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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 1d

i've spent my entire adult life, with a 4 year exception, with choices of political parties that range from bad to worse for my own self-interest. and i'm hardly at the sharper end of british society!

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 1d

becoming a landlord makes you, if you weren't already, a massive authoritarian baby who wails on the ground clutching your leg whenever someone suggests that maybe landlords have been living a bit high on the hog

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 1d

seeing landlords whining about the green party committment to the abolition of them is so stupid. every single other party is a party for fucking landlords! liberal democracy, supposedly, reflects the views of the public. but fuck that i'm a landlord so i demand a total lock on every avenue of life

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 2d

what social media has been missing all these long years is the role of the IK

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 2d

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜

Seeing how the transphobe charter is now running one of the biggest newsrooms left in America, we invite you to brush up with this old episode we did on Bari Weiss with @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

E190 - Weiss Pride www.podbean.com/ea/pb-4zzbs-...

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 3d

if wesley thinks i'm going to be defeated by a jpeg he's got another thing coming

image of a soft drink dispenser with a note that reads "want coca-cola classic? it's one glass only. based on new government laws, we've had to limit coca-cola classic to one glass per customer. still thirsty? help yourself to our low-sugar fizzy bottomless soft drinks"

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 5d

I wish lmao

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 5d

Transphobe also, surprise surprise

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 5d

I know you’re joking but he was an ableist, racist sack of shit and I’m glad he’s dead

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 5d

Fuck off

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

This reminds that I had intended to compose a new, much more appropriate national anthem and call it “Welcome To Britain (Toilets Are For Paying Customers Only)”

Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Community Episode Alert 🚨

Hello there, local citizen of [INSERT TOWN]! Are you filled with pride in your locale? How's the high street? Boarded up and full of betting shops?

Don't worry, Pride in Place is here. It's NOT levelling up! DON'T EVEN THINK IT.

www.podbean.com/ea/pb-jhsdx-...

E372 - Pish in Place

This week, Rob introduces us to whichever numbered relaunch's flagship Labour policy the Pride in Place scheme is, which is DEFINITELY a brand new idea which has never been tried before and CANNOT be ...

www.podbean.com

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 5d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Community Episode Alert 🚨

Hello there, local citizen of [INSERT TOWN]! Are you filled with pride in your locale? How's the high street? Boarded up and full of betting shops?

Don't worry, Pride in Place is here. It's NOT levelling up! DON'T EVEN THINK IT.

www.podbean.com/ea/pb-jhsdx-...

E372 - Pish in Place

This week, Rob introduces us to whichever numbered relaunch's flagship Labour policy the Pride in Place scheme is, which is DEFINITELY a brand new idea which has never been tried before and CANNOT be ...

www.podbean.com

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r/keirstarmerchaphop @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social · 6d

Until we nationalise the buses we’ll never know if it could prevent this from happening

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d

A busy Glasgow road has been locked down amid an ongoing incident

Glasgow road locked down amid ongoing incident

www.thenational.scot

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 8d

my football-knower mate said it was quite common. 15 years ago. lol, lmao

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 8d

this is just a flippant retort that hasn't engaged with my substantive point

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 8d

i am sorry to be the one to have to tell you that political power grows from the barrel of a gun. if you do not use force to defend yourself from capital, then capital will gut you, your government, and then your country

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 9d

chelmsford? *chelmsford*?!

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unethusiasm enthusiast @ballistari.bsky.social · 9d

ok, hear me out

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 9d

"Power not protest" is a truly fatuous formulation. Would you rather be MLK or Trump? Gandhi or Stalin?

These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9d

Protestor interrupts Rachel Reeve's speech

"We understand your cause and we are recognising a Palestinian state"

Reeves then mentions some of the things she's achieved and says, "That is the difference we make in power, not through protest"

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r/keirstarmerchaphop @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social · 10d

Praxiscast goes to the places journalists are afraid to (dividing one number by another)

Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 10d

"A library in every school" may conjure up a library, but (as usual): £132.5mln / 1700 primaries = ~78k per school. A starting school librarian earns ~£21k a year, and you haven't (re)built a space or bought books or an inventory system.

So not a library then, just some shelving and books.

From the Guardian:

Rachel Reeves will deliver a library in every primary school in England as part of Labour’s plans to give all children the best start in life regardless of their background.

The scheme, which will create libraries in the 1,700 primaries currently without them, will be funded from £132.5m of dormant assets that will be unlocked to give young people access to cultural opportunities.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 10d

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