Hector Skill #FBPE
@hector-skill.bsky.social
Sound addict needing daily fix of Jazz. If it involves Railways or History or both together, you have my attention.... if it's European History it's OURS too
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We have to face the fact that “He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him” would be an effective electoral strategy in the United States
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
We have to face the fact that “He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him” would be an effective electoral strategy in the United States
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He really should have picked something else to compare it to.
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
He really should have picked something else to compare it to.
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
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You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
December 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
You don't know what day it is.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
You're eating countless meals a day with lots of snacks in between.
You're napping throughout they day.
Either it's the time between Christmas and New Year or you're a cat.
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The trump regime is at the stage where it is happier for you to talk about its treason as it stops you talking about its pedophillia.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The trump regime is at the stage where it is happier for you to talk about its treason as it stops you talking about its pedophillia.
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Spot the difference: How we thought AI would destroy us v how it will actually destroy us….
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Spot the difference: How we thought AI would destroy us v how it will actually destroy us….
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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At the Budget, the Chancellor just announced 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres...
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
At the Budget, the Chancellor just announced 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres...
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
... but didn't mention their decision to use private finance to fund them 🧐
Why? Are they ashamed of their plan to resurrect the corpse of PFI in our NHS? They should be. #AutumnBudget
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Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for"
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
The truth about what 14 years of CUTS looks like
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alarmed to hear Rachel Reeves talking about "selling government assets we no longer have any use for"
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
Look at everything that's been stolen from YOU since 2010 👇👇👇
*We need MORE publicly owned assets not fewer* to "break the cycle of austerity" #Budget2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN4...
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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Just yesterday, when covering a story regarding sugar in milkshake drinks, the BBC platformed the Institute of Economic Affairs, unsurprisingly without asking who funds them.
It's absolutely woeful journalism.
It's absolutely woeful journalism.
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Just yesterday, when covering a story regarding sugar in milkshake drinks, the BBC platformed the Institute of Economic Affairs, unsurprisingly without asking who funds them.
It's absolutely woeful journalism.
It's absolutely woeful journalism.
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What an absolute cunt. He should be hounded by the British media to answer questions on why he encouraged businesses to vote for Brexit. But then, they won’t hound him because we generally have a corrupt media.
🍺 JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape.
https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html
https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape...
m.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What an absolute cunt. He should be hounded by the British media to answer questions on why he encouraged businesses to vote for Brexit. But then, they won’t hound him because we generally have a corrupt media.
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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This is really very good not least because, apart from its specific proposals, it actually articulates a coherent economic *strategy* - something which the UK hasn't had for a long time.
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This is really very good not least because, apart from its specific proposals, it actually articulates a coherent economic *strategy* - something which the UK hasn't had for a long time.
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A machine built to eat people will eat people.
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A machine built to eat people will eat people.
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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It's almost as if every new Home Secretary feels compelled to prove they can be nastier than their predecessor, regardless of their political affiliations.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
#notinmyname
Makes me sick to my stomach.
#notinmyname
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It's almost as if every new Home Secretary feels compelled to prove they can be nastier than their predecessor, regardless of their political affiliations.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
#notinmyname
Makes me sick to my stomach.
#notinmyname
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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BREAKING: Scorpion Bites Frog Immediately and Repeatedly
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
BREAKING: Scorpion Bites Frog Immediately and Repeatedly
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One of the reasons we see Farage on TV all the time is that he deliberately courts the media by holding press conferences.
A 24H news cycle is a lot of dead air so they leap at the chance to fill an hour or two. (And then clips get chopped up and repackaged on the news.)
Labour aren't as obliging.
A 24H news cycle is a lot of dead air so they leap at the chance to fill an hour or two. (And then clips get chopped up and repackaged on the news.)
Labour aren't as obliging.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of the reasons we see Farage on TV all the time is that he deliberately courts the media by holding press conferences.
A 24H news cycle is a lot of dead air so they leap at the chance to fill an hour or two. (And then clips get chopped up and repackaged on the news.)
Labour aren't as obliging.
A 24H news cycle is a lot of dead air so they leap at the chance to fill an hour or two. (And then clips get chopped up and repackaged on the news.)
Labour aren't as obliging.
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Sean Duffy: "what this country needs is fewer air traffic controllers, and for those who do show up to work to be demoralized"
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sean Duffy: "what this country needs is fewer air traffic controllers, and for those who do show up to work to be demoralized"
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They gave a predator a puppy.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
They Gave a Predator a Puppy
This is not justice. It’s a lullaby for the monster and a muzzle for the broken.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
They gave a predator a puppy.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.
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YESTERDAY, OUR SHIT-FOR-BRAINS PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID "NO ONE KNOWS WHAT MAGNETS ARE" AND NOT ONE REPORTER REPLIED "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY MAGNIFICENT POST THAT NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. "SIR! THANK YOU FOR WRITING IT, SIR!" LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qUKHt7
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
YESTERDAY, OUR SHIT-FOR-BRAINS PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID "NO ONE KNOWS WHAT MAGNETS ARE" AND NOT ONE REPORTER REPLIED "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY MAGNIFICENT POST THAT NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. "SIR! THANK YOU FOR WRITING IT, SIR!" LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4qUKHt7