Ash
@volcanic-embers.bsky.social
Sheffield | Labour | Socialist. Probably looking at my phone too much.
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this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
this thread has the most incredible levels of american bluesky I've ever seen. no need to have an opinion on any of it. just sit back and enjoy.
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Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
Unfortunately this is me fr and I feel like this is getting cringier and cringier but it’s my place and my people ! Shan’t be letting anyone take that from me
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Unfortunately this is me fr and I feel like this is getting cringier and cringier but it’s my place and my people ! Shan’t be letting anyone take that from me
Are there any good explanations for why the ‘hard’ left didn’t get on Bluesky? Found myself mildly curious about what was going on at yorp conference and they’re all over talking about it on the bad site and seems like that’s where the discussion still is for those groups.
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Are there any good explanations for why the ‘hard’ left didn’t get on Bluesky? Found myself mildly curious about what was going on at yorp conference and they’re all over talking about it on the bad site and seems like that’s where the discussion still is for those groups.
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
why did “our party” publish their open letter signatures
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
why did “our party” publish their open letter signatures
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PM Lucy Powell reacts to GE2029 exit poll
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
PM Lucy Powell reacts to GE2029 exit poll
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All the usual suspects dismissing the thousands of extra cyclists in London this week as “only because there’s a tube strike”. Oh so suddenly it is in fact possible for many people to change mode when it is made more convenient than the alternatives.
September 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
All the usual suspects dismissing the thousands of extra cyclists in London this week as “only because there’s a tube strike”. Oh so suddenly it is in fact possible for many people to change mode when it is made more convenient than the alternatives.
comparing their outputs thus far you wouldn’t think that Alison McGovern is the candidate that’s currently in the government and Lucy Powell is the one who’s just left it before running
September 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
comparing their outputs thus far you wouldn’t think that Alison McGovern is the candidate that’s currently in the government and Lucy Powell is the one who’s just left it before running
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V good read.
That co-leadership with Lutfur Rahman was even floated, alongside converting Aspire into a national party and flirting with welcoming George Galloway into the tent, tells you all you need to know.
That co-leadership with Lutfur Rahman was even floated, alongside converting Aspire into a national party and flirting with welcoming George Galloway into the tent, tells you all you need to know.
Here’s a characteristically well sourced @siennarodgers.bsky.social feature on the founding of Corbyn’s new party www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Inside The Founding Of Jeremy Corbyn's New Party: 'End This Horrible Power Struggle'
The trials and tribulations of founding a new party on the left. Can they unite? What challenges lie ahead? Sienna Rodgers reports
www.politicshome.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
V good read.
That co-leadership with Lutfur Rahman was even floated, alongside converting Aspire into a national party and flirting with welcoming George Galloway into the tent, tells you all you need to know.
That co-leadership with Lutfur Rahman was even floated, alongside converting Aspire into a national party and flirting with welcoming George Galloway into the tent, tells you all you need to know.
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Also, I’m not inherently against lesser evilism, but it’s really grating to hear the whole “you may not like it, but that’s the system we have” routine when Labour could literally just change the electoral system?
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Also, I’m not inherently against lesser evilism, but it’s really grating to hear the whole “you may not like it, but that’s the system we have” routine when Labour could literally just change the electoral system?
Died on the bus laughing that ofc glasman shows up in this
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
[FREE TO READ] What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Died on the bus laughing that ofc glasman shows up in this
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So much about this story is depressing to me, from the mad understanding of “how the development of racist thought works” from someone who once got this stuff and who should have been allowed a dignified exit, to the way v few official responses even bother to mention racism against GRT people.
July 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So much about this story is depressing to me, from the mad understanding of “how the development of racist thought works” from someone who once got this stuff and who should have been allowed a dignified exit, to the way v few official responses even bother to mention racism against GRT people.
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Amid a lot of, frankly, nonsense about age verification to see erotic content and send DMs on Bluesky, this thread is very good. Not to alarm anyone, but your personal data is frankly only as secure as the least competent person you had to give it to in order to buy or rent the place you live!
I don't object to the principle of age verification, but I do very much object to uploading scans of my passport/my face/card details to some random third party.
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
July 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Amid a lot of, frankly, nonsense about age verification to see erotic content and send DMs on Bluesky, this thread is very good. Not to alarm anyone, but your personal data is frankly only as secure as the least competent person you had to give it to in order to buy or rent the place you live!
Going back in time to get SV implemented for the 2025 mayorals so that someone has to run a campaign to get green and lab voters to put Tory #2 in Greater Lincolnshire
July 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Going back in time to get SV implemented for the 2025 mayorals so that someone has to run a campaign to get green and lab voters to put Tory #2 in Greater Lincolnshire
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please can i come to the party tonight? i promise won't do the spoken word poetry banking advert bit again
(three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.
(three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.
July 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
please can i come to the party tonight? i promise won't do the spoken word poetry banking advert bit again
(three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.
(three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.
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This is surprising because the left has such a good track record of working well together and not splitting into factions.
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is surprising because the left has such a good track record of working well together and not splitting into factions.
love to do an Instagram story* that gets likes exclusively likes from labour members… you’re in the big leagues of humour there
*a sharing of a more funny person’s post from Bluesky
*a sharing of a more funny person’s post from Bluesky
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
love to do an Instagram story* that gets likes exclusively likes from labour members… you’re in the big leagues of humour there
*a sharing of a more funny person’s post from Bluesky
*a sharing of a more funny person’s post from Bluesky
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that noise you just heard was Zack Polanski throwing his television out of the window
July 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
that noise you just heard was Zack Polanski throwing his television out of the window
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I been hacked
All my headroom gone
All my headroom gone
July 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I been hacked
All my headroom gone
All my headroom gone
Second by-election in Sheffield since GE24 where the Lib Dems have come up from a distant place to knock us into third.
Would also note that the turnout is significantly *higher* than in the last local.
Would also note that the turnout is significantly *higher* than in the last local.
Stockbridge & Upper Don (Sheffield) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 32.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 29.3% (+12.1)
🌹 LAB: 24.4% (-25.2)
🌳 CON: 6.1% (-21.6)
🌍 GRN: 5.4% (-7.1)
⚪ Yorks: 1.1% (New)
🧑🔧 TUSC: 0.8% (-1.2)
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
➡️ RFM: 32.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 29.3% (+12.1)
🌹 LAB: 24.4% (-25.2)
🌳 CON: 6.1% (-21.6)
🌍 GRN: 5.4% (-7.1)
⚪ Yorks: 1.1% (New)
🧑🔧 TUSC: 0.8% (-1.2)
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
June 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Second by-election in Sheffield since GE24 where the Lib Dems have come up from a distant place to knock us into third.
Would also note that the turnout is significantly *higher* than in the last local.
Would also note that the turnout is significantly *higher* than in the last local.
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"average UK city is not underbounded" factoid actualy just statistical error. average UK city is underbounded. Fields Sheffield, which sits on a hill and eats the countryside, is an outlier and should not have been counted
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"average UK city is not underbounded" factoid actualy just statistical error. average UK city is underbounded. Fields Sheffield, which sits on a hill and eats the countryside, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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❓The winter fuel rowback will be widely seen as one of the most significant U-turns of Starmer's premiership so far.
But it begs the question - will it be enough to prevent his biggest parliamentary rebellion yet in a few weeks time on welfare cuts?
labourlist.org/2025/05/wint...
But it begs the question - will it be enough to prevent his biggest parliamentary rebellion yet in a few weeks time on welfare cuts?
labourlist.org/2025/05/wint...
Will the winter fuel cuts rowback quieten welfare reform rebels – or embolden them? - LabourList
Keir Starmer looks set to row back on cuts to winter fuel payments, in the most significant u-turn of his premiership so far, but is it enough to prevent his backbenches' biggest rebellion yet?
labourlist.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
❓The winter fuel rowback will be widely seen as one of the most significant U-turns of Starmer's premiership so far.
But it begs the question - will it be enough to prevent his biggest parliamentary rebellion yet in a few weeks time on welfare cuts?
labourlist.org/2025/05/wint...
But it begs the question - will it be enough to prevent his biggest parliamentary rebellion yet in a few weeks time on welfare cuts?
labourlist.org/2025/05/wint...
she’s running
Today I want to celebrate Carla Denyer’s incredible leadership of our party. Over the past four years, Carla and Adrian have have set a new standard for Greens can achieve together. I’m proud to continue working alongside you in Parliament and excited for all that lies ahead. Thank you Carla!
May 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
she’s running