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Wonkish

@wonkish.bsky.social
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Soft left(ie), former Labour staffer, now 🟢 member, and a tech/climate nerd who follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/him + 🏳️‍🌈.

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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 39m
Inb4 I have to see some Americans on here again asserting it’s super easy and cheap for all of us to get AC and we’re all just silly idiots for not having it, while ignoring us explaining how a messy array of practical/legal things often makes it hard/expensive/practically impossible to get it.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 1h
So we should be offering them alternative routes, or at the very least safe haven and help, right Shabana? Oh, of course not..
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 1h
Because maybe you shouldn’t have to be a full time party activist to democratically participate in a political party?
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 2h
I mean, it’s actual internal democracy, though I understand as a former Labour member myself, that the concept of party members actually having power is going to sound weird if you’re used to how Labour does things.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 2h
[excited Langston noises]
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 9h
Alternatively: Nothing you described is a useful goal, let alone "fun". I am biased towards left-wing stuff because of a combination of factual evidence, life experience, and morality. I do not wish to compromise on those things, why should I?
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 10h
Amusingly the Pallas's cat looking pissed is canonically intentional: "Doesn't it look a little grumpy though? Yes – and that's exactly what makes the soft toy so charming!"
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ALPTALL soft toy, Pallas's cat grey, 31 cm
ALPTALL soft toy, Pallas's cat grey, 31 cm With its specific posture, big fluffy head and intense eyes, the Pallas's cat is easy to recognise. Doesn't it look a little grumpy though? Yes – and that's ...
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 10h
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ALPTALL soft toy, red panda, 36 cm
ALPTALL soft toy, red panda, 36 cm Rusty brown fur, a lively look and a fluffy tail. This red panda has wandered from the Himalayan treetops into your child's warm embrace. It sparks the imagination a...
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 10h
Inside you there are two IKEA soft toys:
Two images of IKEA soft (plush) toys side by side with their faces, the first is a happy looking red panda, the 2nd is a decided unhappy looking Pallas's cat.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 10h
Ugh, went to find them to block them but hey, turns out I already did previously.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 19h
Like, did page searching and searching your posts just fail to find that, or did they just entirely invent a thing you never even said?
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 19h
I briefly checked it and saw someone with a load of likes claiming that at some point you supposedly claimed Rowling isn't problematic, despite how I can't seem to see anything like that on there?
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The one bad dog,
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
..is this real?
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I thought the logic was more people essentially going “well the suffering is over”.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t tell people how I live.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean, I don't think they really fucked it up this time..
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm not sure if it's ironic or apt that this title sounds like a sentence that could kill a Victorian child.
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Who Yaasified this Mummified Victorian Toddler?
YouTube video by Caitlin Doughty
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
lol
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Created 21 Sep 2026, yeah.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
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Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I always imagined being one of the staffers who were tasked with getting a 25ft tall inflatable golden retriever custom made.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, I think Gruber's post on this is pretty on point in terms of the balancing act.
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Apple Is Going to Further Tighten the Screws on Full Disk Access on MacOS, in Response to Agentic AI Apps Running Amok
Hopefully Apple has in mind a solution to this situation that will still enable knowledgeable power users to confirm agreement to a sufficiently scary warning and put their Macs in a state similar to ...
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I miss the days when biohacking meant implanting RFID chips under your skin, and it was done by a tiny tiny group of people who at least knew what they were getting into.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's the embedded transphobic bigotry, but you already know that.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh no, what a loss for those of us who aren't bigots..
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's cute, though as above, rather on-brand for someone like you, how you still don't understand what I'm doing here.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oooo a bigot not understanding what someone is actually doing, how on-brand. If I wanted evidence-free vibes-only political takes used to justify someone's bigotry, I'd be on Twitter.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The justification is that they're women. @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I mean, I for one want to see your stuff here.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is a part of my brain that wants more specifics to try to judge this, and I am having to keep hitting it with “this isn’t about you and your liking of someone’s videos” hammers, and I hope others do that enough that she doesn’t end up getting fucking doxxed etc.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, this is basically where I’m at as well, especially as we don’t have more info, but there’s no indication that the survivor actually wanted any of this public to begin with, which is a whole thing I find fucked up too.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bad Dragon could do the funniest legally risky thing..
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Live, laugh, love compliance.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now imagining you in the bath in a moving vehicle, reading books with a level of hyperfocus that has never existed before in human history.
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Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While I’m not sure how posting this is stopping people from talking about it, I think it does matter what a survivor wants.
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