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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 4h

CATHERINE CONNOLLY
NO SURRENDER
FOUR-DAY WEEK
AND A THREE-DAY BENDER

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 5h

"I'm naively wondering which would-be leader closely associated with Powell could profit from the building of a network of contacts, and having a ringside seat listening to members' complaints? It's a mystery."

Another Lost Election

It's getting to be a habit. Keir Starmer lost another election on Saturday. Even the dogs in the street knew Lucy Powell was going to win La...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

Sobbing into a camera because you were cruelly bullied and oppressed by *Lucy Powell* is some of the purest, most hilarious whiny little bitch behaviour I have seen on this internet

@montie
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I have not wanted to revisit @LucyMPowell's somewhat infamous attempt to play the race card against me on Any Questions some months ago. During the deputy leadership race I have repeatedly turned down interview opportunities to reflect on that clash - mainly because I defended myself stoutly at the time and I hated being labelled as someone who saw votes in racism. I believe that judging anyone on their skin colour is an offence to God and reliving what was a horrible 72 hours - especially on social media - did not appeal. I am going to say one thing tonight though. Four Labour Cabinet ministers and a good number of opposition MPs took the trouble - over that weekend - to offer kind words and assure me it was not how they saw me. And I wish average voters saw more of that kind of cross-party humanity because it's actually more the norm than the exception in my experience.
I've never had any kind of apology or any contact at all from Lucy Powell herself though. Nothing. I try not to peer into people's souls but I don't think her attack was accidental. It was an intentional attempt to besmirch my character and, despite the testimony of grooming scandal

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SAVEUR @saveur.com · 6h

This kimchi-jjigae recipe from Korean American chef Esther Choi features tofu and silky, fatty pork belly.

Kimchi-Jjigae (Korean Kimchi Stew With Pork Belly and Tofu)

This kimchi-jjigae recipe from Korean American chef Esther Choi features tofu and silky, fatty pork belly.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h

“Destroying the White House to build a gaudy monument to your own vanity during a shutdown” is a situation where the bad act and the symbolic representation of the bad act slam into each other like particles in the Large Hadron Collider

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7h

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 8h

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 6h

Temptation of St Anthony

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12h

We can do this now without even chasing anyone out

Simply pick up the store phone and announce "Attention, shoppers. MrBeast just bought this Kroger and everything is free" and the managers and security will be tossing hams in their Land Rovers before you even hang up

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 13h

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

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Kate @katemck.bsky.social · 10h

Taoiseach full of boiling piss

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 11h

The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election.

Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 10h

Truly banana republic stuff.

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 12h

He can write a memo, he can chair a meeting, he can delegate the parts of the job he doesn't really like to HR

Just the perfect person to lead Britain into this cul-de-sac of monotonous trudging through misery.

Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 13h

He did WHAT!?!

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 1d

one of them literally led to an independence referendum which was existential to the existence of the UK what the fuck are you talking about BBC

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JLMeyer 🐰 @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Little worried mouse
#art

White mouse shape in a field of greens snd pinks

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · 12h

Worth noting that Airport Insecurity by @ibogost.com (2005) predates Papers, Please and was kind of casual and wholesome-looking. But it was pointing at the post-9-11 security theater and the questionable, ever shifting guidelines of the time.
persuasivegames.com/game/airport...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

I’d start with things like e.g. not ripping off Enoch Powell speeches or fighting tooth and nail for the unlimited right of foreign football fash to kick in heads on British streets, and work out from there

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.soc... • 4h
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What do people mean when they say Labour should be more left wing? www.independent.co.uk/voices/three...
Of course Labour should be trying to give people something to vote for, but if that means putting up taxes to pay for further increases in public spending, and allowing the small boats to continue to arrive, then that is only going to make it harder to fight off Reform in those Labour-Reform marginal seats.
The left-turners say that Labour isn't going to beat Reform by aping Nigel Farage, but it could equally be said that Labour isn't going to hold onto its voters by aping Zack Polanski, the Corbynite leader of the Greens.
The lesson of Carphilly is that Labour lost a large chunk of its vote to Reform - as well as losing a lot of tactical voters to Plaid.
Labour needs to hold onto as many of those voters as possible in those seats across England where the next general election will be decided, as things currently stand, while at the same time benefiting from anti-Reform tactical voting.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you made a pact with a repellent, horrible, spiteful demon in exchange for power and influence and now you have nothing, and he is going to drag your souls to Hell.

John Rentoul • @JohnRentoul • 5h
Morgan McSweeney met Labour peers this week. It did not go well, @KevinASchofield reports huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of-t...
One peer said: "It was like a car crash in slow motion. If you're going to come down from No.10 to see us, you need to come out fighting, say this is the mess we inherited, this is what's going wrong and this is how we're going to fix it.
"But there was no energy, no ideas and he didn't have any answers to our questions. It was really very damaging."
Another Lord in the room said: "McSweeney might be a good political campaigner, but he isn't a chief of staff because he's not getting things done.
"He just kept saying he noted our concerns and would report back. It was a really depressing meeting."

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autotuned modem dialing noises @burntofferings.bsky.social · 1d

canonically inaccurate since the suit jacks him off

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Rui Huang @ruihuangart.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Rui Huang @ruihuangart.bsky.social · Jan 25

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 1d

pete hegseth's "sir we have engaged in a tactical kinetic lethal action strikedown on the downrange target" language is heckin doggo speak for chuds

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

ironically the use of the traditional visual language of totalitarian dystopia tends to undercut criticism these days, mostly because everyone thinks "this is bad but hey at least we aren't living in Airstrip One haha so it can't be that bad" <- meta-banality of evil

💗 §care-ibblers 🧡 @scribblersys.bsky.social · 1d

that's the biggest problem with it I think, a lotta people (propagandized westerners) look at and don't see "border control is evil" they see "Soviet Communism is evil"

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2d

Many fundamentally decent people have had Nazi tattoos they regretted. We mustn't judge too hastily. Many Communists got Nazi tattoos in the mid-20th century, alongside a truly staggering number of Jews.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Shaping up to be a real How It Started/How It Ended type year, isn’t it

Tony Blair and William Hague:
Our focus on Al must be relentless
The AI Action Plan suggests that a 20-fold increase in AI capacity is needed in Britain and we urge the government to act decisively and overcome bureaucratic obstacles
Tony Blair | William Hague
Sunday January 12 2025, 6.00pm, The Times

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 1d

Went to an art gallery and saw an original Sonic (1925)

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering raising income tax next month.

Of course Labour are planning on going after working people while conveniently ignoring the super-rich who are hoarding this country's wealth.

The Green Party is clear - time to tax wealth, not work.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
TAX WEALTH - with image of Nigel Farage
NOT WORK - with image of a hospital cleaner
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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