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Niles Paine

@theyblades.bsky.social
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30. 🌹. Reply Enby. Jaded. Dyslexic. Fun Loving Bisexual. (They/Them). UK (unfortunately).

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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 18h
At best these people aren’t even even aware of what the militaries of North African are like, and are way over estimating what European militaries in 1939 were like, the British Army was still using pack animals at that time.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Forever disappointed that John Healy never wears his namesake trainers.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My chief issue with the “it’s always benefit cheats who never work” stereotype of the far-right in the UK is that at its heart it’s always tradesmen and small buy-to-let landlords at it’s heart.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There needs to be a comprehensive study into the radicalisation of Tradesmen in the UK.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What if we kissed by the Coalville Deathstar? 🤭🫶
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m sorry I’m not even getting into why a “British Iron Dome” is a stupid idea in itself. But Britannia Shield just sounds like an insurance firm that only advertises on daytime tv.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking forward to some very dishonest people condemning everyone who’s still a Green Party member tomorrow except those who are members of that transphobic group who will still somehow have valid concerns etc.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think this is just making it worse.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oddly looks like the AI has used a Japanese Chi-Nu as the base reference there. I don’t know if it’s worse or better.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Apprentice franchise is responsible for great evil on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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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!
Snake from Metal Gear Solid 5.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This kind of view is very popular on semi-rural Facebook. It’s 50/50 if it’s right wing or not. A lot of it is adults having a tantrum at the concept of change rather than strict nimbyism.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We still let George Galloway lead a party and stand for election while living in Russia too. Given the amount of disinformation he pushed on this exact topic you’d think there would be some reckoning etc.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Wizarding World map of the world, but somehow dumber.
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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
The children (people in their thirties) yearn for Freshly Squeezed to come back.
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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
The most Nuneaton man of all time.
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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
It’s not like they actually have money, it’s all tied up in house prices usually.
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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
He was more pro-immigration than Theresa May.
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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.

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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
The right wing press has been screeching about immigration for as long as I’ve been alive (and probably longer), add unmoderated social media to the mix with a government (and two large opposition parties) going out their way to placate them, this was going to be inevitable.
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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
I do think that there’s a general paranoia at the top that they’re five minutes away from a social media mob because someone might have a bad faith interpretation about some media.
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s very ironic when you consider what gave Jolyon Maugham a big platform in the first place.
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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 · 20/09/2026
This song is a very unholy mix of six music dad and gay. youtu.be/nffTy35Ulzc
youtu.be
Uniting Nations feat. Laura More - Ai No Corrida (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Phoenix Music International Ltd
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Niles Paine @theyblades.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s only an arduous *checks notes* 40 minute drive to Norwich after all.
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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
Oh boy! More policies aimed at winning over the people in the comments section of Mail Online Facebook posts!
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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
I’m not encouraging anyone to seek out the pictures but “soiled herself” really does undersell it.
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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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