Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Currently re reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s just brilliant story telling built around characters. The best stories ALWAYS have you invest in the characters. #booksky 050
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We should talk about the “social contagion” of these prejudices among middle-aged people in positions of influence. Rapid Onset Midlife Bigotry 217928
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Overdiagnosis” is the new transphobia. It’s the same people 1230999
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party. 3571353213
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A cynical person might ask, of course, why are "young men of fighting age" wearing hijabs? 🧐 531069188
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Have the FAI grown a pair and called a halt to this hideous farce yet? #stopthegame 000
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Merlin’s not sure what to make of the car ferry….. 000
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791708565
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My naive expectations for the 21st century didn’t involve nearly as many Nazi parties garnering popular support, careful parsings of whether this or that policy or group was really Nazi, or powerful figures in this country exhibiting Nazi sympathies. 1422232
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiJim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Good evening Life Scientific listeners. Just to let you know that the new series starts tomorrow morning. My guest is Ginger Kerrick, NASA’s first non-astronaut CAPCOM and its first Hispanic female Flight Director. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 28814
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/08/2026the rare, evil cousin of "I put off doing this thing for ages and turns out it actually took no time at all": doing something now purely because I thought it'd be quick and easy and is actually taking fucking ages 122396
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiWillie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026These will be about as welcome as the DaVinci Code or 50 Shades of Grey in a charity shop. 3336
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Awrite troops. Thought I’d come and check on the faecal maelstrom of current affairs to take my mind off the travails of my insipid football team 000
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for all." Sounds good to me, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Let's ALL get out there on November 3rd & beat the machine!!! Go to: iwillvote.com ☑️ or vote.org 🗳️ 381169514556
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiOldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Rangers 2026/27: Still losing, but staunchly 310213
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiCara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 08/08/2026In the 1970s, a group of farmers digging a well stumbled upon one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. They had found the terracotta army—some 8,000 life-size clay soldiers, buried over 2,000 years ago. The soldiers had real weapons, **which were still sharp**. How? 1/8 ⚛️🧪 232980
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSecular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Not sure about Kristi Noem’s new statue 1629353
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiZeteo @zeteo.com · 08/08/2026This week in Palestine: - Israeli forces destroyed medical supply warehouses across Gaza - Israeli settlers continued to attack villages across the occupied West Bank - Israel killed 18 Palestinians in one day Read Zeteo’s roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns: zeteo.com/p/this-week-... 312366
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiLRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 08/08/2026can't believe the guardian recommends cycling, ice-skating and incline walking as sensible activities to get up to while you're nursing a joint. i would recommend instead sticking on "temples of boom" and ordering dominos 514932
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Approximately 2 hours sleep, 6:00 am rise to travel to eldest child’s football match and he’s got a face like absolute thunder as he thinks he didn’t play well. Not to worry, at least I’ve got sore teeth from grinding them and I’m bursting for a slash as we embark on the 3 hour journey home 🫠🙌 000
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Gotten into a dreadful sleep/eating/boozing cycle. If I can’t gym I unravel faster than an incumbent Prime Minister 🫠 000
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Struggling a little bit with Dostoyevsky’s The Double. It’s not the writing as such, just that I know I need proper headspace to absorb it properly. And that is hard to come by these days. Might open a completely different book tonight. Essays maybe or a short story. 000
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Are the senators, representatives, and governors of these states raising a huge outcry about this that I’m just not hearing? 1319832
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The armchair interviewers who criticised ZMB for not pushing him hard enough owe her an apology I think 312710
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSecular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Elon’s daughter Vivian absolutely decimated him oh my days 28833247
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDon-Key @don-key1959.bsky.social · 24/07/2026PMQs is barely worth watching, or indeed listening, to these days as there's so much bile and venom spat from, it's fair to say, both sides of the House. Take a look back at when PMQs was most definitely worth tuning in to.. #UKpolitics youtu.be/oRICpv9uUww?...youtu.beWilliam Hague vs John Prescott PMQs - 2006YouTube video by New Labour 17318
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Orwell on "silly-clever Conservatives" in 1946: "people who specialise in cracking neat jokes at the expense of whatever is 'modern' and 'progressive', and whose opinions are often all the more extreme because they know that they cannot influence the actual drift of events." They have columns now. 213527
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comPalestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job 611434737
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I mean, Mahmood is literally the last person I'd have kept in their role 1132026234
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026You had one job (sacking Shabana Mahmood) 281324233
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026All of Burnham's big Cabinet moves so far (keeping Miliband out of the Treasury in favour of Healey who wants a big defence spending hike and keeping Mahmood in the Home Office) look designed to please the right-wing press. Let's see how it works out for him 59634121
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiOldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 20/07/2026. 38 categories . Most iconic moment . Ronaldo + Neymar schadenfreude . Cult hero . Corruption disclaimer . 43 Tartan Army x Boston videos . Mouth covered, after review + much more It's the Alternative World Cup 2026 Awards oldfirmfacts1.medium.com/the-alternat... 36121
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11/07/2026longing for a Hot Brezhnev Summer 3044580
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiJulianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026The po-faced reaction is significantly funnier than the actual bit, tbh 1135340
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I bought a Dostoyevsky book in Italian from an international book shop in Rome. ‘Tell me you’re an @originstorypodcast.bsky.social subscriber without….’ Etc 🤪😆 000
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiPhilippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 06/07/2026UEFA may support Belgium's protestations against the suspension of Balogun's ban. This feels like a key moment - not in this WC, but in Infantino's reign. The award of the Fifa Peace Prize to Trump was the pivotal moment, but Gianni didn't hear the trigger. He carried on. He'll regret it.politico.comEuropean soccer leaders make plans to take Belgium's side against FIFAThe continental confederation UEFA, of which the Royal Belgian Football Association is a member, is considering whether to issue a statement challenging a FIFA decision to suspend a red card. 27446102
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I am sure Infantino has done worse but he really must go. There should be an attempt to create various ways to normalise, amplify disrespect for him everwhere he goes 1028339
Reposted by Raffaelo Bonaccorsirev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/07/2026can't believe he missed this. it was all over the news 241144120
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Happy Berrettini v Dimitrov day to all who celebrate! 🥳 🎾🇮🇹🇧🇬🙌 010
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"Why did I drink so much last night? Why?" We've all been there, Beavis. 1611313
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast. Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire. And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING 341193365
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556041589
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10/06/2026When Dorothy Bishop resigned from Royal Society , I voiced support for her on my personal social media - I was told by the BBC that I should not have done this as Monkey Cage sometimes worked with the Royal Society www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowshipProf Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences 1034197
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiPaula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The government continuing to post on X gives the media all they need to justify continuing to use X posts in news broadcasts. X becomes agenda-setting in the way front pages did even when most people stopped reading newspapers. 14531144
Reposted by Raffaelo BonaccorsiIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity. 611490289
Raffaelo Bonaccorsi @raffaelopietro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Genuinely saddened and alarmed at the disgusting fascist riots in my home town of Glasgow. Actually difficult to concentrate on work today. Fuck those people and their unfathomable ignorance 000