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Deren 🇵🇸🇱🇧🏴 @lokonu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@thesinankose.bsky.social can i message you about a yt video idea dude? okay if not lol
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IGN @ign.com · 10/09/2026
GTA 6 developer Rockstar Games will today appear before an employment tribunal to face allegations from a union that it unlawfully fired 31 workers in October last year. bit.ly/4A3xYsD
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"you can't really talk about migrations and deportations in [country in the global north]" is just an abject lie. We've been talking about these things for approximately my entire fucking life and it never seems to end.
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
astonishing that the guy who had the easiest route to Labour leader/PM ever due to everyone loathing Keir Starmer, on the basis of him not being Keir Starmer, and who got a nice polling bump for not being Keir Starmer... has in fact immediately pivoted to behaving like Keir Starmer
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Alternative headline: “Sainsbury’s to get free labour after David Sainsbury gave Andy Burnham £165,000 for his leadership campaign”
UK politics: Burnham announces plan for 10,000 work experience placements for young people - as it happened
Prime minister spoke to press while on visit to a Sainsbury's supermarket in London this morning
Taz Ali (now) and Martin Belam (earlier)

picture: Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham in sainsbury’s uniforms in a supermarket handling goods
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"capitalism seeks to disguise itself", like retrospectively claiming pre-capitalist norms like markets as capitalist, but also claiming the negative consequences of the freedom (and therefore power) of capital as un-capitalist
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
LOL Keir Starmer “never had a faction” in the same sense that Ronald McDonald doesn’t own any burger restaurants, the Jaguar bonnet ornament isn’t driving the car and Mickey Mouse wasn’t the showrunner producing Andor. Can we be less insulting than this, lads.
No, you're a factionalist:
Labour's new battle lines
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• The Grafton Pub Purge: inside the pub where Keir Starmer had drinks with allies as they were sacked one by one. It's fair to say that Andy Burnham's new cabinet has caused an astonishing amount of bitterness in the Labour Party.Something someone said to me yesterday was Keir Starmer never had a faction, but today Andy Burnham's team are at risk of creating one for him.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I again point out that “The Bolsheviks are conspiring with the untermenschen to sap our will to power, and - by hidden, sneaky means - to undermine and destroy the Reich” is not just similar to the content of Mein Kampf. *It is* Adolf Hitler’s sales pitch, it was right at the core of the project.
Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest
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melaniephillips.substack.com/p/alarm-bells-...
Islamists and leftists are united in the two things that drive them: their desire to end America and the West, and their deranged loathing of Israel and the Jewish people.
This loathing isn't just the glue binding these two otherwise opposing groups together. It's the Islamists' key weapon against America itself.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A lot of people are about to learn that there's no such thing as a former New Labourite
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's peak Burnham to concoct a frankly ridiculous plan, but to also make a loadbearing component of that plan be "win a seat Labour are projected to get buried in." Got to say I'm not confident he's going to thread this needle.
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normal sara @sarasocial.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
what pisses me off the most about programming becoming so LLM-centric is that i just really fucking love programming as a creative process and having a machine do it all sucks every last drop of joy out of it for me
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I will say that one of the formative experiences of my youth was around the original wave of the BNP's rise was my parents telling me exactly where they keep the documents I'd need to seek refuge in Turkey in case it went tits up. To put in context how long this has been a tension for some of us.
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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 18/03/2026
One piece of good news for everyone
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
when bigots say shit like "mass transition regret is inevitable" what they mean is that their goal is to make society so hostile to trans people that trans people decide to go back into the closet. thats why a bunch of terfs got all depressed when trans didn't go away after that supreme court ruling
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/03/2026
“We’re in uncharted territory” / “It is not uncharted, you ignored the chart” strikes again
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I remember when Turkey had huge anti-government protests and I'll tell you this, not a single British Turk I met through that was begging the big boys to lay waste to our parent's home country. I have nothing but contempt for the people who beg America to do the work they're too weak to see through.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Kemi here saying the quiet part out loud: the business of parliament is ensuring that the great looting and death machine rampages on, unimpeded by the views of silly people who don’t matter and must be ignored.
Asked if MPs should get a vote on UK military action, Badenoch says that given the number of left wing MPs with "silly views" she thinks it's best if not.
14:08 • 2 Mar 2026
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I mean, this is the third PM in a row to be elected amid much fanfare about how great they would be, who has absolutely sucked shit and quickly tanked to despised public enemy status. Three looks like a trend, doesn’t it. And it’s not like nobody predicted this one would be terrible.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/01/2026
i think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You have to remember they've been calling for this since they were in opposition and it's ridiculous that they're labouring under the delusion that this is a remotely feasible policy.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is just unreconstructed racism and sectarianism (but it's coming from white people so we won't call it that)
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Yes, because they are not leaders, and they never were: they’re are *vassals* of a foreign emperor. And so were all of their predecessors, back to 1945. And now it’s finally undeniable, but that won’t stop people who are paid to deny it, continuing to deny it.
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Luke @lukasmukaspukas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
sick of liberals speaking in the language of embarrassment and shame tbh. if you can't integrate the horror of trump into your understanding of the US and it's history, you are being an intellectual coward. absolute same goes for Brits doing this with Boris/Farage etc etc
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Again: “we’ve tried all the versions of crackdowns Thatcherism we find acceptable and none of it works, Britain is ungovernable” is the same thing as saying “Well, I guess it’s time for Farage and fascism”.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
No, it hasn’t. Do we think this is because they *don’t* understand.
"Research by social scientists overwhelmingly shows that adopting far-right positions leads neither to electoral success for centrist parties nor to electoral defeat for far-right parties. But this has not stopped centre-left advisers, politicians and strategists."
The 21st century has so far seen two simultaneous electoral developments in western Europe: the decline of social-democratic parties and the rise of far-right parties. This has created the powerful narrative that social democrats are losing votes to the far right, in particular because of their (alleged) "pro-immigration" positions. And although research shows that their voters mainly moved to centre-right and green parties, social-democratic parties have been chasing this mythical "left behind" voter ever since.
Research by social scientists overwhelmingly shows that adopting far-right positions leads neither to electoral success for centrist parties nor to electoral defeat for far-right parties. But this has not stopped centre-left advisers, politicians and strategists. Whenever my colleagues and I refer to this research, someone will point to the alleged success of the "Danish model". The lure is so great that even as polls were predicting the loss of Copenhagen, Britain's Labour government ignored internal opposition and introduced a number of policies designed to emulate Denmark's extremely stringent asylum rules.
To be clear, the Danish model has never worked.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/12/2025
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Every time I see someone invoke the idea of "adults" being in charge two things run through my head. First, you can't help but remark upon what a shitty job the "adults" have done. Second, I wonder why everyone is acting like they're a little baby?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 04/11/2025
It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I love living in a country where "newspaper that publishes almost exclusively fake stories" is basically every single paper and seeing this take.
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Squidward watching SpongeBob and Patrick having a great time outside his window where it looks like he’s a prisoner
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Yes, because if it wasn’t this, then lots of important white people would now have to go to prison and the irresponsible clowns who cheered them on would have to resign in disgrace
(((Dan Hodges))) *
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As a ceasefire is about to come into effect, it's important to remember that every death, every injury, every bereavement, every destroyed building, every pile of rubble, every bullet fired and every bomb dropped was the fault of Hamas. They own all of this.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
WHAT WHAT
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
boy howdy am i tired of the daily "man who sells Thing says Thing very important" tech story
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13/09/2025
I used to think the whole idealism vs materialism thing didn’t matter but every time you argue with a liberal you get to the center of the point which is that they mystify all of society and history. They detach institutions from the class structures that created and sustain them
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Well they hardly need facial recognition technology to recognise their off duty colleagues.
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Daniel @dznz.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Do you have to pay a "retoucher" the same as an illustrator? Do you have to pay a "recoder" the same as a developer? The point is to invent "new" jobs without the prestige or protection of existing jobs.
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
What a way to put it though "the middle ground is gone" because you moved the mainstream left into Powellism.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17/08/2025
I think there's a lot of explanatory power within the image of a mob of coked up dickheads going to the Cenotaph and trying to pick a fight with anyone who looks at them askance while being protected by a line of Met Police Officers, then fucking off home and declaring victory.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Wow, it seems like this party badly needs some kind of internal democracy, because otherwise it might turn into a tiny gaggle of very right wing weirdos mobbing together to force their crank enthusiasms on everyone else. If only there had been an opportunity to speak up about this, at any point
Compass &
@CompassOffice
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NEW: Compass poll of Labour members has dropped.
91% support a wealth tax, 84% want to end the two-child limit, 74% want to stop suspending dissenting MPs - and that's just the start.
The government is out of step with the mainstream of the Labour Party.
In the @Independent.
Tax the rich more to fill black hole in public finances, Labour members tell
Starmer
Exclusive: PM urged to conduct
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/08/2025
They will keep pulling shit like this, and get worse, because Labour Party, the government they run, and the police who work for them, have completely lost the moral argument on Gaza, but refuse to concede the political one, so are just going to smash and brutalise in the hopes people will shut up.
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