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Every time you see some new "researchers believe AI feels pain/is conscious/displays signs of free will" nonsense it's worth remembering just how *desperately* they want it to be true.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 2h

Are you really trying to use Corbyn's election as a counterpoint? Corbyn was the *perfect* person for the Tories to run against. Every attack line they could dream up worked against him. And they *still* came within a couple of points of losing. That is a terrible counterpoint.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 6h

I don't think that's entirely fair, the difference between even a Starmer government and a Sunak one is pretty huge. That being said I am happy to agree that the Starmer government wasn't what people wanted, and was much more right wing than expected.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 8h

The people who got Labour into government was the Tories. A large part of the vote was a vote against the Tories, not for Labour.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 13h

Corbyn destroyed his own leadership. In part by not addressing the presence of people like this in any way at all. Corbyn spouts all the right ideological points, but he couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

This is the first politician in a decade and a half that's been remotely sensible. Words and actions are different things, we'll have to see what he actually does. But if he does half of what he suggested today he'll be the best prime minister most younger voters will have ever heard of.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

This is a very poor attack. Pension reform is not an attack on pensioners. The triple lock is excessive, and pensioners will still be protected against inflation.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

A possible chance of sanity breaking out in Labour? Remarkable.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 29/09/2026

Well. That's remarkable. And would further explain Farage's reaction to the news about attempts to combat Russian interference.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Zac @oshimia.com · 27/09/2026

Yeah, if they were facing the consequences of their software randomly hacking other companies it would stop *real* quick. If there are no consequences there's no reason for them to care.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Zac @oshimia.com · 25/09/2026

Gender affirming filters you say?

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Zac @oshimia.com · 24/09/2026

How are people so *incredibly* stupid still so influential in UK politics?

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Zac @oshimia.com · 24/09/2026

It's very easy in today's world to say "Well that would be lovely, but think of the cost, this isn't realistic". He's shown that it is, and it can be, realistic. Which means it can be realistic elsewhere too.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 24/09/2026

One of the most amazing things about all this is less that he's done it, but that he's done it without compromises that damaged his core messaging. He's shown that it *is* possible to get things like this done without giving up your principles.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to support Labour for obvious reasons but again and again they make it impossible, playing directly into the hands of extremists. It’s not like there are no precedents for their appeasement. Aren’t they scared of where we are & their part in that ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5yjzj8l5k5o

bbc.co.uk

Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, there are technical, formal legal reasons why terrorism law is applied to protesters carrying placards, but not to political activists slashing boats. But stepping back, there is something wrong with a legal regime which criminalises one more than the other. A triumph of form over function.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

Pick me! Pick me!

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

The wazzocks are cowards and wont go near the sea unless it's as still as a mill pond. Of course, sometimes the weather can change quickly.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

Sounds like a good idea to me.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 23/09/2026

Slightly terrifying that the cons and reform combined get 45% of the vote though. It's not impossible that reform collapses and the vote looks for somewhere else to go.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 22/09/2026

My personal favorite is "The black sharts".

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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Zac @oshimia.com · 22/09/2026

Alright fascist, which side would you have been on in WW2? Wait, no need to answer that. I already know.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

Wow. The US press are all pissed at the Trump admin at the moment.

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Davey stands with trans rights by backing our motion at Lib Dem conference!

Ed Davey stands with trans rights
Reporter: You want the conference motion [Restoring Trans Rights] to pass?
Ed Davey: I do - I'll be voting for it if I'm in the hall!

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

Turns out people like heroes, and don't like racists. Shocking I know.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

Everybody wants to leave the ship once it starts sinking.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 21/09/2026

What if we arrived at the conclusions some time ago and we're just expecting confirmation?

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...

russincheshire.substack.com

Legitimate Concerns

How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story

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Zac @oshimia.com · 20/09/2026

Phenomenal artistry. Truly astonishing.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.

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MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds

Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company

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Zac @oshimia.com · 18/09/2026

This man, and his wife, are two of the best people on the internet at the moment.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Zac @oshimia.com · 16/09/2026

One slightly under looked point in this Ed Sheeran business is that it's clear he's surrounded himself with good people. I'm not defending his actions on Palestine, he's in the wrong. But it does reflect well on him that *all* of the people around him can see that it's wrong.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 16/09/2026

Dropping the red lines would be the easiest economic win. Our Brexit "Red Lines" have been nothing but a detriment to the country ever since we started using them.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 11/09/2026

Also the failure to regulate plain old media platforms. BBC is basically a Reform propaganda platform at this point. GBNews gets away with saying it's an entertainment channel, and not a news channel. It's absurd.

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Zac @oshimia.com · 11/09/2026

This is by far the best way to show support for the RNLI

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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