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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JD Vance meeting Tom Skinner (UK Apprentice contestant) for a barbecue is still the weirdest thing to happen politically last year.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seeing someone describing themselves as a lexiteer in 2026 just gives me a weird sense of whiplash. Like come on where’s this socialist paradise you were promising.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Owen Jones is name searching his own name on the Bluesky, what a time to be alive.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MG are releasing a car called an S5. An MG S5!

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Taking my iced coffee to the job interview, I’m feeling good about it! I just discovered this artist I’ve never heard of before called Ella Langley so this day is even sweeter!

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that the next Star Wars is about one of the Skywalkers distant cousins who got really into the Star Wars equivalent of Nu-Metal.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seeing Will Best on anything is a big T4 jump scare to me.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Genuinely wild looking up a video game publisher and seeing that own subsidiaries in Russia and Ukraine. Ethics aside it must be mad knowing that you could end up missing a deadline because one of your employees got killed by a missile launched by the relative of another.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just thinking about one of my grandads friends who took a box of apples (as a gift) to a job interview.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rosie Duffield pivoting to biphobia? A likely place for her to go.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m backing Zack Polanski for no other reason than he’s the most likely candidate to call Jonathan Hinder a baldy bastard.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Genuine question, but when Gender Critical people in the UK make banner/signs why do they always use *that* font?

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel sorry for guys called Al, they see all your posts and have become paranoid that you all hate him.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ignoring the Bluesky discourse for five minutes, the fact that Rees-Mogg is getting ratioed so hard on X just shows how much the far-right operates on vibes, none of them actually know what his previous statements were and just assumed he was one of *their guys*.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very on the nose now how much TERF/GC rhetoric has been co-opted by the far right. It would be helpful if there had been a group of us calling out how these people were in the same side for nearly a decade now wouldn’t there?

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do think the fact that people who are now in positions of relative authority can post stuff like this with literally zero proof on display are why Britain has arrived at a point where children are chanting “Let them sink”

Facebook post from Councillor Sam Journet (Reform).

Clir Sam Journet • is in Basildon.
9hr
I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I HAVE JUST SEEN.
A Royal Mail worker was filmed
SPITTING on our St. George's
Cross. Royal Mail should terminate his employment.

Most relevant (comment)
Clir Sam Journet • 9h • & Author • *
There has to be a line, and for me this crosses it completely. Royal Mail should act decisively.
Would YOU terminate his employment?

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My two serious take aways are is that still is hugely harmful views of bisexuals still exists and are more prevalent than you think. And straight people have probably dated closeted bisexuals more than they realise.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My hostility towards my local Facebook group is not politically motivated, it’s actually a deep seated resentment because none of them got my “Who watches the Watchmen?” joke when the watch repair shop was closed unannounced for a week.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oooh remembers when the Paul Brothers just did mediocre Vines with unnecessary backflips?

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I find John Swinney oddly endearing as he looks like nearly every 50+ year old Scottish man who moved south of the border to the midlands. I feel like I could have a conversation with him about Still Game.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m suspicious of anyone in the UK press on the right who’s now complaining about the rise of ethnonationalism, I can’t help that it’s not out of genuine concern but the fact that people won’t be listening to them anymore.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It might have been a bit on the nose to hold Trans Pride Birmingham in front of Mr Egg.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Joe Swash and Stacey Solomon in a Pokémon card scalping scandal? Count me in!

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“You see we need to be transphobic to beat the far right?” Oh so you’ll definitely win? *proceeds to lose only to legitimise transphobia*

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s very funny when “liberal” transphobes in the UK try to compare drag to blackface because half the comments are “well the Black and White Minstrel Show” was good actually. Really not hiding who your real audience is.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes this is bad but why does this video read like something from Nathan for You.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ll give it one week before somewhere else in the UK tries to copy the Piddington referendum. Possibly more embarrassingly.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Has Trump secretly run a campaign to give every US veteran a podcast/youtube series? It’s exhausting just seeing them in my recommendations.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The second Trump presidency is just completely off on the vibes compared to the first. Genuinely just feels like a drunk man staggering as you wait to see if he falls in the road. Just no energy to it.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes the crypto guys are sure going to make Farage look bad, no it’s not a huge improvement because all the Reform supporters haven’t stopped being racist and/or cranks they’ve just more racist “Farage is a Greasy Arsehole (right wing) Party”.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No you will not make me respect Macklemore. Yes he did a good thing but he’s been stealing a living off one novelty song and a sort of fun song that had too much life to it.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m still amazed that George Galloway is allowed to lead a political party.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is there a TikTok sex tourist leading a far right march somewhere? Oh wait different Danny.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amok Rajan can say what he thinks now that he’s left the Today programme, or so he says in the Spectator. Despite the fact that everyone already knew what he thought when he was on the Today programme.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honestly the fact that The Proclaimers of all people have decided to be transphobic in 2026 in the most cookie cutter way possible has absolutely sent me.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Post-Reform politics in the UK are going to extremely weird so as much as I want to celebrate them finally getting investigated, I’m much more nervous about the potential class of geriatric terrorists that will spring up.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Those UK Pink Ladies groups are very weird, it’s some how appropriated what I’m pretty sure is a cancer charity/awareness campaign name and uses it to push racism with genuinely the cringiest aesthetics I’ve ever seen.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think the weirdest point of British politics will be when Reform slowly collapses. There’s way too many conspiracy theorists in that party that have been empowered by them for this to just vanish.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I find it hard to take the moderation on this site seriously when you’ve had accounts that have been marked as intolerant for well over a year still being allowed to be active on here.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I will be referring to myself as an alleged national treasure from today onwards.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh UKIP have gone very, very weird.

Facebook post from UK Independence Party.

UK Independence Party

UKIP would remove all public funding for
Mosques and reallocate it to invest in and restore our Churches! + *

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Based on vibes I think Milo will wait a few months to confirm that he’s not going to be allowed back into the US then start digging up dirt on everyone on the MAGA right. First to get back some credibility on the right then to put some distance between Reform/Restore and the Trump administration.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I really don’t get the Hasan Piker discourse from the US because him working with the Democrats would be bad for both of them. There’s no way it works out as a positive for either of them.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don’t think it’s useful to map Linehan with the usual patterns of GC/Transphobe thought because he is uniquely very weird.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Theres no point getting intellectual about Sacha Baron Cohen, Ali G just doesn’t work these days

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s weird stuff that I shouldn’t have to know but it’s important to note that there was a lot of mudslinging between Loomer and Yiannopoulos for years before he got detained. It’s blatantly weird to see the MAGA in fighting in the open.

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Right should Burnham be called Starmer 2: Electric Boogaloo or Starmer: The Manchester Years?

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching the GTA VI preview.

Tweet from Danny DeVito

@DannyDeVito
gaming
4:06 PM • Oct 16, 2009 • Twitter Web Client

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As much as it’s hard to sympathise with him, you’d see stuff in Facebook group when he was announced that was genuinely 80’s level shit.

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