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malkintrash.bsky.social
Malkintrash
@malkintrash.bsky.social
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Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Sex toy anarchist (thanks, Midsomer Murders bot).

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malkintrash.bsky.social
Thank god somebody said it. Felt like I was going mad for a bit there
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h
Rachel Reeves, whose budget was almost entirely and deliberately briefed in advance of her statement, says it is "deeply disappointing" that the OBR has accidentally done the same
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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pamenarpress.bsky.social
Please share widely

The 3rd annual 24 hour Global Marathon of Solidarity Reading begins this Saturday 29 November. A continuous gathering of poets, writers, artists around the world standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Join live:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUg...
Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine (3rd Iteration)
YouTube video by Pamenar Press
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
malkintrash.bsky.social
"bottom-up analysis"? 🧐
brokenbanker.bsky.social BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 1d
pure bottom-up analysis without considering top down factors is always less use for me:

'Meanwhile, analysts underreact to macro drivers. And where analysts underreact, investors can make more money because future share price changes are larger.'

klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/how-do-equ...
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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crumpsalljamie.bsky.social
reading Michael Sheridan's book on Xi and thinking how terrible it must be to be publicly denounced by your own mother, then remembered the time she caught me hanging round outside the off license.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Have to keep reminding myself it's not coelacanths that need gluten free options
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil.
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed — and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to £1.3bn Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor Monday November 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times Thousands of refugees who believed they were months from settlement now face 15 years of instability after it was confirmed that Shabana Mahmood's overhaul of asylum rules would apply retrospectively.
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Robert Garioch.
BY THE YOUNG POET, ON SEEING THE LABOUR EXCHANGE They tell me, in this town, men's time is bought and sold, the vendors beaten down by emptors warned and old, with little time to live and more than they can use who pay, but do not give, buy cheaply, or refuse. They shall not have my time for credit or for gold, though I've so much: I'll rhyme yet, when they're still and cold.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Anna's Archives is, AFAICT, like LibGen, although with a subscriber model. Such sites seem to have sprung up as a response to academic publishing, where research gets gate kept for uji libraries & the very wealthiest of independent scholars. It sucks if it's being used to undermine fiction writers..
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Please share & consider donating - I know we're probably all strapped between all the funds rn but I am so angry higher education workers continue to face this kind of exploitation & hardship. Solidarity with everyone affected including Dr Mark! ✊
ajaanmark.bsky.social Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2d
#MutualAid If anyone's able to help me and my partner Ms J out, that would be SO much appreciated. With teaching over for the year, I don't have an income from employment. I need to help Ms J out with uni fees and other urgent needs! Love you forever (even if you just share!)
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November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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barryfreed.bsky.social
My god what a film, booming Taipei and the perilous tangle of personal and professional lives intertwined in the structure of a Chaplinesque screwball comedy that’s at once laugh out loud funny and deadly serious. How did this guy do something this great between the masterpieces of ABSD and Yi Yi?
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Would be fascinated to hear more about the thinking that went into making Milton Keynes station a Faraday cage
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social
I wonder if descendants of these people have to also wait 20 years for settled status?

(Rhetorical question: of course they do.)
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Several reasons why we don't talk about British state oppression in Malaysia but one weird detail here is that the Malaysian Chinese anti-colonial resistance were branded bandits & terrorists for *insurance reasons* (avoiding UK gov having to do payouts to rubber firms instead of private insurers)
Malaya was described by one British Lord in 1952 as the “greatest material prize in South-East Asia”, mainly due to its rubber and tin. These resources were “very fortunate” for Britain, another Lord declared, since “they have very largely supported the standard of living of the people of this country and the sterling area ever since the war ended”. He added: “What we should do without Malaya, and its earnings in tin and rubber, I do not know”.
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
This is the harvest, & this is the hell. Drink full, my love, & descend. The horse is the white of the eyes & dark within.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
As my parents & I watch a driver undertake the queue onto a sliproad by driving down the gutter with one wheel well onto the pavement somewhere in Cheadle Hulme, I'm thinking again about regional variants in shit driving. London: feckless. Greater Manchester: feral. Anyone got any others?
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Protesting against anti-immigration policies is white privilege... Criticising u-turns by the Treasury is mansplaining... Welcome to the consequences of leaving the levers of power in the hands of the most disingenuous faction in UK politics
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
I didn't have "Reform begins revival of Gnosticism" on my 2025 bingo card but congratulations to whoever among you did
rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 4d
"America is British", "socialism is heaven". Good Charlotte Edwardes profile of Danny Kruger, in which he gets the opportunity to say what he really thinks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Isn't it an import from the US, though, specifically Trump's Maga America? "I dispute that," Kruger says. "I recognise there's a bit of a conscious echo. But remember America is British." "I think that socialism is in heaven, he says. "The problem with socialists is they don't accept the fall of man. They try to create heaven on Earth with the assumption that if we somehow just got our institutions or culture right, we could be synonymous beings and all behave nicely to each other." Wait, I say, checking I have heard correctly. Heaven is socialist? "Heaven is a socialist state," he says. "The effort of socialists is to bring heaven on Earth, with the state in the position of God. That is not a good idea. That's because no state of human beings can be all good or all powerful."
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Plays very well this side of the Atlantic too.
juliusgoat.bsky.social A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29d
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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joshuabull.bsky.social
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Stuck outside at Euston. Can someone explain to me why we have so many signal failures in this country?

metro.co.uk/2025/11/21/p...
Passengers urged 'do not travel' after fault blocks all lines from London statio
metro.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Hard agree. I think about this a lot
ghola.bsky.social janа @ghola.bsky.social · 5d
honorable laziness and dishonorable laziness are two completely different things
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Confused to wake up to not terrible news about the Ashes.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
malkintrash.bsky.social
Sean Bonney would have fucking loved this
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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kjhealy.co
Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
World Cup next year could be a terrific inflection point
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM