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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 7h

The latest numpty with a list.

@nakedhaggis.bsky.social has added me to the "Corbyn Cult members" moderation list.

Poor sap spent forever trying to come up with 'Jeremy Corbyn ate my hamster' lines that would stick, bless him.

Now I appear to live in his head alongside Corbyn. 🤭

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 7h

Bloody sodding bloody hell.

Bloody.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 8h

Er... no. He wasn't thinking of setting it up. In case you hadn't noticed, that's increasingly the European trajectory.

C'mon, you're obviously desperate to find something to put Polanski down. You can do better than this.

Try harder. You can do this. I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! ✊

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 8h

... would be that it would pursue peace as well as being prepared for war.

True, NATO is not set up for that. But unfortunately, neither is anything else. Consequently we lost a golden opportunity in '89 and we are now where we are today.

What's not to like?

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 8h

Correct. It's sarcasm! 👏

Polanski has made it clear that he wouldn't be for leaving NATO unless there was an alternative international defensive structure we could join.

Probably European.

NATO of late has become... shall we say... unreliable?

And yes, the hope for that defence structure...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 8h

Bless him, he thought 'meself' was a typo. I guess. 😏 It's rather sweet.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 8h

I muted you some time back, haven't spoken to you since, but was alerted to this one. 🤭

You're still banging on about me? Bless. 🤗

Are you sure there's room for me in your head alongside Corbyn?

Don't bother replying, you're still muted.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 9h

... obvious name.

So his 'plum job' at present consists of 'leading' a party without a policy, without even a name.

For a month.

Well. Gosh. Colour me envious.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 9h

What plum jobs?

Next month there will be a conference. At that conference, the leadership will be decided on a one person, one vote basis.

If you mean him being leader to enable a form to be filled in for the electoral commission, that's because a name has to be put in there. Corbyn's seems the...

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Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

... foolish theory, and I will not be in the tiniest bit offended if you respond to this with 'Doesn't work' and nothing else. 🤭

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

... interested in these things, pay attention to it all, but understand that I understand only about 10% of what I hear. Worse, I don't have the maths to be able to go beyond my largely unsatisfied curiosity. I am sure that there are things utterly beyond my comprehension that make this a...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

... perhaps explain dark matter?

Are positrons and other antimatter more aligned with those other dimensions, and though created in equal proportions in this universe, again they do not interact with the matter in this universe through that dimensional exclusion?

Please understand that I am...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

... those dimensions?

What, moreover, if gravity extends to dimensions beyond our own? Imagine a gravitational well in our dimensions caused by a galaxy. This would cause a gravitational well in some or all parallel dimensions. Those wells would attract matter deepening the well; could that...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

... other dimensions because, though adjacent to ours, the particles with which we're familiar are limited to ours so there is no interaction?

Moreover, what if those dimensions themselves have particles and forces that we do not experience for the same reason? Their fields are restricted to...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

Oops. Okay, I was hoping you would close down my conjecture, but you haven't. Now I have to give it to you.

What if the particles and at least some of the forces, (and here I am immediately betraying my ignorance), are limited to existence in our dimensions and we simply do not experience those...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 10h

I use them to fall asleep at night. Does that count?

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

... as a valid expression of identity, to be acknowledged rather than denied and cured as delusory.

Ergo, medical science says a woman can have a penis.

So... does Morgan deny medical science?

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social The best response to this I can think of, which I've yet to hear used, would be to ask Morgan if he denies medical science?

Nearly every national and international medical organisation on the planet, including a few in unexpected places, acknowledges gender dysphoria...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

See above.

Hussain, once policy is announced, will have two choices. STFU or GTFO.

Are there going to be ructions between now and then?

Yep.

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

... for him.

I'm not suggesting a conspiracy of silence, I think they just have no idea how to approach him. The normal methods don't apply. It's like they're armed with candle snuffers in the midst of a housefire.

They need to adapt.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

There are a heap of things Farage gets away with given insufficient scrutiny.

This for one.

Another is blatant racism.

A third is fossil fuel industry backers, which should be raised EVERY SINGLE TIME he says anything about the climate and climate initiatives.

The media need different rules...

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

... for him. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, I think they just have no idea how to approach him. The normal methods don't apply. It's like they're armed with candle snuffers in the midst of a housefire.

They need to adapt.

Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

There are a heap of things Farage gets away with given insufficient scrutiny.

This for one.

Another is blatant racism.

A third is fossil fuel industry backers, which should be raised EVERY SINGLE TIME he says anything about the climate and climate initiatives.

The media need different rules...

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 11h

... these days, do we?

Now... are you literally saying this didn't happen, couldn't happen, has never happened?

I say again. Definitive proof, please, that all the reasons I've given for this fear to be irrational are wrong, and it has a rational basis.

Third request.