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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Google News feed on my phone (that I can't turn off or customise without giving Google all my personal data) continues to serve up outright propaganda.

A screenshot showing a Russian Embassy post on Twitter / X with a headline quote from Putin

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just a thought, but maybe - especially given you're meant to be a leftish paper opposed to everything he stands for - don't accept and amplify Farage's framing of his actions in their entirety?

A screenshot of the Guardian with the headline: "Farage says he is resigning but will stand in 'people v establishment byelection", followed by a sub: "Reform UK leader to stand again, saying people of Clacton 'should be the judges of my actions' and party will cover byelection cost", and a photo of Farage with a union flag in the background

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yes, Miliband's better than Streeting, but...

Ed Miliband's fucking disgusting "Controls on immigration" Labour mug

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Civic duty combined with a morning run, so feeling extra virtuous.

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Google News is now pushing fucking Reform party Twitter posts on me - less than a week before an election.

Screenshot of a Reform UK post on Twitter / X showing up in a Google News feed

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Really, it was only a matter of time.

Screenshot of a Financial Times story reading "US tech billionaire and Maga donor Peter Thiel is starting a series of closed-door lectures about the antichrist in Rome on Sunday, putting him on a collision course with Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church’s first American pontiff."

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

These are the kinds of jobs the algorithm's throwing my way these days... I have a very simple strategy to recommend, but it involves having some fucking principles and not being shit, so...

Job advert for a position at the Cabinet Office for Deputy Director, Prime Minister Media Strategy

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I too think we should all stop worrying about a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing

A screenshot of a pathetic Kemi Badenoch post from Twitter, following the illegal US invasion of Venezuela

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

To take my mind off the resurgence of mainstream political parties scapegoating foreigners rather than admit that *they* fucked us all over, I'm practicing my French via the excellent Atlas de Paris, by Danielle Chadych and Dominique Leborgne, found in a charity shop for £4 and worth ten times that.

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I've got the login page, and the login details - but... I've limited my own access? That was inconvenient of me...

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"Now?" I mean, I'm not a massive US history buff, but has there ever been a period where political violence *wasn't* a feature of US life? Every single gun death in the US is due to a deliberate political choice, and so an example of political violence, FFS!

Headline reading: "Analysis: Kirk's death shows political violence is now a feature of US life"

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

In happier news, earlier I watched the gloriously shot 1962 film Ilektra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, but made astonishing by Walter Lassaly's cinematography. And Irene Papas, obviously. Her eyes are insane. In every sense of the word

Photo of Irene Papas in 1962's Ilektra, with the subtitles "[thunder rumbling]"

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”

The worst person you know just made a great point meme

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

@pdkmitchell.bsky.social In the wild at the John Rylands Library in Manchester

A photo of the book Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Don't include the words "David Cameron" and "big" in the same headline. I misread it and got flashbacks.

Mail on Sunday front page with one headline reading "David Cameron behaved like a big man-baby"

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I started reading this before the Supreme Court's reductive, reactionary ruling. That ruling has, however, made this much more topical - especially the righteous anger of the concluding chapter, ranting about the harm binary views of sex and gender cause to *all* women. Recommend.

Cover image of the book Normal Women, by Philippa Gregory

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Eight years ago today, while still being vaguely optimistic that Macron might be a positive. (No, I wasn't campaigning...)

A photo of a flyer for Emmanuel Macron's first presidential campaign, taken from the Tuileries, with the Louvre in the background

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My fortnightly @privateeyenews.bsky.social catch-up on anger at the Labour party for ceasing to even remotely resemble the Labour party.

A photo of a page from Private Eye showing an image of Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves, labelled May 2024, next to one of David Cameron and George Osborne, labelled March 2025. These sit under the headline "How the job has changed them".

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Trying to work out how this is in any way unusual, or why it's worth sending me an alert...

A screenshot of a New York Times breaking news alert reading: President Trump Speech / In an unusual speech at the Justice Department, President Trump lingered on personal grievances and attacked his political enemies

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

For some reason I keep thinking about this image today. Can't think why.

Historic photo of the dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Milan on 29 April 1945, via Alamy

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Biting political commentary through the medium of cardboard masks in a builder's van.

Photo showing cardboard masks of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage on the headrests of the seats of a van

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A broken glass in a sink that needs a clean - also the end of a memento of a much-missed blogger: Andy Carling, aka Quarsan, aka Blairwatch.

A broken glass in a kitchen sink, with a washing-up sponge

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Crypto, gangsters, Russian spies, money laundering, Donald Trump? You shock me.

Screenshot of Financial Times breaking news alerts reading: 1) Donald Trump picks crypto enthusiast Paul Atkins as SEC chair, and 2) UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Yes, I know, fuck the New York Times - but seriously? Swallowing the narrative whole counts as analysis now?

Screenshot of a NYT headline reading "Populist revolt against elite's vision of the U.S."

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

FFS, Austria - haven't you learned from the last time?

News headline from Reuters reading "Austrian far right wins election for first time, projections show"

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

But still, despite the threat of race riots shutting shops just up the road, in a bit of wonderful timing my wife's settled status e-visa confirmation finally came through today, so there's that.

A sign on a branch of H&M apologising for having to shut early due to the threat of riots in North Finchley.

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 04/07/2024

The local Waitrose knows what day it is...

Display of discounted champagne and similar to celebrate the end ofthe Tories

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Well, now I'm home (and in the spirit of wanting Bluesky to be more positive than Twitter) - albeit at the risk of seeming a bit weird...

Photo of the book 'The Invention of the Restaurant' by Rebecca Spang

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nosemonkey.bsky.social @nosemonkey.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Went to the London Review Bookshop to pick up an order earlier, spotted a signed first edition of this, so of course...

A photo of a signed title page of Emily Wilson's new translation of The Iliad

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