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🇵🇸 she/her Posting through the end times. No AI, no centrists, no fash, we deserve better.
To be fair to her, he won’t be the first adviser she’s had with (allegedly reformed) fascist sympathies
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.
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Like Kanye desperately trying to get his visa approved
Punished 'Woke' Bane@baneforyou.bsky.social · 3h agothis *should* be incredibly insulting, but. well.
Yet another big W for someone Chuck Schumer did not endorse, probably doesn’t mean anything
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3h agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h agoBritain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.
No10 spokesperson moving quickly to confirm ADJ is not to be trusted AND the Government also don’t feel institutionally protected serial sex abuse warrants investigation or accountability
Burnham not actively considering Epstein inquiry, No 10 says — BBC News
It comes after the victims minister told the BBC she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed to her role.
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One thing before I go - speak ill of the dead if they deserve it, especially if you couldn't when they were alive because they were litigious fuckwits.
I'd completely forgotten about him leathering Jimmy Savile 🫡👑 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...
Wrestling: Adrian Street, flamboyant legend, dies aged 82
In a tribute, his wife says the Welsh wrestler was the total opposite of how he behaved on stage.
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The British Press: “He was simply an inimitable wit and raconteur, who lit up the pages with his silver-tongued prose.” The raconteur in question: “I am a paedophile.”
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Can your Union call and ask if you’ve cast your ballot for General Secretary for who your branch endorsed? seems off
You may get hung up on how much time/print Rod Liddle dedicated to the defence of paedophilia but have you considered he was also violent and liked/mourned by some of the biggest cranks in the UK political/commentary establishment too?
I will keep bringing it back to this, because it's wild not to. British journalists are wildly right wing because they are selected by a system overwhelmingly run by wild right wingers. Their conception of normal is horrifically skewed.
The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples
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Made some mistakes in my life (woke up from a nap feeling worse)
The email from Amnesty International UK is even more gaslighting than their public statement… 😖 Including ‘gender critical’ transphobic tropes such as “rolling back women’s hard won rights” and treating trans people with “dignity”! F*ck them!!! 😖😣 Donation cancelled.
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
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The business of the British press is the recruitment and promotion of cranks and wingnuts, in furtherance of the papers’ own wacky and nasty agendas
6ft danger takes tour of Scotland taking only his atrocious vibe and Pervert Goggles. Adventures include racist conspiracy theories/harassment and sexually explicit comments about teenagers, who he then films
TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using 'smart glasses' — BBC News
The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".
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Tensing up waiting for a really patronising video on how to cut down on personal water use while we have 500 data centres gargling a towns worth of water, jfor no measurable impact other than wealth extraction
Drought declared in Wales but at least our critical infrastructure means I can get ChatGPT to write a haiku about my dog
Tell me why I’ve ordered recycled toilet roll and the delivery notification says ‘love is on the horizon’ and ‘Your shipping status:in a relationship’, we’ve gotta stop with this, just send me my shit man
Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli
Dana Nuccitelli: Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published
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And here's why privatised utilities don't work in a nutshell. You cannot ask investors to bear the cost of new infrastructure, it's too expensive and the risk of not building is, ultimately, borne by the state. This is a tacit admission of where the liability really falls after the money extraction
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6d agoFrost: "We always should be talking about.. more reservoirs" Any idea why no new reservoirs have been built for 30+ years? "If in 5yrs we're talking about the same thing, I think it is criminal failure on govts to not get on & build more" Govt? If we're going to build them, we should own them
I've been thinking a lot about humans as "burden," the idea that the systems and institutions created by people can somehow be burdened by those who require them. It's a lot like thinking humans can be "illegal." 1/3
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