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Not Tonight Brosephine

@spiderscrawl.bsky.social
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Occasional writer. Full-time neurospicy. If you complain about ‘woke’, I’ll take that as explicit permission to disregard everything else you have to say. All views other people’s. He/him/MAMIL

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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 17h
I wonder if electoral reform could be part of a future negotiation for EU membership. If we have a system that makes an outright majority virtually impossible, then it's far less likely that a government could be formed where all coalition partners would agree to reversing any decision to re-enter
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"But who, other than climatologists, academics, and people who could read, predicted the chaos to be wrought by the collapse of global supply chains, Trump’s refusal to leave the White House and the AI singularity?" Somehow funny and terrifying in equal measure.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Down the back of the SOFA
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“We were a pain in the arse while we were in, we left in a huff like a toddler denied an ice cream, but sort your shit out and we might come back.”
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The arrogance of the man! The only person from across the spectrum who doesn’t want Tony Blair to just fuck off is Tony Blair. Just because Tony Blair is stuck with Tony Blair, doesn’t mean the rest of us should be stuck with Tony Blair. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years
Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🎉 YES! This is a huge opportunity! Please use this link to write to your MP - and then share, share everywhere! —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a... #Rejoin #UK #Europe #EU
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was trying to place him for ages before I remembered - he was the suicidal Q in Voyager.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a very sensible and even-handed take, even if it hurts to think my kids might not enjoy Hitchhiker's as much as I would want them to.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great, so now every time I leave fruit out in summer, I'm going to get drones?
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Alex Hern @handle.invalid · 10/09/2026
Someone put the fly brain inside an FPV drone bsky.app/profile/ewin...
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A couple of threads on here referring obliquely to the Milliband interview but, as I've been busy all morning, I had no idea what they were talking about. It should've been predictable that my search for clarity would end with me sighing and muttering the words, "Right. Of course. Justin Webb."
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not to mention turning the captain into one too, so that he could become her hyper-evolved sex lizard baby-daddy. Then nobody ever mentioning it again (well, you wouldn’t I suppose)
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Despite this being characterised by some as a "Spontaneous Protest" it was clearly not. If you are concerned by, and want to do something about, the increasingly organised right-wing extremism in our country, Hope not hate is a very good place to start.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This comment deserves better 😂
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1066 - Norman Conquest of England 1067(ish) - Norman aristocracy commission Bayeux Tapestry to commemorate the events leading up to 1066. John Redwood 2026 - “Too soon!”
X post from John Redwood

“As we consider the Bayeux Embroidery we should remember the many killed by this French invasion. English men and women had their lands stolen. Many were put into serfdom by a new Norman governing class.”
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Because Gloria Hunniford is a national treasure.
Gloria Hunniford, co-presenter of BBC TV show, 'Rip-Off Britain'.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And the internet was in black and white and only on for two hours a day.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If someone had told me twenty years ago that there would come a time when I was asked several times a day if I wanted to accept cookies, and that I would reject them every time, I wouldn’t have believed them.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Nelson Muntz Ha-Ha! Simpsons Laugh
Alt: Ralph from The Simpsons waving
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's just what he was wearing while denying it.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The people who get some time in the warm and hot meals will probably see it as a relief. And if it saves lives in the heart of winter, you’d have to be pretty callous to call it a failure.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Focusing on the media coverage seems like the sort of simplistic narrative that you often see in, well, in sections of the media. Surely any investigation should at the very least encompass Cambridge and the most prominent voices who pursued this on social media too? This didn’t happen in vacuum.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Agreed. And I think everyone, especially the cycling press, need to allow a bit of space. Recovery from crashes is never just about the physical injuries. If a rider like Jonas needs time to recover, he should be able to say so without everyone jumping to conclusions.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Amazing. Sounds like they had their own 'end of history' complacency.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I feel like the word "claims" is missing from this BBC headline.
BBC News Website headline "Reform UK plan would overhaul welfare system with £50bn in savings"
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
He's objectively awful, but there are a great many who are worse. I can only congratulate you on never having watched GBeebies or Talk TV.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Except when they mentioned it here www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5... and also when they mentioned it here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage faces renewed watchdog probe after Clacton by-election victory
The investigation into a £5m gift received by Farage reopens, as he returns as the MP for Clacton.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think he's earned some time off. I hear Clacton's nice this time of year.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"...Liverpool fans [...] are viewing the potential high-profile investment cautiously." That's an unusual way of saying we want him to keep his filthy hands off our club and fuck off permanently to space like all these pricks keep promising. #liverpool #lfc #bezos #bezoff
bbc.co.uk
Jeff Bezos' Liverpool deal: What would investment mean for club?
Why investment by a group including Jeff Bezos would not make a marked difference to Liverpool's spending power - and might sit uneasily with fans.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wherever you are in the US, you are never more than two states away from an election.
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don’t worry, AI is going to take all our jobs and our creative pastimes, so you’ll have loads of time to spend on the mountain of laundry that never. Ever. Ends.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you evolve yourself and your captain into bog dwelling amphibious beings, bump uglies and leave behind a generation of slimy little newt things on a random M class planet, best thing to do is never, ever mention it again.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He literally just talked about establishing safe routes in this very speech. First time in the last decade I’ve heard a senior politician in govt, let alone the PM say that. You’ve done an amazing job raising the profile of your party but I’m constantly disappointed by your disingenuousness
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's at times like this I'm grateful that I don't have a lot of followers and the vast majority of people take no notice of anything I have to say.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Especially unfair to GenX as we are outnumbered by the generations above and below. So after years of being disenfranchised by older generations looking back with rose tinted spectacles and scant regard for the young, when we want to start doing that, there won't be enough of us for that either!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once again staggered that Farage thought (perhaps still does) that 'don't worry your pretty little head about it. The voters of Clacton have re-elected me' would satisfy most people:
ft.com
Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources
Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'd love this. I'd love someone to claim this record clean and the only person I think could do it is Pogi. He probably won't if they decide to wake him up unnecessarily at 2am to make sure he isn't using the same, ahem, fueling strategy though.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nothing quiet about Quiet Riot this week. You're spoiling us. People are going to expect this every week now 😉
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/07/2026
@pimlicat.bsky.social: “As our econometric and polling research demonstrates, membership of the EU is a policy that delivers transformative, redistributive growth across the country and is popular with voters prepared to back Labour at the next election.”
bestforbritain.org
Prioritising UK-EU relationship welcome stance from new Foreign Secretary - Best for Britain
A deeper and stronger UK-EU alliance will deliver transformative growth across the country, campaigners affirm. 
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Given his proximity, he's probably holding his breath too.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’ve been in favour of LVT for a while now. To my layman understanding it seems better thought out and more realistic than the magic bullets that wealth tax campaigners propose. Sobering how dependent it would be on proper, long term strategic planning though. Fascinating thread and report here
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Is this meant as a correction? 🤣 FYI - I’m from Eastham 😉
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wirral Grammar? My older brother’s too. Wilson was the first head boy as I’m sure you know. (I was too poor a student to pass the 11+) Is it something you recall the teachers mentioning? I asked my brother and he doesn’t remember.
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Wilson's constituency was Huyton and he partially grew up in Wirral, so there is a slightly stretched claim there.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Suddenly the RW press, that army of advocates for the right to offend, got terribly pompous. This degrades democracy, they say. What degrades democracy is the guy who thinks voters don't deserve to know what donors are getting in exchange for five million quid - not the guy with a bin on his head.”
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Sunday School: A Bin-Bin Situation
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 12 July · 1hr 2min
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I had no idea about this either. Is it like League and Union in rugby? Do they have different rules or something?
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Am I the only person who finds it crazy that the "Holy fuck! We're literally on fire!" story is only about 4th or 5th item on the homepage of most UK news websites, if it's even there at all? #ukwildfires #news #climatecrisis
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Not Tonight Brosephine @spiderscrawl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A classic case of ‘careful what you wish for’ for me. I was so pleased when she won because I knew she would be awful and thought that could only be a good thing for progressives. But you’re right. I feel foolish to admit that I didn’t realise how much damage someone awful can do.
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