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Ben Jackson

@sudoculture.bsky.social
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Professional contrarian, reluctant Luddite, adland escapee. Queer. Critical theory, culture studies and technology. Founder of Nowhere Research.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026
Janice Turner is the columnist who called Trump a 'feminist hero' for banning trans women from sport.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/09/2026
I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF TRANSPHOBIC ANTIFEMINISTS IN THE BRITISH MEDIA BEING GIVEN AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR UNINFORMED OPINIONS SOURCED DIRECTLY FROM BETWIXT THE ASS CHEEKS OF ROTTING ARISTONONCES
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026
if you're a moderately competent desktop computer user with the means to buy a few hard drives i think you have a duty to your iphone friends to become "the plex guy"
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck man he even addressed the top shortage
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
have I mentioned lately that oligarch-owned media consolidation is bad
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Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore is a real case study in how you can be Kind of a Dumb Guy but still end up broadly on the right side of most things merely by being generally quite good-natured, because questions like "should trans people exist?" and "is it bad to do a genocide?" are actually really uncomplicated.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literally hours later, although at least nobody was killed.
MSF International 2
@MSF
On 13 September, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One of our colleagues was injured in the strike.
The bus was clearly identified as an MSF vehicle, with a large MSF sticker visible on its roof. Once again, Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Civilians, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff must be protected. Clearly marked medical and humanitarian vehicles must be spared from attacks.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I really don't have a better theory of this than positing mass psychological insecurity, as in the reply post. It is just bizarre to watch our liberal centre roll over and act supine for people *who fucking hate them and will destroy them if ever they get the chance*.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026
If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
It's clearly not terrorism as there are no grannies holding signs.
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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
that’s wild. he’s tanking damage for us.
Hasan Piker has officially surpassed
"Transgender" as the most mentioned culture war issue on Fox News for the month of August.
348 mentions of Trans/Transgender
398 mentions of Hasan Piker
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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Funniest reaction possible to Starmer resigning as an MP
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shadow_library
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Elmo the Pirate in Fiery Chaos
ALT: Elmo the Pirate in Fiery Chaos
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
While millions won’t get access to this treasure, the billionaire tech bros class get free VIP access. End Rip Off Britain. Send Palantir packing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...
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Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
Deadspin | The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026
Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets. I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap. Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.
Google Maps showing Lake AmericaApple Maps showing Lake OntarioHere WeGo showing Lake OntarioOpen Street Map showing Lake Ontario
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Racist UK media has been quick to talk about the letter signed by 300 academics supporting Cofnas. It will be interesting to see if they mention this one, which has already been signed by over *4000* academics…
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/08/2026
In a new analysis by HRC, a whopping 1/3 of all young adults identify as LBTQ+. One in 43 are transgender. The queerest states are Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and California. LGBTQ+ people continue to come out like never before. Subscribe to support our journalism
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Nearly 1/3 Of Young Adults Identify As LGBTQ+ According To New Report
The queerest states are Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, and California.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026
i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Amazing to see the list of academics who have signed the pro-Cofnas letter, in that every time you think, hmm, I bet that arsehole signed the pro-Cofnas letter, it turns out they actually did
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 24/08/2026
Excellent and incredibly timely article 'scholars must engage deeply with the far-right’s epistemic and metapolitical strategies, exploring how to challenge scientific misinformation when it assumes the appearance of scientific legitimacy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the Far-Right Anti-Science? Hierarchies, Metapolitics and Struggles for Epistemic Authority
The right-wing actors are widely described as being anti-science. However, while the far-right often rejects science outright when it conflicts with their ideological, economic, or cultural priorit...
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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Forstater and Joyce coming out in support of the racist, just after Stock claimed disability was "social contagion" is making this a real month of Fucking Told You So.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026
I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the amount of grace these racist fucks receive is just loony
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
you already know who's got those PDFs hot'n'ready for you like a horny little caesar, don't you? Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Like_a_snowb... (412KB) A Growing Threat: The Anti-rights Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Report_-_A_g... (354KB)
image showing the front pages of both reports named and linked in the post
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 17/08/2026
Lagarde: "A post by ECB economists on the giant AI bubble in the US? Only if you say it in the most ECB economist way." ECB economists: "We argue that economic research on past technological revolutions points to a worrisome conclusion: a correction of current stock market valuations is likely."
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The AI boom: rational enthusiasm or the next dot-com bubble?
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
World Pride newsletter seems to indicate that Londons bid to host World Pride in 2030 has been declined as the UK does not meet the requirements to host World Pride seeing as it is one of the worst places in the developed world to be a part of the community. Barcelona or Bangkok are the most likely.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
After Stock professed extremist ideology twice this past week (e.g. disabled women are faking; autistic people and people with ADHD are 'unsuited' for academia) and being billed as an expert during the Arday plagiarism scandal, I forgot until now that Stock was involved in her own plagiarism scandal
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Kathleen Stock has repeatedly shown herself to be abusive and hostile towards minorities. She epitomises transphobes, by attacking anybody she sees as different. It is all about exclusion for those deemed 'not us". Bigotry never stops at one group.
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.
Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning BritainLiddle was a freedom fighter
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
leveson 3, 4, 5 and if necessary 6
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I should say re Jason Arday the completely out of proportion multi week frenzy that outlasted his resignation wasn’t just from the traditional right wing press. It was also the BBC inexplicably putting it on the front page, and many other liberal/centrist ‘skeptic’ types breathlessly carrying on
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm sorry... 'Prof Gone'? They made a man's sacking the main news story for weeks as the country went on fire, which might have contributed to his death and 'Prof Gone'? This is the same clique that wept & wailed for a week when we dared mention their dinner party pal was a wife beating nonce.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
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Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Prolierthanthou @davidwallen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Dying doesn't absolve you of the terrible things you've done
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/07/2026
‘Behind Palantir’s bombastic self-image, we found there was a much more prosaic reality: problems with software and staff resistance, but also an unrivalled level of political access.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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