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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

That horrible New Labour documentary did feature one helpful scene, where John Major says he met Rupert in 1997 and refused to change his non-specific Europe policy. Smash-cut to footage of Tony bounding up the gangplank of Murdoch’s yacht, willing to say yes to whatever.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 20h

I'm loving this Pope.

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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 16h

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 25m

I love late life self-reinventions.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A new start after 60: I realised I had autism – and suddenly my life made sense. I have never been so happy

After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23h

'Portrait of a Girl.' (1904) From early in his career, Ian Strang was recognized as a brilliant draughtsman. He was much admired for his portrait drawings, inspired by those of Hans Holbein in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 18h

Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15h

One critic, writing in 1911 (the date of this work) commented, George Clausen 'gives us out of very simple elements the most perfect nocturnes, these mark a new and definite advance in his power in taking complete hold of a subject and making it his own.'

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6h

God bless the hostages. Giving thanks for their release and mourning those who were murdered in custody.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16h

An article that somehow manages to duck both the quant question (other than citing a poll conducted by some Yale undergrads, weirdly enough) and the qual one (of what any young people have actually said about the radical/Far Right, that suggests they are drawn to it) www.ft.com/content/61d4...

The fashion for the young: turn to the radical right

The intellectual energy of new rightwing movements is drawing in young people

www.ft.com

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 4h

Absolute shower of mediocre cranks. Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Leo Strauss, Friedrich Hayek & Michael Oakeshott were at least talented thinkers. They would have read and understood everything Marx wrote. JBP just reads half the Communist Manifesto Wiki page.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 16h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11h

It is 100 years since the birth of Margaret Thatcher. In what ways did 'Thatcherism' change Britain? A while back for an ESRC research project, we collaborated with documentary maker Michelle Coomber on a film about the long-term social and economic impacts of the Thatcher governments.

Generation Right

In what ways did 'Thatcherism' change Britain? What, if any, legacy is there from her period in office for British society today? How ought we to make…

vimeo.com

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, but things are not about you and how you feel.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 4h

You don’t have to have any sympathy for his loss, you just have to believe this is a thing that should not happen as a matter of course.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of people seem to think vigilante justice is a good thing and prisons should be so poorly run that inmates can knife each other. That this guy happened to have been a depraved monster doesn’t make that alright in my books. Be consistent & argue for hanging to be brought back if you want.

🦇half algorithm half deity👻 @perfectlymisalignd.drinks.monster · 1d

ah finally. rot in piss ian watkins 🖕🏻

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies in prison attack

Ian Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence imposed in 2013 after admitting 13 child sex offences.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah. I go on to check out some rw accounts to get an indication of the discourse and the stuff I see in the replies is unrepeatable. Evil and depraved.

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 18h

'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 15h

True. I can’t complain too much as when I check in on Twitter it’s an absolute horrorshow.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 16h

This is the thing. Anyone in their right mind knew that kind of thing wasn’t acceptable, and anyone who didn’t wouldn’t have their mind changed by MeToo. I still welcomed it, because there are redoubts of powerful men who needed it making clear I suppose.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 18h

"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

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Daniel @deargodwhatnow.bsky.social · 18h

It's legitimately been 20 years of libleft people calling Farage rich and posh and it's never ever worked. Nobody thinks he's an ex miner! People know who he is!

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h

And yet he claims to understand the struggles of working people...

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nigel-farage-now-earns-over-1-million-from-12-second-jobs/

Nigel Farage now earns over £1 million from his 12 ‘second jobs’

The Reform leader has raked in a further £189,000 from side jobs since May this year

leftfootforward.org

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18h

fundamentally Peter Thiel has been reading a lot of blogs and he writes and speaks like a mid-tier blogger now. just free association of sort of interesting stuff that sympathetic people will consume as insight porn. not intended to be subject to real analysis. you know. slop

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 23h

I just don't understand the desire to use the antichrist as a metaphor in this way when you're going to detach it from any biblical analysis at all and talk about comics and manga.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 23h

I just don't understand the desire to use the antichrist as a metaphor in this way when you're going to detach it from any biblical analysis at all and talk about comics and manga.

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Ferret Every Hour @ferretperhour.bsky.social · 19h

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 19h

Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's, 8 ½ (1963).

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