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Imagine making up what the other person said so you can argue with an invented position. I'm not defending her. I know nothing about her. But the person who raised the motion doesn't change whether it is true.

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Ian H @ians.chat · 6h

The core difference between left and right wing politics seems to be, IMHO, that the left want their own lives to be better by making everybody else's lives better. The right want their lives to *feel* better by making everybody else's lives worse.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 7h

More of a theocracy, but probably. Yes. Why are you changing the subject?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 7h

Zionism is racism. It explicitly wants to create an ethno-state, which is by definition racist. But the text of the motion goes far beyond that. Zionism is racism but while I've not read the full motion the snippets I have seen suggest I would not have voted for it.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 9h

I've had a newsworthy piece of climate research spiked x5 TIMES this year by broadcasters, despite meticulous research into the localised impact of climate change on poorer working class communities, in a particular region of the UK . But climate sceptic comms get a free pass. Our media is a joke.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even my neurospicy brain can see that the point of the exercise is developing a connection with the infant...not about keeping it quiet. And yet he bragged about this?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Thread. And yes, if we're going to bat back this nonsense then we have to all have each others' backs and say this is unacceptable.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I see three supporting pillars: 1. Supply - people push their narrative for various reasons. 2. Incentive - a lot of people make a lot of money peddling bullshit to the algorithms so they amplify the bad actors from 1. 3. Demand. Any attempt at a solution needs to tackle all three.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I also think discourse around disinformation keeps falling into the trap of treating it as a supply side issue, rather than examining the demand side and what to do about that. That is a far more pressing, and far more complicated, problem.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The title of the motion is provocative but fundamentally accurate. Some of the text inside the motion and the rejection of some of the amendments do go too far, though. But then you watch the usual people closing ranks to shut down the message entirely and I see how it got to this point.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, no-one loves the Dems. Everyone hates the GOP. But they don't like the Dems either. That may be the one thing that stops this being a true tsunami.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Because you can't attack the motion so you attack the person who raised it. I imagine most of those voting have no idea who she is. I don't know and I don't care.. What matters is the motion. I don't know the content but the headline at least is accurate. By definition any ethnostate is racist.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When you can't attack the message... Attack the messenger

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You gave Freedland a long time to speak against the motion in very damning terms. Are you now going to give one of its supporters the same chance to speak? I don't even agree with the motion as currently worded but this hysterical reaction is certainly doing nothing to convince me they were wrong!

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He should have shown some leadership. Not even showing up to vote was weak. But this is a ridiculously one-sided take. I don't like the motion as worded but Zionism _is_ a racist ideology. By definition. An ethnostate has to be. So the people claiming otherwise are doing themselves no favours.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. The failure of the peace process back in the 90s was the closest we've ever got from what I've seen. A crying shame. However, you skirted past the contradiction. How can a state be explicitly for a specific race/religion without being racist?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember Alta Vista being amazing when it first appeared, though Google's page ranking system and cleaner interface meant they pushed them out pretty fast once they launched. Back when Google's motto was "don't be evil". Oh how times have changed.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you are saying a state is "for Jews" then by definition it is racist. It has to be because it is giving one race/religion special status. You can argue it is moral or necessary - similar to affirmative action descrimating on racial grounds - but only after accepting it is racist.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Your argument at the surface is compelling, I accepted it myself at first. Then a few uncomfortable questions came up. Like: What happens to people who already live there? What does being a "Jewish State" entail? Appartheid? Racism and religious supremacy in the constitution?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What atrocity is necessary before British Jews will stop supporting the ideology leading to those atrocities? If only 2/3rds identify as Zionists then 1/3rd do not. So Zionism is not required to be Jewish. So why do it? Why allow Israel to continue using Jews worldwide as human shields?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For the record. Jews are not responsible for the actions of Israel or Zionists. It says that in the various antisemitism definitions and I completely agree with it. But in that case criticism of Israel and Zionists is not criticism of Jews. They're either separate things or they're not. Pick one.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the double standards I find most frustrating. Israel, Zionism and Jewishness exist in some sort of quantum-entangled flux where any criticism of any of the three is a racist attack on Jews. But at the same time Jews can never be held responsible for any actions by Israel or Zionists.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The fact that many Jews choose to associate with a racist ideology does not making condemning that ideology racist. All apartheid ethnostates are bad. Even Zionist ones. All genocides are bad. Even Zionist ones. I dislike what I've seen of the motion but propaganda like this isn't helpful either.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, it got put up for debate. That's not the same as making it a "top priority".

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What makes you think it is a top priority? I know most (all?) party leadership have either disagreed with the motion entirely or said it needs to be substantially amended. GPEW has full internal democracy. Some members caring enough to raise it doesn't make it a priority for the party as a whole.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Leaving aside the contents of the motion (which I've not had time to read) I don't see much to argue with on the title. Zionism is a nationalist movement to establish an ethnostate. Ethnostates are by definition racist endeavours. Otherwise they're just a state. Is there something I've missed?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To expand on that. Frontier online models are like a train. Huge. Incredibly powerful. Fast. Serve loads of people. Running a much smaller model locally is like a bicycle. Slower. Much less capacity. But you choose where to go, have full privacy, and don't need to buy tickets for every journey.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So far as I know she considers the first threesome consensual. If I'm wrong, then I'll stand corrected. I make no claim to be an expert on the case. But if she considers it consensual then I am not going to disagree. She's had enough agency removed already, do you not agree?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone want to bet that she thinks because the girl agreed to the first threesome, everything after that is her own fault?

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By Braverman’s definition: I am not English (half Armenian) nor is the mother of my kids (parents Welsh). In fact of my kids’ great grandparents — only one is English What do to do, Suella? There are probably 80 or so descendants of my great grandparents which by your benchmark aren’t English

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What are you gibbering on about?

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd be more interested to know the stats of what percentage of the new/replacement vehicles they are buying are electric vs dinovores? I think that's the more meaningful number.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Since Braverman does not identify as English, its strange for her to insist that she could define for others the rules of an in group that she does not believe she can ever be a member of *and* to believe her intuition should trump a broad sustained consemsus amomg those who do identify as English!

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Michael Tracey seems to see himself as goring sacred cows, and interprets the resulting hate as proof he's a free-thinking iconoclast. The problem is, he's not smart enough to find actual sacred cows, so instead he just acts like a lout, then bizarrely celebrates being widely despised.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this investigation needs an independent prosecutor to conduct a thorough, transparent investigation into Jane Doe's allegations.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I will literally slag off Labour for their transphobia all day long - I've literally been door knocking for the Greens in H+STP, did press for my local Green which replaced a Labour council etc I'm also sceptical that yelling at Labour people who are actually trying to do something to fix the prob

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s no accident community college dropout Chuck Kirk usually “debated” college kids: the few times he engaged actual experts, even just ppl his own age—he usually regretted it. I’m legit insulted UCLA (illegally) fired me for posting truth about this dumb ass bigot. www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-fo...

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We had an estate agent quote us a price 75 grand higher than the comparables and 50 grand higher than any other estate agent. I asked him for his comparables to demonstrate that price was possible and he started waffling about their offices in a more expensive area that would send people to him.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They want to lock him in on an exclusive contract (they may well have told him that price) then after a month or two talk him into lowering it but their commission is already agreed.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

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Tim @timblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I dunno. I'd rather see him in that than in the senate...

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