Saying the quiet part out loud.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 18h ago

Reform UK Alyn, Deeside and Wrexham, everybody.

Utter. Fucking. Twaddle. Nobody is calling for cEnSoRsHiP.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 16h ago

“It’s sure easier to talk about the feral excesses of the right-wing press than the willful gullibility of certain elite progressives. But both contributed to the Arday disaster,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.

NEW | I thought quite a lot about this… WHEN THE SNOWFLAKES PRETEND THEY PLAYED NO PART IN THE AVALANCHE Reflecting on the media coverage of Jason Arday. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/when-the-s...

When the snowflakes pretend they played no part in the avalanche

Reflecting on the media coverage of Jason Arday.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

Perhaps we ought to take a moment to reflect on how many white male cishet privately educated non disabled men have been given jobs and promoted without question based on fabricated CVs, unfounded self-confidence and an embellished life story & whether we’ve even heard of them.

I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses

The VC of Greater Manchester uni embezzled £1 million. Did you see *a single story about that*?

Another thing to note is that the journos have had slightly less than 24 hours of being shouted at on social media and they cannot cope, but they expect members of the public to cope with weeks of attacks via TV and newspaper

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d ago

The thing to note here is that these people *had an absolute blast* kicking seventeen shades of shit out of this guy, just as they always have a ball kicking fuck out of people they despise. It’s easy to tell when they’re going through the motions, and when they are absolutely loving it.

A great example of what always happens when the lads are asked to consider their own deep, immediately obvious guilt: like the Iraq War or austerity or Brexit, it turns out it was everybody’s fault. And if it’s everybody’s fault, nobody is really to blame www.thetimes.com/article/aadd...

Jason Arday was failed by the system — and by me

The academic my sister knew was ‘kind, wise, warm and fun’, if also deeply flawed. The system that overpromoted him should have been the target, not him

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Utter ghoul gets upset at being correctly and publicly identified as one.

Sonia Sodha@sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 4d ago

Stephen, even by your increasingly aggressive standards, your comments about me here are deeply shocking and offensive. I don’t really have anything further to say to you, I just hope you’ll reflect on whether this is an appropriate thing to post so soon after someone killed themselves.

the problem is that Elon Musk bought twitter to make nazis the assignment editors for the entire media and it worked.

"Public interest was driving the story"

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

Charles Moore, Tim Shipman, Kathleen Stock, Stephen Daisley, Sonia Sodha, Toby Young...there are just so many people with very limited intellectual range who are forced to have opinions weekly and nothing is more soothing to them than a topic their friends have already written about.

What is The Telegraph going to write about now?

Remember Rupert Murdoch (under oath) pretending to be senile and deaf on the stand. He basically laughed in all our faces knowing he was untouchable.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d ago

The 2010s began with a televised public inquiry into the literal crimes of British newspapers. It ended with the same papers hounding members of the public who inconvenienced and embarrassed Boris Johnson. There’s your nutshell summary.

On July 31, Simon Baron-Cohen urged people to tone down the rhetoric on twitter re Jason Arday, and pointed to his own research on autism and suicide. Alexander Kustov responded with "Shame" Elon Musk with "Evil," and a wide variety of people came out jeering. The kind of cruelty on display here.

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

The Sun has decided there was no need for any sensitivity in their reporting: "Prof Gone" begins their headline.

Cunts, the lot of them. It's been utterly relentless and clearly wouldn't have ended because he'd resigned. Like me, I'm sure you've encountered plenty of people on nationals doing sport, features, columns etc, who would distance themselves from the front pages. No sorry, you're just as culpable.

They talk about the threats to MPs but they never talk about the threats to the public from the press. They are so out of control it should be a national crisis.

"I conclude that for the next president, the first, most straightforward, and arguably most important task is to destroy X. It is not only a clear and present danger to American democracy and national security, it is *the* organizing hub of the global fascist movement." prospect.org/2026/06/09/t...

Two Simple Steps Toward De-MAGAfication - The American Prospect

A big reason why Trump II is so much worse than the first time is that the world’s richest man bought Twitter and turned it into a fascist cesspit.

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it's genuinely bewildering to have spent a decade yelling about what a bad dude Elon Musk was, only for him to end up doubling the Holocaust's death count like, he just went out and made his earlier crimes look like nothing, and he's still walking free

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 7d ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Every time I see a clip from these guys I think, THESE opinions, THESE ones are what you needed to free yourself from the yoke of BBC impartiality to share?

The idea that we are simply going to vote our way out of deep-seated institutional failures designed over 2 & ½ centuries to constantly reproduce outcomes contrary to our best interests according to who has the most money is just not based in reality

This fella amazes me. What the fuck is he even doing on here. Here he is saying the only way to deal with Palestinians dying at the hands of Israel is for them to embrace their murderers.

Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m back. Apologize for my absence. BlueSky suspended me for 4-5 days. It was bullshit. I just expressed my opinion on an issue. But BlueSky has a right to set their own rules. And they determined I violated their rules. But now I’m out of jail and back. Hope you’re all well.

US political coverage can best be described as a largely imaginary Democratic Party significantly more radical than it actually is vying against a largely imaginary Republican Party significantly more moderate and measured than it actually is.

I probably shouldn't, but I am getting a kick out of centrists crying the PM has said nothing about three nights of riots in England when they've said nothing about the same thing in Northern Ireland for years.