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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How Long…? Episode Two, coming Thursday!

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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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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran has strongly held moral convictions, but they go to another school.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They all do this: they leave the BBC talking about how glad they are to be free of the corporation’s stifling restrictions, and then it turns out all of them have the same boring-as-fuck, driving gloves Tory opinions about everything.

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’ve got to the ‘attacking the RNLI for not letting people drown’ stage of radicalisation without the media offering one shred of reflection over whether they may be responsible.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s not a mistake. The problem here is not a failure to understand. They all know, very well.

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Exactly. This.
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German Chancellor Merz seems about to make the mistake that other centrist leaders have made to fend off the far right. Preemptively implementing their program does not diminish the need for them but legitimizes and reinforces the...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This has been presented to the public as Sensible, moderate, centrist, common sense politics.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The black outfit mask guys have had years of politicians fighting each other to win their approval, with all-channels unanimity that they are justified and correct. The granny and the vicar have had a decade of incredibly hostile screaming hatred from the very top of politics and media. Thus

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Kevin Maguire: "If you're an elderly vicar or a grandmother.. with a sign protesting against genocide.. & you're supporting Palestine Action, you're arrested.. who's more threatening, an elderly vicar/grandmother with a sign or a load of masked men.. wreaking havoc?"

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Centrist Dad Pinup Marina Hyde making it unequivocally clear who she is.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The media could have not platformed Nigel Farage and discredited him 15 years ago. Instead Farage got them what they wanted - Cameron agreeing to a Brexit referendum, Labour and the Tories dragged to the right. Now they want two party politics back with the Tories in power. He’s served his purpose.

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thrilled that Valerie Cherish is finally competing on drag race.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026

this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah smashing, someone has decided to do the latest round of Noticing. Bring it.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey! Us guys at Cheese n Pickle have got a brand NEW podcast series JUST FOR YOU! How Long? With @jnraeside.bsky.social & @jondrytay.bsky.social boggling at the passage of actual time. It’s very funny and will boggle you too, if you too think 1996 was about 15 years ago. pod.link/6805050407?v...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Absolutely incredible that all of this is being done under the narrative of "independent review of studies." The studies find significant benefits and no harms! Children are not being rushed into irreversible procedures! An entire government and media apparatus buying in an urban legend

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Comjng September 1st. Let me and @jnraeside.bsky.social make you feel old. Like, subscribe, share!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are exceptions but I’ve found the lads are mostly thunderstruck at the most predictable shit imaginable; bizarrely confident in people of limited ability; wholly unable to understand members of the public who don’t behave or react as expected, and unable to think outside their own experience.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That feels absolutely right to me, and I’ll go you one further: increasingly, and for the last five years in particular, legacy media no longer seems to *understand* the world. They can’t explain what’s happening to themselves and each other, never mind to the public.

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Jonathan Shainin: Legacy media no longer explains the world

Podcast Episode · Media Confidential · 17 August · 39min

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Such an important read. We’re through the looking glass when the official position on bullies is that if you stand up to them, you’re the problem.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Well, I could go on like this at length, but I won’t. I’ll just say that it didn’t used to be like this, and it’s like this now because of a surprisingly small number of people whose names you’ve probably heard before.

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Since episode one of Ann Droid, the popular Italian dessert tiramisu has a permanent new name in this house.

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

mermaids, stonewall, the girl guides and amnesty international were all my last territorial demands in europe

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I like a good dunk on the Telegraph as much as anyone, and don’t understand why it still carries any credibility when it’s been a fash rag for years, but it’s only fair to mention that this isn’t an op ed. Moore is a wine writer. She writes articles about wine.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A fun question: what percentage of Labour voters will back relentless crackdowns, facilitating war crimes and benefit cuts to buy bullshit AI and missiles, so long as the leader doesn’t lean into video cameras and say “Also, our supporters are scum”! Let’s find out!

most interesting thing here is that green/labour shift, indicates that the green surge was in part otherwise loyal labour voters who personally hated starmer
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Politics UK • @PolitlcsUK • 2h
NEW: A new poll shows Labour is now ahead
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→ RFM: 24% (-2)...
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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It’s also completely untrue, and if we had a functioning media class in this country they’d actually get some pushback on it

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

whatever happened we are Not going to let political parties that scaremonger about drag queens and “gender language” pretend they’re here to defend us

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Why is it that when you catch yourself in the mirror looking decent and grab your phone the resulting photo is of a different and much uglier person?

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two things centrists in any country will always do: 1- say it’s important to listen to what the fash are saying 2- tell you that for Important Strategic Reasons it’s vital not to vote for anyone left wing

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This would be good IMO: it would force lots of prominent, important people to face the consequences of their horrible choices, and it’d compel them to explain themselves. Rather than what they do instead, which is shout “Actually that was just practice, we’re back to 0-0 now”.

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The trouble with making it mandatory to hold an election if a ruling party wants to change its PM, is unpopular PMs would simply stay in office longer rather than risk defeat. So we'd have had Blair til 2010; Cameron til 2020;
May til 2022; Johnson til 2024; Starmer til 2029.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think most people don’t actually really know how bad her Twitter actually is. This is so divorced from reality, repeating a lie she got told once. I’d also take it as a very clear warning she’s going after the “gay rights movement” next. Brace yourselves.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Her tweet, of course, is a complete lie. I reckon I know rather more of the “movement” than she ever will, and just, no. If you drink from a deluge of rightwing quackery, you will become a rightwing quack. That any newspaper takes her seriously is a testament only to her money.

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We did try to tell you what was happening.

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MallOwO 🖤💀🎃 @frm777.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Because fascists believe that only they have the right to be mean

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I don’t think it’s possible to turn this around: even if the new guy intends to try actually good things, the same tiny gaggle of crank swine, who we all had forcefully shoved down our throats whether we wanted them or not, will go apeshit and deliberately crash the plane, again.

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Not sure we’re going to win the second set though

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Should have parked the bus at 1-0 innit

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Re last retweet: the press are now dutifully reporting that Burnham has ditched digital ID without so much as MENTIONING that it’s moot while the social media stuff is still going ahead.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Begging journos to do more journalisming than going 'yep, sounds legit' when someone calls themself An Officially Licenced Wallet Inspector

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Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Brazil’s National Anthem is only slightly less identical to a Rossini overture than Uruguay’s is.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Starmer government has done wicked things. We must not let it go into the night pretending that its primary fault was being boring. It chose to persecute minorities in pursuit of the votes of people it thought would like that. The Starmer premiership was utterly morally bankrupt.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This gets doubly bad, if basically the last ten years of Labour politics was you and your mates relentlessly smashing fuck out of Sir Keir’s predecessor and his supporters, just so you could then cheer Starmer on to one of the all-time horrific clown performances in office. That looks really bad!

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