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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1h

Sanatorium?

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 14h

I suppose we still have to 'bear witness' or whatever, but it's at least equally important to switch off and to find other foci.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 14h

I just heard a fawning and unreasonably extended live report on R4's Today about Trump's 'triumphant' arrival in Israel, so your words are especially welcome as an antidote.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 14h

Never mind 'hand working people'!

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 14h

NEWS! Vegan tampons taste nothing like the real thing, insists furious Nigel Farage

Vegan tampons taste nothing like the real thing, insists furious Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage is apparently furious today after biting into a tampon at the National Trust-owned Sizergh Castle only to discover the tampon was vegan.

buff.ly

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d

But in a political culture as benighted as that of the UK, that's more than enough.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful day with morning mist.

Autumnal colours in the sunshine with mist at the shores of Loch Long.

Ardmay and the Arrochar torpedo pier in the morning mist on Loch Long.

Morning mist with sunshine on autumnal colours across Loch Long.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

Autumnal colours

Colourful leaves on group of trees near the shoreline of Loch Long

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

Curlew

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately not, no. She has always been a Trump ally.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

You are right. But I just blocked this person.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

O.k., looks like they're gonna lose. 😒

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

Whereas, when you're alive, 'you can fight another day'. In general, I'm deeply sceptical about the endorsement of what are ultimately military values in ethics. Doing the right thing is mostly not about killing and dying but their avoidance.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d

In any case, the notion of heroism that demands endangering your life is very questionable. If you value life, you can't make an exception of your own.

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 3d

Stewart Lee has had his say on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and it’s as excellent as you’d expect it to be.

youtube.com/shorts/oqnjS...

Stewart Lee goes off on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, Louis CK and Cancel Culture

YouTube video by Class Clown Podcast

youtube.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

Decolonise counterpoint!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

She had the support of Marco Rubio, so it rather looks to me as if they went for someone who even Trump can't object to.

Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

You win!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

I'm guessing that, unlike an individual who is treated like a serious contender, you have at least fulfilled some basic preconditions, such as not threatening peaceful neighbours with invasion and using the military in your own country to intimidate the legitimate opposition. So go ahead!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

The whole framing is extraordinary: how was it possible to capture media attention in this way for something so utterly baseless?! 'Respectable' commentators debated this as if it were serious.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3d

Bias = any form of critical self-reflection.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d

The last word on the cockup vs. conspiracy conundrum.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 4d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 4d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d

And that ship has sailed because Tories are too stupid to vote, and the prospect of returning to a moderate right-of-centre position is close to nil.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, but English?! In any case, she is a Computing Studies graduate, a field with some of the highest rates of graduate unemployment and lowest rates of pay - I think worse than English (last time I checked, but these things vary significantly).

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 6d

The ventriloquist act they booked for the Tory Conference looks a bit shit.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 6d

I want this to be true.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

In the early days of Wikipedia I created a fake entry about my village that included a fake Lord in the middle ages named after an 80s B Movie action hero. It is still up and being taught in the local Primary school as fact.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 6d

No doubt, although Brexit has led to an entirely home-grown successive radicalisation among the Tories. Jenrick started as a moderate, but moved further and further to the right, out of cynical calculation, more than conviction.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

In the early days of Wikipedia I created a fake entry about my village that included a fake Lord in the middle ages named after an 80s B Movie action hero. It is still up and being taught in the local Primary school as fact.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 6d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

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