Sailesh
@saileshpatel.bsky.social
Builds websites, consumes far too much media (TV, films, & podcasts), has many opinions about anything & everything.
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One for all those High Speed Rail enthusiasts living between Birmingham and Manchester
(We can have hope that the 2nd leg of HS2 will return someday)
(We can have hope that the 2nd leg of HS2 will return someday)
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This is so cruel but I wouldn't expect anything less from that particular movement at this point
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is so cruel but I wouldn't expect anything less from that particular movement at this point
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I'm all for empathy & understanding of the awkward position organisations have been put in by the Supreme Court but I don't agree that Girl Guides had to ban Trans girls right now. Surely they could do what most are doing; say they're waiting for the EHRC Code of Conduct to confirmed by Parliament?
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I'm all for empathy & understanding of the awkward position organisations have been put in by the Supreme Court but I don't agree that Girl Guides had to ban Trans girls right now. Surely they could do what most are doing; say they're waiting for the EHRC Code of Conduct to confirmed by Parliament?
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for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
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She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil.
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using her song ‘Juno’ for a pro-ICE video:
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
“this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil.
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that
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‘What’s Keir Starmer really like?’ Mate, none of us know, that’s kind of the issue here
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
‘What’s Keir Starmer really like?’ Mate, none of us know, that’s kind of the issue here
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Delighted so many people are enjoying my chat with @nojusticemtg.bsky.social
We talk economy, nationalisation and how to stop the right.
👇🏼
youtu.be/13t3hziAd5w?...
We talk economy, nationalisation and how to stop the right.
👇🏼
youtu.be/13t3hziAd5w?...
How Can The Left Be Louder Than The Right? | @NoJusticeMTG | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Delighted so many people are enjoying my chat with @nojusticemtg.bsky.social
We talk economy, nationalisation and how to stop the right.
👇🏼
youtu.be/13t3hziAd5w?...
We talk economy, nationalisation and how to stop the right.
👇🏼
youtu.be/13t3hziAd5w?...
Finally, someone else who acknowledges Sabrina Carpenter’s pre-2020 discography (still listening to On My Way) and how she’s not new to the game (she just has actual artistic control now & is good at it)
The "feminist" discourse around Sabrina Carpenter
YouTube video by Medusone: Deluxe Edition
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December 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Finally, someone else who acknowledges Sabrina Carpenter’s pre-2020 discography (still listening to On My Way) and how she’s not new to the game (she just has actual artistic control now & is good at it)
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[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
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This is true of basically every trad wife you’ve heard of. They are not trad wives. They reap the benefits that feminism has won for them and then they grift off pretending to be trad. Women who actually follow their supposed ideals suffer in silence
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is true of basically every trad wife you’ve heard of. They are not trad wives. They reap the benefits that feminism has won for them and then they grift off pretending to be trad. Women who actually follow their supposed ideals suffer in silence
stop the scams
just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
stop the scams
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Shame is the underrated, old skool emotion of the 21st century. When we don't feel it anymore, social restraint and social order fall apart.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Shame is the underrated, old skool emotion of the 21st century. When we don't feel it anymore, social restraint and social order fall apart.
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New desperate housewives OlurinattiPOP video out now! youtu.be/SCSI8L8iKfc?...
Why Bree & Lynette’s Friendship was a Cautionary Tale | Desperate Housewives
YouTube video by OlurinattiPOP!
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November 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
New desperate housewives OlurinattiPOP video out now! youtu.be/SCSI8L8iKfc?...
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
If someone showed me this essay without telling me the age or education level of the author, I would have assumed a 7th grader (or Year 8 in UK) wrote this.
Disjointed, disorganised, and at times incoherent. The marker (whose response is in the thread) is far more graceful than the essay deserves.
Disjointed, disorganised, and at times incoherent. The marker (whose response is in the thread) is far more graceful than the essay deserves.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If someone showed me this essay without telling me the age or education level of the author, I would have assumed a 7th grader (or Year 8 in UK) wrote this.
Disjointed, disorganised, and at times incoherent. The marker (whose response is in the thread) is far more graceful than the essay deserves.
Disjointed, disorganised, and at times incoherent. The marker (whose response is in the thread) is far more graceful than the essay deserves.
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Kind of amazing in hindsight how Nancy Pelosi got a bunch of Democrats from rural areas to lose their careers to pass the Affordable Care Act.
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Kind of amazing in hindsight how Nancy Pelosi got a bunch of Democrats from rural areas to lose their careers to pass the Affordable Care Act.
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
September 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
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Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
Parliament Act of 1911 to override any veto from the Lords. It’s a manifesto pledge that should be kept
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Parliament Act of 1911 to override any veto from the Lords. It’s a manifesto pledge that should be kept
Credit where credit’s due - good job from Rachel Reeves, scrapping the two-child welfare cap
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Credit where credit’s due - good job from Rachel Reeves, scrapping the two-child welfare cap
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This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
It adds to my theory that people just want an underclass of people (usually marginalised folk like ethnic minorities LGBT people, or disabled people) to make themselves feel better about themselves
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It adds to my theory that people just want an underclass of people (usually marginalised folk like ethnic minorities LGBT people, or disabled people) to make themselves feel better about themselves
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
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Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
What happened to budget purdah?
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What happened to budget purdah?