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TomButcher

@thosb.bsky.social
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Actor, Spouse, Cat Master (Keith), part time thinker, MMT.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
via Harry Eccles
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Check this out. David Elsewhere 50s www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUz4...
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Mike Song + David Elsewhere - Kollaboration 2, 2001
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Grudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
people have been saying for years that these freaks won't be happy until they can machine-gun people in the Channel, and now they're just saying it where's that 1984 extract about the cinema? ah yes (CW: violence)
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never

extract from 1984 by George Orwell
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz Writing is thinking. Writing is the practice of sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of your own consciousness and transforming your thoughts and feelings into coherent, logical expression. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/using-ai-i...
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Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reform's policy of blaming illegal migration for everything, and claiming that dealing with it will fix everything is ripped apart beautifully, in just 1 minute. It's the same scam Hitler and Mussolini were selling 100 years ago.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The American people hogtied on the couch
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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz359bs
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excellent thread (scroll up and down) I’ll just emphasize that many in the AI industry see the technology as a successor to human labor entirely—that’s literally the goal—AND the technology itself presents inherent risks that pose a danger to humans as well.
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Mr. Scruff Monkey @scruffmonkey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Dunno who created this but every single week, it gets more and more true.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is anyone running a campaign to get Larry the cat on a banknote?
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I would love to have a banknote with Larry the cat on it.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gerald Kaufman speech in parliament. Powerful stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGu...
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UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
YouTube video by setfree68
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Vince Gomez @vincegomez.com · 12/10/2026
Hole Watch #Budget2026 The Telegraph, citing the IFS: Healey needs £35bn for defence, care and housing. Nobody asks if Britain has the welders, care workers and bricklayers to deliver them. The “hole” is measured against fiscal rules the Treasury wrote. vincegomez.com/reality-chec...
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Healey faces £35bn hole in Budget, IFS warns
Some accurate reporting on inflation and tax effects, but the central frame treats markets and tax-funded "pay for" logic as binding constraints on the Chancellor.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are more Ketchup sachets than nurses. More operational Furbies than professors of human geography. More dogs named "Digger" than people licensed to operate a JCB. And you ask why people are turning to Reform?
telegraph headline: ADHD benefits claiments outnumber soldiers.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We seem to be at the 'My AR-15, acting on its own, went rogue and shot up a school' stage.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not my words. Times Higher Education. Should have credited
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Life depends on science, but the humanities make it worth living.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
37,000 people arrive on small boats. 4,000,000 kids are in poverty. 4,500,000 can't get a dentists. But they will blame these vast problems on a tiny one. They think you are too stupid to know the problem, is them, the greedy billionaires.
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TeatimeandBiscuit @teatimeandbiscuit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Or could the answer possibly be, that the flogging off of billions of pounds worth of public assets produced a temporary boost to a flagging national economy but that in the long run the consequences were entirely negative?
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 29/09/2026
My money's on Javier Bardem.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Too big to fail
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI doesn't kill you, people do.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Under communism man exploits man, under capitalism its the opposite
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not a view shared by some very powerful people "Buchanan, MacLean notes, was incensed at what he saw as a move toward socialism and deeply suspicious of any form of state action that channels resources to the public." www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
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Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grand Theft Autocomplete
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She is no more an actress than a submarine is a fish.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fewer bobbies.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/09/2026
This is such a powerful speech from Chris Hinchliff There are many reasons why we must bring our water into public ownership. NATIONAL SECURITY and DEMOCRACY are not mentioned enough
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Once in a lifetime odds. 😅
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The owner of BetFred has spent his whole life pushing poison and contributing nothing and now he complains about the result. In 59 years what have his betting shops produced? Not a single thing. Just addicts, misery and bankruptcy.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Very good piece by @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. A couple of things I'd add. One, on the point below, one reason Harborne gave for his £36M donation was "competitive spirit" to match Delo. That aspect of it is pathetic willy-waving: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic... 1/4
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Yorkshire-born billionaire Christopher Harborne donates £36m to Reform
Reform UK has received a second £36 million donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I like demonish; an attempt to demolish a thing through demonisation
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Retrospective legislation often applies to financial laws to prevent pre-emption. Overseas donations cap applies from 25/03/2026 “will include all donations from overseas electors received from today & all regulated transactions entered into from today.” hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026...
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Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Polit - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics' on Wednesday 25 March 2026.
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.
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Tice says government trying to 'retrospectively change rules' as Reform receives £72m in donations
Reform UK announced two £36m donations this weekend, as a bill that could change the rules passes through Parliament. It's being debated again in the Lords later.
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TomButcher @thosb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
letterbocks
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Strong 'VIZ letterbox' vibe
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"War chest"? Is that the war against taxing the rich? The war against human rights, workers' rights? The war against black/brown people and foreigners? The war against democracy, on behalf of #fascism? So many wars #Farage has to fight... #ukpolitics #bbclaurak #ReformUK #bbcnews #corruption
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On the News Agents, Jon Sopel says that 9/11 made him realise he was “on the side of freedom-loving America”. Podcasts have done a lot through the sheer amount of material recorded to reveal just how storybook a lot of journalists’ analytical faculties are.
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