Might be having a bit of a strop because right now he smells like baby powder and not stinky

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Today I met a tiny Coo Beastie and even tinier pigs.

Went to Elan Valley today, as one does.

Here come four months of centrists attacking the left with far greater existential fury than they ever aimed at Trump (because they prefer Trump and helped him win):

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

Fucking impressive to do an article about why HP is a negative for the country in 2026 and manage to completely avoid mentioning it funding the eradication of persecuted minority via billionaire conservative lawfare.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

Harry Potter has ruined Britain ft.trib.al/zXZbDgz | opinion

Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@ianford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think we have to be careful about crediting Musk with power he doesn't have. That way you help feed the myth of being the omnipotent all-powerful puppet master that controls everything that happens in the world. That's the main psychological con-trick they use to make opponents give up in advance.

107 people got arrested at the peaceful protest outside the court during the Filton 4 sentencing; only 21 were arrested as a result of the race riot in Southampton. What exactly is the message the government and police wants us to take away from this

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"this was not a peaceful protest" got bad news for you re: the ongoing success rate of peaceful protests

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

reporting on the aftermath of the anti-immigrant “disorder” in belfast- www.bbc.com/news/article...

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Let’s be clear: we have annihilated crazy ideas like “let’s plant some nice trees, make a free-to-use broadband network and have a government factory making generic drugs”, apparently so we could have racist rioting, chat about civil war, genital checks at toilets and protection for genocidaires.

It's not even a case of "too little, too late." They are fundamentally untrustworthy because, while they might not like what's going on right now, if it comes down to a choice of a left winger or a fascist we know exactly what they will choose, every time.

Stefan Mohamed@stefmowords.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not going to say there's zero value in Starmer coming out against Farage and the far right today but I will say any statements from him have been significantly, if not fatally devalued by his utter failure to deal with this stuff for the past *two years*. you can't fan these flames then play fireman

Transmisogyny is just a slightly different flavored form of regular old misogyny, and it will hurt every single woman in the world. It's just a question of when it's your turn.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Remember that the far right does so well in this country because the press spends all day, every day, saying these problems are caused by immigrants and that anyone offering slightly more left wing alternatives is a deranged terrorist hippy.

Paul Hebden@paulhebden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

6 - Brits are fed up. They believe the system is rigged in favour of vested interests and billionaires. They want to see a radically redesign that sees local communities thrive, schools & hospitals properly funded they need, and a properly run country can confront the climate crisis. >>>

Remember: when faced with the prospect of massive losses to the far right and smaller losses to a more left wing but still totally normal party, the Labour right and British press chose all-out war against the left. And they will keep doing this forever.

Jack Saundrs@jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Prediction: the flurry of anti-Green stuff in the last couple of weeks will slightly stem Labour losses in leftish areas whilst they still get creamed by Reform elsewhere, Labour take this an endorsement of their strategy somehow

Important to remember: "maybe MPs shouldn't be so drunk at work they stink of booze all day" and "maybe the met shouldn't literally kick people repeatedly on the head while they're on the ground" getting the full bore outrage cannons isn't about the specifics, it's about the left being illegitimate.

This is the inevitable endpoint of one of the truly unifying political projects of the 2010s: ensuring that comically bigoted far right crackpots should decide what is and is not racist, a thing almost the entire political/class bent their will towards.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

The AI issue isn’t just that it produces increasingly sophisticated slop meant to fool us & devalue labor, it’s that on the human end we’ve cultivated a population of people who see no inherent value in the authenticity of what they consume as they are culturally illiterate. So they’re Slop Hungry.

I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why don't we report that this is plainly absolute fucking bollocks on stilts though? Why does every Winterval and "baa baa rainbow sheep" story have to be treated as if the freaks have a point of view worth considering?

Have treated myself to a birthday that's been a completely normal, unremarkable day because I'm interesting like that.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

We're told all the time there's no fucking magic money tree to invest in public spending and yet these pricks are throwing away money hand over fist on actively making everything worse, hurting free speech, expanding genocide, fucking our healthcare and privacy.

Okay, why not? bsky.app/profile/case...

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Okay, why not?

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it