Spyro the Antifascist Dragon
@antifaspyro.bsky.social
Living in the imperial slagheap known as Britain
They/Them
They/Them
Pinned
There is no path to a better future that does not begin with Labour's corpse - what is even left worth preserving?
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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What nobody seems to have tried is "make a society pleasant enough that people actually want to raise their kids in it." Coincidentally, a goal incompatible with "turn everyone into a border guard and massively ramp up the racism."
December 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
What nobody seems to have tried is "make a society pleasant enough that people actually want to raise their kids in it." Coincidentally, a goal incompatible with "turn everyone into a border guard and massively ramp up the racism."
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I wonder why the guy who’s sold out every constituency he’s ever pitched to is deeply unlikeable. Odd!
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I wonder why the guy who’s sold out every constituency he’s ever pitched to is deeply unlikeable. Odd!
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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If you guessed “fascism”, then well done! (For non-Brits: this is Britain’s top-selling right wing politics magazine, edited by former government minister Michael Gove)
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you guessed “fascism”, then well done! (For non-Brits: this is Britain’s top-selling right wing politics magazine, edited by former government minister Michael Gove)
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Another two questions: why did Stephen Pollard use the Jewish Chronicle, a media outlet he helped purchase for unknown owners, to defend Nigel Farage’s overt and blatant history of antisemitism? And why have no mainstream UK Jewish organisations condemned Pollard for excusing antisemitism?
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Another two questions: why did Stephen Pollard use the Jewish Chronicle, a media outlet he helped purchase for unknown owners, to defend Nigel Farage’s overt and blatant history of antisemitism? And why have no mainstream UK Jewish organisations condemned Pollard for excusing antisemitism?
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I think people haven’t even wrapped their heads around how much damage this sort of stuff will do to fighting antisemitism and racism in a time of accelerated fascisisation.
Apparently opposing genocide "contravenes the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust." Beyond belief.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
Holocaust Memorial Day organiser dismissed over link to grassroots Israeli group accusing state of genocide
EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Goldberg departs as Scottish support worker over link to Standing Together organisation
www.jewishnews.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I think people haven’t even wrapped their heads around how much damage this sort of stuff will do to fighting antisemitism and racism in a time of accelerated fascisisation.
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we must solve America’s loneliness epidemic
Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist https://theonion.com/study-finds-80-of-americans-lack-social-connections-to-pull-off-heist/
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
we must solve America’s loneliness epidemic
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Congratulations you fucking morons
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Congratulations you fucking morons
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If we're doing the whole 'Corbyn was responsible for Brexit' shtick again, surely the *most responsible* for Brexit would have been his Shadow Minister for Brexit?
One 'Sir Keir Starmer QC'?
One 'Sir Keir Starmer QC'?
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If we're doing the whole 'Corbyn was responsible for Brexit' shtick again, surely the *most responsible* for Brexit would have been his Shadow Minister for Brexit?
One 'Sir Keir Starmer QC'?
One 'Sir Keir Starmer QC'?
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Another way of putting this would be to say that the people the British media recognises and promotes as authorities entitled to speak on behalf of Jewish people are all very right wing cranks, and so they are basically fine with Farage because he too hates all the people that they despise.
This could be boiled down to "Guys, you're embarrassing me". That explains why it's in Jewish News and not the Guardian, but it also explains why Freedland is prepared to admit for once that the "official community's" attitude has always been political.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...
JONATHAN FREEDLAND: Why Britain’s Jewish leaders are silent on Farage’s schoolyard antisemitism
While the Reform UK leader and his allies smear accusers as liars, the Board, JLC and HET remain mute, fearing the wrath of a rising politician
www.jewishnews.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another way of putting this would be to say that the people the British media recognises and promotes as authorities entitled to speak on behalf of Jewish people are all very right wing cranks, and so they are basically fine with Farage because he too hates all the people that they despise.
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Trying to imagine the corporate genius on show in the boardroom when they decided, you know what? Let's take an asset that we've spent billions on and years rebuilding our entire identity around and allow people to make porn and racist memes with it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trying to imagine the corporate genius on show in the boardroom when they decided, you know what? Let's take an asset that we've spent billions on and years rebuilding our entire identity around and allow people to make porn and racist memes with it.
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It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.
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I know Time's argument is that Person of the Year isn't about being "the best" it's about being the most influential, hence people like Hitler have won, but man, that cover is doing a *lot* of editorializing in defense of these grifter assholes, and including Musk is straight up offensive.
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I know Time's argument is that Person of the Year isn't about being "the best" it's about being the most influential, hence people like Hitler have won, but man, that cover is doing a *lot* of editorializing in defense of these grifter assholes, and including Musk is straight up offensive.
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I can't think of a better endorsement than being attacked by the leaders of the country's three main right wing parties
Farage thinks I'm a maniac?
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I can't think of a better endorsement than being attacked by the leaders of the country's three main right wing parties
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Once you reject the critique of the left (that Starmer was never popular, despite a supportive press, and that 2024 was an anti-govt vote that split the right) you are simply left baffled at the truculent behaviour of British voters.
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Once you reject the critique of the left (that Starmer was never popular, despite a supportive press, and that 2024 was an anti-govt vote that split the right) you are simply left baffled at the truculent behaviour of British voters.
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That's odd, I heard they were stolen from Egypt and Benin
More than 600 artefacts relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from a museum collection in Bristol
More than 600 British Empire-related artefacts stolen
More than 600 artefacts relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from a museum collection in Bristol.
www.rte.ie
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
That's odd, I heard they were stolen from Egypt and Benin
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The Board of Deputies could destroy Farage, a politician that has credibly said some of the most atrocious antisemitic comments uttered in recent British history by an elected MP, by releasing a statement condemning him, but they don’t. They did previously, in 2019, over far less. Why is that?
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Board of Deputies could destroy Farage, a politician that has credibly said some of the most atrocious antisemitic comments uttered in recent British history by an elected MP, by releasing a statement condemning him, but they don’t. They did previously, in 2019, over far less. Why is that?
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It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It's actually incredible how much the average person despises AI and how divorced from reality these CEOs are about their role that they think they can just force it down everyone's throat irrespective
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can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
there’s just a certain type of person who would show up to your writer’s group wanting praise for presenting work but violently rejecting any form of constructive criticism that might improve it, and that right there is the target market for AI
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
can't get over the team behind the mcdonald's ad wanting credit for all the late nights and long hours they spent prompting for clips. you've somehow invented a form of ersatz creativity that recreates the suffering inherent to all creative work without any valuable output or intellectual growth
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👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
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I have so many screenshots of Spectator headlines about the perfidious Jew that they half-heartedly edited after they realised after the fact crossed the line. Sometimes the edits don't make any sense. Like this one, for example:
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I have so many screenshots of Spectator headlines about the perfidious Jew that they half-heartedly edited after they realised after the fact crossed the line. Sometimes the edits don't make any sense. Like this one, for example:
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Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...
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So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland to boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Iceland has announced it is boycotting Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So now that’s a founding member and biggest financier outside the Big Five (Netherlands), a member of the Big Five (Spain), a country with the joint-most wins (Ireland), a country pivotal getting other former communist states involved (Slovenia), and a country where most watch the contest (Iceland)