Reposted by Use Of WeaponsNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10hJesus H www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comPalantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contractsFormer Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns 1713721
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Are they still a friend?" Middle East minister Stephen Doughty: "Of course they are still a friend & indeed a partner" Israel is a genocidal apartheid state led by someone wanted for war crimes. That's who we're friends & partners with. 2215972
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13h‘Culturally British by my standards’ is one of the most chilling phrases uttered in British politics. Entirely unsurprising to me who it’s from. 54838210
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 13hWorth a read. The Navy are regularly dealing with UXBs in Portsmouth, where I am. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.com‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bombThe long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock... 000
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsWelshRed @welshred.bsky.social · 14hAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor granted £302,000 in compensation after lease on Royal Lodge officially surrendered. What ? This is simply insulting to all those familiar with his antics! 111
Reposted by Use Of Weaponsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15hThe EHRC are stupid enough to do a blow-by-blow repeat of their previous shenanigans. I say: Yes, please do this - launch a deep investigation. Do it when our fugee-hunting Home Secretary is on TV, while Jeremy Vine asks callers whether black people can be British, while fascists riot in the street. 1724062
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsPete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social · 14hThe gall of these people. The biggest brewer of cask ale in the world have done absolutely NOTHING to support cask ale in recent years, and then they say they need to close the brewery because volumes are down so much. Vandalism, pure and simple. www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2026...foodmanufacture.co.ukMarston’s brewery to close as cask volumes nosediveCarlsberg Britvic has announced it is proposing to close the Marston’s Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent amid dwindling cask ale volumes. 63815
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsRoute @routebooks.bsky.social · 15hSigned copies of The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall now available on our website (while stocks last) | www.route-online.com/all-books/th... 254
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 14hNeither am I, but I find that poster's entire existence being dedicated to spittle flecked rage at The Greens to be weird! 140
Reposted by Use Of Weaponsflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14hI invite you do notice what *doesn’t* cross a very significant red line. Genocide isn’t even nearly a deal-breaker, politicians can fly out to have their photos taken grinning next to the Israeli PM without a peep. It’s not fully adopting the policies, rhetoric and optics of then National Front. 111827
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 14hI haven't seen Eastenders this century, but apparently this is a screenshot from a recent episode. Well done them. 020
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsWHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 15hApparently the duration of the song, played three times, was long enough time for Nilsen to boil a human head and the flesh to detach. Not sure at what temperature though, I’m not Nigel Slater. 6143
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit. 91748129
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsGaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 16hThe people running the BBC hate the BBC, is the problem I think 084
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 16hWhy don't the BBC confirm exactly how much money is saved by axeing these and other flagship programmes? And compare any such savings to, say, Claudia Winkleman's salary? 1142
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsColin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · 16hIt’s weird comparing the “is it all over for Polanski?” Commentary after a by-election his party increased their vote share by 22% in a by-election with the “The Keminaisance is real!”Commentary after a Tory conference where their polling is far below what it was even when she became leader. 2374
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsPeter Harrison @4harrisons.bsky.social · 17hCounter view: if we were a democracy, public opinion on the awarding of multimillion pound contracts should matter. 0233
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17hSagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLabour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelectionVictory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics 862567489
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16hFormer Labour deputy leader and now Palantir's Tom Watson says the tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns? Cool, cool. Nothing to see here. 11810
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 15hThreats. Promises to work with Reform on deportations. Classy. 000
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsStephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Let's have look at who the British right idolizes. Tommy Robinson: 2 active charges. Russell Brand: 7 active charges Danny Tommo: 8 active charges Andrew Tate: 42 active charges Tristan Tate: 17 active charges Note that all 5 have publicly embraced performative christianity in recent years. 19346198
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me. 10768451753
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Tories need to listen hard to what high end buying agent Henry Pryor told me when I reported on downsizing trends: “If people only leave their family homes with a lift from an undertaker, the housing market shudders to a halt.” 03211
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsKim Sherrell @web.kim · 08/10/2026ROGUE TROOPER is beautiful, exhilarating, funny, very British and very loud (the soundtrack goes to eleven). The film pays respect to art and artists in a way that's very welcome right now. Big indie filmmaker energy. 💪 #LFF #Makers #FeaturedArtist #Animation #Comics 🇬🇧 36212
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The people stirring the shit, by which I mean both the 'news' organisation and the piss poor politician, don't get to then complain about the shit. www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...portsmouth.co.uk'A disgrace': 'Unacceptable' abuse hurled at RNLI after migrant boat op slammedVerbal threats hurled at RNLI and Coastguard crews have been reported to the police 000
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Counterpoint: what's causing it is abundantly clear. 124565
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsIan Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026by "a netflix style vision" I can only assume they mean "much, much harder to navigate" 022
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 531927539
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Turn it into an American meal by pouring a gallon of liquid plastic ersatz cheese over it. 010
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2026Note: That is not, in fact, what socialism is. However, this may be one of the more revealing political moments of the past decade: a leading politician openly acknowledging efforts to redefine a political term based on contemporary political rhetoric, as opposed to its original/historic meaning. 1529493
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsAJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 08/10/2026Exactly what it’s designed to do. Keep protecting the most fiscally protected generation in human history. 0467
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsSad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Good piece www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...prospectmagazine.co.ukSettler ‘rioters’ are Israeli state policy—through deniable meansThe UK’s ‘reset’ on Israel penalises the settlements while leaving the government that protects and expands them largely untouched 111
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When will we have left the era when burger places call their wares stuff like The Cheesy Cluckhold or the Carniwhore?* *These are real examples. 25515
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm still refusing to order anything prefixed with "dirty". 000
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsK M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Carlsberg's tour of destruction continues with plans to exit brewing in Burton. 310 jobs & the future of Bass & Marston's Pedigree under threat wp.me/p15p2Q-hO8wp.meCarlsberg’s tour of destruction continues with plan to exit brewing in Burton. 310 jobs & future of Bass at riskCarlsberg Britvic the global lager and soft drinks company has announced a plan to exit from brewing in the historic location of Burton. 310 jobs are at risk, as well as the future of iconic beers … 1116
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A sentence I have never heard or read before. 100
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsLouise Krennmair @louisekrennmair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's like they forget there was a pandemic in the middle where cask ale wasn't realistically feasible. Nevermind that Carlsberg have bought up lots of historic cask ale breweries and then destroyed them.static.klipy.comI Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectAlt: A man dressed in a hot dog costume stating "We're all trying to find the guy who did this". The hot dog guy is the guy who did this, just like Carlsberg are the company that destroyed cask brewers in the UK. 0101
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The problem is in the phrase "the company’s multi-beverage portfolio". There are plenty of ale drinkers. 000
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026"UK cask ale volumes have more than halved in less than a decade" 172910
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is who we share the roads with. So please stop the “cyclists are so dramatic” bullshit. 39840
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsResist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is how a new terror outpost is being established - right on the doorstep of a Palestinian family. The settlers have the full support of the Israeli army in their ethnic cleansing enterprise. 📍Stih, Jericho, Jordan Valley 🇵🇸 (Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine) 01416
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this is absolutely nuts: "the UK’s pension “triple lock” was costed at just £50mn when politicians first settled on a measure that has gone on to cost 300 times as much, according to the top adviser on economic strategy at the time" www.ft.com/content/efdc...ft.comUK pension ‘triple lock’ was first costed at just £50mn, says ex-government adviserGuarantee on value of state pension was a demand of Liberal Democrats in negotiations to form coalition with Tories after 2010 election 89226
Use Of Weapons @use0fweap0ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Listening to The Carny and remembering that Nick Cave used to make interesting music. 010
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Literally a selling point of the pervert glasses. And now no one can feel safe getting undressed in front of anybody wearing spectacles, in case they’re being secretly filmed. Thanks a lot, Mark Zuckerberg, for making anyone with bad eyesight now inherently an object of suspicion. 1025273
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Some fascinating detail that I wasn’t aware of in the long process of abolishing slavery (from David Olusoga’s excellent Black and British) 25910
Reposted by Use Of WeaponsDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts. 42844356
