Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 9hbatman comic where Batman foils the Joker's plan to deploy joker gas on the people of gotham by getting him caught up in permitting red tape 1112
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 11hHeart-Wrenching Movie Scene Immediately Cuts To Liberty Biberty 282040345
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10hJust because you get a picture of something emerging from the water isn't going to convince me it exists. 010910
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8hLeft-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state. 116030
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12hThe Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. 228110032239
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026To the original point, it’s very clear that some of what we perceive as accommodationist is actually institutions doing things they badly wanted to do but with Trump as their cover. Higher Ed, for example is lousy with administrators dying for any excuse to get rid of “the DEI stuff“. 01137
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialmallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026...you guys ever get the impression things aren't actually that bad and we're just under DPRK-tier propaganda to crush morale? 1228158
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialAnonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 12hTheir cosmopolitan base of gainfully employed taxpayers has not voted consistently to destroy the entire country to establish Wakanda for Honkies and deserve a treat 1184
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialKaz Self 🏳️⚧️ @kazself.com · 15hLabour members, councillors, MP’s and TU reps saying quite clearly - we see you, we support you and #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️⚧️ I have female Bristol councillor colleagues there who are sending me images 😍 Two of my faves, Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner in attendance! 0166
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 625318
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 18hIf you are going to end the triple lock, you’re better off just ending it. Talking about a process of maybe ending it in the next Parliament, following some sort of review, feels like a way of minimising the fiscal saving while maximising the political pain. 914920
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialNew Jersey Liberal Premier @njstopwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hamilton really pulled something off here. He’s not only successfully baited Marshall into speaking on this, he’s lucked into Marshall being almost obsessive in trying to defend himself and what he did. Loads of damage to Marshall’s image for free courtesy of the Senator himself 314310
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Built on a land with no zoning 2569
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16hICYMI: The PM is announcing a new publicly-owned ‘GB Grid’ to "rewire public control into Britain’s energy system and drive down costs" Labour: Greater public control of energy will be a major theme of the Prime Minister’s Labour Party conference speech at 2pm 44814
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialChatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 23hThe basic problem in Israel & Palestine is that the Oslo Accords ended with Rabin dead at the hands of the right wing that's dominated Israeli politics since. We could not acknowledge this shift without reengineering our entire regional policy, so we didn't. 545566
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18hEvery private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide". 38596116
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't expect to actually win Florida and I don't ask that we do; all I want is to not start out election night with yet another a devastating blow to all of our hopes and dreams, for once in my fucking life. 2420821
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026everyone's like "the 90s ended on sept 11" or whatever, but for web design, the 90s ended in like 2007? 131088
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialolive consumer @machete.gay · 28/09/2026if i was ken paxton's campaign manager i would not be after seeing this because i would have blown my brains out 27017
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialRoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Absolutely fucking embarrassing that this is what Bidenists are cheering, especially considering that Biden was, in fact, Israel's Santa, and he and his advisors repeatedly broke the law to continue arming the Israelis. But no I guess he aura farmed on a phone call so he's all good! 2122
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.sociallowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026y'all make fun of trump's project management skills but he's way more efficient than w was on sinking the gop 1486
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Andrea Campbell is using her power as AG to protect trans kids and force NIMBY towns to build more housing meanwhile Michelle Wu is focused on stopping bus lanes from being built When I lived in Boston, I voted for Campbell over Wu for mayor because I knew she actually gave a shit 411611
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialAndrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Honestly, one of my more hated genres is Anglo-American lefties mooning over French rioting and it turns out that the French rioters are demanding something like the mandatory castration of all immigrants past a certain melanin threshold. 032
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialCharles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"France has X because of these angry riots--" and nobody noticing France sure keeps having them, as you'd expect if the rioters weren't winning. 092
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if we had a liberal tabloid we could have endless stories about young republican rape frenzy and not have to make a single thing up. 623543
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialMihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is just an entire cohort who's openly taking money from various state actors, from Russia, to China and UAE to name a few. It's not secret for anyone and yet no state has the willingness to try and find something Nobody thinks they can police social media and hides behind its private status 0193
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialMihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is also basically this angle here, where a lot of elites especially so in media no longer have the will/guts to actually defend themselves Meanwhile on the part of the population we all became vastly more Libertarian regarding the limits of state power, than say during Cold War. 2213
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialhillzagold.bsky.social @hillzagold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Funny enough the shade and washing from solar panels makes growing crops possible but we just don't want to do it 1121
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/09/2026*bolts awake* it's Morbin time 1040243
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Deciding "honk" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all have been fingered by your therian boyfriends and it SHOWS. 0274
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialMcJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Republicans never actually believe that Republicans are in charge of anything, it’s one of their more baffling pathologies. 241963
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Dropped your gay card, mate" Usually: Oh, I have been mocked by the school bullies. At LibDem Conference: Oh, thank-you very much, I'd have lost it if you hadn't told me. 0173
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialReece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Asian cities are experimenting with an entirely new high speed transport technology. Today's collaboration with @infrastory.bsky.social is on high speed metros. Read now: www.thetransitbrief.net/p/the-future...open.substack.comThe future of urban public transit.High speed regional rail will forever transform cities. 814732
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialAnonymous Bureaucrat @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This feels not unrelated to decline birthrates in the sense that we have created a world in which, for the first time, people broadly have options in terms of how they structure their families and communities, and this is genuinely radical shift in norms 1184
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026KAT, Mikael, OG, and Josh join Jalen Brunson's SNL monologue. Stick with it, it gets better 526544
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialRoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪 @roninmacbeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comGeorge Lucas on Jar Jar BinksAlt: George Lucas on Jar Jar Binks 041
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialArt P. Hough @jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026why would I deceive you, exile 1457
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialJames Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Anyways: the basic failure of Starmerism was that it was A) predicted on a theory which doesnt work in the modern era and was hard to deliver B) Told its core base to fuck off culturally. That was the vibe failure: something you actively created and sought. 1325719
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialמיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026me after that one selzer poll in 2024 017310
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.sociallowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ME: BLUESKY, i want to ADDRESS this issue BLUESKY: go on ME: you KNOW i hate donald trump BLUESKY: absolutely ME: BUT… 38816
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Your regular reminder that UK taxes are average by western standards and low on middle-earners. Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr... 510137
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialdisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes bog trolls 12811
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialshort king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026so much of what centrist hand-sitters miss is that political leaders have to *lead*. popularism and ineffective incrementalism will leave you in the fucking dust if you have no fucking principles or virtues to guide your interactions with the voting public 27511
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought 794361850
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialAstreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026every missile, bomb, and shell we sent israel should have gone to kyiv 423035
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026 461223106
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $ 181210212
Reposted by @tokustarvulkan.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jennifer was asked for one word and delivered an incoherent string of anti-LGBT bigotry because Republican loyalists experience cognition on a level somewhere a bit below that of Cleverbot 214629