Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialzatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 21/10/2025playing Russian roulette and feeling relaxed because my opponent is putting *more* bullets in the cylinder: "HAHA! surely that decision will hurt his chances!" 051
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDavid Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually? 2035060
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025bsky.app/profile/aphc... 2164
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.” 8835287117657
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt 01138171
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats. 352306883
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/04/2025You can actually see the brain cells turning over 56808172
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Guys I’ve invented a proverb and on consideration it’s mildly problematic 2711726
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025A short thread with some thoughts on the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou, which we went to see last night. Great artwork, but I'd love to see a "counter-narrative" commissioned for the same exhibition, because to my mind they left out everything that's most interesting about the theme. 0103
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.social𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/04/2025It’s called “Good Friday” because “Crucifixion Friday” didn’t test well with focus groups 5977285
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...youtube.com"They Cannot Tolerate Challenges to Wealth and Power" | George Monbiot | BBC Politics Live #shortsYouTube video by Just Stop Oil 45662258
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/04/2025if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women. and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women. not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comTrans women arrested on Britain’s railways to be strip-searched by male officersBritish Transport Police amends policy in light of supreme court’s landmark ruling on definition of a woman 51499136
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/04/2025Trump and Musk are already killing people around the world in the most senseless and cruel ways possible. 417468
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialSadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025A new youth mobility scheme with the EU would boost economic growth and provide exciting opportunities for young people. At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity. www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...independent.co.ukSadiq Khan: Here’s one thing to get us closer to Europe – and a post-Trump bumpA new youth mobility scheme will bring the UK and the EU some much needed connection – and a shot in the arm for business, too, writes London Mayor Sadiq Khan 12413
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 17/04/2025These are kids who will never pay taxes, despite huge wealth. They’ll never hold a job daddy didn’t get them. They’ll buy their own MLB team. They’ll never go on a date with someone non-rich. They’ll never clean their own toilet. We have to recognise the ultra-rich are doing this to their children. 23510
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJess Ralston @jessralston.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵 861145631
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/04/2025let's send J-Lo down the Mariana Trench next 140541
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAbigail Dombey @abigaildombey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org reminds people of this on a regular basis. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is... 0399
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I found the most incredible graph on the other site 7533761009
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025LIKE I SAID 310817
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?" 18464250813435
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025To generalise, I find that people on the centre left are acutely, even excessively, aware of forces they don't like on the left while too many people on the centre right are oblivious to threats from the right until it's far too late and they have to write essays about how dumb they've been 810418
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialSatan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This is high art 526263137515
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK. 2275301826
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialMarina @marstrina.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The role of the Labour party in the British political psyche is essentially Mum: she's naff & boring, never accomplished anything, only ever tries to stop being as cool as we could be. Meanwhile all the laundry that was folded, the meals that were cooked & the home that was clean go unseen. 2114
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 06/04/2025I think this the first time Brexit has appeared as an attack line in a major English speaking political campaign. 11080324
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 06/04/2025The reason a lot of very poor countries have higher tariffs is in part because they lack the state capacity to collect other taxes, or the affluent citizens to pay them. It's easier logistically to collect revenue at a few border crossings than from every business or employee in the country. 19661117
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/04/2025I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries 318647916
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/04/2025From my time in Paris, I know that in France people would have burned a lot of stuff by now. 2556887793
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025"Maybe it's a good thing that the European economy isn't dependent on stock market bubbles" 114816
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Perhaps one day there will be an exam question like this: "The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie". (Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto). Discuss with reference to the Trump Tariffs of 2025. 14214
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialThe Fast Show @thefastshow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The American Broadcast Team #thefastshow 38812
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 03/04/2025American companies quite literally lost one trillion dollars in a single day but on the other hand Dave from accounts receivable doesn't have to worry about using they/them pronouns when he sees Leslie in the break room 156136752529
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialGordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 03/04/2025See also Apples 50% take on in-app purchasing , should be 1%, Amazon's marketplace/seller conflicts and pay-to-place in product search Trump gives Europe the opportunity and political alignment to smash all these practices in Europe 1518
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAdam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This is a thread of my favourite ever literal translations, starting with this one… In Greek, the word for a protest, εύπιστος, translates literally to “anger parade” 51683199
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever. 252192265060
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Chapeau. 01289
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 31/03/2025imagine laws, but for rich people. 192169423
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social 20784073865
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialJanne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 27/03/2025Many people haven’t even heard that Finns fought an extremely bloody if brief civil war in 1918. The victorious Whites were originally dead set on eliminating the “Red bacillus” for good. Mass killings were common, and Finland was the first European country to introduce concentration camps. 720936
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDiane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I have been contemplating this all day. There is a way to botch a government takeover and instead wind up with no government. It’s one of the more unusual outcomes in a situation like this, BUT! Our guys are uniquely unqualified to attempt this kind of power grab, so — it’s on the table. 1152
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialgizmo @gizmotron.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Owners of The Atlantic newspaper: protect your business by renaming it to The Ocean of America. #TopTips 0123
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/03/2025"Early attempts by corporations to reluctantly implement programs designed to look like they were addressing unconcious bias and inequality (some of the most complex social problems imaginable) were flawed and occasionally annoying. The only logical reaction is to give up & embrace discrimination." 310411
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Responses must be in by April 25. You don’t have to respond at anything like this length. Just make sure your voice is heard, and the consultation is not dominated by landowners demanding business as usual: a disaster for ecosystems and our own wellbeing. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra... 2/3consult.defra.gov.uk Land Use Consultation - Defra - Citizen Space This site contains consultations that are run by Defra. 48437
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/03/202592 years ago today: The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich"), giving the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, power to make and enforce laws. The Center Party provides decisive support. With the Communist Party banned, Social Democrats are alone in opposition. 33934370
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialAnna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This is the fundamental problem with Silicon Valley as well: the modal belief is that anything to do with politics or the state is either an engineering problem or a conspiracy. And then these guys are let loose on our democracy. 516031
Reposted by @wappingwhale.bsky.socialNicole Lampert @nicolelampert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A new report into the October 7 attacks chaired by Lord Roberts was launched this week in the House of Commons in an effort to stem the denialism of the Hamas fans. 63018
