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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’d be happier to consider this if there had been any honest analysis and contrition for, say, Labour winning power on a secret plan to implement scything cuts and institute Draconian crackdowns, all of it aimed at impressing a section of the electorate that simply *does not exist*.

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A promising future now looks perilous for election loser Zack Polanski. He sowed, now he reaps | John Harris

There was a real chance of a Green byelection win in Holborn and St Pancras. He made bad decisions and cost his party dear, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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Mari Murphy @marimurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

-I do think some form of sustainability rules and more rigorous tests for ownership are necessary to protect the financial and cultural fitness of clubs, even if we can argue about the specifics

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Mari Murphy @marimurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also: -I do think the premier league is financially unfair in favor of clubs that have more commercial marketability -I do not think the way to fix it is to allow the richest owners to spend as much as they want -I do not think nation states should own football clubs

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminiscent of the public lynchings of African-Americans when white supremacists would turn up for a viewing.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no adaptation for a world in which Israel is now committing World War II-level crimes against humanity. It’s just the exact same shit but louder, even angrier and more insistent. Because it simply doesn’t matter what is happening in reality, it is irrelevant to the broader point: Fuck you.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I note that all of this analysis has been *completely unaffected and unchanged* by Israel embarking on a programme of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon that the white people world has non-negotiably supported. That simply is not a factor, at all.

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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get responses with weird theories for why this happens but, for real: relentless massacre and destruction is not a factor because it is only incidental to the core point Rafa and others have always been making, and that key, non-negotiable point is: Fuck you, we are in charge, shut up, fuck off.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When people say the Conservatives play politics on easy mode this is what it means

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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just constantly pushing at the edges of more and more far right politics. It isn't weird to me. It is what they have been doing for decades. The only thing that has changed is how far right they have managed to get and therefore what that does to the next push.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sure that’s just normal behaviour for by-elections though, and there hasn’t been any concerted effort to force big media thumbs onto the scales of democracy or anything.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Weird, I haven’t seen much about this by-election at all and I barely know anything about the candidate who’s expected to win. Can’t even tell you her name! But I did see the avalanche of all-channels roaring hate and fear against the guy the newspapers want to lose.

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It's the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election tomorrow, so The Story podcast's @LukeJones has been traversing North London, speaking to Times colleagues @gilescoren, @willpavia and voters on the ground to see who is going to win this battle for the left

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no dialogue with the Sensible Moderates: they are *not listening to a word you say*, and they never have listened to anything you said. When you speak, they are only thinking about their next smart retort, and they only ever hear a noise like a cow mooing or Donald Duck throwing a tantrum.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’d add: they don’t act like this because they think we are too extreme or idealistic or impractical. They behave like this because *they think we are inferior people*, that we are beneath them socially, intellectually and morally, and so they are fully justified in doing whatever they want to us.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

None of these people regard the left as a legitimate political actor; they will not tolerate us weilding any kind of power over them; they see us as a problem to be defanged, stomped and marginalised in a way they would never do to e.g. Nigel Farage.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is the same shit as it was in the 2010s: every demand to concede on point (x) will be followed by point (y), (z), (a1) and on and on, because *we are not working together for a reasonable outcome*. The entire point here is: fuck you, shut up, fuck off, keep quiet, don’t make me tell you again.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no version of Britain that invites a left wing Green Party into government then pushes for arrest warrants for senior Israeli war criminals. Any step in that direction is one step closer to e.g. David Lammy getting arrested at Malaga airport in 2032, before we even consider the US response.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m sorry, but this is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does what America wants, full stop.

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Let me try this once more.
It was a choice.
EITHER the Greens adopted a slogan.
OR they could have joined the next govt, where they could push for an end to arms sales, sanctions, support for the arrest warrants etc.
It was never going to be both.
Which one makes a material difference?
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Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into
government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad. 2/2

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

liminal horror was born out of the incessant hostility to anyone being anywhere at any time for any reason. Like you can't stay at a cafe for longer than half an hour. all of us rent, and we're barely allowed to personalize that space at all before we're priced out again. shit like that

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

like in my lifetime I got to witness parents demanding their kids like me go play until the streetlights come on. and then as we grew up, "NO LOITERING" was everywhere, stranger danger was everywhere, malls or convenience stores or parks saw us all shuffled on and we had nowhere left but home PCs

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

why is anyone allowing these arseholes to do this?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For a political class that talks so much about national and regional pride the British elite is really shit at the ABCs of nation-building

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And when it comes to Northern Ireland anyone interested in the UK Union in its current form might want to consider what happens if cuts by London and Belfast to NI's cultural and academic life leads to a lasting reorientation of its intellectual and artistic elites towards Dublin.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no better way to reinforce a status hierarchy in the UK between London, Manchester, Edinburgh vs an angry rest than to remove access to the study and expression of cultural heritage and diversity through an enforced provincialisation of regional Britain.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mike Tapp has been an egregious little authoritarian all his life, having worked in military intelligence and for the police and MoD before becoming one of the most right wing Labour MPs, and vice chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think it’s very revealing of who the Labour Party are now that they want to criminalise this discussion. I’m somewhat ambivalent on the motion itself but the response to it is showing what some mainstream press/politicians consider unacceptable to talk about. www.thenational.scot/news/2660950...

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Labour MPs report Green party to police over 'Zionism is racism' policy

MORE than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green Party to Sussex Police and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over its "Zionism is racism" policy

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 06/10/2026

"If you don't own it, what are you buying?" Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says the decision to drop discs will be "a significant brand hit" and "reputation bite" for Sony. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/if-you-...

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‘If you don’t own it, what are you buying?’ Former PlayStation boss says dropping discs is ‘a significant brand hit’ | VGC

“If you can’t sell a thing, that means you don’t own a thing…

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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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Jim Boardman @jimboardman.uk · 04/10/2026

Agree completely with this. Don’t dish the trophies out, blank them out. This is separate from any money considerations, any redistribution of prize money, even any medals, this is about making sure the history books show the truth, forever. They cheated. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson

The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A small example of how Labour Conference works- the "Transport Reception " with the Secretary of State isnt held by Transport Unions, its funded by Amey , a privatiser "named and shamed" for breaking minimum wage laws this year. The "shame" doesn't stop Ministers doing their gigs.

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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 27/02/2026

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Same treatment as Labour got up to 2017, basically, then moving on to the insulting bullshit of 2018. If the cold shoulder and cold contempt doesn’t work, we’ll next move on to repeat the idiotic shenanigans of 2019, and I imagine that will do the trick quite handily.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pretty much as predicted: when telling the public about what the Greens were doing and saying failed to induce the expected hilarity, revulsion and unpopularity, the lads reverted to 2018 tactics - ignoring them almost entirely except for things that could be used to boot them in the testicles.

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Polanski once hoped to replace Labour.
Where has it all gone wrong for the Greens? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Ghost of Yōtei' was released 1 year ago today.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're invested enough in the online art community that you want to call out suspected AI but you don't know how to read post dates and you don't recognize Loish, of all people, then I think your motives are suspect, actually.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Which you'd think would be obvious. But some people like to start shit more than they like to actually participate in the art community.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 02/10/2026