O Holy Nute
@nutedawn.bsky.social
Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
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O Holy Nute
@nutedawn.bsky.social
· Jan 1
🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at exactly 11:38:48 PM then Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray will say “Ah, Victory” at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.
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The people in my replies explaining that actually some regulations are over broad and small businesses need help to navigate them and so this is a left-wing position. Yes! Good!
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The people in my replies explaining that actually some regulations are over broad and small businesses need help to navigate them and so this is a left-wing position. Yes! Good!
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Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
I mean of COURSE he would. Magneto is the most "yes I would kill Baby Hitler" figure who has ever existed in any universe, fictional or otherwise.
Mags and Charles had a big going back in time and killing Hitler as a baby dorm room bull session debate.
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I mean of COURSE he would. Magneto is the most "yes I would kill Baby Hitler" figure who has ever existed in any universe, fictional or otherwise.
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Yep. So annoying when lobby journalists are like "So sorry, to explain this gossip about two cabinet ministers who hate each other we're going to have to talk about boring old policy. Uh-oh! Looks like these poindexters are going to use some numbers!"
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Yep. So annoying when lobby journalists are like "So sorry, to explain this gossip about two cabinet ministers who hate each other we're going to have to talk about boring old policy. Uh-oh! Looks like these poindexters are going to use some numbers!"
I know I’ve said this before but I keep finding it very funny seeing people (mostly Americans) reacting to all this by saying “Wow Zarah Sultana needs to get out of that toxic party and join the Greens”, like saying Keith Richards needed to escape the Rolling Stones because they had a drug problem
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural 'Your Party' conference in Liverpool, with Zarah Sultana boycotting the first day of the event, Jeremy Corbyn facing "witch-hunt" allegations, and an entryism row
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
@siennarodgers.bsky.social & @tomscotson.bsky.social report from Merseyside
“End The Witch-hunt”: The First 24 Hours At The Chaotic ‘Your Party’ Conference
Chaos has engulfed the first 24 hours of the inaugural conference of ‘Your Party’, the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Su...
www.politicshome.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I know I’ve said this before but I keep finding it very funny seeing people (mostly Americans) reacting to all this by saying “Wow Zarah Sultana needs to get out of that toxic party and join the Greens”, like saying Keith Richards needed to escape the Rolling Stones because they had a drug problem
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I understand the political party that the independents wanted and what its distinctive, seat-winning position that the Greens or any of the parties of the far left could not occupy. I do not, absolutely do not, understand at any level what Zarah Sultana is seeking to accomplish.
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I understand the political party that the independents wanted and what its distinctive, seat-winning position that the Greens or any of the parties of the far left could not occupy. I do not, absolutely do not, understand at any level what Zarah Sultana is seeking to accomplish.
Discovered today that my teenage cousin who had literally zero interest in football her whole life has become an absolutely obsessive Liverpool fan because of all the stuff she saw on social media around Diogo Jota’s death, which I was… not expecting
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Discovered today that my teenage cousin who had literally zero interest in football her whole life has become an absolutely obsessive Liverpool fan because of all the stuff she saw on social media around Diogo Jota’s death, which I was… not expecting
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Any takers for the Greens? We're one short of a full set
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Any takers for the Greens? We're one short of a full set
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The president is mentally unwell and just says things. He is going to arrest Biden for perjury! He is going to invade Nigeria! He is going to abolish income tax!
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The president is mentally unwell and just says things. He is going to arrest Biden for perjury! He is going to invade Nigeria! He is going to abolish income tax!
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.
Well this explains the Your Party conference location
A neuropsychologist’s view: Arne Slot seeded a ‘loser effect’ in Liverpool. Here’s how to fix it
A neuropsychologist’s view: Arne Slot seeded a ‘loser effect’ in Liverpool. Here’s how to fix it
Liverpool’s manager has seeded a ‘loser effect’ in his side. Here’s how to fix it
www.irishtimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Well this explains the Your Party conference location
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Niche objection to the SWP, perhaps.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Niche objection to the SWP, perhaps.
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Namor = literally every institution trying to deal with Trump
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Namor = literally every institution trying to deal with Trump
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the mac n cheese and the apple crumble in the fridge getting ready for a back-to-back performance tonight
November 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
the mac n cheese and the apple crumble in the fridge getting ready for a back-to-back performance tonight
Very weird scene in the new Stranger Things which treats something extremely obvious as a huge reveal requiring slow buildup. Hrm. Not sure it’s doing it for me so far but ploughing on…
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Very weird scene in the new Stranger Things which treats something extremely obvious as a huge reveal requiring slow buildup. Hrm. Not sure it’s doing it for me so far but ploughing on…
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Wondering if anyone on here can beat the other site.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Wondering if anyone on here can beat the other site.
Most of the placements here seem reasonable even if I would quibble with details but the Diamondbacks feel wildly low??
Odds, 2026 World Championship (@FanDuel):
+340 LAD
+700 NYY
+1000 PHI
+1200 SEA NYM
+1400 HOU
+1500 BOS
+1600 TOR
+2000 ATL
+2200 CHC SD MIL
+2700 CLE DET
+3000 BAL
+3500 CIN KC SF
+4000 TB
+4500 TEX
+6000 ARI
+10000 ATH MIN
+12500 STL
+15000 MIA
+20000 PIT
+35000 LAA
+50000 COL CWS WSH
+340 LAD
+700 NYY
+1000 PHI
+1200 SEA NYM
+1400 HOU
+1500 BOS
+1600 TOR
+2000 ATL
+2200 CHC SD MIL
+2700 CLE DET
+3000 BAL
+3500 CIN KC SF
+4000 TB
+4500 TEX
+6000 ARI
+10000 ATH MIN
+12500 STL
+15000 MIA
+20000 PIT
+35000 LAA
+50000 COL CWS WSH
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Most of the placements here seem reasonable even if I would quibble with details but the Diamondbacks feel wildly low??
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
In the entire history of human organization, the number of collective enterprises which have been improved by allowing SWP members in is quite literally zero
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In the entire history of human organization, the number of collective enterprises which have been improved by allowing SWP members in is quite literally zero
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I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
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I'm near speechless at this framing of overall immigration falling by, like, 60%
Asylum seekers now make up nearly half of net migration to the UK and the number housed in hotels has increased despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to end their use ⬇️
Asylum seekers account for almost half of net migration
New statistics showed a fall in net migration as British citizens and non-EU migrants left the UK, but the number of asylum seekers in hotels has grown
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I'm near speechless at this framing of overall immigration falling by, like, 60%
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I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
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Their message is simple: the public needs to start asking itself some uncomfortable questions about why it’s so out of touch with the Conservative Party
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Their message is simple: the public needs to start asking itself some uncomfortable questions about why it’s so out of touch with the Conservative Party
So I know Labour is directing their entire strategy at a fictitious constituency but at *least* you can see why they they thought that constituency would vote for their policy offering if they existed. The Tories are offering ‘Nick’ absolutely fuck all!
British politics is now just about making up a guy and assuming he will vote for you
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So I know Labour is directing their entire strategy at a fictitious constituency but at *least* you can see why they they thought that constituency would vote for their policy offering if they existed. The Tories are offering ‘Nick’ absolutely fuck all!