Dr Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Incredible how pretty much any sufficiently widely seen post saying "I think it's bad how people are prejudiced to trans people" inevitably attracts a whole host of replies going "But I don't see why you won't consider that trans people aren't real so prejudice against them doesn't count/matter?"
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Incredible how pretty much any sufficiently widely seen post saying "I think it's bad how people are prejudiced to trans people" inevitably attracts a whole host of replies going "But I don't see why you won't consider that trans people aren't real so prejudice against them doesn't count/matter?"
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Kudos to Metro for letting Starmer virtue-signal himself into a fury about homophobia, then listing all the things he's done to promote transphobia since coming to power... Wretched, pathetic man.
Keir Starmer's fury after niece and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Kudos to Metro for letting Starmer virtue-signal himself into a fury about homophobia, then listing all the things he's done to promote transphobia since coming to power... Wretched, pathetic man.
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every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
Just generally, claiming "scientific proof" that someone universally regarded as a woman by everyone who knew them up to that point (themselves included) is "really a man" is as facially absurd as claiming to have "scientific proof" that Charles Mountbatten-Windsor is not really King of England.
If you are ridiculing and misgendering a woman who was assigned female *at birth* and who is understood by all who know and love her to be a woman, simply for having the temerity to want to compete in the sport she loves, then that's very, very ugly.
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Just generally, claiming "scientific proof" that someone universally regarded as a woman by everyone who knew them up to that point (themselves included) is "really a man" is as facially absurd as claiming to have "scientific proof" that Charles Mountbatten-Windsor is not really King of England.
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
The shame is that I can imagine an actually constructive disagreement with someone who does accept trans people as a legitimate minority, or even someone who just has a more nuanced view of sex/gender but is sceptical of transition. But that's not who anti-trans obsessives are.
As you say, so often it boils down to "these people and those who love them are deluded and wrong". They are doing it to intersex people now so at least they're consistent. I hope people start to see how ugly this is.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The shame is that I can imagine an actually constructive disagreement with someone who does accept trans people as a legitimate minority, or even someone who just has a more nuanced view of sex/gender but is sceptical of transition. But that's not who anti-trans obsessives are.
Truly is a travesty, all that money and not even £1 being spent on kicking Matt Goodwin out of the country.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Truly is a travesty, all that money and not even £1 being spent on kicking Matt Goodwin out of the country.
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Fake sources using my name keep cropping up.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Fake sources using my name keep cropping up.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
There's an amazing TV clip of Attlee where a journalist asks him "Is there anything you'd like to add, Prime Minister?" and he just pauses, bluntly says "No", and walks off.
The stop press item hit the streets 20 minutes before Dalton spoke
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There's an amazing TV clip of Attlee where a journalist asks him "Is there anything you'd like to add, Prime Minister?" and he just pauses, bluntly says "No", and walks off.
Yuri Andropov, leader of the USSR from 1982-1984, not to be confused with Yuri Andro-POV, which is when you watch lesbian hentai from the perspective of a robot.
Your Andropov
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Yuri Andropov, leader of the USSR from 1982-1984, not to be confused with Yuri Andro-POV, which is when you watch lesbian hentai from the perspective of a robot.
I mean I would.
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I mean I would.
Finally got around to reading this and this particular section explains a lot about where the whole schism came from. The core problem of when you collectively vote for a person to do a thing but that person votes against it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Finally got around to reading this and this particular section explains a lot about where the whole schism came from. The core problem of when you collectively vote for a person to do a thing but that person votes against it.
For comparison, this is only marginally more than the number of people in the UK who declare "Heavy Metal" to be their religion:
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For comparison, this is only marginally more than the number of people in the UK who declare "Heavy Metal" to be their religion:
OK, I'll bite: what's a budget?
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
OK, I'll bite: what's a budget?
Jesus
For decades, smoking, drinking, and accidental deaths from men led Russia’s demographic problems - but then Putin started his disastrous war in Ukraine - a crime against their population that is also culling Russia’s own young men.
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Murmansk region lost 10 percent of its population during the years of full-scale war
Up to 30 percent of the population has disappeared from some of the closed military towns of the Northern Fleet, according to calculations by the news-outlet Chronicles.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Jesus
The two genders: Circle and Square
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The two genders: Circle and Square
Lmao just remembered that I said this. Appreciate that you were indeed watching @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social 😂
Also Leonid, if you're watching, obviously your new account needs to be called Mikhail Gorbaechev.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Lmao just remembered that I said this. Appreciate that you were indeed watching @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social 😂
Omg just discovered @mancarryingthing.bsky.social is in this article, the absolute legend, he never misses 😜
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Omg just discovered @mancarryingthing.bsky.social is in this article, the absolute legend, he never misses 😜
"new"?! So wait, Frank, Benny, JP etc were all totally cool with polygamy? I missed that part of Catholicism.
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"new"?! So wait, Frank, Benny, JP etc were all totally cool with polygamy? I missed that part of Catholicism.
Nah, it's going to be me.
Pretty sure by the end of today we'll be speculating on the next chancellor.....
Political 'journalists' no longer report on the facts and truth.
They share gossip and speculation.
And when the facts are know they move on to the next round of speculation and gossip.
I can guarantee you before the end of today, many in the media will be speculating about the next Budget!
They share gossip and speculation.
And when the facts are know they move on to the next round of speculation and gossip.
I can guarantee you before the end of today, many in the media will be speculating about the next Budget!
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Nah, it's going to be me.
There's a man opposite me in the Spoons who is repeatedly listening to the same 1 minute vignette by Gary Lineker on some football podcast out loud over and over. He's played it about 4 times now!
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There's a man opposite me in the Spoons who is repeatedly listening to the same 1 minute vignette by Gary Lineker on some football podcast out loud over and over. He's played it about 4 times now!
I have an idea. Why don't you connect a long chain of these little cabs all pulled by the same engine, to both save on energy efficiency and simplify coordinating multiple vehicles? You could call it a "train"?
By investing in Monocab Owl, the EU is revolutionising sustainable commuting.
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆
Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?
📸© Monocab Owl
#WorldSustainableTransportDay
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I have an idea. Why don't you connect a long chain of these little cabs all pulled by the same engine, to both save on energy efficiency and simplify coordinating multiple vehicles? You could call it a "train"?
I remain baffled by people who make it explicitly clear that they don't accept a group as a legitimate minority and then claim to be shocked and affronted when that minority group regard them as holding antipathy/hostility towards them.
Always, without fail, comes down to simply rejecting the legitimacy of a minority demographic.
Every "debate" over minority rights boils down to the same thing: is this demographic a legitimate thing to be in our society, just as good as any other, and whose full participation in that society we seek to facilitate, or a less legit thing whose participation we have no obligation to facilitate?
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I remain baffled by people who make it explicitly clear that they don't accept a group as a legitimate minority and then claim to be shocked and affronted when that minority group regard them as holding antipathy/hostility towards them.
Wes Streeting plotting to be the first ever Labour leadership candidate to be defeated by Re-Open Nominations.
"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Wes Streeting plotting to be the first ever Labour leadership candidate to be defeated by Re-Open Nominations.
This but have Magda and the kids in the plot at least in some way.
Also Michael Fassbender is doing a Magneto hunts Nazis movie, I know I’ve mentioned this many times before but that’s because it’s a brilliant idea
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This but have Magda and the kids in the plot at least in some way.