Tibs Ashton
@tibsashton.bsky.social
Wayward Devonian in Ireland. #woke. TUFC, Seahawks, Mariners. Lover of great pop music.
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Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Why is Churchill being invoked for building Britain? Is this just to try not to completely put off flag shaggers?
Churchill was an advocate for European unity, but he seems a strange name to pick out of all those who did the work to create the EU and ECHR.
Churchill was an advocate for European unity, but he seems a strange name to pick out of all those who did the work to create the EU and ECHR.
We just defeated Nigel Farage’s Bill in Parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR.
Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump's America. We stopped him.
Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump's America. We stopped him.
October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Why is Churchill being invoked for building Britain? Is this just to try not to completely put off flag shaggers?
Churchill was an advocate for European unity, but he seems a strange name to pick out of all those who did the work to create the EU and ECHR.
Churchill was an advocate for European unity, but he seems a strange name to pick out of all those who did the work to create the EU and ECHR.
309 episodes of Mike Harding's wonderful folk show are available on Mixcloud.
A treasure trove of brilliant folk, trad and roots music, and national treasure Mike himself.
Find him on Bluesky at @churchcat.bsky.social
#music
#folk
#trad
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www.mixcloud.com/mikeharding1...
A treasure trove of brilliant folk, trad and roots music, and national treasure Mike himself.
Find him on Bluesky at @churchcat.bsky.social
#music
#folk
#trad
🎶
🎧
www.mixcloud.com/mikeharding1...
The Mike Harding Folk Show Number 1
www.mixcloud.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
309 episodes of Mike Harding's wonderful folk show are available on Mixcloud.
A treasure trove of brilliant folk, trad and roots music, and national treasure Mike himself.
Find him on Bluesky at @churchcat.bsky.social
#music
#folk
#trad
🎶
🎧
www.mixcloud.com/mikeharding1...
A treasure trove of brilliant folk, trad and roots music, and national treasure Mike himself.
Find him on Bluesky at @churchcat.bsky.social
#music
#folk
#trad
🎶
🎧
www.mixcloud.com/mikeharding1...
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The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
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For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Absolutely this. A musically perfect movie (and great in lots of other ways too).
October 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Absolutely this. A musically perfect movie (and great in lots of other ways too).
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👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
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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
October 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
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🧠 It's no secret, the political situation has a major impact on mental health.
✊ Let’s push for better mental health for all by fighting its external causes.
👉🏾 It’s fighting against social inequality.
💚 Against the climate crisis.
💪 For human rights.
#worldmentalhealthday
✊ Let’s push for better mental health for all by fighting its external causes.
👉🏾 It’s fighting against social inequality.
💚 Against the climate crisis.
💪 For human rights.
#worldmentalhealthday
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🧠 It's no secret, the political situation has a major impact on mental health.
✊ Let’s push for better mental health for all by fighting its external causes.
👉🏾 It’s fighting against social inequality.
💚 Against the climate crisis.
💪 For human rights.
#worldmentalhealthday
✊ Let’s push for better mental health for all by fighting its external causes.
👉🏾 It’s fighting against social inequality.
💚 Against the climate crisis.
💪 For human rights.
#worldmentalhealthday
Absolutely fed up to the back teeth of people dismissing the surging rise of right-wing racism into mainstream conversation as a "noisy minority."
Try telling that to people who are persecuted and frightened just based on the colour of their skin or the country their parents are from. 1/2
Try telling that to people who are persecuted and frightened just based on the colour of their skin or the country their parents are from. 1/2
The fact that you dismiss the white working class as racists I find really troubling. Those gammons on X are a tiny but noisy minority. Most are fair-minded people who struggle to make ends meet. If our politics is not about making their lives better, what is it for?
October 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Absolutely fed up to the back teeth of people dismissing the surging rise of right-wing racism into mainstream conversation as a "noisy minority."
Try telling that to people who are persecuted and frightened just based on the colour of their skin or the country their parents are from. 1/2
Try telling that to people who are persecuted and frightened just based on the colour of their skin or the country their parents are from. 1/2
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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If you’re calling for civility in a time when fascism is overtaking the country then you are on the side of the fascists
September 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If you’re calling for civility in a time when fascism is overtaking the country then you are on the side of the fascists
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"We'RE oPPoseD tO poLItiCaL vIOLenCe ..."
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"We'RE oPPoseD tO poLItiCaL vIOLenCe ..."
A very well written piece about the truth of the man and what he said/did
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A very well written piece about the truth of the man and what he said/did
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Simon Harris and his family have faced credible death threats in recent days.
This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.
This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Simon Harris and his family have faced credible death threats in recent days.
This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.
This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.
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John Candy: I Like Me | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Ryan Reynolds
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Breaks his heart, IT REALLY DOES.
Zahawi, who claimed thousands from the public purse to heat his stables, attended men-only events where female staff were groped, was fined seven-figure sum for tax irregularities and breaches the ministerial code by failing to disclose it, suggests EQUIVALENCE.
Zahawi, who claimed thousands from the public purse to heat his stables, attended men-only events where female staff were groped, was fined seven-figure sum for tax irregularities and breaches the ministerial code by failing to disclose it, suggests EQUIVALENCE.
September 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Breaks his heart, IT REALLY DOES.
Zahawi, who claimed thousands from the public purse to heat his stables, attended men-only events where female staff were groped, was fined seven-figure sum for tax irregularities and breaches the ministerial code by failing to disclose it, suggests EQUIVALENCE.
Zahawi, who claimed thousands from the public purse to heat his stables, attended men-only events where female staff were groped, was fined seven-figure sum for tax irregularities and breaches the ministerial code by failing to disclose it, suggests EQUIVALENCE.
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No, not the mind probe!
Probe launched after phone plot to play 'sex noises' behind Starmer at PMQs uncovered
Probe launched after phone plot to play 'sex noises' behind Starmer at PMQs uncovered
An investigation has been launched after security guards foiled a plot to embarrass the prime minister by playing "sex noises" from a phone hidden in the Commons.
news.sky.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
No, not the mind probe!
Song of the day is Cleveland Summer Nights.
Haunting and wistful.
Been a good week for Cleveland as the city looked beautiful with the air show.
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open.spotify.com/track/0mAhwv...
Haunting and wistful.
Been a good week for Cleveland as the city looked beautiful with the air show.
🎶
🎧
open.spotify.com/track/0mAhwv...
Cleveland Summer Nights
open.spotify.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Song of the day is Cleveland Summer Nights.
Haunting and wistful.
Been a good week for Cleveland as the city looked beautiful with the air show.
🎶
🎧
open.spotify.com/track/0mAhwv...
Haunting and wistful.
Been a good week for Cleveland as the city looked beautiful with the air show.
🎶
🎧
open.spotify.com/track/0mAhwv...
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If Farage believes in Free Speech so much, maybe he should raise the issue with Trump.
Just last week he signed an executive order that will land anyone in jail who burns the US flag.
Free speech my arse.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Just last week he signed an executive order that will land anyone in jail who burns the US flag.
Free speech my arse.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Prosecuting Burning of The American Flag
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If Farage believes in Free Speech so much, maybe he should raise the issue with Trump.
Just last week he signed an executive order that will land anyone in jail who burns the US flag.
Free speech my arse.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Just last week he signed an executive order that will land anyone in jail who burns the US flag.
Free speech my arse.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...