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Musician, writer, historian & all-around antisocial girl from Scotland. I love books & music. I love マンガ and アニメ enough that I'm learning Japanese.I also speak English & German. 🏳️‍🌈 Fighting for Scottish Independence daily.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · Jun 22

Listen to Dream_SilentSounds.mp3 by SilentSounds on #SoundCloud
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Dream_SilentSounds.mp3

Post-rock, math-rock, electronic, lo-fi

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 17d

#politics #UK

WTAF?

This is where we are?

After years of austerity & a toxic media environment where asylum seekers - probably fleeing a country Westminster bombed - are "othered" people want the military on the streets

People didn't enlist to assault women & children

The media needs reformed

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 19d

Yesterday Donald Trump told Keir Starmer he should use the military to tackle small boat crossings: 59% of Britons agree with the US president

By party
Reform: 94% say military should be used
Con: 82%
Lab: 46%
Lib Dem: 41%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 17d

#UK #Brexit #politics

And the man who brought this fiscal shitshow and restriction on our right to free movement is now currently saying he's the only one who can save the UK

And people believe his lies

Make it make sense

This man (in my opinion) is a Nazi, a liar and a grifter who profited personally from Brexit while the UK lost around £400billion to date and we lost the right to free movement

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 17d

#politics #UK

Farages UK

We have a minority of people being the loudest and most aggressive

With a media pushing their message

Farage, in my opinion is copying Trump he wants NGOs & liberal/progressive organisations to fear violence from his supporters

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters

At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

www.theguardian.com

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 16d

#Farage #Trump #politics #UK

Trump said he'd deport hardened criminals

He's deporting grandma's & pregnant women

If someone fights back (cos the person trying to take them refuses to identify themselves) they get criminal charge

Please share this & follow for regular political news updates

System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 16d

#Farage #Trump #Politics #UK

I've been screaming this into the void

Farage wants to copy Trump's deportation policies

Which means:

*masked unidentified men disappearing people
*people who've built lives here for 30 yrs (legally) being deported
*army on our streets

youtu.be/OUYczRc8Tbo?...

Farage Plans MASS DEPORTATIONS In New Immigration Policy!

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre

youtu.be

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 20d

#Politics #UK #US

Hi, I'm Emily.

I've started this page to bring together media sources from all over the world, to comment on & share them with you

We're seeing the rise of the Far right in the UK as Trump's gov speed runs the authoritarian playbook

If you like being able to get up to date...

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 18d

#politics #UK #Reform
****MILITARY IN THE****
****STREETS****

This is likely to be repeated & justified more, the closer we are to an election

Calling to use military bases conflates a civil & military issue, it also helps Reform frame migrants as a"threat"

Who's pushing it & problems ⬇️

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 18d

#politics #UK #US

Reform & Tories call for military use in migration enforcement in UK

⬇️is what happens when you conflate military with police, when you have militarised individuals masked, in body armour & heavily armed roaming the streets

This is one reason they want to remove us from the ECHR

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 18d

#Politics #UK #Robinson

Tommy Robinson- "man of the people" 😂

Lke Farage he's a multimillionaire

It's all about the grift

The man who wants no immigration in the UK

Deported x2 in 24hrs

While you struggle to feed your family, he spends his days on holiday

Enjoying the profits of spewing hate

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19d

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 18d

#Politics #UK

Max is spot on here

I will never understand why people say Farage is "authentic"

He's a self-serving liar, like Trump

⬇️ Farage on GB"News" saying if an MP changes party there should be a by-election

He disagrees now, as that wouldn't benefit him

youtu.be/JvOcfnBD8QE?...

Nigel Farage EXPOSED By Nigel Farage As A Charlatan Over Defections!

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre

youtu.be

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System Error Media @systemerrormedia.bsky.social · 18d

#politics #UK

🤔 wasn't this the party that would"save Britain"& bring"DOGE"to our shores? 😂

It was only a few weeks ago that Farage laughed off a question about a Reform mayor giving themselves a 600% raise

MSM isn't covering this

Please share & follow for more news

youtube.com/shorts/DroEE...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 18d

China's screwed then, given they send their shadow fishing fleet around to other countries' exclusive economic zones and just scoop up as much as they can.

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 26d

Ah the "I'm the victim" act from the right.

Trump was looking like he'd had a stroke last night. Just saying.

Is Just Dance Vance prepping a new couch for the oval office?

EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES EPSTEIN FILES

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 26d

Genuinely good guy?

I'd say that's entirely subjective

You all believe in your sky wizard, shouldn't you all be happy?

WHERES THE EPSTEIN FILES?

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 26d

I don't know if you're aware of Turning Point UK, the UK branch of Kirks organisation

This ⬇️ is what they were posting yesterday

Apparently trans people are all hormone crazed murderers

They don't exactly seem to be calling for calm either.

I'm also curious how they got charity status

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 26d

#politics #UK #US

Hi all

My friend has set up an account to comment on and cover UK & US politics

I'd really appreciate if you showed her some love and followed her

@systemerrormedia.bsky.social

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

That's just a few of the examples, not including the riots in England last summer

Farage is doing exactly what the right wing media here and in the US is doing

He's plays the victim

Which helps voters relate to him as Reform voters see themselves as victims

⬇️ is cynical

youtu.be/ImGkYvOqyvc?...

Nigel Farage gives emotional eulogy to Charlie Kirk in Parliament

YouTube video by Daily Express

youtu.be

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

#Reform #Farage #UK #Politics

WTAF did I just watch?

Farage had the audacity to get up in parliament & said people shouldn't engage in incitement & vilification

🤔 does that include trans people, asylum seekers, Muslims & every other group he attacks?

For context this ⬇️ took 2 minutes to compile

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

... anyway, but now they can justify it to their base.

Fox is now calling for mentally ill people to be locked up or executed. Look it up.

That list of "others" keeps getting bigger and bigger

SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

... amendment.

I don't condone political violence

However, Kirk himself has stoked the hate around trans people, immigrants, abortion and on and on

He's been a victim of the hate he spread.

I think this will be the justification used for things the Fascist regime in the US would have done...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

... the left, around this shooting. Which isn't limited to US accounts. UK Farage fanboys are getting in on the action, too.

There was a school shooting yesterday in the US

Going on what he'd said previously on school shootings, Kirk had said death "unfortunately" worth it to keep the 2nd...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

"A moment of terrible danger"

Made worse by Trump himself, without knowing who the shooter was blaming the left

Jesse Waters on Fox saying, "The left are at war with us. How much are we gonna take?"

There has been a concerted effort on right-wing social media to push violent rhetoric towards...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

#Politics #US #UK #Farage

Trans people,immigrants, homeless,& now the mentally ill.

Notice that list of"others"keeps expanding

Farage uses anti trans & anti immigrant rhetoric

Reform politicians have started attacking education & teachers

They are copying the US

You see where this is going?

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 28d

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

... exploiting the death of one of their own cheerleaders for political gain & to get that emotional response from their base

They want them angry

If they're angry, they aren't thinking & can be manipulated more easily

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

... & social media accounts & right-wing newspapers.

Before the killer has been caught, they are already blaming it on the left and using violent rhetoric.

Notice this Tory said nothing like this when a democratic lawmaker, her husband & their dog were killed in June.

This is the right...

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SilentSounds @silentsounds.bsky.social · 27d

This is the rights go to.

They play the victim

The reality is their rhetoric around both trans people & asylum seekers has made the UK less safe for everyone

I've been waiting to see how the far right here would react.

There is a coordinated effort among right-wing media, right-wing youtube...

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