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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is funny but it’s also not funny because it’s the result of rich evil fuckfaces breeding vast numbers of terrified brainless animals purely to be gunned down so the rich evil fuckfaces can tell themselves they’re brave hunters upholding some kind of important rural tradition

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Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Photo of the century.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the older your cat is, the more you need to hype them up when they enter the room. gasp like you've seen David Tennant at a Costco in Victorville. ask, “who’s this handsome king??” as if you genuinely do not know. blast “Crazy in Love” from your phone. whatever it takes.

an orange and white cat looks proud and is sitting on a blue rug, like he's been properly hyped up

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Well, if you don’t like it, run for office.” “NOT LIKE THAT”

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Damn, that poor guy. Imagine someone lying to you just to get things that they want out of you, and then turning upon you and fucking you over. Awful

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Interesting analysis for those of us interested in hope and aware of the big graph that shows Reform peaked in October last year and is sliding inexorably down.

Peter Kellner, the elections expert and former YouGov president, has posted a good analysis of the results so far on his Substack blog. It is well worth reading in full, but here’s an extract.

Behind the impressive tally of Reform’s gains – likely to end up well over 1,000 – Nigel Farage should be privately worried. In last year’s local elections Reform won 41 per cent of all seats contested across England. On the basis of the overnight figures, this year’s tally is around 33 per cent. If there were no polls, and there had been no elections last year, this year’s figure would be astonishing. But we do have the record of recent polls and elections, and it seems clear that Reform has peaked …

In contrast to Reform, Labour has cause for relief, despite losing half the seats it was defending yesterday. It’s bad – and in normal times it would be catastrophic – but it’s not as bad as its record in local council by-elections over the past 12 months, where it hast lost three-quarters of the seats it was defending …

However, even on the most optimistic interpretation of Labour’s performance, the overnight figures contain a stark warning. John Curtice told BBC viewers in the early hours that while Labour has lost many SEATS to Reform, it has lost VOTES more to the Greens.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

someone in a Labour strategy meeting crosses out "BE MORE RACIST" on a massive flipchart, thoughtfully picks up a marker, writes "BE EVEN MORE RACIST??"

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

As I tell my students, "People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/04/2026

best dog job in the world all you gotta do is retrieve sticks and every time the crowd goes wild

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/02/2026

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026
Source: Britain Elects
SIAIS r EFTIES
Green GAIN from Labour
40.7
28.7
25.4
1.9
1.8
Grn
427.5
Ref
414.6
Lab
725.4
Con
76.0
Lib
72.0
1.4
Oth
78.9

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

May Labour finally f-ing learn that appeasing the Far Right is a LOSING strategy

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Once again every shitposter on the socials was yelling this at Labour and the response was "sorry I can't hear you over how smart and sensible I am you scum"

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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Lucy M. @teafaerie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

@catsofyore.bsky.social Can you give this a boost to help some poorly kitties? The Society for Abandoned Animals is where I adopted my cats Merlin & Juno from many years ago. www.justgiving.com/campaign/whi...

🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED TONIGHT 🚨

Today, two tiny babies were signed over into our care—and it became clear almost immediately that they were extremely unwell.

They arrived absolutely crawling with fleas, suffering from severe flea-bite anaemia. The infestation is so overwhelming that the fleas are literally killing them.

Both little ones have been rushed to the emergency vets and are now receiving critical care. Their PCV levels are just 3.5 and 8—dangerously low.

They are fighting for their lives and will likely need blood transfusions to even have a chance of survival.

Their treatment will be very costly, and we urgently need your support to give them every possible chance.

💛 If you can, please donate towards their emeegency care.

Every share, every pound, every bit of help truly matters tonight. Thank you for standing with us. 💛🐾

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/11/2025

Never have I seen such a perfect example of Schrödinger's Migrant. Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP. 🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA

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Ryan @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved Scanned from 8mm films #Film #History #Cats

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tadaaa.bsky.social @tadaaa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Reminds of the Alexi Sayle quote "Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Dear Labour, people aren’t leaning towards the Greens because they don’t know what the Greens are, but because they see what you, Labour, are doing. The best way to stop them going to the Greens, is to have more left wing, less xenophobic, less stupid policies. Attacking the Greens doesn’t help.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This only happens to you once

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

it's real support from actual racists

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

What Starmer should be saying…

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

For god’s sake someone remind the bbc.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I would really welcome someone in politics saying, with calm, level honesty, that they *don’t* understand the concerns of the far right. Because that’s a perfectly reasonable position.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/08/2025

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Funny and yet horrifically true summing up. Do watch; they’re very good at what they do.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

theguardian.com

2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

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