Will Pinfold
@willpinfold.bsky.social
Writer, music journalist, art historian, smart arse & whatnot
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Review of the year part two
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A year in review (part two) Goodbye 2025
Some time in the summer I came across a different translation of Kafka than the one I was familiar with and wrote one of my favourite things (of mine) of the year. But I wrote it in such a hurried fit...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Review of the year part two
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2025 - a year in review (part one)
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2025 - a year in review (part one)
I didn’t make any concrete resolutions last year, but I did intend to be more productive in my writing, and I did at least achieve that, if nothing else.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
2025 - a year in review (part one)
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when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money
minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here
Nicki Minaj: “For young men, don’t be Newscum (Gavin Newsom) .. Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president...”
December 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
when someone seems to suddenly and inexplicably jump on the maga train, you will almost never be wrong in assuming it’s about money
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Literally demanding it should be illegal for people not to like them. Totally incapable of accepting any responsibility for themselves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
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December 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Literally demanding it should be illegal for people not to like them. Totally incapable of accepting any responsibility for themselves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
Crafting a Memory of Christmas
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December 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Crafting a Memory of Christmas
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"and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy" is, unfortunately, extremely funny
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy" is, unfortunately, extremely funny
there a trillion magazines now called like ThoughtThink. Unsaid. CensoredMedia. The Believer. CrossingLines. The New Principles Of Thought Project. and every single one has written the same article a million times over that is just "i had to take a diversity training at work and it was annoying"
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
End of year recommendations etc - williampinfold.com/as-the-first...
December 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
End of year recommendations etc - williampinfold.com/as-the-first...
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When he dies I’m not going to be taking the moral high ground, I’m going to be down in the swamp hooting and cackling
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When he dies I’m not going to be taking the moral high ground, I’m going to be down in the swamp hooting and cackling
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Can we stop using the euphemism “women’s rights activist” for ardent transphobe?
Lib Dems announce 5 peers including ex-MP Sarah Teather, Tories announce 3 including Olympic swimmer/ women's rights activist Sharon Davies, historian Simon Heffer and former cabinet minister John Redwood. Reform UK don't get any.
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Can we stop using the euphemism “women’s rights activist” for ardent transphobe?
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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the great gatsby is one of the most widely assigned books in america and yet apparently literally nobody understands it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the great gatsby is one of the most widely assigned books in america and yet apparently literally nobody understands it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I just think the Observer wouldn't fly someone to the US to interview a massive racist about the psychological toll of being a famous racist
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I just think the Observer wouldn't fly someone to the US to interview a massive racist about the psychological toll of being a famous racist
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I know it is just the law and all that , but it still jars to see ‘Graham Linehan cleared of harassment’ when I think of just how much he has harassed (and spread lies about) friends of mine and never been shy of bothering me either .
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I know it is just the law and all that , but it still jars to see ‘Graham Linehan cleared of harassment’ when I think of just how much he has harassed (and spread lies about) friends of mine and never been shy of bothering me either .