Reposted by Steve KilbaneDeadly Hunkerbunker @joaquindead.bsky.social · 21hWe’re driving my stepdaughter to Homecoming and it really should be called Schoolgoing 192
Reposted by Steve KilbaneColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵 111106259
Reposted by Steve KilbaneJoanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 14hBe under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years. 12484136
Reposted by Steve KilbaneGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 12hThe Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…goodlawproject.orgIs this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law ProjectThe Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t 3269108
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 12h“Curb”!? Like “application of justice according to the law of the land” is a bad behaviour to be discouraged. Fuck’s sake, what’s next? Frowning on those malcontents who “vote”? 120
Reposted by Steve KilbaneBoothby Graffoe @boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 12hFinally someone is going to help the rich. At long last the most under-privileged people in society have a political party looking out for them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch saysKemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more 33011
Reposted by Steve KilbaneCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"But Black Dynamite--" Okay, let me not tell jokes. But Durant probably sees himself as no different than a drug dealer or gun manufacturer. Drug dealers do not see themselves as responsible for an addict's downfall. Gun manufacturers don't think they are culpable for mass shootings. 119429
Reposted by Steve KilbaneThe Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A 🧵: 1/x? The ancient hydraulic marvel of the Marib Dam: “It is between three mountains, and the flood waters all flow to the one location, and because of that the water only discharges in one direction; and the ancients blocked that place with hard rocks and lead. (cont 👇) 17733
Reposted by Steve KilbaneGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361368614
Reposted by Steve KilbaneTony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was a petition that over 6 million signed for a second referendum. What does Burnham imagine that was about..? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNo 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EUSenior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit 131
Reposted by Steve KilbaneCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities 17438181
Reposted by Steve KilbaneEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16/01/2025🧵I'm listening to a book by someone whose work I respect & as sometimes happens, was hit by ignorant & frankly antisemitic language around Jewish scripture & "the Old Testament God" that, whenever I hear it, I feel like my head's going to blow off. So. A thread! Fun! 30753232
Reposted by Steve KilbaneAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED. 31356238
Reposted by Steve KilbaneRobyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors. 171555307
Reposted by Steve KilbaneMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that. 9964711102
Reposted by Steve KilbaneMartha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the most important thing men can do, and they must be doing it immediately. People create culture. People can change it. If you can't remember the last time you created some social awkwardness by telling another man to stop with that shit, you probably aren't pulling your weight. 5616226
Reposted by Steve KilbaneFinn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ngl "2 doggers, a lad out on the rob for diesel, a fly tipper and an actual terrorist get swept up into an international incident" would be a really funny premise for a slice of life British comedy 1344584
Reposted by Steve KilbaneUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142518874
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah, nothing like starting the week with allegedly-expired passwords and demands from previously-unseen apps that demand logins. 030
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I never thought leopards would eat my face,” weeps man who paid for face-eating leopards for Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...msn.comMSN 010
Reposted by Steve KilbaneSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎 148484
Reposted by Steve Kilbane💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Please share. #Pinks 321492687
Reposted by Steve Kilbanecmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29490485
Reposted by Steve KilbaneLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us. 493608944
Reposted by Steve KilbaneBevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I would love for Burnham, or any Labour politician, to explain why banning alcohol from football stands is "discriminatory" but effectively banning trans people from gender affirming care ot a right to a public life is perfectly fine and not discrimination at all. 412332
Reposted by Steve KilbaneBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦⬛ 492576563
Reposted by Steve KilbaneKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 716143676320
Reposted by Steve KilbaneRobin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025. 121273283
Reposted by Steve KilbaneDr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person. 517149
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I keep seeing people say “the Constitution needs rewriting” and I am begging them to understand that no legislation will help if the persons responsible for enforcement choose not to act. 130
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I always argued that Labour should undo all the Tory’s vindictive legislation as soon as they got into power - after deploying it one more time against the Tories themselves. 141
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And organised spaces with their own rules will tell themselves they’re safe spaces, while being safe only for the people they’re supporting. Lord knows cons have sacrificed enough people for their idols. 020
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have recently been reading Teri Kanefield’s REBELS, ROBBERS, AND RADICALS: THE STORY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS and *holy crap* is it horrific how much of the US Constitution’s current form and *decades of interpretation* is “let’s just appease the racists”. 000
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Clearing out old family files. FiL was in Royal Navy Reserve. Came across this wall poster for “Crests of the Royal Navy.” Posting here in case it’s of any interest or use to anyone. Tag @garius.bsky.social and @dreadships.bsky.social 1222
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Being from the UK, my awareness of fraternities and sororities is pop culture, and made no sense to me. I already thought they shouldn’t exist, but was appalled when I learned they were nationwide. 010
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, this is simple. The company is responsible, and should be prosecuted. 021
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Maybe that’s because you keep hiring (and listening to) the same consultants as them, instead of listening to your constituents OR to the ones in your own party who are actually successful. 010
Reposted by Steve KilbaneGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/09/2026💫 We’re hiring 💫 We’re looking for a Campaigns & Communications Manager to turn complex legal and political issues into campaigns people understand, care about, and act on. Apply here 👇 hr.moorepay.co.uk/hr/recruitment/ro… hr.moorepay.co.ukGood Law ProjectAbout the Role This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Someone who can see the bigger picture, move quickly when an opportunity emerges, 12824
Reposted by Steve KilbaneGoddess Luna @onelunagoddess.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Your party is literally in the early to mid stages of conducting a trans genocide. I do not think you understand how far from left wing it and you actually are. 1477
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just so we’re clear, the “legitimate concerns” people who are “just asking questions” now consider the following to be enemy organisations: Amnesty International. The RNLI. Doctors Without Borders. Just in case you’re wondering which side you should be on. 041
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am so tired of the conversation where you pay a service provider for a service, and then they just go “eh, not bothering.” 240
Reposted by Steve KilbaneAlistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Dunno man the other side are like "let them drown" and the left's institutions put out statements like "we share your anger but please be skeptical of misinformation." I think our message has to be more "these dangerous lunatics are bringing violence to our communities and we reject their presence" 313345
Reposted by Steve KilbaneNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this... 18414119
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, OBVIOUSLY I want Trump to face full, real, serious consequences. But I also want him to forcibly have his name changed to Shit-for-Brains Mushroom-dick, and for all his following conversations and reportage to enforce that. 010
Reposted by Steve KilbaneGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m doing a free event for teens at Crawley Library tomorrow — I’ll be joined by history content creator Katie Kennedy for a fun chat libraries.westsussex.gov.uk/go-all-in-gr... 04018
Reposted by Steve KilbanePeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Motion passes by miles in the hall, and online. The motion is carried - the Lib Dems are the first major party* to explicitly reject the EWRC guidance. *The Greens oppose it but I more meant the big three in parliament 521753
Reposted by Steve KilbaneAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/09/2026Question for history bluesky! I’m looking for a similar overview book on Vietnam bc I know almost nothing about that war too. Recommendations? 23317
Steve Kilbane @kilbswc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026cap-america-no-you-move.png (But, y’know, for Other Countries as well.) 001
