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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 5h

Been a fan since seeing a mash-up feature of the first serial as a kid. For me, you're absolutely nailing the characters, both in terms of writing and art. Not nostalgia, more like getting back together with old friends.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely!

Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 1d

I think this model may be partly down to the fact that, for a lot of the media and political classes, all the 'lefties' they knew at public school, Oxbridge and ever after were middle class, so . .

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 2d

Superb collection!

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 2d

An absolute classic!

Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 2d

Could be the best on-screen rendering of Lovecraft. The use of a silent format to adapt a not-immediately cinematic text was a masterstroke.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 3d

Recent reading: fascinating book about an amazing photographer, writer and fearless antifascist activist. In-depth and lavishly illustrated.

Photo of the book "Exist Otherwise: The Life and Work of Claude Cahun by Jennifer L. Shaw"

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 3d

Moxon's clear thinking and writing is one of the things that's helping me keep a hold on my sanity at the moment.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 3d

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 7d

Truth!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

this is how it feels to wear high rise pants

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 9d

Literally everyone I know with indefinite leave to remain is either in the NHS or education - so I’m not sure how they can prove they’ve contributed more to society than they’ve always done. They’ve certainly done more than any no mark Labour politician whose sat on their lazy arse their entire life

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 9d

I've been watching an excellent Italian TV drama on the rise of Mussolini, and it's hard not to see parallels everywhere. Only Farage can control his followers? Are they really telling themselves that?

Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 9d

The linked document is apparently being circulated in the UK Labour party ahead of their annual conference. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so horrifying.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 9d

This 'anonymous memo' has Glassman and Walney's fingerprints all over it and is laden with swivel-eyed conspiracism and paranoiac blade-sharpening. If this is what passes for political insight in the Labour Party, they are beyond saving.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 9d

Society is not a savings account. This isn't how anything works, it isn't how anything can work. It's a meaningless bunch of guff designed to appeal to a certain resentful old demographic of racist pensioners.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9d

Rachel Reeves: "We do need a welfare system that is based on the principle of contribution"

What happened to a welfare system based on the principle of need? Or the principle of universalism?

Haven't contributed for whatever reason? Tough.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 9d

First sight of this, and it's so much worse than I could have imagined. All kinds of briefcase craziness to pick from, but Schrödinger's middle class is quite something: wedded to both globalist neo liberalism and bureaucratic socialism at the same time.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 10d

Sign me up for a book too. Love what you're doing with Flash and the gang, great on so many levels!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 10d

Kinda aghast at this, even in these times.

Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 11d

Same thing will happen - is happening - with global warming.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 11d

This seems quite a crucial insight in understanding politics as it is currently practiced: the belief that "real politics would eventually happen elsewhere."

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11d

This is what I was getting at in the post below, and the broader thread (linked). The incoherence of liberal politics and western governments’ stances on Gaza are borne from the same problem; a belief that economics could supersede and negate the political.

Thread:
bsky.app/profile/greg...

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk
Both in the halls of power and corridors of the media, these people all played along, repeating their incantations and sacred chants, in the same way as they do when they defer decisionism to Economy, because they desperately wanted to believe that real politics would eventually happen 'elsewhere'.
30 August 2025 at 18:17

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 11d

Of course, there’s a grander geopolitical strategy at play wrt the West’s support for Israel (see Merz’s recent remarks about Israel doing ‘the dirty work’ for all of them), but on individual levels, these people are just repeating an incantation that’s been hammered into them as the price of entry.

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 12d

‘At the Appointed Hour’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 19d

The Number 6 One Stop Shop is an vital service for people with autism in Edinburgh. Please sign and share the petition to keep it open. chng.it/L8d6zFyBqH

Sign the Petition

Save Number 6 One Stop Shop- Tell City of Edinburgh Council No funding cuts

chng.it

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 19d

‘Gardens of Lichen and Verdigris’ (Collage 9/25, Doug Campbell)

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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 20d

Well now, this is interesting. Could it be that it was the golf course and not the aeroplanes?

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20d

Did Donald Trump order Keir Starmer to ban Palestine Action?

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/did-trump-...

Did Trump order Starmer to ban Palestine Action?

The questions are mounting.

www.owenjones.news

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