DanC
@danc.bsky.social
Ex-English teacher, writer & editor, anti-fascist, linguist, LUFC-enjoyer & 6Music dad.
EngLangBlog: https://tinyurl.com/5n8kmxwy
Lexis podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa
EngLangBlog: https://tinyurl.com/5n8kmxwy
Lexis podcast: https://tinyurl.com/mr4atnkh
Pronouns: He/him
Proper nouns: Eldritch, Marx, Bielsa
Oh well, if we're all doom and gloom on here, just imagine what Waccoe and Swastwitter are like 😬
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Oh well, if we're all doom and gloom on here, just imagine what Waccoe and Swastwitter are like 😬
That's all on Farke - lost that game in the 60-75 minute period where he stands there like a hairy rabbit and freezes in the headlights, making his changes far too late - and we've seen it before so many times.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
That's all on Farke - lost that game in the 60-75 minute period where he stands there like a hairy rabbit and freezes in the headlights, making his changes far too late - and we've seen it before so many times.
Interesting that Forest fans couldn't decide between calling #LUFC 'dirty northern bastards' and 'dirty Yorkshire bastards', sitting as they do in the northern bit of the east Midlands.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Interesting that Forest fans couldn't decide between calling #LUFC 'dirty northern bastards' and 'dirty Yorkshire bastards', sitting as they do in the northern bit of the east Midlands.
Dear Herr Farke, please play some exciting attacking players in the 2nd half.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Dear Herr Farke, please play some exciting attacking players in the 2nd half.
New idiom just dropped. From an idiot.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New idiom just dropped. From an idiot.
Paging @tonythorne007.bsky.social ! New (good!) term just dropped... 'swoletariat'
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Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”.
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want.
Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Paging @tonythorne007.bsky.social ! New (good!) term just dropped... 'swoletariat'
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Feels like a day for this.
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Feels like a day for this.
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When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
When you stop using X then open it back up after a while, you realize how obviously it’s designed to elevate vicious jerks who share Musk and Trump’s cruelest, dumbest beliefs. Harder to see when you’re addicted to it; blazingly apparent from the outside looking in.
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
Journalists: It’s bad for you!
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
This seems like the kind of result that @haveyouheard.bsky.social will be quite excited about 😅
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This seems like the kind of result that @haveyouheard.bsky.social will be quite excited about 😅
Lol, the Telegraph have stood up their Panorama bias story with a quote from Liz Fucking Kershaw 😂😂😂😂😂
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Lol, the Telegraph have stood up their Panorama bias story with a quote from Liz Fucking Kershaw 😂😂😂😂😂
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Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
www.newscientist.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes
Always a good listen.
Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating 300 episodes! 🎉
This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty!
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...
This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty!
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...
November 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Always a good listen.
We've been very very poor today - Perri's distribution, Bogle's defending, Longstaff's deliveries, no cutting edge from anyone. Thought we'd at least make a game of it. #LUFC
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We've been very very poor today - Perri's distribution, Bogle's defending, Longstaff's deliveries, no cutting edge from anyone. Thought we'd at least make a game of it. #LUFC
Great to see the real enemy, West Ham's notorious ICF being singled out for attention here and in their own colours too. Must hurt.
This is the kind of cross-marginalized-group unity that it is so good to see.
This is solidarity and it's beautiful.
This is solidarity and it's beautiful.
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Great to see the real enemy, West Ham's notorious ICF being singled out for attention here and in their own colours too. Must hurt.
Reposted by DanC
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
At Hallowe'en I like to remember my mum who nabbed my Fields of the Nephilim 'Last of the Western Heroes' t-shirt soon after I left for university and wore it for gardening and meals on wheels visits to local pensioners, no doubt scaring the living shit out of them.
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
At Hallowe'en I like to remember my mum who nabbed my Fields of the Nephilim 'Last of the Western Heroes' t-shirt soon after I left for university and wore it for gardening and meals on wheels visits to local pensioners, no doubt scaring the living shit out of them.
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🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.
We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.
We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.
We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.
We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.
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New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Why are some academics *still* using X?
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Why are some academics *still* using X?