Reposted by Robert LevackAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3hJesus Christ, I didn't think we'd actually get to the "public executions" stage of Trump's project to roll back the last 100 years of societal development. 33581146
Reposted by Robert LevackDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 6hFor various reasons Trump is not actually a dictator but he behaves exactly as if he were one. There's always the stage where they can't accept any dissent so they bury themselves in toadies and propaganda and become genuinely detached from reality. It never ends well 511215
Reposted by Robert LevackDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 6hI've just been reading Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich for a thing and Trump definitely resembles late-stage Hitler: surrounded by sycophants, rejecting all criticism, denying facts about the war he's losing, making mad declarations, seeing enemies everywhere. Not great 1833464
Reposted by Robert LevackDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 9hPeriodic reminder that this is a Peter Thiel groomed political operator who totally reinvented himself from a Trump deriding republican to the VP of the Trump regime. Look at the eloquence within which he burbles absolute shit now. It’s this kind of thing that makes me doubt the big conspiracy 2134
Robert Levack @robedward90.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Can’t tell you how validating it is to hear that someone else is also like this about anything popular. Also Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is excellent. If you like the authors style I highly recommend the Storied Life of AJ Fikry 010
Reposted by Robert LevackMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time" 282979667
Reposted by Robert LevackStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Intermittently I get a fit of the bleak giggles thinking about how much poorer the Iran war has made all of us. Bills and inflation going up on the theory of “drop a few bombs, magic happens, Reza Pahlavi comes back”. 3146768
Reposted by Robert LevackPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Also, have any Tories ever walked down any street anywhere? 2411217
Reposted by Robert LevackStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857621245
Reposted by Robert LevackMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572214304178
Reposted by Robert LevackGeorge 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. 3551349212
Reposted by Robert LevackThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is not about wrong constitutional or judicial principles. This is about the lack of constitutional and judicial principle. Partisan improvisation, instead of any consistency or depth. 39320
Reposted by Robert LevackAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can you imagine the derisory coverage and outright mockery if any other party with single-digit MPs decided to "declare a General Election" and go on a bus tour? Yet when this outlandish nonsense comes from Farage, it is treated as somehow brilliant. "Subscribe to continue..." No thanks. I'm good. 103746177
Reposted by Robert LevackBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That’s like imagining a trans person has more of a negative impact on your life than a Billionaire. You wonder how these people manage to type and communicate 0532
Reposted by Robert LevackBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I may not be smart, but at least I don’t believe high schools have litter boxes in them for kids who identify as cats. Like, imagine how fucking smooth and frictionless your brain must be to buy that shit. You’d need to think Joe Rogan was good at thinking. Just amoeba levels of cognition. 1868
Reposted by Robert LevackAlly Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 05/10/2026So the Conservatives are now presenting leaving the Aarhus Convention as "levelling the playing field" - when in fact it will remove the rights of citizens to access environmental information and challenge environmentally damaging developments. So... in fact giving developers more power. 49040
Reposted by Robert LevackAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about thistheguardian.comNearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana MahmoodHome secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK 10482161
Reposted by Robert LevackDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wtaf is she smoking and could she share with the rest of the class please? If only so the rest of the class as something to dull the nightmare that is Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary 1326061
Reposted by Robert LevackDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague. 301102339
Reposted by Robert LevackNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If only she were still leader. 1320035
Reposted by Robert LevackRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026More fuel for the thesis "coders think AI can do everything because AI can code and they can't imagine anything being more difficult than coding" 1742963
Robert Levack @robedward90.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Terrible for justice. Terrible for the junior bar. The lay magistracy shouldn’t be allowed to do anything more complicated or weighty than a parking violation. And it won’t help. Summary trials in Essex for example listed into late next year already. 020
Reposted by Robert LevackSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Left-wing Party: We’re doing well. People feel capitalism is out of hand. Our messages on equality, human rights, redistribution, and climate change are cutting through. What‘s next? Also Left-wing Party: Our options are racist immigration policies, victimise trans people, or do an anti-semitism. 3206
Reposted by Robert LevackIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If that's all they wanted to say, they would simply say it. But they don't. They want to say something else. And that's why it's worded in the way it is. 1640925
Reposted by Robert LevackIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It is also perfectly possible to make the case that Zionism inevitably leads to the kind of behaviour from the Israeli government which we see today. Those positions are valid and respectable. 1333422
Reposted by Robert LevackIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language. 631284164
Reposted by Robert LevackMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of the most racist messages ever created by the Conservatives. 44119
Reposted by Robert LevackIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Quite apart from anything else, I am obsessed with the sub-genre of marketing intended to reassure men about using toiletries. Half the moisturisers you see are called MAN CAVE or BRO SMEAR. It's all so hysterically insecure. 5834849
Reposted by Robert LevackThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...theguardian.comMinisters drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcryCritics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable 740694
Reposted by Robert LevackThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trialsThe key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead. 1978189
Reposted by Robert LevackAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If I want to read an article on a website, I want to read it. Throw in a couple of pictures if you like, provided they're actually relevant. But if it's one of those pages that uses scroll based animation, stickies and [shudder] parallax effects, you can jam it up your hoop. 91083
Reposted by Robert LevackTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on 211129105
Reposted by Robert LevackBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy. 61719160
Reposted by Robert LevackDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Who could have foreseen that the Conservatives' 88 foot reworking of the Bayeux Tapestry would end up looking like a far right promotional ad, complete with "plague carrying asylum seekers"? Okay, sorry, apart from anyone with a brain cell. 38313
Reposted by Robert LevackAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Racism is mainstream 16115
Reposted by Robert LevackJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/10/2026More interesting is that British journalism is so distrusted and degraded for understandable reasons that… rather than doing oppo research and laundering it by giving it as an “exclusive” to a friendly newspaper, you just release it yourself through your in-house “news outlet”. 4529
Reposted by Robert LevackMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Years of extremist media using phrases like 'Sadiq Khan's hated ULEZ cameras' in their headlines surely contributes to people like this becoming radicalised to commit terrorist acts? 47620138
Reposted by Robert LevackAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People should differentiate "I don't like" and "this is bad". "I don't like jazz" is personal subjective, it does not mean it's bad, just that it is not to ones taste. "Political corruption is bad" is a statement of objective fact, it is a harm and net negative. 131196
Reposted by Robert LevackAtul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is sensational. 🤣 0106
Reposted by Robert LevackOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice." 2882547924
Reposted by Robert LevackChris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026BBC News has just told the nation that it was entirely OK that Farage was given £5 million because some nutter dreamed of killing him. Beyond belief. 3729679
Reposted by Robert LevackRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is it because they cost a wanktwillion quid, your neighbours will be equally money-grubbing bastards always banging on about house prices, and you'll wake up every morning living in a noisy, smelly, angry rats nest? I haven't read it, so this is just a guess. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...theguardian.com‘People are deserting it’: why are London mansions struggling to sell?For decades, the capital’s house prices raced ahead of the national average – but now they are falling in prime areas 4533028
Reposted by Robert LevackRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit 467144712894
Reposted by Robert LevackAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Right, I’m off to do middle class old person things. 2482
Reposted by Robert LevackAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And call me woke, but people who use the term “third world” demonstrate a condescending, colonialist view of poverty and backwardness that sets the speaker in a position looking down upon the developing world. So fuck ‘em. 51288
