Dorian Lynskey
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
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"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
February 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.
But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.
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one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
What strikes me is that 'the volk' have incredibly incoherent and everywhere ideas, but the people who claim to speak for them in the press are like clerics who think there are two poles for all politics and everything must fit between them. These poles are like, eight inches apart
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
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It’s now quite hard to sustain that ex-mining, pro-Brexit, Labour-to-Reform swing seats (via levelling up) have been overlooked or forgotten by Westminster. They’ve been the axis of politics 15 years. Why it hasn’t worked is the question
This is fine as a snapshot of how things are in the place, but...what do we do?
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics
In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 9:25 AM
It’s now quite hard to sustain that ex-mining, pro-Brexit, Labour-to-Reform swing seats (via levelling up) have been overlooked or forgotten by Westminster. They’ve been the axis of politics 15 years. Why it hasn’t worked is the question
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Fascinating - Reform lose to every other option, Lib Dems beat every other option, Greens beat every other option except Lib Dem
🧵/ With tactical voting ever more common, who do voters back when only two parties have a chance in their seat?
Con 31% v Ref 24%
Lab 35% v Ref 31%
Lab 29% v Con 28%
LD 41% v Ref 29%
LD 34% v Con 26%
LD 29% v Lab 21%
LD 26% v Grn 25%
Grn 42% v Ref 27%
Grn 37% v Con 29%
Grn 30% v Lab 20%
Con 31% v Ref 24%
Lab 35% v Ref 31%
Lab 29% v Con 28%
LD 41% v Ref 29%
LD 34% v Con 26%
LD 29% v Lab 21%
LD 26% v Grn 25%
Grn 42% v Ref 27%
Grn 37% v Con 29%
Grn 30% v Lab 20%
February 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Fascinating - Reform lose to every other option, Lib Dems beat every other option, Greens beat every other option except Lib Dem
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Really recommend this. They do a thorough job. The transatlantic (Reform/ARC/Heritage Foundation, etc.) movement Orr belongs to describes the academy as the poisonous enemy within but constantly boasts about its academic affiliations to Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard so Orr is a central figure.
If you want to know more about James Orr’s many strange and sinister views, we did a mini profile at the top of our last live show
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
February 18, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Really recommend this. They do a thorough job. The transatlantic (Reform/ARC/Heritage Foundation, etc.) movement Orr belongs to describes the academy as the poisonous enemy within but constantly boasts about its academic affiliations to Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard so Orr is a central figure.
If you want to know more about James Orr’s many strange and sinister views, we did a mini profile at the top of our last live show
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
February 18, 2026 at 10:23 AM
If you want to know more about James Orr’s many strange and sinister views, we did a mini profile at the top of our last live show
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
open.spotify.com/episode/6Ove...
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Oh yes, BBC, you'll publish an article about it, but when I try to pitch my flatshare sitcom to you, you call it "ahistorical," "offensive," "a waste of time," and "how did you even get into my office so early? Have you been here all night?"
Oh yes, BBC, you'll publish an article about it, but when I try to pitch my flatshare sitcom to you, you call it "ahistorical," "offensive," "a waste of time," and "how did you even get into my office so early? Have you been here all night?"
1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
Oh yes, BBC, you'll publish an article about it, but when I try to pitch my flatshare sitcom to you, you call it "ahistorical," "offensive," "a waste of time," and "how did you even get into my office so early? Have you been here all night?"
Oh yes, BBC, you'll publish an article about it, but when I try to pitch my flatshare sitcom to you, you call it "ahistorical," "offensive," "a waste of time," and "how did you even get into my office so early? Have you been here all night?"
One fun thing about Origin Story is working out which figures and groups have inspired hyperbolic conspiracy theories about their influence in order to explain bigger systemic issues and which ones really are as malevolent and powerful as people think
February 18, 2026 at 9:24 AM
One fun thing about Origin Story is working out which figures and groups have inspired hyperbolic conspiracy theories about their influence in order to explain bigger systemic issues and which ones really are as malevolent and powerful as people think
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“Centrist columnists want the power of leading the coalition without any responsibility. They assign to liberals and the left responsibility without power. We are blamed for election losses, but we may not set election strategy.”
@polphilpod.bsky.social
@polphilpod.bsky.social
Centrists are acknowledging now that the people who called Trump a “fascist” were right. But somehow we’re still not to be trusted? trib.al/6AXf1Xl
What’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”?
They’re acknowledging now that the people who called Trump a “fascist” were right. But somehow we’re still not to be trusted.
trib.al
February 18, 2026 at 8:38 AM
“Centrist columnists want the power of leading the coalition without any responsibility. They assign to liberals and the left responsibility without power. We are blamed for election losses, but we may not set election strategy.”
@polphilpod.bsky.social
@polphilpod.bsky.social
She gets to “Sorry, I’m an idiot, I fucked up” eventually but my lord the throat-clearing
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
I’m a London parent who hasn’t vaccinated my kids against measles, let me explain
A new outbreak of measles is spreading across north London, and it’s a wake-up call to all mums like me who didn’t give the MMR vaccines to our children, says Charlotte Cripps
www.independent.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
She gets to “Sorry, I’m an idiot, I fucked up” eventually but my lord the throat-clearing
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
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Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...
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Remembering last year, when there was brief stint on here during which people claimed Labour were worse than Reform on trans rights, and sighing
(Labour supporters, this is not an endorsement of Labour)
(Labour supporters, this is not an endorsement of Labour)
Braverman says social transitioning would be banned in all schools, "no ifs or buts". She says the 50% target for university education would be replaced with a 50% target for kids going into trades like electricians and plumbing. As ever, I'll believe it when it's the MPs' own kids who do this.
February 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Remembering last year, when there was brief stint on here during which people claimed Labour were worse than Reform on trans rights, and sighing
(Labour supporters, this is not an endorsement of Labour)
(Labour supporters, this is not an endorsement of Labour)
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It would be really great to read an article about young boys that didn't have Adolescence and "crisis" as its reference points.
There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls.
Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.
There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls.
Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM
It would be really great to read an article about young boys that didn't have Adolescence and "crisis" as its reference points.
There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls.
Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.
There is something badly wrong in our discourse about teenage boys and girls.
Mostly, they are fine and far better adjusted than their parents and grandparents.
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It's a headscratcher alright...
February 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
It's a headscratcher alright...
February 17, 2026 at 11:19 AM
My identity is not your costume
February 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM
My identity is not your costume
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Scholars call this the Malcolm Gladwell effect
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
February 17, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Scholars call this the Malcolm Gladwell effect
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We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere.
Staggering historic failure.
Staggering historic failure.
February 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM
We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
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agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
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Billy Steinberg RIP
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
February 16, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Billy Steinberg RIP
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
You may not immediately know the name but by jingo you've heard Like A Virgin, Alone, So Emotional, True Colors, I Touch Myself, I Drove All Night, I'll Stand By You and Eternal Flame.
Ha I thought that episode of Industry was the finale and we were meant to draw our own conclusions about what happens next. I’m not paid to draw my own conclusions. Draw them for me
February 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Ha I thought that episode of Industry was the finale and we were meant to draw our own conclusions about what happens next. I’m not paid to draw my own conclusions. Draw them for me
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.