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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

This whole incident is helpfully instructive, isn’t it. Here, we have the country’s worst politicians, including a former Prime Minister, queuing up to salute a bold iconoclast who irreverently spoke truth to power and discomfited the great and good. It makes it pretty clear, does it not.

Boris Johnson * @BorisJohnson • 1h Heartsick at the death of Rod Liddle - an outrageously funny and gifted writer with a beautiful conversational style. He had a unique talent for finding the thing that was obviously true but supposedly unsayable and then saying it with such panache as to give the maximum possible offence - and to all the right people. Spectator readers absolutely loved him.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’ Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b) • insensitive to music (38b) • despises death and the dead (38b) . is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b) • can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b) • cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b) • can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4) • sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4) • has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16) • named "Count Wampyr" (1) • can determine and prove if people are sane (24) green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)
Tony Bird@tonybirdlondon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Be interesting to see who mourns the death of a journalist who was arrested for punching his pregnant partner and who said he couldn't become a teacher because "I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids." Bet it's the "protecting women and children" crew

Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 3d ago

'Ohh ohh Rod Liddle was a complicated figure but he was a terribly witty writer and so charming at Dinner Parties. You absolutely mustn't celebrate his untimely, tragic, death' - British journo who's just had a vision of their future.

Jake Cole@jakecole.bsky.social · 3d ago

Columbo: well that’s interesting. Ah, probably nothin’ Killer <stiffly>: what is it, detective? Columbo: well it’s just that, my wife, she’s always asking me, why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food? Isn’t that strange?

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Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social · 6d ago

Currently reorganising my paperbacks and came across my TNT collection - aka the wildest, most ridiculous and over-the-top men’s adventure series ever published. Let the synopses give you a taste of what’s inside:

A series of seven paperback books, all with black covers, all with varying illustration of the same man’s face - holding a gun, a knife, a hook etc. He is extraordinarily chiselled and rugged. Anthony Nicholas Twin vs. The Black Widow Six of the richest men in the world. All dead. All had been married to the same mysterious woman. A woman so elegant, so deeply sensual, no man could resist her. No man, except of course, TNT. But when the deadly seductress traps TNT on a mirrored bed suspended from a helicopter high over the Empire State Building-the man with the uncanny sexual prowess has to make a crucial decision-become the black widow's new mate or end up as a grease spot on Fifth Avenue... TNT It begins beyond anything you have ever experienced before. Meet Anthony Nicholas Twin. He goes all the way. And then keeps going. In the wilds of Paraguay is hidden a legendary city of sex and gold. For centuries its citizens have lived in peace. But now the fanatical Torquemada is stealing their treasure to finance his scheme to become the worldwide Napoleon of Terrorism. TNT's choice: infiltrate Torquemada's fascist killer corps by surviving their incredible suicide training. Or watch the only human he loves, sweet innocent October, subjected to the most hideous torture ever dreamed of by animal or man! TNT It begins beyond anything you have ever experienced before.Anthony Nicholas Twin in a battle for blood Eleven people. All with the same rare blood type. All dead. Butchered and bled by international terrorists. One woman. The only possible donor left in the world. Frozen-her body rests in a secret cryogenic laboratory in Hungary. TNT is about to enter a living, breathing hell of staggering proportions. A Kingdom of Death-where blood runs cold and hearts cease to beat at the push of a button. It is a nightmare world that leaves TNT only two choices-kill with razor-edged precision...or end up as a human popsicle... TNT It begins beyond anything you have ever experienced before.
Sooz Kempner@soozuk.bsky.social · last wk.

"This just gives Reform fuel!" "That just plays in to the hands of the rightwing press!" "They have to be better than this because the right latches on to it!" These are all true 100% of the time whenever the left does anything at all leftwing because the right never stops whining and complaining.

victoria scott@victoriascott.bsky.social · 2w ago

it’s insanely funny that haus of decline’s content or publicly expressed views haven’t really meaningfully changed in years but within six months of coming out as a trans woman everyone gets mad at her like every three to six months

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

The British right wing press has been doing “sadly Amnesty International has lost its way, so it must be ruthlessly destroyed” for almost twenty years, since I started paying attention. Usually by giving the reporting to the nastiest, most malicious crackpots on the payroll, as they’ve done here.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

"Crisis of conscience: how Amnesty International lost its way "By blacklisting women’s groups, the charity has abandoned its founding principles, writes Nicole Lampert" [Telegraph]

Double page Telegraph spread Crisis of conscience: how Amnesty International lost its way By blacklisting women’s groups, the charity has abandoned its founding principles, writes Nicole Lampert