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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 9h

Many thousands of people will have both fought in World War Two and known about Shrek

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 7d

'You think you're right about everything,' has always been one of the strangest criticisms. Definitionally, we all think our own opinions are correct.

(Sarah Vine is potentially one of the most insufferably entitled people on earth)

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7d

"Emma Watson’s so typical of the entitled generation who think they’re right about everything – like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day" Sarah Vine, Mail

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 7d

I stopped after losing my mobile & realising if it'd been stolen, the thief had both my phone & effectively bank card (no biometrics needed for Google Pay). Contactless in general still feels a strange 'advance' - we gave up all the protection of a pin for something only v slightly more convenient?

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 7d

Walking into the gym like hello it's me again, the most injured man in town

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 7d

Both good guesses but this time I meant every building in Leeds Uni!

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 8d

It is an incredibly good bit to build your entire university campus on a big hill then connect the different buildings together in such a way that the floor you are nominally on bears no obvious relation to the amount of flights of stairs you climbed to get there

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 10d

6 years ago today. Look at that happy wee face ❤️

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes wish I'd studied maths so I would know all the numbers. 4. 17. 108. And so many more.

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 11d

Going pretty well so far I think

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 11d

Preparing to be more furious than I have ever been before

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 11d

Coincidentally?!?!?!?!

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 11d

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised

Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Is Britain far right?

Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.

www.bigissue.com

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 13d

I do not know who this man is or why he feels qualified to comment on what would be 'authentic' coming from me🫠

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 13d

Lads, I've decided to migrate from the other place, and lads, here is a good example of why.

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 22d

Willy Wonka when the children are on their way to the chocolate factory

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 23d

The Oxford Union president story has all the ingredients you need to do mad numbers among the UK commentariat, by which I mean it lets them defend a far-right grifter and, crucially, is happening in Oxbridge.

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 24d

Think it's really nice how ikea include differently shaped screws to make it more fun :)

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 24d

Seeing commentators claiming not everyone on the Tommy Robinson march was racist. I'm not even convinced of that, but let's allow it - they are *all* choosing to value their idea of what the UK should be over the safety/wellbeing of the racialised people Robinson targets.

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 25d

Various flight delays making me increasingly furious as the day goes on. Feel like it's probably visible from my facial expression but also must be impossible to take seriously when for some reason I chose to travel in my 'i eat cement' t-shirt

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 28d

🚨🚨🚨 NEW IDEA OF WATER JUST DROPPED 🚨🚨🚨

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · Sep 7

Adjusting to a new reality in which Doncaster is a place I need to think about sometimes

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Once again a barista gets my name wrong!

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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Haven't made any effort at all to follow the Angela Rayner story, but still some really nice schadenfreude when you see someone who sold out any principles they may once have had to cozy up to people who were always going to hate them regardless get ratfucked.

Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'd been wondering which of the UK commentariat would be first to go down the ecofascist route. Should, of course, have realised it'd be Goodwin.

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