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Erik Parker

@riksbar.bsky.social

Northern remainer elite and immigrant, aviation addict, Independent Company and war waffler, Miami Dolphins since superbowl XIX

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Greg Shaw@zenmousegreg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I have spotted concealed online neo-nazis in the past, because they called their pamphlet "The Flag Held High", which might sound like an innocent patriotic statement unless, like me, you know that it's the first words of the "Horst Wessel Lied."

University of Warwick student group suspended in Nazi song row

The university's Conservative Association is being investigated after an antisemitic video emerged.

bbc.co.uk

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5d ago

Andy Burnham, born Jan 1970, was nine years old when Margaret Thatcher came to power and nearly 21 when she resigned. But he was too young to vote in June 1987, her final general election. Kemi Badenoch exactly a decade younger, born Jan 1980, but she returns to Britain in 1996 in the Major era

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Youngy@mancversusfood.bsky.social · 2w ago

All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic.

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 2w ago

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

theintercept.com

Stephen Collins@stephencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries.

[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day]. [Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.] VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON: Prime Minister… CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]: Yes? [We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]: GOVE: Let me do it. CAMERON: For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life! GOVE: But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship... ...and shoot all the aliens. CAMERON: But you have no military training! GOVE: David I haven't told you this, but... I used to be a journalist. For The Times. [Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time]. GOVE: I wrote two articles about planes, David. I've got strong opinions about aliens. I know I can do this job. [Cut to a title card panel]: AND SO: [Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands]. [Ends]
Jamie McTrusty@jamiemctrusty.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here’s a thread of some of the more unusual or obscure aircraft to fly in Britain during the Second World War. Some were only intended as experimental or proof of concept designs, while others never progressed beyond the prototype stage.

Front left 3/4 view of a camouflaged Blackburn B20 flying boat/floatplane with RAF markings on temporary wheels outside a hangar. An unconventional design, its lower hull is separate from the fuselage, acting as a central float; in this picture, it’s shown extended on hydraulic struts. A twin engined design, it also features retractable wingtip floats.
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2w ago

The War Game is a show in which we are asked to pretend Michael Gove, the Tory Party's emotional support turbot, can handle a global nuclear crisis, when we all know he couldn't handle a spoonful of gak in an Aberdonian nightclub.

Images of Michael Gove, a man with a face only a motherfucker could love, dancing like nobody is watching, which we all wish was the case.
Jay Rayner@jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2w ago

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.