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Andrew Granola @mourningcake.bsky.social · 9h

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 4h

Liberals will need to choose between their ideological commitments to property rights and life itself

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 4h

Been thinking this morning that there's no way to just leave this pilled billionaires in place even under liberal capitalism. Their ill gotten wealth will need to be confiscated under any situation that isn't genocidal fascism.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 8d

That ignores the fact that getting back to a reformed version of liberal international order is now no longer possible, but also that even a reformed version of that order would be too riddled with socio-political inequities and injustices.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 4h

it is funny how "china is scary" has been a mantra for 25 years yet this tweet is about the most sophisticated response we've come up with

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1d

One hundred percent this. Transmisogyny is misogyny.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 1d

Not a hope in hell Branson runs a Manchester-Paris

The new Alstom trains for the Tunnel Virgin plans to order are continental European loading gauge, not UK, so can’t run anywhere beyond HS1 in the UK

So forget it

This is 💩

#CrossChannelRail

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 1d

This is Graham Linehan, who UKLabour, WesStreeting and every columnist in the country rushed to defend when he was arrested by police, after inciting online violence and smashed a trans girl’s phone. They are even changing the law specifically to protect him. “Just a joke” @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

OBAA's temporal proximity to Kirk's death is not a 'macabre coincidence'. Horrific shit happens in America every day; right now. Any cultural product's release would probably induce for one person or another a 'macabre coincidence', you just don't want to think about America's grim underbelly.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Cinco is proud to announce that the Saudi Public Investment Fund has bought a 80% stake

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

Don't mind me, just casting my mind back through the film in question, thinking about the various political assassinations that actually take place on screen, and asking in which ideological directions said assassinations flow. Odd!

“It’s a macabre coincidence that One Battle After Another opens so soon after the assassination of peaceable conservative debater Charlie Kirk,” wrote The National Review under a headline predicting “there will be bloodlust” provoked by the movie. “The film undeniably romanticizes political assassination … Anderson intentionally provokes the bloodlust of his woke confreres (and Gen Z viewers who know nothing about the Sixties) by celebrating the insipid, heretical, and violent activities of the liberal past and present. Anderson’s title lacks Pynchon’s pith but daydreams a culture of never-ending political obstruction and pandemonium. It is the year’s most irresponsible movie.”

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, because if it wasn’t this, then lots of important white people would now have to go to prison and the irresponsible clowns who cheered them on would have to resign in disgrace

(((Dan Hodges))) *
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As a ceasefire is about to come into effect, it's important to remember that every death, every injury, every bereavement, every destroyed building, every pile of rubble, every bullet fired and every bomb dropped was the fault of Hamas. They own all of this.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Important to note that both the Tories and Labour rejected independent national security recommendations to implement a FARA equivalent. In Labour's case, would mean some key MPs having to register as agents of Israel.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 1d

we got jumped last night (me and wife) by a group of lads calling us “lefties“ - it didn’t come to punches but got quite close - so I guess we are approaching the “having to fight on your way home from the pub” level of fascism

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 3d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Good thing our Labour government is super intelligent and smart to also bet the entire economy on AI because they ceded policymaking to speculators

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 1d

Hindutva sees itself aligned with Zionism and Anglo fascism, as demonstrated by the 2019 UK General election letter claiming Corbyn's Labour was anti-Hindu for the same crime of seeing Muslims as human. A problem since resolved.

Scroll @scroll.in · 1d

When #Palestine declared statehood in 1988, India was among the first countries to recognise it. This diplomatic positioning was rooted in New Delhi's idealist & anti-colonial outlook of the time.

scroll.in/article/1087...

Nachiket Deuskar examines India’s shift away from the Palestine cause.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 1d

this is one of the worst things thats happened to canada this year

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

This video is AI.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 2d

Madeleine Habib, captain of the Conscience vessel of the Sumud Flotilla, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison.

Habib has been told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs a waiver.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla told she will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups.

Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2d

At least, the system still works and everyone is held accountable in the end...

Oh wait...

(I know, this is somewhat simplistic but think of the optics at a time when the far right is hyped)

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2d

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

Two headlines in a row

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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