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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still, at least we can fall back on our sturdy social safety net, our modern infrastructure, our unbroken record of military triumph, our healthy institutions, our egalitarian society, our thriving academe, our popular, incorruptible politics and the honesty and integrity of our public discourse.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Hi, we're Labour! Since crushing the left (our only plan) we have enacted the first new anti-LGBT legislation since Thatcher while we continue to sell arms to the IDF. But with a heavy heart we must say that we can not align with the Greens"

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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My name is Luke Akehurst MP and I would have loved to work with the Greens and I am distraught that this means I will no longer be able to

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 26/09/2026

Thanks to the awesome power of AI, I no longer know my home address

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Who told the public that America’s horrifying wars are great? Who told them there are evil transgenders lurking in bathrooms, waiting to pounce. Who told them Britain is at breaking point with hordes of migrant invaders stealing the bread from their children’s mouths? It was very specific people.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The point of the Starmer project was seizing back power from the scum - nurses, social workers, teachers - and restoring the natural order (a tiny clique of horrifying, gleefully awful right wing cranks, funded by millionaires and businesses, agreeing polocy amongst themselves, offscreen).

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Occasionally, I'm reminded of my all time favourite piece of internet: this Reddit post from 12 years ago in which a guy claims he ruined dinner with his girlfriend's parents by refusing to admit he knew what a potato was.

TIFU by enraging the parents of my girlfriend by pretending not to know what a potato is.
Let me tell you that I have made a bad mistake this evening.

My girlfriend (who let me tell you is only my 2nd girlfriend of all time) said I am "invited to dinner" with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done.

I met them nicely, I should tell you, and it started off in a good way. The idea slapped my mind that I should do a comic bit, to make a good impression and become known to them as a person who is amusing.

When I saw that baked potatoes were served I got the idea that it would be very good if I pretended I did not know what potatoes was. That would be funny.

Well let me tell you: backfired on my face. I'll tell you how.

So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked "This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a baked potato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a baked....what is it again?"

And she was like "A potato."

And I was like "A 'potato', oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good."

And then they didn't see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato. So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn't know what a potato is.

They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.

This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my "fucked up antics", and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.

Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point. When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like "Enough is enough. You're fucking with us. Admit it." And I said "Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you."

Well let me tell you he got very annoyed. I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"

That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying "What are you doing?" and my girlfriend went to some other room.

Finally the father said I should "Get the fuck out of his house" and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before. Well let me tell you he didn't take that kindly.

Now in text messages I have been telling my girlfriend I really don't know what a potato is. The only way I can ever get out of this is for them to buy that I don't know what a potato is.

I wish I never started it but I can't go back. I think she will break up with me anyway.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shows you how naive I am: I really thought things like the Leveson inquiry, the Iraq War report and the Grenfell fire were too big, too ugly to ignore, and that there would have to be serious consequences and fundamental change. But LOL no, straight in the bin it all goes, and we continue as before.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m baffled when people try to suggest that the BBC News is left wing or ‘woke’. Can you imagine someone presenting their flagship radio news programme who so brazenly exhibits and pushes left-wing views and talking points as much as Justin Webb does with those from the right?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Step one has to be building consensus that a liveable, functional country must be paid for, and the idea you can cut your way out of that with deliberate vandalism is both deranged and incredibly destructive: cutting things that work just means expensively replacing them with things that don’t work.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Is “Woke 1” in the room with us or is a convicted rapist the President, with a cabinet full of mediocre white people, institutionalizing racism across the federal government?

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

The only lesson the press learnt from the death of Lucy Meadows is "we can hound members of the public to death and get away with it" and that's also the only lesson they'll learn from the death of Jason Arday.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/08/2026

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every editor in chief and news editor should be considering their position tonight. It’s that serious.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

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it’s go time @lwr3628.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Michele Jeanne @MicheleJean... • 1d •••
Can you imagine today's youth storming the beaches of Normandy?
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I can't imagine today's boomers doing it, all y'all do is buy commemorative Trump teddy bears & post "how to open PDF" as a facebook status
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Replying to @MicheleJeanne3 and @IHateNYT no, who won

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An example: you’ll recall that during the most terrifying political scandal of the decade, all of these clowns unified and screamed in unison that even a trace of racism - the mere suspicion of it - in public life was utterly intolerable and had to be destroyed, no matter the cost.

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Hart @hart-frentz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The difference--

eitachse, stripes, aufgeteilt in
these were hot summers
this is climatechange

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For non-Brits: if you understand Britain as less of a modern democracy and more as creepy village in the woods ruled by a clique of malicious elders who periodically sacrifice a bunch of their children to their pagan gods to improve the harvest, then this stuff makes *a lot* more sense.

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The last time I “read a book” I learned that there’s a skeleton inside my body. Never again.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Daniel Hannan *
@DanielJHannan
Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Amazing to do this, as we approach our third decade as a completely fucked state that’s incapable of adequately managing a country that was deliberately hollowed out and vassalised to hedge funds and service companies, because the illusion of the Thatcherite consensus went Kaboom forever in 2008.

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Margaret Thatcher was an international stateswoman and a political giant who freed Britain from Labour's economic tyranny of endless strikes, exchange controls, energy blackouts, and the Winter of Discontent.
She turned Britain around into a country to be proud of.
She brought down inflation, controlled public spending, encouraged entrepreneurship, and got people into work. She enabled millions of people to buy their own homes, increased social mobility, helped to end the Cold War, and secured the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.
She had conviction, courage, and global stature.
Burnham is just another Labour class warrior, caretaking the same old Labour circus with people who spend all their time fighting each other while destroying the fabric of our great country because they have no plan to govern Britain.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What is it about Britain that makes us so internationally remarkable for this kind of respectable, utterly brazen and yet humdrum corruption and shit gangster behaviour? Well, I would start at “our elite class mostly go to the same schools and universities together”, and work outwards from there.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is not to say Reform have a point. They don’t: they are inveterate liars, everything they say is either vexatious or insulting. But it is to say, let’s not pretend Britain does not have An Elite, nor kid ourselves that Kev there doesn’t work for and with it. Of course we do, of course he does.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

England *cannot keep its rivers clean of human shit* because the government sold off water treatment - a prerequisite for life - as part of a deliberate project of putting as much capacity as possible into private hands and thus outside democratic control. But sure, it’s a big laugh and a joke.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Zoiks, Scoob! I guess it turns that tribune of the working man Nigel Farage - who addresses the most legitimate concerns of the average punter - was just a wealthy stockbroker with ugly fash politics, whom takes enormous crooked bungs, wearing a mask

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Farage has been a major figure in national politics for twenty years. Can I ask why it’s taken until 2026 to “scratch the surface”?

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

Comparatively minor example: remember that time he very obviously buggerised parliamentary process on live TV just to keep the words “collective punishment” out of Hansard, and all the press agreed it was despicable and corrupt but wouldn’t explain why or what he’d actually done?

Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary • 1h
Keir Starmer was one of the most
establishment protected Labour leaders of all time. The press constantly turned a blind eye to his scandals and viciously attacked his enemies, but it was still not enough to make anyone like him.

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

Going from “Getting caught setting private investigators on the Sunday Times and trying to report them as Russian stooges”, to “inexplicably pardoned then given a Times column to knife his pals and promote a new PM” and then “oh wow, uh, Head of government policy unit” is quite the career path.

The Telegraph • @Telegraph • 56m
Josh Simons is expected to lead Downing Street's head of policy unit under Andy Burnham, Labour allies say.
The former MP for Makerfield resigned from his seat in May to give the former Greater Manchester mayor a path to return to Westminster and challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the leadership

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I see the man who has overseen arguably the largest rollback of human rights and protections for marginalised and vulnerable groups in more than a generation is still trying to claim the moral high ground. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Describing Labour when he became leader as "politically, financially and morally bankrupt", he said it had been "hard and bloody work".

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Kelly Welles @kellywelles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Summarises the last 250 years quite effectively.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If the energy regulator’s job is rubber/stamping price rises; the water regulator’s job is sighing and tutting at shit in rivers; the press regulator’s job is requesting minuscule retractions of frontpage lies, and the equality regulator’s job is innovating in discrimination: what is “regulation”?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It’s weird how - when the press goes looking for racism in Britain in the 2020s - the only places it can ever be found are in left wing politics, public services, unionised professions and academia. Isn’t that remarkable, given what you can see and hear every day.

Daily Mail • @DailyMail • 8h
Fury as doctors pledge to fight against NHS stance on anti-Semitism and pro-Palestinian badges

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Corbynism being the perfect example, here: a bone-deep cancer revealing the hatefulness of the left, and then one brief wave of Sir Keir’s magic lawyer-beams later, Amazing! Good as new and the perfect party of government. Incredible.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Concealing your plans to scythe benefits from the public is not “moderate”. Nor is joining culture wars on the side of hateful, cruel reactionaries, or conniving in war crimes and genocide, vastly expanding what counts as “terrorism” or creating spurious pretexts to arrest thousands of protestors.

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'The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives.' Damian has a point here.
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Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this....

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What are your highlights? I will never forget racist riots taking place where they were trying to burn people alive and he took about 8 business days to call them racist and sent Yvette Cooper out to talk about how much she loves England flags and has them in bunting form

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If the lads sound sad today, it’s because they have a bad case of the We All Spent 15 Years Screaming Abuse At The Left Because We Thought We Were In Control Of The Roaring Hate Machine, But Now It’s Gone Haywire, Everything Is Fucked And Horrible, And It’s Mostly Our Fault blues.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In his time in office Starmer has overseen the largest rollback of migrants, trans and disabled rights in arguably a generation. He has gone further than the previous Conservative government on hostile policies and the demonisation and discrimination of marginalised groups.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Can you imagine if Britain had a crazily authoritarian government arresting dissidents by the hundreds, the far right ran riot and our system of government was little but a system of divvying up public contracts based on bungs from donors, sold via media red terrors, racist panics and crackdowns?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Can you imagine if we had ended up with both Labour and the Tories catastrophically fucked and useless, a broken and ailing economy, an enraged public and an upsurge of very racist, extremist, terribly unBritish politics in the mainstream? Why, it does not bear thinking about

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Forget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.

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Andrew James Carter @acarter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There are two options: 1) Keir Starmer actively wants pogroms across the UK and therefore should resign in disgrace. 2) Keir Starmer is a snivelling coward who can’t even summon the political courage to oppose a race riot and therefore should resign in disgrace.

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