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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 8h

I mean I would really like to see the beautiful manatee picture

Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Does the DPRK still teach pre-communist history in a way that flatters the past Korean states? I always assumed that they’d label them monarchic imperialists, evidenced by policies like discrimination against ethnic minorities. But I assume that’s wrong, if echoes of those old prejudices live on?

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ultimately I also mentioned Bosnia because I think there would have to be some sort of external constitutional peacekeeper, like the High Representative.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I sadly do think it’d be more Bosnian though :( While the Flemish and Walloons aren’t the best of friends, inter-ethnic Belgian conflict and Palestinian-Israeli conflict aren’t exactly comparable. Belgium has a unifying religion + monarch. A Palestinian/Israeli state would not…

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While I’m still de-facto in support of the two state solution as the only real practical option, I do sometimes wonder if just recreating Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Levant is the only way to definitively prevent a future Israeli-Palestinian war long term (and to also deal with Gaza being an exclave).

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How in the hell do they expect opinions in the Jewish community to shift if one side of the issue never speaks to the other? It’s like these people don’t understand how political change works conceptually.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Politicle: 25/09/2026 I identified the mystery MP after just the starting clues! 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Can you match my score? politics.co.uk/politicle (I don't know if this is the result of luck, or being unhealthily liberal, or a bit of both)

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Guess the MP! Politicle - Politics.co.uk

Can you guess today's mystery MP? The game for Political obsessives. From Politics.co.uk. New Politicle Puzzle Every Day.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even that technically had American actors :(

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a single show on here which isn't American or British? I like a lot of this list, but it is the most Anglosphere-centric thing I think I've ever seen.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Chair of the LGBT+ Lib Dems (and Membership lead for the Young Liberals)!

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is exactly why we need regional government!

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Honestly as a Gen Z reader of Adams, his writing does show its age a bit, but almost all of the humour translates pretty well to modern day audiences - it’s absurdist, so it’s pretty timeless. Plus I know a few ‘Booktok’ type readers who like the Guide, so I think the original post is a bit rubbish.

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

is this just going to be every election forever now

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ironically the literally generic ‘Centre Party’ has become the liberal party, and the ‘Liberals’ the generic “centrist” party. It’s a bizarre switch around.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tbf they’re increasingly being shunned by other liberals - I don’t know anyone in any ALDE party that’s cheering them on. Everyone is backing the Centre Party instead. Even Liberalerna’s youth wing is actively refusing to campaign for them - they barely avoided voting to disaffiliate entirely…

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I expect it’s pretty representative - the school I went to which had private buses went bankrupt recently due to poor financial management, so I assume most schools figured out that the use they get isn’t worth the cost, unless they’re constantly sending pupils off to fixtures throughout the day.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tbf private schools (at least ones with large catchment areas) will often have a few school buses that take students to and from the school and major towns surrounding it, either hired from private companies or owned themselves. But they’re likely not used by more than 2-4% of students.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Industry, surprisingly. Admittedly the ratio of funny to depressing is about 30/70, but those occasional comedic moments are very enjoyable.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

As someone who loves using an em-dash, its seizure by AI frustrates me to no end. Practicing good grammar just now makes you look like a robot - which is frankly quite damaging to writing as a craft generally.

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Young Liberals 🔶🏳️‍⚧️ @youngliberalsuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We are proud to release For a Fair Future, our new Youth Manifesto, calling for many things that effect the youth, from education to the environment, civil liberties to infrastructure. Take a look at some key policy areas! You can also read our full manifesto by our Linktree (link in bio).

defeat the nanny state
whether it is online censorship or excessive regulation of private life, we will always take on the state
freedom is non-negotiable

fix the job market
we are the only political force in Britain not only calling for EU Youth Mobility, but also a van on fake job listings,
excessive assessments, and opaque salary ranges
fair recruitment is non-negotiable

get britain railed
We have a firm commitment to rail expansion, affordable travel and tackling the DVSA testing backlog
public transport is non-negotiable

the nuclear option
energy prices hinder growth, and growth is the liberal priority
nuclear is non-negotiable

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Christ, that alert was terrifying - they could’ve just sent the notification without the alarm!

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

www.maptap.gg August 9 97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 96🔥 Final score: 982 A score I would be proud of if I couldn’t see everyone else’s…

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Actually, also: - Keynes - Wilson - Ikenberry - Habermas - Popper - Beauvoir

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It’s more or less a mix of: - Rawls - Arendt - Locke - Mill - Fukuyama - Sen - Smith - Whoever wrote the preamble to the Liberal Democrat constitution - Machiavelli and Gramsci (on how power is used, not really as an influence for how it should be wielded…)

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That’s you directly contributing to misinformation online! Which as you say is a huge problem, but it’s not helped by baselessly assuming why a quote was misattributed without evidence. Especially when the attribution of the quote is itself debated. Maybe correct people politely next time.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The person who posted the quote read it in a book, that attributed it to Mahler. You then claimed that 1. They found it online and 2. They hadn’t read a book. And you published this online without checking with the author - or just looking at their profile and seeing that they read lots.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is just flat out odd. In fairness he had 5 years in the Treasury back under Blair, so this is surprisingly rational!

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In fairness trying to drive around there with a 20mph speed limit would legitimately be painful - and god forbid how Reform would act once they have an actual physical border that immigrants could come through. They’d be trying to get Plaid to blow the whole budget on a border wall in 20 minutes.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I mean honestly anything would be an improvement on right now... The corpus separatum was a good idea when it was proposed unironically though, but I think both Israel and Palestine will never be happy unless they can have at least part of the city as their capitals.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The only possible sane answer to this is to suggest the return of the Free Territory of Trieste. Everyone knows the UNSC is the kind of functional organisation that could run a multiethnic city state well 😅

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Free Territory of Trieste - Wikipedia

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

An entire nation thrilled to make third place… tonight we are ALL Lib Dems

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It is a bit weird honestly, but it follows a pattern - Alliance’s MP(s) are often sat within the Lib Dem benches. I suspect it’s because the SDLP loosely takes the Labour whip (and I think Alliance do for the Lib Dems), but more in terms of using the whip’s resources than being at their mercy.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

They’ll never win in NI, so they might as well have an ally. The SDLP votes with them quite a bit because of shared ideology - requiring confidence and supply would just come across as unnecessarily formal and would bind both parties more closely than either of them need.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Finally I can feel like my degree in Philosophy & Politics wasn’t career suicide 😅

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey, some of us are an embarrassment of a British liberal instead!

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m 21 and I feel like a child on here sometimes. I’ll be shocked if there’s even 0.1% of users who’ll get banned by this…

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Honestly, this is why we need commune-style bottom levels of local government for individual towns/villages. Using those as building blocks in LGR would let them be more precise.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is why I never get into the football :(

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In fairness, it is pretty Lib Dem to use the state to produce better/more equal outcomes - that was most of the manifesto last election. Obviously there's nuances and there's some people within the party that are a lot more neoliberal, but that's also true for Labour.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I read the Lord of The Rings when I was about ten. Did I fully understand it? No, not really. But I did enjoy reading it, and it did challenge my reading capabilities - which is one of the best things for a child’s educational development. I’m glad I had parents who encouraged that.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Oh 100% but that fact does spoil the fun a bit. Although obviously in reality their autonomy (and the referendum where they affair their current status almost unanimously) does lend quite a bit of strength to any argument based on self determination and popular sovereignty.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’m looking forward to all the amazing opportunities to explain exactly why it’s one of Britain’s most core and indisputable territories :)

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Football could or could not be coming home, but it’s probably having nostalgic feelings of its childhood in England during the 12th century

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’d accept it if they just went all in on it and other forms of chaos. I want every team spying on each other in increasingly elaborate ways, and full courtroom drama-level details on ref rulings.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Personally I just can’t get over the fact that the advert’s premise relies on being able to buy a brand of crisps in a country where they don’t exist. At least say they brought the packets from home or something.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Trieste is rightfully an independent city state under UN governance 😤

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Currently very much a foul when any Norwegians do it

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

As a Brit, it’s obviously legal when England or Scotland do it, and a foul when anyone else does.

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Oliver Poyser 🔸 @olspoyser.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If it makes you feel any better, I was attempting to build on the original (very funny) joke, rather than implying that The Guardian’s premier investigative journalist doesn’t know basic Irish history 😅

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