Alec Holland
@beyondthemachine.bsky.social
Somewhere a landlord's laughing until he wets his pants.
London. He/him.
London. He/him.
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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
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I am hearing there’s a political campaign against the BBC by cynical liars and frauds who don’t care what’s real and only want to destroy it, and I can say: LOL too bad lads, you could not possibly more deserve to get wrecked by the wingnuts and cranks you were once so happy to promote.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I am hearing there’s a political campaign against the BBC by cynical liars and frauds who don’t care what’s real and only want to destroy it, and I can say: LOL too bad lads, you could not possibly more deserve to get wrecked by the wingnuts and cranks you were once so happy to promote.
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Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.
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The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
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October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
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It’s worse than that IMO: they have so utterly bullshat themselves into a corner that they can’t get out of it, and are absolutely committed to whatever horseshit and drivel is now required. The only question left is whether this is tactical, or whether they are proper wingnuts who believe it all.
October 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It’s worse than that IMO: they have so utterly bullshat themselves into a corner that they can’t get out of it, and are absolutely committed to whatever horseshit and drivel is now required. The only question left is whether this is tactical, or whether they are proper wingnuts who believe it all.
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A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.
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When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
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On the 1st of October 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
On the 1st of October 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.
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I am shocked and appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day for the Jewish community.
My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.
My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I am shocked and appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day for the Jewish community.
My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.
My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.
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The language used is so telling. Blasé to the point of pathological.
‘Conflict’
‘Adversaries’
‘Someone you object to’
If you can sit through the architect of a realtime genocide, what kind of person are you? These people care more about ‘manners’ than the orchestrated killing of a population.
‘Conflict’
‘Adversaries’
‘Someone you object to’
If you can sit through the architect of a realtime genocide, what kind of person are you? These people care more about ‘manners’ than the orchestrated killing of a population.
September 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The language used is so telling. Blasé to the point of pathological.
‘Conflict’
‘Adversaries’
‘Someone you object to’
If you can sit through the architect of a realtime genocide, what kind of person are you? These people care more about ‘manners’ than the orchestrated killing of a population.
‘Conflict’
‘Adversaries’
‘Someone you object to’
If you can sit through the architect of a realtime genocide, what kind of person are you? These people care more about ‘manners’ than the orchestrated killing of a population.
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I actually don’t give a fuck about the level of “illegal migration”
September 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I actually don’t give a fuck about the level of “illegal migration”
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They'll bring in digital ID and welfare claimants will still be demonised for having a smart phone.
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They'll bring in digital ID and welfare claimants will still be demonised for having a smart phone.
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If you live in Britain, the 21st century for you has been relentless cruel political frauds, diving living standards, deteriorating infrastructure, closure of public services, lunatic moral panics, ludicrous corruption scandals and war crimes. What have the political class done to earn public trust?
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If you live in Britain, the 21st century for you has been relentless cruel political frauds, diving living standards, deteriorating infrastructure, closure of public services, lunatic moral panics, ludicrous corruption scandals and war crimes. What have the political class done to earn public trust?
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The two photos adjacent to each other is proof that being a right wing POS is extremely ageing.
September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The two photos adjacent to each other is proof that being a right wing POS is extremely ageing.
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Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.
They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.
They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.
They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.
They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.
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The absolute core of liberal ideology is "...but I'm ok?"
Never really got the outrage about ID cards when they were first proposed 20 years ago and get it even less now that almost every single human interaction is mediated, tracked and authorised on a second-by-second basis through our phones, anyway. What do people think it would really change?
September 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The absolute core of liberal ideology is "...but I'm ok?"
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York Minster’s Doomstone. A rare survival from the Norman Minster on the site, it depicts the mouth of Hell, with sinners being pushed into a boiling cauldron by demons. #yorkminster #doomstone #mouthofhell #medieval
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
York Minster’s Doomstone. A rare survival from the Norman Minster on the site, it depicts the mouth of Hell, with sinners being pushed into a boiling cauldron by demons. #yorkminster #doomstone #mouthofhell #medieval
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A key thing here is that “blame migrants” was imposed on the public from above by successive governments and the national press working very hard, hand in hand over decades, while “blame the rich” seems to be largely organic, arising despite committed efforts to stamp it out.
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A key thing here is that “blame migrants” was imposed on the public from above by successive governments and the national press working very hard, hand in hand over decades, while “blame the rich” seems to be largely organic, arising despite committed efforts to stamp it out.
Never trust a guy with two first names...
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
September 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Never trust a guy with two first names...
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Increasingly of the view that Yvette Cooper watched Children Of Men and saw it as utopian.
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Home Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and services
Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Increasingly of the view that Yvette Cooper watched Children Of Men and saw it as utopian.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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From this week’s Beano.
August 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From this week’s Beano.
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🚨 new Terre Thaemlitz mix 🚨
"DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza." - @residentadvisor.bsky.social
"I felt this should reflect the moment in which it was made" - Terre soundcloud.com/resident-adv...
"DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza." - @residentadvisor.bsky.social
"I felt this should reflect the moment in which it was made" - Terre soundcloud.com/resident-adv...
RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz (AKA DJ Sprinkles)
For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.
Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can
soundcloud.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🚨 new Terre Thaemlitz mix 🚨
"DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza." - @residentadvisor.bsky.social
"I felt this should reflect the moment in which it was made" - Terre soundcloud.com/resident-adv...
"DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza." - @residentadvisor.bsky.social
"I felt this should reflect the moment in which it was made" - Terre soundcloud.com/resident-adv...
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this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is
can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try
can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is
can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try
can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try