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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10h

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani didn’t hold back. His speech today on Letitia James’s indictment was 🔥 calling it exactly what it is: a political hit job meant to punish those who hold Trump accountable. “If justice can be weaponized against the just, then no one is safe.”

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 38m

Can Merseyside be part of Scotland please?

pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 39m

I’m sure Anders Breivik and those who think like him will be thrilled

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 57m

Now Labour’s Racist Right have told a great many lies in order to deceive people into believing they stood for some of those things, but we all know now that this was cynical mendacity.

Their enabling of fascism wasn‘t in their manifesto strangely, but support for genocide is just one aspect of it

pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

I want to see the NHS, rail and big five utilities back in public ownership

I want substantial tax increases on those with a net worth over £10m to pay for the repair of our society and substantial investment in green industrial policy

I want an end to the normalisation of fascism, so I am Green

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

Nurse at our local hospital tells me they have fridges full of the stuff that they’re not allowed to give to clinically vulnerable people who would have previously received it.

A life-long Labour voter and activist, she recently joined the Greens.

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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 2h

Good thing Starmer’s UK hasn’t got anything riding on this.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 3h

"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t speak for all the other Starmer haters, but I have been a Green for about 30 years and hate Labour’s Racist Right for a whole lot of reasons besides their active complicity in genocide.

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Jimmycumiskey @jimmycumiskey2.bsky.social · 1h

Think Starmer and Reeves might have something to say x

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

She probably got mixed up with Tony Blair Institute’s genocide-as-property-development negotiations. Easy mistake to make

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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 1h

1/3 Labour's Bridget Phillipson:
"UK played 'key role' in Gaza peace deal"

US Ambassador: "delusional"
Israel: "No"

Honest Bob Starmer's Labour government! (Vid)

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says UK has 'played a key role behind the scenes' in securing Gaza peace deal

The education secretary told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: "We have played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this."

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 10h

Lol at "Praetorian Guard", but what's really amazing is that they're still using the "grown-ups back in charge" line. These people aren't simply dim - they are incapable of original thought.

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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 11h

It's deeply brain-damaging that the whole Cabinet have clearly collectively decided on this wildly antisemitic line, with no social pushback from any sector of elite opinion. The Sensibles have just decided to give this dangerous bigotry a free pass, because it's directed Leftwards.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h

#trevorphillips: "Should the regular marches organised by the
@pscupdates.bsky.social be called off now?"

Bridget Phillipson says these protests can be deeply upsetting to British Jews & the govt will be bringing in new powers to restrict peoples right to protest.

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot express the depth of my contempt for Mi5, NCA and special branch in the UK

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Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

There’s been footage of this constantly, throughout

Sky News
@news.sky.com
Drones capture staggering images of Gaza devastation - as people find nothing left

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

It is kind of cute and quaint that I seriously thought this war would be the end for Israel, because I assumed nobody would want to live in or bring their children to a horrific genocidal nightmare where you are constantly lied to about monstrous crimes. I truly believed that.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h

One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsk... • 2d
"I don't think we can mitigate for climate change."
- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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Paul Gadzikowski @sc4rfm4n.bsky.social · 16h

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.“

— Frank Wilhoit

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Probably worth asking why, if politics is basically a popularity contest, one of the two main parties is able to govern on quite openly saying “fuck you, eat shit, you have to vote for us, or else”. Seems weird, like something might have gone quite badly wrong.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

What’s the one thing you would definitely expect to find in a newspaper column by a government minister, accusing universities of being Factories of Racist Hate? That’s right - examples! Can you guess what the examples to wild assertions ratio is, in this one.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

That’s the line and by Christ, they are sticking to it come hell or high water. Let’s see whether it’ll work as well on e.g. Italian police arresting them at a holiday villa outside Rimini in 2033.

Bridget Phillipson * @bphillipso... 3h g
Hate has no place in our universities or our country.
Antisemitism must be rooted out of our society.
Our education system must play its part in keeping us free from fear and free from hate.
My piece in today's Sunday Express

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 7h

After decades of pretending The Left has been censoring things by writing "this character is a bit problematic" on tumblr, it is now just accepted that conservatives are going to throw a massive tantrum that should be listened to (just capitalism) every time a black person appears on screen

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