Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 6hIdiocracy undersold quite how idiotic the future is going to be didn't it 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 6hWas it socialism that spent thirty years outsourcing all those jobs to cheaper locations or was it actually pure unfiltered capitalism chasing profits? Asking for a friend Also why is he trying to say the great replacement part quietly? Either say it with your whole chest or be quiet! 0213
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 7hSocialism is whatever straw man these forked-tongue speakers want it to be. 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 7hFascists gonna fascist www.reuters.com/world/german...reuters.comGermany's AfD calls for end to support for UkraineGermany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will launch a joint motion with the small far-left BSW party in a regional parliament calling for an end to military support for Ukraine, an AfD spok... 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So it was more telegram terrorism then. On behalf of actors yet to be identified. I've quite enjoyed not having an opinion on this until information is revealed. It's quite a liberating feeling and our press should give it a go! 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I hope everyone realises that Russia will directly attack NATO, it's just a matter of time. And we should be behaving accordingly 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you're wondering - this is how the BBC News reported this story at 5am this morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west. 510325
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I would quite like to live in a country with a government 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The 11k likes on this AI slop on Bluesky of all places makes me fear for our future 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Man who hasn't lived in the UK for 6 years says what about immigrants now? Man who is a multi-billionaire hoarder and hates taxes says what about taxation now? Man whose company has just launched a carbon capture company says what about making more carbon now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And that committee has plenty of questions it should be asking of the media over (gestures around) the absolute state of everything 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The process of dehumanisation that's been happening for decades answers all the questions we might have about prior atrocities. These people, led by sociopaths, would happily commit mass murder given the chance 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I didn't think in 2026 anything still made me say this, but wtaf 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks 671280509
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026time.com/3605080/russ...time.comFrench National Front Secures Funding from Russian BankParty official claims National Front is almost broke 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026and that as this happens our institutions and politicians are asleep at the wheel. Am I doing this right? 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I have a legitimate concern that a bunch of oligarchs are conspiring to end western democracy, buoyed by irreversible structural trends, during an era of rapid change (the kind that has previously precipitated world war)... 110
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We don't talk enough about sociopathy. He literally takes pleasure from this. That's why he bullied children when he was a teenager and has been a lifelong racist. 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I feel like we haven't fully joined the dots yet in the UK media and public imaginations. These people are being funded from overseas. Robinson hangs out in Moscow with Musk snr. And we just don't talk about it? (I am not discounting our own capacity for fascism of course) bsky.app/profile/tors... 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Just a reminder that Russia is trying to use islamaphobia and the fash to attack the west and the only defence is to inform the public properly. Also they way they use this tactic betrays their own prejudices more than ours www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUkrainian guilty of vandalism at mosques linked to Russian network behind Starmer arson attackIllia Bilyk, a 21-year-old Ukrainian man, has pleaded guilty to targeting five locations in east London. 100
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I honestly think people who are still complacent about AI are either not paying attention or don't have a great imagination. The really obvious risks are already here and they're not superintelligence. They are human malevolence and those applications alone should have everyone up at night 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I am very much concerned by in control AI. Recent reports include people running missile programmes and attempting biological weapons. We don't want to think about what some people are using it for right now let alone in a year and it was all so predictable. www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...anthropic.comCountering misuse of AI: September 2026 / AnthropicCase studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse. 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wars are obviously worrying for non-economic reasons too, my point being just that the UK media seem to not be discussing the bigger picture of where we're heading in the next couple of years 011
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 12/09/2026While UK politics are bad I don't think people are paying enough attention to what's happening in Yemen and the Saudi East/West pipeline being shut down. The £2k+ household cost of wars like this only make British politics more and more insane www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comUK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis showsCentre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027 122
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 641512603
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers. 2802019527
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One of those two looks like an invasion to me. 19677161
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat. 781709559
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026The alarms are all flashing red. 1542323730
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The White House still hasn't figured out that Iran controls escalation options and it will escalate whenever the US strikes Iranian tankers, and if the US blockade persists much longer it will be incentivised to hit global oil infrastructure again. 000
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Stephen Bush, in the FT today writes that Labour “has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point”. A key question of political analysis is why Lab (and/or the British state) can’t/won’t be more decisive (x/?) 813359
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026They're here Huckabee www.gov.uk/government/c...gov.ukCurrent UK sanctions regimesStatutory guidance and summary, plus list of designations and sanctions notices, for each UK sanctions regime, listed by country and by theme. 021
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling. 41856344
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s 232742735
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Starmer's inaction over Israeli acts of genocide is one of the reasons he had to go. Miliband is right to act on clear breaches of international law even if there are consequences in the relationship with the US (which is itself increasingly outside of the law anyway) 010
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is time for the UK to admit it has a fascism problem. Just as the rest of Europe does and as the US does. History is repeating itself and every alarm should be going off. 001
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy 30762272
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We all saw this coming decades ago and yet we're still rushing to make it happen. Since time machines don't exist it would be wise to stop before it's too late. We won't. 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2026He can't count 🇪🇺 $30.68 trillion GDP PPP 🇺🇸 $32.38 trillion GDP PPP Has Farage heard of the concept of purchasing power parity or average working hours vs output? No because that's inconvenient to his narrative. US GDP numbers are inflated by exchange rates and reserve currency status 040
Reposted by Will 🏳️🌈Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins.bsky.social 1081635650
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2026British journalists are a substantial part of the problem 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If we look at history, the police aren't the ones who stop fascism. They normally join its machinery. It's time for everyone else to say that what the elites are doing in the UK isn't actually acceptable 000
Will 🏳️🌈 @william-v.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I mean a bunch of idiots aren't to blame for the situation the UK is in. They can't help it. That's on the oligarchs and political/media classes that think a little bit of fascism is fun and the rest of us who haven't been clear enough about the problem 010