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Sinan Kose

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They/Them Doing internet stuff. Award Winning Twitch Streamer. Where to find me: https://linktr.ee/SKTheCrusader Avatar by @moltotrasho.bsky.social‬

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 11d

New video's live and it's the last politics video until Starmer resigns. So give it about 10 days, but I saw some people using "student politics" again and couldn't resist putting my hand on the hot stove so you get this. youtu.be/mPlY4ZTPDvQ

STFU About Student Politics

YouTube video by SKTheCrusader

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14h

I'm coming at you live with some GeoGuessr www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader

SKTheCrusader - Twitch

I'm SK (They/Them) and I just love doing things online

www.twitch.tv

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Fantasy Football Draft Dodger @liberationnow.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact: Obama remains the only Nobel winner to order a drone strike on another Nobel winner

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 20h

Happy anniversary to the day Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Somewhere, Trump is rage-Googling “how to win Nobel without doing peace.”

#TrumpTantrum

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 18h

I hate that movie so much

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Harrgggh-time orange 🍊💀 @sirhiss.bsky.social · 20h

FAO AMERICANS ON BLUESKY

A map of the world showing the USA highlighted in red and the rest of the world in white, with a key labelled USA (red) and NOT USA (white)

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Even the change to formally calling for a ceasefire was meaningless given that there was no "or else" attached. The arms and intel sharing continued to flow, no sanctions were applied. They were complicit throughout.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible really: facilitating genocide to the point you’re realistically going to worry about being arrested on holiday for the rest of your life, then continuing to grovel to the mad emperor who commanded you to do it.

Kate McCann • @KateEMcCann•44m S
"It is difficult to see how you could have a deal like this without the United States behind it" Pat McFadden tells @StigAbell, stating that while a Nobel Peace Prize is for the committee itself, Donald Trump "does deserve credit"
@TimesRadio

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 1d

It's very funny to me that people will create something where the clear intended use is to wind people up and then be surprised when people do that.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe people didn't use *checks notes* "for dot shame dot wtf" reasonably and responsibly.

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Dogg the Casper Hunter @doggbounty.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when loads of Canadian libs got mad at UK leftists for (correctly) describing his very right wing actions in the UK?

Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 1d

Canada's century of humiliation is off to the races.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...

www.cbc.ca

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

It begins.

The domino meme:

The start: "Zohran Mamdani runs for Mayor of New York."
The end: "PRESIDENT BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN"

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

Yo, did I tell you that Ben and I did a video for Ralph? Cuz Ben and I did a video for Ralph.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSZ...

Dr Eleanor Janega on the Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Monks & More | What Do You Want to Talk About?

YouTube video by Ralph World

www.youtube.com

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer's currently sat looking at some papers, the buzzing in his head is getting louder. Saying "Stop Making Mistakes" over and over as he ponders whether it was a good idea to bet the entire UK economy on magic beans.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

on.ft.com

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 2d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 2d

Incoming: a load of melts & shy Tories itching to give it to Heseltine

Incoming meme: a man shouting to camera as a tornado approaches in the background

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 28

Sims 2 ad (2004)

#retro #art #gaming #Sims

Sims 2 ad (2004) wife comes home to husband in bed with 2 other women

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Trans Liberation Group @transliberationgroup.org.uk · 2d

We are the Trans Liberation Group and we are fighting for a foundation of trans liberation in Your Party, in its current and future iterations.

Founding Statement:
The situation for trans people in Britain is critical. We face a barrage of billionaire bankrolled abuse in the media. We endure decades long waiting lists to access limited healthcare, with dehumanisation and pathologisation built in to the system.

In the job market, we are met with discrimination, lack of opportunity and stagnating pay. We are excluded from housing, healthcare, employment, leisure - now even our use of bathrooms is policed.
- Trans Liberation Group

Something must change.
- Trans Liberation Group

Founding Statement:
For trans people, today’s politics is exhausting. The major political parties have used and discarded us time and time again. Too often, exclusionary figures are embedded in leadership capacities, and even in progressive parties, those on the fringes can spew hatred unchallenged.

We say no more. This cannot happen in Your Party. The liberation of all marginalised people can only be achieved through their active and equal participation in class struggle; there can only be a precarious freedom for some under current conditions.
- Trans Liberation Group

ounding Statement:
We are the Trans Liberation Group and we are fighting to ensure Your Party, in its current and future iterations, explicitly advocates for trans liberation, and encourages the political participation of trans people.

We know there are prominent figures who have been platformed under the banner of Your Party who hold regressive, misinformed and dangerous views on trans people. We are here to show them that this is our party, and we will fight tooth and nail to prevent this oppressive
politics from taking root.
- Trans Liberation Group

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 2d

"Yank" isn't a slur.

This is braindead shit and you should be embarrassed.

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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 2d

Tfw your being called unbritish because you're opposing a genocide.

Edited stills from the avengers movie.

Keir Starmer: it is unbritish to go to a protest on October 7th.

Mark Ruffalo: that's my secret chief... I'm always unbritish.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 2d

Even *if* the Conservatives were the way they imagined them, they'd still be shit and we'd still be justified in celebrating their total obsolescence and disappearance from politics.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 2d

Journalists love nothing more than the myth of the Conservative Party they've built up in their head and relentlessly insisting against all evidence that we should mourn the loss of this fictional construct.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

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AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 3d

As if my financial situation weren't dire enough, fucking Universal Credit still haven't updated my payments to include rent for the place I've moved to - they're still paying me what they were when I was staying at my dad's. Stupid, fucked system.

In the meantime... paypal.me/ajmckenna

Pay Anathema McKenna using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/ajmckenna and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 3d

You can tell this is from before austerity because the Tories and Reform are too cheap to even pay us to fuck off.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 3d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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