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Olly B

@ollybain.bsky.social
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Lefty, Antiracist, Antifascist, NOT a fan of brexit. Occasionally sweary. Keen on walking up mountains and such. Known to play the odd video game.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Red @randomredhuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there's a lifelong financial tax on existing in public spaces too - ride hailing instead of cheaper public transport, restricted mobility, changing jobs or churches or colleges for safety, legal fees, dammit just mace or needing to be anonymous online so no LinkedIn opps etc.
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham is saying all of the right things, it's what he does and he does it very very well. His track record suggests he won't deliver much of it, if any. I would be unbelievably happy if I end up being wrong on this.
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Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'
ALT: Quinn Tyler (Laura Benanti) Says 'I Would Love That'
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Joe B @joeburden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
100%. It genuinely seems like at the moment politics was about to turn into genuine left versus hard right, a memo came in to reset back to status quo. Thus the noticing of Farage and silencing of Polanski.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026
It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery
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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@actualnames.bsky.social Petra Corr. I would imagine she smells lovely after it's rained.
A picture of Dr Petra Corr.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re owed rights more than your shitty candidate is owed a career.
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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh hell no. Absolutely not.
The view out of the front of my friend’s camper van on a dual carriageway, spending entirely too long behind a lorry-load of logs, as 3 Gen Xers who grew up watching Final Destination 2..
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Michelle Yo Jnr 🖖🏾🇧🇧🇯🇲🇪🇺🇬🇧 @purplegooner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Coming soon to the UK.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are in a place where a lot of important people who have fucked it very badly might just decide that another war might be easier than trying to fix all the things they fucked up.
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Grumpyrocker @grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Labour government has been a massive disappointment from the off. But its failure to protect the #RNLI has me genuinely seething with anger.
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This specific video has been doing the rounds, but this guy’s whole channel (including this video) is such an amazing example of healthy masculinity, disrupting traditional toxic constructions of masculinity.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember: the liberal moderates kicked and screamed and shat their pants and wrecked and blew everything up so that they could be The Grown Ups In Charge, and this is what they do with it. Cowering away from confrontation with street fascists for fear of the press. Contemptible scum.
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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really happy i managed to snag a copy of this, lovely hardcover illustrated collection of some of my favourite of Laird Barron’s early stories. Shouldn’t be spending money but it’s my birthday tomorrow and he’s one of my all-time favourite writers & I deserve it.. www.psilowave.com/product/lair...
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Laird Barron | Laird Barron - The Broadsword: Best Early Works of Laird Barron Hardcover Chiroptera Press | Psilowave Records
Featured, Chiroptera Press ( / ) - USA Import - Limited Edition! Standard edition specs: * 6" x 9" * 352 pages * Tipped in signature sheet signed by the author and the artist * Smyth-sewn binding * H...
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026
re: Piddlington. I actually also think it’s the wrong location for an asylum centre, it’s the middle of nowhere on a deadly road and no safe way to walk to Bicester, let alone get to oxford, an asylum centre should be right in town with access to resources like drs and dentists and help centres.
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Suddenly, a Goat! @suddenlyagoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would at some point in my life like to live in a country not surrounded by elites chanting in chorus "things must get worse (but not for me)"
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“but a republican is evil!” then why do all these democrats keep fucking agreeing with them??
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 14/09/2026
Capitalist parties are in the same spot they were in Europe in the 1930's, believing that the only way to prevent threats to capitalism and imperialist interests is acceptance of some amount of fascism. They know the consequences, it's an accepted risk for them (which of course, we have to bear).
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Net worth of $400 million, still terrified of risking a few bucks by alienating bloodthirsty Zionists. As pathetic as it gets
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Paul Dawkins 🍉 @pdawkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Among musicians, Macklemore has been one of the most outspoken supporters of Palestinians. Ed Sheeran knows exactly who he was agreeing to go on tour with beforehand. Which makes his capitulation to this "criticism" worse. Cowardice doesn't even begin to describe how craven Sheeran is for this.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
Agent Dale Cooper sits with a damn fine cup of coffee, smiling. The quote above him reads; “I get my news from the only reliable source, cryptic symbolism in my dreams”
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Karl-on-Sea @karlonsea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“A gentleman should never run, unless it is to apprehend someone who is attempting to steal his bicycle. Even then, properly, he ought simply to summon his Man to deal with the situation by demonstrating to the ruffian the skills that saw him win the regimental boxing cup three years running.”
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 14/09/2026
fascinating thread
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me help the Labour party There are no legitimate concerns about immigration
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
damn, imagine sentencing a bunch of young political activists to years in prison as a panicked reaction that makes you look weak and ridiculous, couldn't be us
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Artist: Hannah Hillam
1 - girl with the clouds and sun behind her 'such a beautiful day!'

2 - pic of brain looking nervous 'DANGER'

3 - girl looking scared 'DANGER?!'

4 - brain is frantic 'DANGER'

artist: Hannah Hillam
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 10/09/2026
There’s a lot of people who think it’s brave to decide to throw someone under the bus for the “greater good”. Of course these people would cry endlessly if it happened to them
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dude continues to be a very useful & public salutary lesson in the dangers of grey goo-ing your brain through AI use.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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sburton84.bsky.social @sburton84.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's depressing that the end of humanity is likely to come not from a sentient AI deciding to wipe us out because we're a threat, but from some idiot giving an ambiguous prompt to a glorified autocorrect.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He was Jewish enough when the entire British right wing press decided he needed taking down a peg or two. And so was his dad.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 08/09/2026
This is a microcosm of the UK's problems. A stupid decision taken off the back of an unpublicised commercial deal which places UK energy security in the hands of a company owned by an extreme right wing agitator. And nobody in government seems vaguely interested.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Picking on the RNLI and thinking you are the good guys is such a great example of what is presumably an irreversible brain rot, like if you opened up the bonnet on those heads it would be like when a peach has gone too mushy to be saved
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Desperate vulnerable people crossing the channel are not a significant problem. Violent thugs marauding on our streets are a significant problem.
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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Absolutely. You could remove every person in the country that they believe doesn't have a right to be here and they still wouldn't be satisfied. This is not about meeting a legitimate requirement.
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm not sure how the UK can turn back at this point. The govt says almost nothing about hundreds of men in black blocking a port, police wait 17 hours to comment on racist mobs in Glasgow, and now we are burning building sites because they MIGHT someday house asylum seekers.
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'Wilful' tenement fire burns community development site amid 'disinformation'
A "wilful" fire in Glasgow has been deemed a "depressing act of self-harm" for the community, as a tenement block was ravaged by…
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Burn it all down
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A public order offence so often leveraged against otherwise peaceful protesters vanishes into thin air. Keep in mind those are the same people who infringed onto French waters for the overt, stated purpose of causing injury or death to migrants, and yet the Terrorism Act is similarly gone
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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And to Labour’s ever-lasting shame, they are right.
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