@zaxx1980.bsky.social
30yo, F, UK. Just a place to post odd thoughts, my photos, and meet interesting people :)
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This, from the Home Office strategy "Having a Sensible Conversation about Immigration" is really good: sensible, balanced and evidence-based.
Exactly the right approach for a centre-left government.
Exactly the right approach for a centre-left government.
December 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This, from the Home Office strategy "Having a Sensible Conversation about Immigration" is really good: sensible, balanced and evidence-based.
Exactly the right approach for a centre-left government.
Exactly the right approach for a centre-left government.
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
100%, the best Christmas film <3
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
100%, the best Christmas film <3
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif
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The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.
The Fabians thing is hilarious. Probably the first time a conspiracy has genuinely made me laugh out loud.
September 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.
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It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity
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Also the contrast between posts from the right about how the Online Safety Act is an authoritarian attack on free speech vs zero mentions of what's happening re Palestine Action.
The contrast in reporting these stories is nuts, right? It's not just me?
August 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Also the contrast between posts from the right about how the Online Safety Act is an authoritarian attack on free speech vs zero mentions of what's happening re Palestine Action.
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Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man
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Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
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Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
Latest Lewis discovery: an ancient-ass West German clothes iron!
August 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Latest Lewis discovery: an ancient-ass West German clothes iron!
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How exactly is throwing objects at a trans woman “protecting women and girls”, dearest Gender Criticals?
I’m sure the solitary trans woman playing televised darts has really ruined feminimsmsst. Leave her alone you fucking weirdos.
I’m sure the solitary trans woman playing televised darts has really ruined feminimsmsst. Leave her alone you fucking weirdos.
Gender-critical protesters thrown out of venue after confronting trans darts player
Gender-critical protestors have been removed after targeting trans darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven during her return to the sport.
www.thepinknews.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
How exactly is throwing objects at a trans woman “protecting women and girls”, dearest Gender Criticals?
I’m sure the solitary trans woman playing televised darts has really ruined feminimsmsst. Leave her alone you fucking weirdos.
I’m sure the solitary trans woman playing televised darts has really ruined feminimsmsst. Leave her alone you fucking weirdos.
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Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
This is a bit of a atretch/hope: there were 5 protests, with the largest two being up to 300 people, a total of around a thousand or so people.
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
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Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
www.newstatesman.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
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anyway this is My Manifesto, I guess youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma...
July 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
anyway this is My Manifesto, I guess youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma...
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Essential reading for anyone who thinks there are "valid concerns on both sides" of the anti-trans moral panic.
A powerful and sobering article.
(Trans folk and allies: this starts out sounding like it's going to be another 'both sides' article but trust me, keep reading.) 1/
A powerful and sobering article.
(Trans folk and allies: this starts out sounding like it's going to be another 'both sides' article but trust me, keep reading.) 1/
Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…
Behind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rights
The UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Essential reading for anyone who thinks there are "valid concerns on both sides" of the anti-trans moral panic.
A powerful and sobering article.
(Trans folk and allies: this starts out sounding like it's going to be another 'both sides' article but trust me, keep reading.) 1/
A powerful and sobering article.
(Trans folk and allies: this starts out sounding like it's going to be another 'both sides' article but trust me, keep reading.) 1/
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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.
June 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
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TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
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TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
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TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
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TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
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TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
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TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
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TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
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TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
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TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
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TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
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[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
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It's important to acknowledge when we discuss why a minority of young men are attracted to the radical right that part of the answer is "they're obnoxious".
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
Incredibly revealing quote from some 19 year old asshole NPR found at the Trump parade. Basically, "sure his policies suck, but he's evil, which I think is great"
June 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's important to acknowledge when we discuss why a minority of young men are attracted to the radical right that part of the answer is "they're obnoxious".
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.
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Good short thread on why the EHRC guidance is legally bogus
🧵 As @iododds.bsky.social has already pointed out, the EHRC and the "supreme" court seem to want to create a historical/legal fiction that, in 2009 and 2010, parliament was proposing that The Equality Act (2010) was in fact a national toilet ban for trans people. As someone who was involved...
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June 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Good short thread on why the EHRC guidance is legally bogus
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A letter to The Times, among a number of online rage and free speech, responding to Daniel Finkelstein
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
June 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A letter to The Times, among a number of online rage and free speech, responding to Daniel Finkelstein
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...