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I’m lukewarm on it as a slogan and think it’s fine for the BBC to have a general policy against political slogans on entertainment shows, but I’m soooo bored of these people claiming to speak for all women and painting their opponents as creepy men. the person who wore the t-shirt is a cis lesbian!

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 6h

As the US and Israeli elections approach, I just want to remind everyone again that a vote for no party is, effectively and morally, a vote for every party. The message it sends is the exact opposite of protest. It says, "I would be happy with any of these choices!"

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 5h

Moving from Hertfordshire to Glasgow

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 6h

Oddly enough one of the few openly asexual councillors announced she was standing down earlier today

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9h

7up but for political activists would be some of the best television ever if you could broadcast it without letting the lawyers check it first

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 8h

What's funny about this, is that the golden age of British girls comics were primarily written by....men. Indeed often by the same men writing the boys comics

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 13h

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 15h

The tell with people defending being on X is always them talking about and taking potshots at BlueSky. Most people who’ve left Twitter did not come here!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 19h

The whole idea of Oz being an 1890s Populist metaphor maybe?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

one of the wildest stories we don't know the slightest thing about is the story of Phoenician mariners from Beirut seeking out, and eventually finding, the source of their tin in Cornwall

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 19h

I imagine in practise if anyone gets prosecuted for it specifically it'll be for displaying ace symbols or running a meetup or online group or something in that vein

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Ernests Borg 1 thru 8 [he/him] @deusericus.bsky.social · 21h

"i'm too smart to get scammed" is how smart people get scammed

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 19h

... I'm not sure I want to think about where I fall in this

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

Is everyone's (citation needed) favourite Assadist Partisangirl still a thing?

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

Was there a Euan something who had a similar brand of philosemitism to her back in the day?

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 21h

Weetman skull-measuring incident has reminded me of people who used to "be a thing" on twitter. It's inspired me to do an occasional thread. Feel free to chip in with suggestions/lore/questions.

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

The only one of these I think I've actually met

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

I suppose the other point of comparison is that AIUI she was Owen Smith's strongest soldier at her then uni Labour Club in 2016

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

And once accused my brother of being an MI5 bot

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely curious what's happened to him since

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 20h

He also literally bought Twitter followers at some point IIRC

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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 20h

This feels like an interesting inflection point

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 21h

A friend I got to read the Vorkosigan Saga did describe A Civil Campaign as "the Jane Austen novel disguised as a space opera" and "Jane Austen but with MI6"

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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 22h

"This movement isn't organic" is just cope. There really are people who believe X. I'm sorry there just is. Certain things might can be tilted towards their favor, but at the core many people believe what they say.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think I have a slightly complicated optimism where I’m pessimistic about things working well or easily, but optimistic about them working out fine in the end

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 21h

Still sending hugs if wanted

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 21h

One thing I have still never quite got my head round is how much Royal was seen as a threat to the party tradition from the right in the late 2000s to the point of possible ballot stuffing in Aubry's favour and yet Delanoe seemingly wasn't despite if anything being further right?

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 21h

I know a French friend has issues with him over it

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 22h

He actually was involved in Georgian politics in the 2000s too, I keep meaning to ask my Georgian leftist friends what they think of him

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22h

I know we talk about Republicans’ brains breaking if they lose Texas etc and that’s obviously true as a general principle but it does feel as though they will break an extra level if they lose it to Talarico after spending the entire campaign in one of the weirdest Gender meltdowns I have ever seen

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

i think, in some fairness, that a lot of these people were deeply shaken by 2024 and “this was a realignment” is how they make it make sense. the idea that voters saw 2024 as just another election is disturbing to them.

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But that almost certainly is less likely these days (though this seems to vary wildly by state in the US?)

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

IIRC in book isn't part of her backstory that she only started attending school very late because the state said her mother /couldn't/ homeschool her anymore? (I can't remember at what age)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

conservative Leninist reply-guy: “ahem, it was the union of Soviet socialist REPUBLICS, not the union of Soviet socialist DEMOCRACIES”

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1. RM is of course entirely right. Sulla wiped out his enemies and totally remade all of Rome’s institutions, and it *didn’t work* 2. I think it’s also extremely important to understand *why* it didn’t work, as Ronald Syme memorably put it…

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Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There’s something weird about how people I know on the left and right alike are fueled by rage against international things they have no influence on, but anytime Russia’s actual attacks on Europe comes into play they always find ways to excuse it and use the adult voice to demand to “calm down”.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is 100 per cent correct in my view. Carrie is, as someone on here put it, ultimately a tragedy based on 'what if, on the absolute worst moment of the worst day of your awful life, someone handed you a fully loaded gun?' and for various reasons the crescendo leading up to that doesn't work now.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thinking again how hard it’s going to be for future people to understand that the Trump Admin essentially switched sides to be almost entirely pro-Russia in its FP twice but it was considered impossible to mention this because one early investigation into their ties was successfully obstructed

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That's a few books later, what we see in there once they're back home is they make one mild effort to tell their mother and almost immediately drop it when she doesn't seem to believe them (but lets him stay the rest of the summer anyway, which thinking about is also inconsistent)

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One of the many consequences of JKR going off the rails at the speed of a Shinkansen being driven by Dominic Toretto is that it is quite hard to grasp indepdently how the series simply does not match it's public understanding e.g. These Books Do Not Grow Up With The Audience

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For that matter Fred and George (and the Weasley parents) probably have a stronger reaction to how the Dursleys treat Harry in Book 2 than we see, but you can get away with that when it's from Harry's POV

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And Hermione - or even Ron - agreeing to keep it a secret is even less likely

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Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To take a slightly different example, basically everyone does in fact think Rangers are the same club as twenty years ago (and those who say otherwise are usually pretty blatantly lying)

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the virgin "most things are socially constructed (what does any of it mean really)" versus the chad "most things are socially constructed (and therefore the meaning is really fucking obvious and you are being deliberately obtuse)"

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Because nothing says “sensible thinking” better than appeasing irredentist nationalism against the frequently expressed wishes of all the actual inhabitants of a place…

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