Steve 🇵🇸
@artificialsteve.bsky.social
📍Berlin
Trans rights are human rights • Never stan anybody or anything • He/Him • Painfully suffering LCFC fan • End the genocidal Israeli occupation of Palestine 🍉
Trans rights are human rights • Never stan anybody or anything • He/Him • Painfully suffering LCFC fan • End the genocidal Israeli occupation of Palestine 🍉
Okay, and how long will it take to get inflation down to a % that students can see a meaningful reduction in their payments? Meaningless waffle that kicks the issue into the long grass.
February 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Okay, and how long will it take to get inflation down to a % that students can see a meaningful reduction in their payments? Meaningless waffle that kicks the issue into the long grass.
Donald Trump is just a gigantic loser isn't he? Behind all the bravado and treating international relations as if it's a boardroom takeover what has he actually successfully achieved? Capitulated on Greenland, capitulated on ICE in Minnesota.
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Donald Trump is just a gigantic loser isn't he? Behind all the bravado and treating international relations as if it's a boardroom takeover what has he actually successfully achieved? Capitulated on Greenland, capitulated on ICE in Minnesota.
We need a corner flag but for the DoF and Owner.
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
We need a corner flag but for the DoF and Owner.
He'll cling on until Gorton & Denton, then one hand will slip loose until the local elections. He doesn't last after that. Then the vipers who run the Labour Party won't learn anything and will pick a continuity candidate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
He'll cling on until Gorton & Denton, then one hand will slip loose until the local elections. He doesn't last after that. Then the vipers who run the Labour Party won't learn anything and will pick a continuity candidate.
Is Keir Starmer going to eject the entirety of Labour Together? If not then he isn't going to tackle corruption even if he stays.
BREAKING: Gordon Brown says Keir Starmer should stay as PM to "clear up the system and tackle corruption”
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Is Keir Starmer going to eject the entirety of Labour Together? If not then he isn't going to tackle corruption even if he stays.
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That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
February 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
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‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own.
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’
New from @judeinlondon.com:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
July is great in Berlin.
February 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
July is great in Berlin.
I don’t think you realised I was being sarcastic?
February 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I don’t think you realised I was being sarcastic?
Go on Labour, give the leadership to a man who has a constituency majority of 528. It will be hilarious.
February 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Go on Labour, give the leadership to a man who has a constituency majority of 528. It will be hilarious.
"Abject immorality" is such a simple but effective turn of phrase to describe Streeting.
February 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
"Abject immorality" is such a simple but effective turn of phrase to describe Streeting.
"Wes Streeting, close friend of Peter Mandelson" needs to be shouted from every rooftop in the UK over the next few weeks.
Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month"
"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"
"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
"That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group"
"The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"
February 5, 2026 at 9:16 AM
"Wes Streeting, close friend of Peter Mandelson" needs to be shouted from every rooftop in the UK over the next few weeks.
UK politics looks like a circus at the moment. I thought the grown-ups were in charge now?
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
UK politics looks like a circus at the moment. I thought the grown-ups were in charge now?
If you want to know what the state of the UK job market is, this is a job description I just came across. This is for one position, they're asking for an entire marketing department.
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
If you want to know what the state of the UK job market is, this is a job description I just came across. This is for one position, they're asking for an entire marketing department.
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Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
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Gonna posting this a lot over the coming weeks.
February 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Gonna posting this a lot over the coming weeks.
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Starmer — a prosecutor with a huge majority, coming in after years of sleaze and mendacity — could have weaponised the corruption of his opponents to incredible advantage. Instead he will be ruined by the living avatar of corruption in his own party. To not see that coming is a serious skill issue.
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Starmer — a prosecutor with a huge majority, coming in after years of sleaze and mendacity — could have weaponised the corruption of his opponents to incredible advantage. Instead he will be ruined by the living avatar of corruption in his own party. To not see that coming is a serious skill issue.
QotD was the only move I've ever walked out of. Utter shit.
February 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
QotD was the only move I've ever walked out of. Utter shit.
Nope. This doesn't fit with my 2026 so we're sacking off the whole year. See you in 2027.
One of those deaths that makes you shout, “oh no!” at the phone, which I suppose is the very modern tribute to a wonderful career. Thanks for the decades of laughs, Catherine. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, dies aged 71
The actor, known for roles in Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died with cause of death unknown
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Nope. This doesn't fit with my 2026 so we're sacking off the whole year. See you in 2027.
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I'm at the "watching YouTube videos of how interior architects transform studio and one-bedroom apartments to maximise the space in London" stage of unemployment and I want to move back and buy a tiny apartment myself.
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I'm at the "watching YouTube videos of how interior architects transform studio and one-bedroom apartments to maximise the space in London" stage of unemployment and I want to move back and buy a tiny apartment myself.
Utter brainworms.
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Utter brainworms.
Ooh yeah I’m up for this. Perfect albums from when I was 16.
“How Many Licks?” is a fucking masterpiece.
“How Many Licks?” is a fucking masterpiece.
January 27, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Ooh yeah I’m up for this. Perfect albums from when I was 16.
“How Many Licks?” is a fucking masterpiece.
“How Many Licks?” is a fucking masterpiece.
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Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
January 27, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!