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Celestial M Weasel

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I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die Vaporise the BBC Starmer must go Criminalise bike theft

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · Mar 17

I know it is a small thing in the scheme of things, but the thing that grates is that this (gestures expansively) demonstrates that every pious word we have read from Americans about their glorious constitution, free and fearless press, separation of powers, free speech, checks and balances has

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 50m

It's *weird" how many people you hear of doing law conversion courses then not being able to find a firm to do the qualifying work experience

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · 52m

All university researchers around the country are having to deal with new procedures around the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme yet foreign fascists are given free rein to pollute our public space. What a joke of a country. Zero dignity.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1h

🔴 ‘America Must Save Britain’: MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News’ New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump. ✍️ @bylinetimes.bsky.social

'America Must Save Britain': MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News' New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK need...

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

The good timeline.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 23h

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 1h

Genuine quote said to me about 20 years ago by someone who visited central Leicester
“who do they think they are coming over here and driving Mercedes”

Person who said it was a lazy arsehole.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1h

🎶it's the end of the Tories as we know it
And I feel shite

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1h

Banged newsletter out a couple of hours early because I'm busy all afternoon and don't want to be overtaken by Events.

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

…but with a whimper

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1h

I endorse this policy

Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 1h

I genuinely think someone should bring back Friends Reunited. No AI slop, no algorighmic engagement-bait, just 24/7 1980s school nostalgia.

Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1h

Funnily enough I said the same thing earlier this week

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 8h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 7h

As Prof Portes implies - I am old enough to remember when offshoring jobs was seen as a bad thing.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 7h

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1h

My most liberal policy is quarantine for Non-Doms

Every time a tax exile arrives back in the UK they have to spend a week in quarantine.

In a cage

In a warehouse in Hillingdon.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1h

Do Widzenia, Pet

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, we need this. I also want to particularly know, who designed them, who made them, who gave it this weird sinister name. Was there any pedagogical theory behind it? Is there some "how to use the apparatus" text book lurking somewhere?
Eg the Lady Mabel College of Physical Education

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3h

Perhaps not the main point but I always hate it when people view it as a sign of failure when poorer countries grow faster. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason why Poland should have lower income than the UK or any other EU country forever, and that means it will have to grow faster sometimes

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 2h

Hear hear

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2h

I wanted to seek you out specifically to tell you to go fuck yourself.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 1d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 2h

Boooooooooo

C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 2h

💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire - BDP, 1963-67
Image © David Noton

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 2h

“Our companies need access to all the things right now to avoid bankruptcy, I’m afraid ‘complying with the law’ is completely out of the question. What, do you want CHINA to win? Anyway on the plus side if everything goes to plan it’ll destroy your livelihood LOL.”
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 2h

This. The Tories, Reform UK Ltd & even Labour hate the actually-existing British economy, whose comparative advantage lies in higher education & the creative industries.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2h

I can’t believe we have the same people on both jobs. It’s a failure of planning if anything.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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