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Annie Kelly

@annieknk.bsky.social

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Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi new followers! I'm a lapsed academic/journalist who can mostly be found talking about conspiracy theories, anti-feminism and the far right on the QAA podcast. My specialism is in digital politics, but I like talking about the history of these ideas too.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 25m

Yeah food abroad doesn't count either

Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 35m

It's crazy how much better a vegetarian I would be if it wasn't for the "food taken off babys plate doesn't count" rule. And yet unfortunately it is set in stone

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 1d

Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!

Me sitting at my desk with a microphone.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

Me too! There's a better timeline somewhere where he leads a small Christian mysticism revival movement rather than becoming a commanding officer in the gender wars

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

It's these kind of tricky edge cases that make me feel "eldest daughter" is more of a spectrum...

Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

It helps that unlike a lot of that set he has a real way with words. Like "there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see" attached to a closeup of an evian bottle is such an alltimer post for me lol. Or the time he said antifa wanted "revenge against god for the crime of being"

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

Something like that but with more raw meat

Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

I always thought the eldest daughter thing came from large families where they often have an informal role of junior mother. Didn't know us eldest of 2s got to claim that!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 2d

Bounced out of the academic precariat into the much more stable field of podcasting 💖

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Let's spell it out then. The motivation is
1/ empathy for our fellow human beings
2/ to raise the political cost of the British government's complicity to the point where London is forced to withdraw its support, thereby increasing the international pressure on Israel to cease its genocidal acts.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

James Cleverly: "I cannot understand the motivation for protests of this type so regularly"

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 5d

I think this at least twice a day

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5d

and also late 20th century too.

Klaus, YOU CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 8d

lol at "nearly all 12 apostles". nobody cares what bartholomew thinks

Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 8d

Um, didn't Depeche Mode write a song about this?

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 8d

Duterte is in the Hague for this

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8d

Is it our government’s position that if an American commits a drug crime with a cartel (or they allege that) it can just kill that person without trial even if not an immediate threat? I am genuinely trying to understand what if any lines they believe exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, that has made a very grim story even worse somehow. Those poor people

Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 8d

Possibly my favourite "leaving the left" conversion story was that Canadian grad student Lindsay Shepherd, who when trying to define what was progressive about her politics before, said that she took the bus

Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 8d

Am I misremembering here, didn't Amala get hired by PragerU when she was like 19? When exactly was her time on the left?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

Gonna start a “why I righted the right” schtick open.substack.com/pub/joewrote...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

straight up child murder www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social · 9d

happy to report that the world is now so stupid that my knowledge of shitposting has become valuable enough to publish in the Guardian.

My favorite part is I got to call JD Vance a try-hard who can't even shitpost properly in print.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka

Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on you, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

www.theguardian.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 9d

One thing that really stands out at the moment is how much of the stuff driving all this is utterly, *completely* untethered from reality. This is nothing to do with climate change, it's ingroup signalling to a very small number of people who have been utterly radicalised.

Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 9d

Scrapping the Climate Change Act is bonkers

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 9d

You only needed to look at the overwhelming success of stuff like Libs of TikTok, a crowdsourced campaign to get teachers fired for the crime of being gay on social media, to see this. But it seems that for lots of media types, it's only real cancel culture if it's people like them losing their jobs

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 9d

I'm planning to go into it longform for a series but basically for men: much more explicitly sexualised, and content focuses on putting down other women in openly misogynist terms. For women: more religion-oriented, more ethnically diverse, and fashion is either trendy or 'modest' vintage, not sexy