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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I once dreamed that I was driving and gangsters busted into my car and killed me but what was weird was I was sitting in the left seat and I'm British and for us the driver's seat is on the right.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He doesn't even get anything wrong, Bubble Bass hid the pickles from the beginning to avoid having to pay. Which is to say that people can make mistakes, but also there are people who will destroy your confidence for their own advantage.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The age of the majority of people keeping allegience to one of two parties is probably over forever. I think Reform's hit the cap on how many people would ever vote for it, but with our current system it could sweep them into a majority.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh god, he might cite Thucydides at us! The horror!

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My guess is a Lee Harvey Oswald or David Chapman type. A mediocrity looking cheap fame by killing somebody people havd heard of.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

He got less than half the total vote in an election that already had a low turnout. At most you can say a plurality of Clacton wanted Farage two years ago.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Binface's father was an establishment tool maker.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

But Binface studied classics at Oxford, this makes him part of the out of touch elite and the former City of London commodities trader the champion of the working class.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

He needs to start selling a t-shirt that says "I fund Count Binface"

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Most British people can name some things they like about American culture. For example, I like Superman. And Rupert Lowe likes trivialising the murder of schoolchildren for the sake of the gun lobby.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The audacity to talk about how terrible it is that posh outsiders are treating a town like Clacton as their personal playpen, in an *apologia* for Nigel Farage. Binface lives on Sigma XI, but what planet is Brendan O'Neil living on?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If Count Binface decides to actually be serious with campaigning he could notch up more days spent in Clacton in a few weeks than Farage has in two years.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is Britain, even our novelty candidates are Oxbridge alumni.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

And if you're going to try to bribe him, it better be in cold hard cash, or possibly a pint at the pub. None of that crypto bullshit.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Then you should be pleased at the entire British political spectrum saying in one voice to Farage "this is another one of your stupid traps, we're not walking into it, have fun arguing with a talking bin". Again, if this whole situation seems to you like Farage playing 4d chess, I'm not seeing it.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congrats, Nigel, you spent a bunch of taxpayer money to *not* show up to any debates and just post the same soundbites you always do, and return to Parliament to face the same inquiry. Do not internalise the idea that he's some kind of stategic mastermind, he's a cornered man who's not that bright.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Why do you think he pulled this stunt? The inquiry was sapping his credibility, and his one choice was to restore it with another round of dunking on 'The Establishment'. How is he supposed to look serious arguing with a jester whose only mission is to bring up the things he wants buried?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Screw people and their sense of grievance. I have spent my entire adult life knowing a British politics that tries to defeat Farage by taking him seriously. What's the problem with giving a chance to taking him profoundly unseriously?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's like watching Caesar sentencing a defeated gladiator to death.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My concern about Count Binface is that if he's going to do actual photo ops around Clacton, how is he sipposed to wear a hardhat?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If people find Binface tedious because they occasionally hear about him, imagine running a weeks-long 1v1 by-election aga8nst him.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If we want to detox our political system we need to remove the source of the toxin first. We need to humiliate them out of legitimacy, and then we can maybe have a grown up national conversation about what the country needs.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Clacton chose Farage to be their MP, and now two years into his absentee term he's expecting them to back him again to distract from legitimate scrutiny for breaking the rules. Clacton can have a legimate by-election after Farage has been suitably humiliated so nobody thinks to imitate him in future

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What is Reform even supposed to put on theit pamphlets? 'We have triggered this by-election, now vote for us to stop a guy with a bin on his head from taking our leader's seat in Parliament'?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What every other party leader is partaking in is the noble British tradition of watching someone you know about to do something embarrassing under the impression that you're going to join them, and sitting back and letting them do it on their own.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I mean, they aren't *stuck* with him. There's a man with a bin on his head running against him, and he would probably take the job more seriously than Farage does.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage claims the other parties don't represent the people, and yet they're all standing back as one and watching someone they know humiliate himself because it's funny.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We dealt with Napoleon by waiting for him to invade Spain We dealt with Hitler by waiting for him to invade Russia We will deal with Farage by letting him destroy himself against an intergalactic space warrior

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It would be a circus, but Farage will be the one catching custard pies with his face.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We need this election to be a 1v1 race between a jester and a joke.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage wants to stop the investigation by Parliament into his £5 million "gift". His idea is to go "The people of Clacton returned me, so forget about it". The major parties refusing to stand would suck out the appearance of legitimacy he's craving. A joke protest candidate is exactly what we need.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Game on, Nige.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I see routine and the familiar as an island to take refuge on because I accept there's a massive and confusing ocean around me and that sometimes I need to go out into it. I'm not going to pretend only the island has value and the ocean deserves to be destroyed.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farage is already making democracy a joke by claiming a £5 million "gift" is none of our business while wanting to be our Prime Minister. Him losing to a literal joke character would be such a humiliation no one alive would dare follow in his footsteps.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

God, imagine how terrible it would be if Count Binface won the seat in Clacton and then spent no time there? Spending his time saying ridiculous stuff to get attention? Such a downgrade for the people of Clacton, right?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The US could've gracefully bowed out to a decent team and come out looking like good sports and good hosts, and come back stronget with a higher national interest in the game. But no, they decided to become the villains in a sports movie.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'd sooner trust the Man In the Plastic Bin to take it more seriously if he actually won than that Farage would start taking his consistuenta seriously if he is elected again. It's Farage treating the job as a joke.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Every party honestly should stand aside. I am serious, here. Either Farage loses against a man with a bin on his head, or he wins against a man with a bin on his head and comes back to Parliament and the investigation continues.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It would such a humiliation for the nationalist, nativist right we would've have to worry about them for fifty years.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Case in point: Henry V, manly warrior-king, rocking a blue dress. If they saw him walking down the street today they'd want to do a hate crime on him, because he and his age are fundamentally beyond their understanding.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Even just the idea that women can own property in their own right, and have equal entitlement to a share of this fund as men do.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Dr Johnson (the dictionary guy) wrote a pamphlet against the American Revolution in 1775, frankly calling the rebel leaders out on hypocrisy. "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of [black people]?"

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Me: See, they don't actually think sharks are smooth, but by insisting that they are, they are baiting people into wasting their time arguing that they're not. Genghis Khan, looking at my smartphone: Yes, it is like a feigned retreat I would use to exhaust a witless foe in pursuing my horsemen.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Why does Fox News act like Lex Luthor, fictional character, owns them? #supergirl

Screenshots from The Five, conservative political talk show on Fox News, on the topics of the films Superman (2025) and Supergirl (2026). The headers respectively are "Superwoke: Iconic Hero Movie to Embrace Pro-Immigrant Themes" and "Super-Bisexual: Supergirl movie desperate to keep Hollywood woke"

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Russia's got some excellent keyboard warriors, but surely they've got some actual warriors somewhere?

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's shown early on that the rival punches at the MC's chest in a "go away" way, which the MC shrugs off until she does it after they've been some months on HRT, and the unexpected tender pain causes the MC to start crying. And the rival initially feels bad about it, until the MC punches her back.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Shonen MC: "...uh...I think I'm a girl?" Shonen rival: "Wuh??? If you think you can be a cuter girl than me, you're living in a dream world!" They then went to the mall and competed in buying makeup and girls clothes. It was a whole arc.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I grew up loving space and space exploration, but I'd rather we stayed on this rock until it burned to a crisp than let more of our Solar System become the playthings of billionaires.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I've already seen one accusation of this Kara, who lives in a space van and interrupts her superhero career with bouts of running away to get drunk, being a 'girlboss'. So yeah, these are people who do not understand words and just repeat what algorithimically did well for them in the past.

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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

America shouldn't be adbicating the moral and trust advantages it has over China if it doesn't want its allies returning to the ancient game of playing hegemons off against each other to build their own strength. "I hate a bitch hating on a bitch and they both hoes." - Kendrick

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