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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 6h

I am begging people to stop using "black hole" which no one understands and is at best misleading

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 9h

Heseltine us now to the left of every mainstream party but the Greens through nothing more than staying still.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch strikes me as the kind of person willing to say racist shit to advance her career. Robert Jenrick strikes me as someone with true racist convictions.

Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at the Tory collapse and thinking back to when Liz Truss got elected and everyone immediately imagined that they'd made a huge mistake in not picking Kemi Badenoch.

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta love Frank Sobotka

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 2d

The whole "Is AI alive" stuff is basically just PR bullshit designed to sell the product.

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 2d

Counterpoint: No

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 3d

But the scientist, who works for one of the megacorps that make this stuff made an off hand comment in the conclusion of his paper.

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Aya 🎃 @melangell.bsky.social · 3d

Not seeing much about this.

As of now, no one knows what has become of Greg Stoker, a US veteran who boarded the flotilla. This is deeply disturbing.

Amplify this case through your networks, and insist on a full accounting: Where is Greg? What is his status?

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 3d

The consensus across the political-media class is fascism is the answer to facsism. What is being disputed is which briefcases will be the ones imposing it: Reform briefcases, Tory briefcases, or Labour briefcases

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 5d

Given the recent choices over who the mods have banned and who they haven't. This is pretty fucking insulting.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s take our daily moment to hate her.

Margaret Thatcher sat in a wooden chair in the 1980s wearing an all blue suit twin set and pearls looking smug

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 5d

Surely any big infrastructure project, for example Elizabeth Line, initial discussions 2001, approved in 2007, work started in 2009,opened 2022.

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 5d

I am so happy he said this

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 6d

But if less is more, imagine how much more more would be

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 7d

Name a Quote from a TV Show.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 6d

Israel using water cannons more than 100km into international waters against aid bringers as our Labour government declares it will forever stand aside along Israel. The world's first good genocide must simply, sensibly, moderately, statesmanlikely go on. Anglophone liberal democracy demands it.

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 7d

Didn't DonAir already try this and go out of business?

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 7d

Flying electric taxis will be travelling between Oxford and Cambridge next year. A six-month pilot project (geddit) aims to prepare the infrastructure and develop a business case as a first step towards “commercially viable regional operations”.

Flying taxi over English countryside somewhere

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 8d

Feel that even if the government were to sensibly do some fiscal stimulus, years of privatisation have rotted stuff so much that the stimulus would leak like a sieve.

Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 8d

Shabana Mahmood just gives off massive wrong un energy.

Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 9d

Suspect that this announcement is actually quite a conservative estimate. Wouldn't be surprised if China manages far more than 10%

Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 11d

China announces up to 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/26/c...

China announces up to 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 : Peoples Dispatch

While implementing climate obligations, fairness and equity must be maintained and the right of the developing countries to develop must be respected, President Xi Jinping said during the UN climate s...

peoplesdispatch.org

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty certain that in elite US circles the idea of Zohran Mamdani being bad doesn't need to be stated, it's taken as a given. Same thing for Corbyn here in the UK.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9d

Post’s new opinions editor explains how they support Republicans and Democrats at different points … with interesting examples

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 9d

I'm not really surprised Labour members prefer the guy who doesn't openly despise them.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 9d

Almost two in three Labour members back Burnham over Starmer for leader, poll show

Andy Burnham would beat Sir Keir Starmer among Labour members by two to one if there were a leadership contest today, an exclusive poll for Sky News reveals.

news.sky.com

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Booojuj @jujoe.bsky.social · 9d

60% of all intel flights have been carried out by the fucking UK. She's a cunt, I hate these people soo much

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Death Yak @spaceyak.bsky.social · 9d

Back in my Labour days, I remember an organiser telling me stuff like "The Greens want to legalise cannabis" as an argument against them, so many of their ant-Green attack lines just made them sound like Tories.

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 9d

Bella Sankey, the leader of Brighton and Hove Council, has urged Labour members to “get over” their “squeamishness” over attacking the Green Party.

labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

Labour must ‘get over squeamishness’ about attacking Greens – council leader – LabourList

Labour members need to "get over" their "squeamishness" about attacking the Green Party, Bella Sankey, the leader of Brighton and Hove Council, has urged, warning…

labourlist.org

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10d

I would suggest that if Morgan had spent that secret £750,000 on a camper van, it would’ve been massively less damaging to democracy itself and we might not now be on the precipice of fascism, because our political system is a sick and insulting joke and an idiotic conspiracy against the public

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