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I do wonder if The Media Class of this country have been on the mercury cocaine. Their brains must be as hard and crumbly as Edinburgh rock. Imagine writing that paragraph and thinking *Séamas* is the bad guy.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 11h ago

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

So Luciana Berger was abused by a fascist who is now a Tory candidate despite his criminal conviction over it, but at the time she allowed everyone to think that the whole thing was about "the antisemitic Labour left"?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h ago

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

The tragedy of this is that there are parents and teachers who actually think this is an appropriate way to treat children.

Warwick Mansell@warwickmansell.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

All the worst people are coming out to eulogise this horrible man. Read this thread instead. Thanks for compiling it @snig.bsky.social.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

From the commentary on Liddle it seems journalists believe you can be a weapons-grade shit in your writing but otherwise delightful. That gives them a handy get out for being cruel and unpleasant

No press obituary of Rod Liddle is complete without mention of the stories in the following thread. Otherwise it’s merely a hagiography. #bbcpm #r4today #c4news

I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2d ago

In 2005, Liddle accepted a police caution for common assault after being arrested for allegedly punching his pregnant girlfriend, then 20 weeks pregnant. (Source: PinkNews) He later denied it. The caution stands.

The UK commentariat and political class are almost exclusively a wealthy, politically powerful and insular group, many of whom landowners/landlords, and almost every last one of them despises the working class, minorities, migrants, queer people, and disabled people. That’s why they love Rod Liddle

Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control

rip 😔

There once was a man called Rod Liddle Who sat to the right of the middle The fucker's now dead And I have just read That if he was a teacher he'd diddle

Sam@samomar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here's some of his work

Let’s hope the tide is turning on this madness that has gripped our schools for the past 16 years. There is no need at all to treat young people like this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How parents and pupils took on 'cruel', 'authoritarian' schools - and won

Discipline at an academy trust went too far - parents, pupils and former teachers tell BBC Panorama.

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"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

Chillin' with lil the cat on the patio

I expected Lewis Goodall is pleased with all the reaction he is getting, I blocked him when he questioned whether long COVID existed

This is presented as shocking but “kill and expel our subject population of subhumans” has been the position of Israeli governments and the Israeli public for a very long time, and it is odd the BBC did not notice until the third year of relentleess crimes against humanity.

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

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In June 1966, scientist James Lovelock warned Shell in a confidential memo of “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.” Shell would later become "a founding member of the denialist Global Climate Coalition." 😑

The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...

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One thing that really struck me reading about the 1918 flu pandemic which killed at least 25 million, and up to 100 million, was how it was scarcely mentioned afterwards ianhopkinson.org.uk/2022/05/book...

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

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This feels so much more harmful than never having posted the threat briefing in the first place. That research was spot-on, which only highlights that you’re apologizing to unambiguous hate groups for finally defending us. Never donating another dime after this.

Stub Buns@stubbuns.bsky.social · 5d ago

Question for Amnesty. Trans rights have regressed in the UK. That’s undeniable. The organisations you are apologising to have celebrated these rights being eroded. Are you really that weak that you can’t in good faith defend calling them anti-rights? Because they very clearly fucking are.

The BBC treats climate change as a political subject, which it is not. This gives them the excuse of "both sidesing" an overwhelming scientific consensus and outright lying. It is a propaganda machine downplaying a deadly emergency and questions need to be asked at the highest level as to why.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d ago

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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In this series of repeated games of chicken between the Met and thousands of people willing to be charged as terrorists for nonviolent protest, I am thankful not a single one of them have decided if they're to be charged as terrorists for nonviolent protest, they might as well... you know...

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d ago

Notice how incredibly silly it is that we have the police warning people not to commit terrorist offences, waiting quietly for them to reveal a t-shirt or something, and then arresting old people under anti-terror powers, who quite placidly accept being arrested.

Book review: A History of Railways in 100 Maps by Jeremy Black ianhopkinson.org.uk/2026/07/book... #bookreview #history #railways

Book review: A History of Railways in 100 Maps by Jeremy Black

Bookshops are dangerous places, I visited one and came away with A History of Railways in 100 Maps by Jeremy Black! It is a book my dad would have loved. A History of Railways is approximately A4 f…

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