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Sal ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
@sal46.bsky.social
hermeneutist of suspicion
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Hi my name is Sal and my enthusiasms are heterodox Christianity, the Frankfurt school, anarchist Marxism, Michel Foucault, Hergeโ€™s adventures of Tintin, Cockapoo spaniels, and music that makes you boogie.
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Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Downing Street chief of staff
Exit of Mandelson protรฉgรฉ comes as Sir Keir Starmer seeks to stave off leadership speculation
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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"NATO is over. The US empire is in a process of irreversible decay... A new set of alliances is going to be necessary. It would be necessary for a left-wing government representing working class interests. It's necessary probably for the bourgeoisie..." - @leninology.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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I canโ€™t get past how ashamed the dog looks.
Tfw when you are the Dark Lord of Spin, genius manipulator of the public mind, but also think wearing Woody Allen spectacles a good choice under the circumstances
February 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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My robot hoover recognises and avoids shoes. So rather than tidy other stuff off the floor, I build a defensive barrier of shoes.
February 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Dana-nana-nana-nana-GLASMAN!

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social describes how Maurice Glasman, the driving force behind Blue Labour thinks of himself as a 'Dark Knight' character. A Labour Batman, if you will. @iandunt.bsky.social won't.

Listen to the episode on Blue Labour โžก๏ธ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files

www.thewrap.com/culture-life...
Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of 'Safety of Our Attendees'
DinoCon issued a statement regarding the scientists and more named in the Epstein Files, noting they were officially banned from the event.
www.thewrap.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Decamping to German land tomoz!
February 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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No one did exuberance like Kierkegaard after a Schelling lecture. ๐Ÿ–ค
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Unashamedly like this one.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZd...
The Best Years Of Our Lives
YouTube video by Neil Diamond - Topic
m.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Bees ๐Ÿ
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Kneejerk media-blaming is a bit like another 'socialism of fools', but does stem from the IMO obviously correct intuition that Britain's governance problems are structural, do not stem from Starmer alone, and will not dramatically disappear (or even dissipate at all) once he's replaced
Getting really tired of "this is all a media concoction"...

Starmer has the lowest approval rating of any PM in history bar Truss. Senior ministers are openly and unsubtly positioning. His Chief of Staff, Director of Comms and Cab Sec have all resigned on the same day.

I mean come on...
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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A farewell to autofiction

Rob Doyle uses a proliferation of alter egos to lampoon the autofiction genre

By Nicholas Harris
Rob Doyle's circus of selves
The novelist uses a proliferation of alter egos to lampoon the autofiction genre
www.newstatesman.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Finally, who else but the unconventional crush of Kรถnigsberg Immanuel Kant, here doubtless setting some hearts aflutter with a saucy death mask look. Ladies, itโ€™s โ€˜categorically imperativeโ€™ that your panties would need changing if you ever got a lecture on transcendental idealism from this sexpot!โ€™
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
At number 3, rugged daddy Wittgenstein rizzing you into the sack with some language games (though sorry girls, you might be out of luck here).
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
At number 2 we have Camus. Tell me you can imagine his 60 Gauloises a day breath on your face as he whispers to you about the total absurdity of human existence without going weak at the knees!
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Tanlines "All of Me"
YouTube video by stelioscockey
m.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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New definition of sovereignty dropped
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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The reason the Starmer diehards exist is that for ten years, through Brexit, Corbyn, and Boris, he was the archetypal โ€œadult in the roomโ€ for these guys, their light in the dark. To concede heโ€™s bad would be to admit being wrong /for ten years/
February 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Epstein and his acquaintances โ€” whom one might have naively credited with a kind of malign genius โ€” trade specious sub-TED talk musings on polling, quantum physics, life after death, global warming and international relations
(ยฃ) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Excellent @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Jeffrey Epstein circleโ€™s โ€˜big ideasโ€™ were vacuous guff
Emails show that despite hooking up the rich, the powerful and intellectuals, the philosophising was utterly banal
www.thetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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โ€œNo matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, thereโ€™s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.โ€
Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Opportunity to post a run down of the hottest philosophers ever. ๐Ÿงต

At number one is young Giorgio Agamben. State of Sexception or what!
February 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
โ€œYou need not suffer on your cross. Come, lead our Christian nationalist church. All the power of the world shall be yours You shall be King of Kings.โ€

โ€œGet ye gone Satan!โ€
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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new atheism is tight with eugenics. The whole lot are a blight.
February 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This was the FSC hottie imo. That Magnum tasche! Phwoaar! ๐Ÿ˜‚
February 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM