Gift
@giftmacher.bsky.social
Recovering STEM brain, occasional poet.
Increasingly a fan of lampposts.
they/them, but you can also use he/him
https://medium.com/@crimson-flag
Increasingly a fan of lampposts.
they/them, but you can also use he/him
https://medium.com/@crimson-flag
I've said this elsewhere, but in no universe is a colonial project progressive, and in today's connected world it's more obvious than ever. We've a political class enthusiastically telling us the sky is green, and they'll get away with it too because they'd all end up in the dock otherwise.
Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I've said this elsewhere, but in no universe is a colonial project progressive, and in today's connected world it's more obvious than ever. We've a political class enthusiastically telling us the sky is green, and they'll get away with it too because they'd all end up in the dock otherwise.
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Exciting news!
We have launched a podcast called 'Spotlight' that seeks to discover and amplify awesome creativity on the left!
Our first episode is focused on music, and features tracks from Creepy Crawly, Sunbane and Sneakernet!
youtu.be/JiVSehYCIxU
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-j2m9s...
We have launched a podcast called 'Spotlight' that seeks to discover and amplify awesome creativity on the left!
Our first episode is focused on music, and features tracks from Creepy Crawly, Sunbane and Sneakernet!
youtu.be/JiVSehYCIxU
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-j2m9s...
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Exciting news!
We have launched a podcast called 'Spotlight' that seeks to discover and amplify awesome creativity on the left!
Our first episode is focused on music, and features tracks from Creepy Crawly, Sunbane and Sneakernet!
youtu.be/JiVSehYCIxU
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-j2m9s...
We have launched a podcast called 'Spotlight' that seeks to discover and amplify awesome creativity on the left!
Our first episode is focused on music, and features tracks from Creepy Crawly, Sunbane and Sneakernet!
youtu.be/JiVSehYCIxU
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-j2m9s...
The way our media report stuff is regularly, subtly distorting. Today hasn't been one of those days though.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The way our media report stuff is regularly, subtly distorting. Today hasn't been one of those days though.
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So is this whole stamp duty thing actually real and so bad she had to go, or if it just not, we all know it's not, and you can just come and play with your toys when you've had your timeout?
Is it any wonder all these people just love getting free stuff, being outside directors, making bank?
Is it any wonder all these people just love getting free stuff, being outside directors, making bank?
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
So is this whole stamp duty thing actually real and so bad she had to go, or if it just not, we all know it's not, and you can just come and play with your toys when you've had your timeout?
Is it any wonder all these people just love getting free stuff, being outside directors, making bank?
Is it any wonder all these people just love getting free stuff, being outside directors, making bank?
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
This. But also I have a morbid curiosity about what this would be. Starmer's pretty much running the new labour play book.
Remember when Britain voted for Tony Blair? It was twenty years ago, so the public are entitled to ask why the fuck this malicious clown’s opinion on anything is relevant now.
December 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This. But also I have a morbid curiosity about what this would be. Starmer's pretty much running the new labour play book.
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Pay attention to whose flirtations with Nazism and Hitler worship are to be endlessly indulged and forgiven, and whose liking a Facebook comment five years ago are regarded as utterly disqualifying. Does that give us any information about how things work?
Looks like everybody's favourite Tory said a load of bad stuff at private school too.
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pay attention to whose flirtations with Nazism and Hitler worship are to be endlessly indulged and forgiven, and whose liking a Facebook comment five years ago are regarded as utterly disqualifying. Does that give us any information about how things work?
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Do you notice how every major institution in Britain has been stacked with right wing crackpots
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Do you notice how every major institution in Britain has been stacked with right wing crackpots
Anyone got numbers for pro-israel to go along side? Because I bet that shit is informative.
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Anyone got numbers for pro-israel to go along side? Because I bet that shit is informative.
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Former leader of Scottish Labour there, just to really underline that none of this is organically arising and all of has always been elite derangement.
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Former leader of Scottish Labour there, just to really underline that none of this is organically arising and all of has always been elite derangement.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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This was obvious every year since the crash and every year, the lads have chosen to continue chopping up and burning the furniture to keep the Thatcherite consensus warm and mostly happy, and the right sort of chaps’ arses in the right seats. I see no reason why that would change now.
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This was obvious every year since the crash and every year, the lads have chosen to continue chopping up and burning the furniture to keep the Thatcherite consensus warm and mostly happy, and the right sort of chaps’ arses in the right seats. I see no reason why that would change now.
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Any other leader would have 20 seats
📊 Seat estimate | Labour wipeout
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF: 360 (+355)
🟢 GRN: 79 (+75)
🟠 LD: 72 (-)
🔵 CON: 48 (-73)
🟡 SNP: 45 (+36)
🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3)
🔴 LAB: 4 (-407)
Based on @findoutnowUK poll, 3 Dec (+/- vs GE24)
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Any other leader would have 20 seats
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[john cena voice] are you sure about that?
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
[john cena voice] are you sure about that?
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When you see stuff like this, you should ask yourself: what would happen if a PM was ever elected who was not 100% reliably One Of The Lads, and he or she asked to see the Northern Ireland files from the 1970s? What then.
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raised
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When you see stuff like this, you should ask yourself: what would happen if a PM was ever elected who was not 100% reliably One Of The Lads, and he or she asked to see the Northern Ireland files from the 1970s? What then.
I feel like I'm going to die in the stupidest time to be alive.
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I feel like I'm going to die in the stupidest time to be alive.
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Huge fan of ~tough decisions~ suddenly has very specific reservations.
![Headline: The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing
by John Harris
[Image of John Harris, a middle aged white man with a beard]
Subhead: Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dkc2vofr64wix56v7mdttnvd/bafkreifwqjrbqmyykbj2wkhcizbzjrswrge5sxsqukwdncbwglpe232gsy@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Huge fan of ~tough decisions~ suddenly has very specific reservations.
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Deskilling workers is precisely the point of AI.
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Deskilling workers is precisely the point of AI.
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please also enjoy this truly astonishing section, with a final paragraph so absolutely insane you'd assume it was a parody, and not something produced in conjunction with the ONS
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
please also enjoy this truly astonishing section, with a final paragraph so absolutely insane you'd assume it was a parody, and not something produced in conjunction with the ONS
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When all the while, maybe - just maybe - the EHRC has dug its own grave with its hot mess of transphobic guidance, and this in turn is actually playing very nicely into the hands of the far right. I mean, there’s a more obvious story staring our mates at the guardian right in the face. 4/4
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
When all the while, maybe - just maybe - the EHRC has dug its own grave with its hot mess of transphobic guidance, and this in turn is actually playing very nicely into the hands of the far right. I mean, there’s a more obvious story staring our mates at the guardian right in the face. 4/4
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Is it "stagnation" or is it facing up to the reality that prices cannot, in fact, continue to rise faster than inflation indefinitely because housing, unlike so much else these capitalists think is great, remains underpinned at least somewhat by the real economy.
Good Big Read on a curiously under discussed topic.
on.ft.com/4irWdsc How London’s housing market stagnated
on.ft.com/4irWdsc How London’s housing market stagnated
How London’s housing market stagnated
The introduction of a so-called mansion tax in this year’s Budget is likely to depress prices in some parts of the capital even further
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Is it "stagnation" or is it facing up to the reality that prices cannot, in fact, continue to rise faster than inflation indefinitely because housing, unlike so much else these capitalists think is great, remains underpinned at least somewhat by the real economy.
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45 years of announcing that this time we’re really going to crack down on the scroungers and moochers, slowly realising this means starving the poor and people who can’t work, then having to lash together yet another fix out of cardboard and pritt stick.
"After this week, perhaps the socialism of Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves is a little clearer"
Starmer and Reeves are as much socialists as you are, Trevor.
Starmer and Reeves are as much socialists as you are, Trevor.
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
45 years of announcing that this time we’re really going to crack down on the scroungers and moochers, slowly realising this means starving the poor and people who can’t work, then having to lash together yet another fix out of cardboard and pritt stick.
Dying seems like a horrible thing, but we sure contrive to make living give it a run for its money huh?
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Dying seems like a horrible thing, but we sure contrive to make living give it a run for its money huh?
On a lighter note, does anyone else call triangle cut toast/sandwiches posh toast/sandwiches? I do and I have fuck all clue why.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
On a lighter note, does anyone else call triangle cut toast/sandwiches posh toast/sandwiches? I do and I have fuck all clue why.