If Britain is just a shit oligarchy of hateful swine, fine. I will get on with my life and try to not think about it. But don’t keep giving me this chat about democracy through debate and deliberation, when it’s obviously not true.
Difficult to explain how utterly disgusting it is that a bunch of nice social workers, teachers and nurses used the democratic system to promote their opposition to extremely racist violence, and they were crushed for it by people who threw Britain’s support behind this, to curry favour with America
Do you see this? This is lots of people who saw clearly that The Day Of Reckoning was coming, and wanted to do something to prevent it. And the world’s most poisonous, ugliest, most horrifying media class told the public it was a “carnival of hate”, and similar things www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Labour conference: Members fill hall with Palestinian flags
Delegates unfurl Palestinian flags at their conference hall - and Emily Thornberry delivers a fiery speech.
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You might expect that on such a serious issue, people who got it badly wrong all along would now be apologetic. But no, they are not: they are angrier than ever and more determined to stomp upon everyone who told them something like this would happen sooner or later.
I mean, it was very clear that successive Israeli governments had radicalised the populace to a position of Exterminate All The Brutes ten years ago. That’s why so many people were campaigning about it, it was very obvious what the outcome of this would be.
I don’t think it’s better if it’s socialists actively trying to destroy the Palestinians as a population but yes, this is a straight left/right issue: do you support this expansionist fascist state committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, with roaring public approval?
This is the thing that really galls me. The left did everything by the rules: won people over with argument, earned their positions through reasoned debate. And then they hit the brick wall veto that was Peter Mandelson’s friends and his media allies saying: absolutely not, we will not allow it.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h agoLiterally did what people are supposed to do: organise, debate, make arguments and win people over to supporting you, then make your case through the democratic process. Look at what they got, for playing by the rules.
The problem with the ‘big tent’ is that democrats have convinced themselves that swing voters are conservatives, and that winning them over means also being conservative and like… When you have two conservative parties, what kind of fucking choice is that for middle voters?
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h ago"I agree with you on protecting and defending everyone but [same old stale reason we can't do that]."
🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank
Israeli settlers attack European delegation convoy in West Bank, beat French mayor
Israeli settlers have attacked a convoy carrying a European delegation in the occupied West Bank and beat up a French mayor, witnesses said Saturday.
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"The grief that dare not speak its name" They spoke its name in the very same sentence. It's name is "racism".
Warhammer 40k had some absolutely fantastic bits just sitting in rand paragraphs in the books.
Russia stretches from Europe to the Pacific *because* of imperial expansion, but unlike the US, which achieved coast to coast dominance and was more or less* content with that, Russia is surrounded by ancient kingdoms and peoples with a long and shared history of despising the folks from Moscow
As predicted: “Oracle [founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison], Andreessen Horowitz [founded by Trump/Thiel ally Marc Andreessen] consortium will control 80% of TikTok…” 9/16/25 Ellison & Andreessen also funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, so this is kind of like capturing Boardwalk & Park Place. 1/
Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz consortium will control 80% of TikTok in U.S.: Report
Current users of the app will be asked to shift to a new app, which TikTok has built and is testing.
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Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h ago(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
My grandpa died at 93. He had to pause his medical degree because of WWII and was put in charge of medical care on a ship in Palestine at 22 (!). He didn't have a shred of racism in him. Or, notably, homophobia, having proudly generated a fabulous brace of bi and gay grandchildren.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10h agoMy grandmother is 94. She’s not a racist. My grandfather was 94, nearly 95 when he died. And, in the home where he lived for the last three years of his life, he was cared for by people from all over the world. In his dying hours, the presence of a nurse from Jamaica who he liked a lot soothed him.
My grandmother is 94. She’s not a racist. My grandfather was 94, nearly 95 when he died. And, in the home where he lived for the last three years of his life, he was cared for by people from all over the world. In his dying hours, the presence of a nurse from Jamaica who he liked a lot soothed him.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 13h agoPrejudices so suppressed they can only be ‘whispered’ in a national newspaper.
Meta also fucked with the Brazilian elections in a very similar way
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h agoApparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.
Verhoeven making citizenship depend on service was satire in the 90s but we're awfully close to one of these inbred toffs who've never had a scrap in their lives suggesting we tie armed forces to voting.
I don’t recall ever voting for the army and I am a bit tired of seeing the fuckers on TV explaining which forms of politics they will and will not tolerate.
UK is banning incest porn because it reminds them too much of the royal family
This is the language of a predator This is the language of a rapist
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoTrump: "This guy is a jihadist. Mohammed El-Sayed. He said 'my name is not Mohammed.' I said, 'I'm the President of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.'"
Perhaps the head of the British Army should not be doing media appearances instructing the public to accept massive benefit cuts? Perhaps he should be fired for doing that, and replaced by a different Rupert who will keep his nose out of politics.
On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...
When a Social Media Mob Came for Cornell’s Jane Doe
After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
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Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 19h agoOn X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...
Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h ago❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
It’s because it’s so vicious, idiotic and illogical that we’ve wound up with e.g. the spouse of a national security advisor being investigated for a potential terrorism offence, in a tweet. Because the entire point of the exercise is: fuck you, we’re in charge, we decide.
It is IMO under the umbrella of the general crackdown on the left and anything coded as left wing. A roaring wave of repression that has barely any public buy-in, it’s just our repellent political/media class enforcing its will year on year, shouting down any objections.
It’s just a display of force. Fuck you: we are in charge and we decide. Don’t like it? Fuck you again. And there’s no major dissent about it because the whole project sprang from the press themselves. This is their riot, so of course they approve and want more. Much more, in fact.
