Shane Thomas
tokenbg.bsky.social
Shane Thomas
@tokenbg.bsky.social
South London
We now go live to @tim-stillman.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Don’t disagree with any of this.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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My mum just sent me this, she's a good woman. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Sorry, was this *really* Football Manager, or did @suzywrack.bsky.social get put in charge of the real life team and I missed it? 😅😭
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Sources told @theathletic.com the WNBA’s salary structure proposal would result in players receiving less than 15% of total league revenue.

Plus, news on many more proposal items with @benpickman.bsky.social, including a (mandatory?) draft combine, benefits and more. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
WNBA CBA proposal includes mandatory draft combine, new revenue-sharing model: Sources
The league proposed a draft combine requirement that ties participation to rookie salary.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Not sure why I'm suddenly getting Harris Dickinson energy from Rob Edwards. Guess we know who will play him in the biopic if his managerial career has a sudden upturn.
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Went to the Battle of Ideas, where speech has been successfully freed but all anyone wants to talk about is Tommy Robinson.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Morgan Jones | At the Battle of Ideas
In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Today in Proximities:

- Cameroonian opposition leader dies suddenly in detention
- Flooding toll in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand tops 1,300
- Surveillance fears as India orders phone makers to pre-load govt app

Read it in under two mins.

www.proximities.news/p/cameroon-i...
Cameroon, Indonesia, India
Today's three stories you should know
www.proximities.news
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Between 1965 and 1980, dozens of the best-known musicians in Britain were collectors of Nazi regalia…

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/thir...
Third Reich ’n’ Roll
A new book reflects on the music industry’s disturbing obsession with Nazi aesthetics and ideology — ranging over unexpected examples of fascist fetishism, and celebrating those who challenged it.
tribunemag.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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‘Colombians don’t appreciate being branded as a nation of drug traffickers, least of all by someone like Trump. For the moment, President Gustavo Petro’s popularity has rebounded.’

New on the blog: Forrest Hylton on Colombia v. Trump.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Forrest Hylton | Gran Colombia Redux
The US can bomb Venezuelan military and civilian targets from the USS Gerald R. Ford but it’s difficult to imagine...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Wrote about how important Jimmy Cliff was to me and what a pioneer he was in all ways
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/jim...
What I Know is What I Am: Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to the legendary Jimmy Cliff.
www.rogerebert.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Wait, it’s not Ange’s Tottenham that’s the football analogy for Bazball, but… Flick’s Barcelona 😮
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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‘In the first week of November I was sitting with my mother in the tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza.

“We can’t stay here through the winter,” my mother said. “Our tents are worn out.” I had no answer for her.’

New on the blog from Hassan Ayman Herzallah

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Seventeen Minutes of Rain
In the first week of November I was sitting with my mother in the tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. It was 9 a.m. on...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Your weekend match is here, friends, Sutton United vs Gateshead, featuring more train chaos, 30 [THIRTY] away fans, a fox, the best match I've seen so far this season and possibly the best sunset I've seen in my entire life.

unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...
The Weekend Match: Sutton United 4-2 Gateshead - The Turquoise Sky to Burnished Gold was Turned
It's a relegation six-pointer near the foot of the National League, and it turns out to be the best game - and the best sunset - I've seen all season.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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‘There is no equipment to remove the rubble – not for the Palestinians, anyway. Any heavy-lifting machinery is being used by the Israelis to move the Yellow Line, which is creeping inwards.’

New from @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Selma Dabbagh | Rebranding Genocide
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Not falling for this again
Ahahahahha, sure, of course
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Recently, @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social , MSI UK's Head of External Relations, spoke on the @opendemocracy.net podcast about the importance of abortion decriminalisation.

🔗Listen to the episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlo...

#Abortion
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Really, me and Mariona are basically the same.

(we don’t need to focus on the being good at football thing)
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Disclaimer as this briefly discusses sexual violence.
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Intentionally or not, think he’s really aligned on something with this phrase. Think you can track a lot of current sociopolitics through the lens of people desperately (and understandably) wanting rn.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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An assessment of the problems at Anfield. Does there need to be change at the top to get the team moving in the right direction? tonyevans92a.substack.com/p/do-liverpo...
Do Liverpool Have Too Many Problems For Slot To Solve?
There are many factors causing the decline of the big-spending champions. The crisis is coming to a head at Anfield
tonyevans92a.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Sending love to my Indigenous and Native friends and mutuals this week.

Friends, please remember this is a day of mourning for many of our Indigenous and Native neighbors for a very good reason. Please be respectful of that, and them.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM