BrnyCk
@firesforhire.bsky.social
Analyst, kayaker, games designer.
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The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even).
Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
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Gender-affirming care.
If you’re watching TV and wondering if some D.C. figure has a jawline that’s newly strong and square … well, you might be right.
Inside the plastic surgery procedure booming among Washington men 👇
Inside the plastic surgery procedure booming among Washington men 👇
The Plastic Surgery Procedure Booming Among Washington Men
Chiseled jawlines are in everywhere, but in Washington, D.C., people have even more reasons to go under the knife (or at least the needle).
www.politico.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Gender-affirming care.
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So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
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I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: We are talking about Kneecap while more than 50,000 Palestinians have died
Punk and hip-hop bands have been singing about killing queens and presidents for decades
www.irishexaminer.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
@therestpolitics.bsky.social to what extent do you think the suez crisis is a useful historical analogy for the current tarrif crisis?
April 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@therestpolitics.bsky.social to what extent do you think the suez crisis is a useful historical analogy for the current tarrif crisis?
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It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
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This.
As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician.
Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them.
My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...
As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician.
Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them.
My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...
No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
March 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This.
As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician.
Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them.
My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...
As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician.
Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them.
My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...
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1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
December 23, 2024 at 1:52 PM
1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
Watching black doves. Enjoying it, but sometimes a little far fetched... Like a DWP Christmas party?? With music and a free bar???
December 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Watching black doves. Enjoying it, but sometimes a little far fetched... Like a DWP Christmas party?? With music and a free bar???
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I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.
December 2, 2024 at 8:18 AM
I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.
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It would have been a dramatic assertion of power by the President-elect if Senators felt they had to approve such an egregiously controversial and unsuitable appointment as Gaetz as Attorney-General
But is it not at least a tactical mistake to try and to fail, demonstrating limits of his power?
But is it not at least a tactical mistake to try and to fail, demonstrating limits of his power?
November 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
It would have been a dramatic assertion of power by the President-elect if Senators felt they had to approve such an egregiously controversial and unsuitable appointment as Gaetz as Attorney-General
But is it not at least a tactical mistake to try and to fail, demonstrating limits of his power?
But is it not at least a tactical mistake to try and to fail, demonstrating limits of his power?
Turns out I am one of just three monthly listeners to Mr elimnator and the deadly vipers, an excellent but almost unknown surf rock band. I wonder who the other two people are? open.spotify.com/track/6pSOok...
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Turns out I am one of just three monthly listeners to Mr elimnator and the deadly vipers, an excellent but almost unknown surf rock band. I wonder who the other two people are? open.spotify.com/track/6pSOok...
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Ya'll here's my view as someone who gets called an "expert" on disinformation and right-wing politics. You don't need to worry about your bubble or an echo chamber. You already know how MAGA-aligned folks see the world. You don't have to engage with people who want to cause you harm.
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Ya'll here's my view as someone who gets called an "expert" on disinformation and right-wing politics. You don't need to worry about your bubble or an echo chamber. You already know how MAGA-aligned folks see the world. You don't have to engage with people who want to cause you harm.
@nationaltrust.bsky.social what's the record for number of people in the hollow tree at croome? #GrandDaysOut
November 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
@nationaltrust.bsky.social what's the record for number of people in the hollow tree at croome? #GrandDaysOut
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SitRep - 15/11/24 - Our first one on BlueSky
Hello to all new followers 💙💛
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attacks in Kursk are continuing while German Chancellor Scholz spoke with Putin, asking him to stop attacks.
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Hello to all new followers 💙💛
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attacks in Kursk are continuing while German Chancellor Scholz spoke with Putin, asking him to stop attacks.
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November 15, 2024 at 8:47 PM
SitRep - 15/11/24 - Our first one on BlueSky
Hello to all new followers 💙💛
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attacks in Kursk are continuing while German Chancellor Scholz spoke with Putin, asking him to stop attacks.
REPOST=appreciated
1/X
Hello to all new followers 💙💛
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attacks in Kursk are continuing while German Chancellor Scholz spoke with Putin, asking him to stop attacks.
REPOST=appreciated
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Seems like a pretty good time to increase support for Ukraine
“About around half of all artillery shells used by Russia in Ukraine are from North Korean stocks… Russia is losing around 320 tank and artillery cannon barrels a month and producing only 20… Russia looks set to run out of cannon barrels some time in 2025.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/r...
Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits
Key weapons are running out as Moscow tries to mobilize ever more labor and resources.
foreignpolicy.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Seems like a pretty good time to increase support for Ukraine
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£1.4 billion in a single year. There ought to be an inquiry into how the whole debacle was allowed to happen. Except it would just increase the costs. Absolutely astonishing waste of public funds.
The OBR say that £1.4bn will be saved in 2025-26 as a result of scrapping the Rwanda Plan and processing asylum claims again.
October 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
£1.4 billion in a single year. There ought to be an inquiry into how the whole debacle was allowed to happen. Except it would just increase the costs. Absolutely astonishing waste of public funds.
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Absolutely appalling reporting by the BBC. A confirmed neo-nazi travelled miles with the deliberate intention of murdering an innocent person, purely based on them seeking safety. In no world is that a "protest". Just shelve the "legitimate concerns" bs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man stabbed asylum seeker in 'small boats protest'
Callum Parslow is found guilty of attempted murder over the attack in April.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Absolutely appalling reporting by the BBC. A confirmed neo-nazi travelled miles with the deliberate intention of murdering an innocent person, purely based on them seeking safety. In no world is that a "protest". Just shelve the "legitimate concerns" bs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cabinet Office: "we should recruit a deputy director to fix this. What was the question?"
October 22, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Cabinet Office: "we should recruit a deputy director to fix this. What was the question?"
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In honor of National Poetry Day, one of the all time classics.
October 3, 2024 at 2:41 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, one of the all time classics.
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So long, no thanks to all the fash
My review (from a legal angle) of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by @kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/09/so-l...
My review (from a legal angle) of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by @kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/09/so-l...
So long, no thanks to all the fash: review of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : mikemacmarketing, image via vpnsrus Full disclosure fi...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
September 27, 2024 at 10:33 AM
So long, no thanks to all the fash
My review (from a legal angle) of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by @kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/09/so-l...
My review (from a legal angle) of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by @kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/09/so-l...
@gregjenner.bsky.social hey! welcome over! Glad you're here!
September 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
@gregjenner.bsky.social hey! welcome over! Glad you're here!
@wolfskulljack.bsky.social love the work. I'd pay good cash money for tea demon artwork actually on a mug
September 4, 2024 at 7:02 PM
@wolfskulljack.bsky.social love the work. I'd pay good cash money for tea demon artwork actually on a mug
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The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.
Academic writing thought:
That it was hard for YOU to figure something out does not mean you should make it hard for the READER to get it
Explain as simply & clearly as you can
You do not need to take the reader through your lengthy journey to clarity
Work that took months may end up a footnote
That it was hard for YOU to figure something out does not mean you should make it hard for the READER to get it
Explain as simply & clearly as you can
You do not need to take the reader through your lengthy journey to clarity
Work that took months may end up a footnote
September 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.