leaves my every question stranded in total silence as if the stupidity has rendered him dumbstruck.

Feeling increasingly stupid myself, I bite the bullet. “Werner,” I ask, “were you really held at gunpoint and made to speak a few regrettable sentences in French?” Is the story you tell in the Incident at Loch Ness outtake real?
“No,” he says. “Look, I do speak those languages, sure. I mean, I do not speak Latin or ancient Greek because they are dead languages, but I can read them. It’s of minor importance; as always, there’s some layers, few facts, a few distortions. It’s inventive. I do have fundamental problems with speaking French because I am very Bavarian, and it’s a very different attitude to spoken language or discourse. Discourse is different from French. I did have to do with child soldiers in Honduras and Nicaragua for one film. I’m actually planning a project in Sierra Leone with child soldiers — completely staged, of course — but it concerns some U.N. troops and a small group of child soldiers who hold a checkpoint at a bridge. So, of course, child soldiers have always had a certain appeal to me because something deep comes across there.”

Perhaps sensing my dejection at his runaround answer and the end of our allotted time together on Zoom, Herzog launches into an unbroken paean to fakery’s favorable position over the so-called truth, citing the French Nobel Prize winner André Gide and William Shakespeare, two figures who’ve expressed a preference for feigning. “Only those who are deeply religious would tell you what the truth is,” he says at one point. “And they are obviously as wrong as it gets because the biggest of all fake news is religion.”
And what of this outtake, I ask. Is it not itself, for all the joy of its execution, merely fake news of the same order?
“I always quote Michelangelo as my key witness” he replies, “whose Pietà is in Rome. When you look at the statue, you see the dead body of Jesus in Mary’s lap. Jesus’ face is the tormented face of a 33-year-old man. And when you look at the face of his mother, she is 15. So my question is, Did Michelangelo try to cheat us? Did he try to give us fake news? Did he try to defraud us, lie to us? No. I think he made a clear statement.”

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's the NEC's world. We're just living in it

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

To paraphrase Hemingway: a true Christian amongst Christian Nationalists is a rare thing

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What I would say here without actually defending Zach is that a lot of the positions Dolly took are things which *should* be neutral: workers’ rights, literacy, generosity, empathy, tolerance. She has drawn attention to how weird and cruel most super-rich people are with her good example.

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Quite the contrast from labour where no member, MP, or leader gets anything last the NEC

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This bit from The Times’ story on the killing of Bradley Townsend, a fisherman from Barnsley who volunteered for the Russian Army, leaves quite a lot out. Aiden Minnis is a former member of the National Front who was jailed for four years for a racist attack. "Another Briton”, indeed.

Aiden Minnis, another Briton enlisted with Russian forces, paid tribute to his friend on social media, saying he had "sacrificed his life for our cause".

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel"

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's the NEC's world. We're just living in it.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I enjoyed writing this one.

Go back to first principles and the entire performance of royalty is fundamentally weird. We’re over a quarter of the way through the 21st century and still expected to believe there is a group of people born with an intrinsic specialness and that, at any given time, one of them is chosen by God to sit on a throne, wear a special hat, and ‘rule’ over the rest of us. Is it any wonder that those journalists and commentators who focus on the royals are themselves so utterly weird?

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"The purpose of a system is what it does"

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's as if the Bloodhound Gang did a song with Leonard Cohen

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think in might start the contrarian position of "English realist": "Listen, buddy, you're either German or French. You can't just identify as some third thing just cos you blended the languages"

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.

soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.

I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unit

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hmmm the Economist has written a piece on the virtues of Radio 2 and seems to have confused ‘racist’ for ‘infamous doom monger on immigration’ in its description of Enoch Powell Funny that

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When I lived in Abu Dhabi, 2006, house servants were priced, in mainstream newspaper ads, by race,with fillipino as the most expensive. It's no wonder that the worst of British migrants wants the UK to adopt this attitude to other humans.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is the mantra of a beheading video, not responsible journalism

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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Textbook antisemitism from the Economist holocaustremembrance.com/resources/wo...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.

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