As I've said, these people have to believe this. They have to believe that their behaviour during the period 2015-19 was all in service of defeating a world historic evil that outclassed Hitler himself. Because if that's not true, well, what would the average person conclude, when faced with this?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

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Who gave the nun a gun?

A happy, healthy country where people look out for each other out of shared interest in having a decent society has no need for an elite class of horrible spiteful shitheads working constantly to make everyone frightened, angry and resentful.

steering the egg carrier into the egg carrier 2 and whispering "now kiss" on contact and blowing my Ass to smithereens

We could in fact oppose the far right with far more strength and conviction but anyone who has tried was annihilated from space *by the supposed representatives of left-liberalism*, and never mind the Tories, Reform and the right wing press. And that is why it’s so utterly bleak and horrible now.

They should invent an ADHD that lets you

what the fuck why does this @stupidtwink.bsky.social comic keep happening?

Transparency@transparency.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jez San, founder of Argonaut, donated 2 million pounds to the conservative party in 2025. He was the biggest individual donor in Q1 of that year. Please, be informed before purchasing anything. You can emulate PS1 games on basically any device these days (even your phone) with ease.

This really gets me. The boycott in Ireland that gave the tactic its name was so wildly successful the UK had to send in the literal army and was so terrified at how fast it was spreading that they conceded most of the peasants' demands by the next year:

Charles Boycott - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not everyone knows! Keep spreading the word!

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 6d ago

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

I don’t think people understand how daft they sound whinging about fairness. You were manipulated into believing it’s unfair for trans women to play women’s sports. It’s that simple.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2w ago

It’s not.

Hard to explain exactly how Britain really, really *feels like* a country where all of our most virulently racist wingnut crackpots were given prominent platforms many years ago to propagandise, and to harass and harm all the people they hate, doesn’t it. You feel it in the air every day, now.

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

"But there was an article!" "Oh yes, it was "On Display" down in the cellar in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused (but still single sex) lavatory with a sign outside the door saying "Beware of the leopard". Ever thought of going into PR?"

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

No, Burnham is not going to be Mamdani

also Reg Shoe would one hundred percent have a bluesky account

"War were declared"

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

Ultimately Starmer failed because he's a corrupt and empty man whose capacity for immorality and cruelty is bottomless precisely because he believes nothing and values nothing. What does it say about a press who once celebrated that quality in him?

He was elected on a cavalcade of lies, shitehoused into power by our mendacious press, and then the Americans dropped him in it by linking him with Epstein via Peter Mandelson, which made the whole thing too embarrassing to keep propping up.

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2w ago

In the last hour or so of Keir Starmer's prime miistership: why are we here now, just two years on? What went so wrong? When it comes to personality and abilities, rather than ideology, these are what I'd see as the three cardinal failings:

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there can be no mainstreaming of far-right politics without the active complicity of the mainstream elite The rise of the far right is therefore not irresistible, inexplicable or people-driven but carefully orchestrated in a top down manner

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC Radio 4's Common Ground just now investigating whether "woke has gone too far." At this point it feels like the national broadcaster is nothing but a threat to democracy.

On an unrelated note, I can confirm that Executive Director Reeve of the Shinra Urban Planning Division has contracted "frog" status and disappeared shortly from Shinra Headquarters after being flushed down a toilet by Palmer. A city-wide manhunt is currently in effect and we hope to find him soon!

The Shinra Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped monitoring the status effect that turns you into a frog.

Also see “the idea that it’s good to improve society somewhat” and “opposing crimes against humanity” but really, I don’t think we can blame social media for this. It’s politicians and their media allies who imposed all of this. Terfery in particular was always a newspaper columnist project.

Today I learned that there's some rank protection in Guilty Gear Strive. Once you hit Bronze you cannot dip below it and are stuck there even if you don't win another match after placements. Don't ask how I found this out, only that if anyone says "Motion inputs aren't a problem" they lie.

The fantasy of getting your Letter From Hogwarts, your golden ticket out of mundane life into the wondrous privilege you secretly merit in your innate superiority to your NPC peers, was tapping into the same base egoism as the worst 4Chan discourse. And it sold like hotcakes to middle class nerds.

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

I know people are asking "Well why didn't they check?" but I don't think most of us realize how crazy the sentence "Hold on, let me make sure that game from my childhood isn't owned by a dictator" sounds. Most people, even people in the industry, don't realize that's something that's possible now.