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Chips O’Toole

@lewthomas.bsky.social
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Child of the 80s. I learned how to edit on tape, worked in broadcast media. I made a shot-by-shot remake of Reservoir Dogs when I was twelve, my friend was banned from my house after we got fake blood on his dads suit.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Are you a weird creep who no one likes? Are you deeply insecure about your sense of self worth? Do you feel a constant sense of seething entitlement? Deep down, do you think that you are just *better* than most other people, especially those with darker complexion? Consider Reactionary Neofascism!"
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's really clear that "social permission for bigotry" is the real animating spirit behind MAGA, and "anti-woke" politics in general. It's a hate movement for losers who can't handle living in a society.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let me be clear: I despise Jacob Rees-Mogg. I would still prefer he take the right side on this, because I am not a big baby and as someone with a child with some who immigrated to the UK, I have a personal stake in people of mixed origin not being othered.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...
After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.” 
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics. 
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.
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Chips O’Toole @lewthomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is how the news media should have been covering Trump since the very beginning.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thursday. Gonna be VERY interesting! Mark Carney is going to be directly addressing the EU parliament. Could be a moment of change we’ll later see in the history books. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026
Eventually, the electorate notices that despite terrorizing migrants and trans people, diesel is now $10/gallon and the guy responsible is now $1.4b richer than he was before the election: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office
The president's crypto income far outpaces his earnings from real estate and Trump-themed items such as watches.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.
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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it.
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Andy Taylor @taylorshinpad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This was hidden away on Newsnight last night, but no reference to this viewpoint in the breathless coverage this morning.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
Elon Musk embarked on a tweeting spree this week, attempting to rebrand the AfD, the far-right German party, as anything but far-right. “‘Far right’ is a propaganda term that became especially popular in recent years."
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The far right can’t stand being called “far right”
Following the AfD's win in Germany, allies attempt to discredit a phrase that fits their movement.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/09/2026
Trump promising every voter $5,000 from the Republicans who already control Congress:
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Chips O’Toole @lewthomas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are these the same kind Luke? I love your work.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Enabler gets upset by the enabled.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The only reason senior figures in Reform have condemned the fascist protest in Dover is because they want to distance themselves from the ugly face of the xenophobic politics that they have legitimised. Stop giving them credit.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.
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Chips O’Toole @lewthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is what eventually happens when you radicalise people through their phones and normalise Trump, Farage, Musk and others. What happens next on this island, I wonder.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"the revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so" www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...
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Respecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They’re Wrong and Immoral
Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: “Murdoch has done more damage to democracy in the English-speaking countries than any other individual alive.” youtube.com/shorts/riRrb...
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Malcolm Turnbull
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10
Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair. 

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels. 

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Brave Sir Nigel ran away… open.spotify.com/episode/6qfp...
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The night Nigel Farage bottled it
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/08/2026
A senior Reform UK activist, the man who ran Nigel Farage’s £1000-a-head donors’ club, was once a prominent figure in a far-right group that wants millions of non-white people removed from Britain. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/08/14/g...
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Revealed: Top Reform activist belonged to far-right pro-remigration group – HOPE not hate
A senior activist for Reform UK was involved in a far-right group that advocates for a form of ethnic cleansing, HOPE not hate can reveal....
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Your #5OClockInspiration ... This is a Map of Foodbanks in the UK when the Tories lost power. This was a national disgrace. Tories drove poverty to record levels. Don't ever, EVER, let them near power, ever again.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The rest of the Right - including the editor of Sunday Telegraph and the previous editor of the Spectator - seem to now be turning on Rupert Lowe, apparently overlooking the fact that they have been the handmaidens of Lowe-style beliefs.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Great work as per by @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
x.com/HomelandDems...
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Homeland Dems (@HomelandDems) on X
"I only need 11,000 votes, fellas. I need 11,000 votes. Gimme a break." In case anyone forgot: the only person caught trying to rig the 2020 election was Donald Trump—and it's on tape. Every accusat...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... NOT AI.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Finish him, Count Binface.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW | on the politics’ biggest whiner… NIGEL FARAGE AND THE ‘ESTABLISHMENT HIT JOB’ The man who dined with Murdoch and whose party is never off TalkTV claims that The Sunday Times is bullying him and the man-boy who calls him "daddy". brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/nigel-fara...
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Nigel Farage and the 'establishment hit job'
The man who dined with Murdoch and whose party is never off TalkTV claims that The Sunday Times is bullying him and the man-boy who calls him "daddy".
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 01/07/2026
You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken
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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The death of physical media is here for PlayStation.
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PlayStation Will Cease Physical Disc Production by 2028
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 26/06/2026
“SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY! V.I. LENIN. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV!”
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Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
10 years on from Brexit, there are still no rules to stop lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to prevent ads like the Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. 16 MPs have so far. It takes 30 seconds 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal
Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Everybody started calling him a Nazi after he gave multiple Nazi Salutes on National TV. But conveniently he has forgotten that.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Does Nigel Farage have a woman problem? bsky.app/profile/blad...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A generation has grown up that didn’t vote in the referendum, but has had to suffer the consequences of leaving the EU. Now they want to rejoin ✏️ Lucy Reade
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Brexit: a burden carried by the young
A generation has grown up that didn’t vote in the referendum, but has had to suffer the consequences of leaving the EU. Now they want to rejoin
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