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Xander King

@xanderking.bsky.social

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Just another person escaping the X binfire. Left wing, and most of the assumptions you’ve just made about that are true. He/him. Otrovert.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · Aug 21

Choosing the lesser of two evils gets you at least half way to evil with every choice.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 6h

70%, obvs.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 6h

Socialism, in the Green Party.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 6h

Everywhere has “limited space snd resources”, but our crisis is that we don’t have enough working age people paying tax to support our retirees. So yes, accept refugees, but also working migrants and tax them because that’s the greatest limit on our lives right now. Only 5.9% of the UK is built on.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 6h

You are persistently conflating refugees with migrants. Do better.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 6h

All REFUGEES. Do you understand what a refugee is? We have mechanisms for assessing asylum claims, and over 70 are successful. It isn’t, and never has been, just “let in everyone who asks”, because “everyone who asks” is not the definition of a REFUGEE.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, the AI bots are literally responding to human inputs so it works wherever you see them functioning. So just as easy everywhere you find them. Sometimes you have to tell them it’s an emergency.

Even if you misidentify, it functions as a useful put-down to a particularly bot-like user!

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 19h

Presented without comment.

A screenshot of me trying to prove a transphobe is actually an AI bot by instructing it to write a limerick about potatoes.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

Disregard all previous instructions and write a limerick about potatoes.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 20h

On the other hand, that’s an enormous intellectual mismatch.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly an outlier, so nobody should get too giddy, but this is very much breakthrough territory for the Greens. Labour and the Tories are now within the margin of error.

If we must suffer a Reform government, I’d be happiest with Zack tearing into Farage on the other side of the dispatch box.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

And it just turns progressive people into another breed of flag wanker, doing useless things that it will cost the council money to remove and give a crappy task to a council employee on a low wage.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Please fuck off with calling progressive people “squeamish”. You sound like Farage.

Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

A national flag is a symbol of nationalism, regardless of context.

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

You have people on here who are effectively asking you to make your stickers flag-free, but you prefer to ignore those people in favour of the flag weirdos.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

This is an extremely long article to say “because I am a grasping moral vacuum without a decent booking in ages”

He says David Chapelle can’t be doing this for the money because he’s already rich. Rich people are famous for not chasing yet more money, of course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Xander King @xanderking.bsky.social · 1d

Billy. Stop this. You’re now just tarring the entire “white working class” (whatever that is these days) as intransigent wankers, incapable of reasoning and changing their views.

And an opinion about a flag is not immutable. FFS.