Dorian Lynskey
@dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
To anyone confused by Badenoch making a couple of good calls on Jenrick and Greenland: relax, normal idiot service has been resumed
This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
To anyone confused by Badenoch making a couple of good calls on Jenrick and Greenland: relax, normal idiot service has been resumed
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Transphobia really does rot your brain.
January 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Transphobia really does rot your brain.
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Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.
Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.
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who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters
Industry is really not a show about twatty young folk in the City anymore is it? What an episode. What a show
January 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Industry is really not a show about twatty young folk in the City anymore is it? What an episode. What a show
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what they understand about authoritarianism they have gotten from movies and YA novels
How is it that so many people think that authoritarianism is a way to bypass completely public opinion?
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
what they understand about authoritarianism they have gotten from movies and YA novels
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I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!
So apparently Dylan Mulvaney got cast in a Broadway musical... which resulted in transphobes losing their minds and threatening to "Bud Light" the show... and now the show's Twitter page is locked down. Cool cool.
January 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!
I hate this kind of take so much. Either it’s a shocking inability to tell bad from worse or posturing “America has always sucked you fools” cynicism. Either way, absolutely useless if not actively poisonous
January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I hate this kind of take so much. Either it’s a shocking inability to tell bad from worse or posturing “America has always sucked you fools” cynicism. Either way, absolutely useless if not actively poisonous
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One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.
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We asked everyone an insanely loaded question about trans rights and their response will shock you
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
We asked everyone an insanely loaded question about trans rights and their response will shock you
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This is what happens when all the smart people leave a platform, you’re left reading the dumbest motherfuckers alive because it’s what’s left
It's pretty clear this person is not mentally well.
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is what happens when all the smart people leave a platform, you’re left reading the dumbest motherfuckers alive because it’s what’s left
I'm surprised that my assessment of conservatism has come back around to the one I held at 17 but then conservatism has become every bit as nakedly horrific as I thought it was then. (To be clear I was never a fan but I did question my instinctive hatred in the interim, as I do with everything)
January 19, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I'm surprised that my assessment of conservatism has come back around to the one I held at 17 but then conservatism has become every bit as nakedly horrific as I thought it was then. (To be clear I was never a fan but I did question my instinctive hatred in the interim, as I do with everything)
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a) Clare Malone is really great at this
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
a) Clare Malone is really great at this
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
b) Bari is basically Aimee Semple McPherson, and we know how that ends
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I oppose a U-16 ban but I think a consultation is legitimate and far preferable to the kneejerk demands of Haidt-brained hysterics who want to copy a law Australia introduced literally last month
Downing St is poised to launch a consultation into social media restrictions on teenagers, here’s our scoop from Saturday’s FT:
www.ft.com/content/acbe...
www.ft.com/content/acbe...
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I oppose a U-16 ban but I think a consultation is legitimate and far preferable to the kneejerk demands of Haidt-brained hysterics who want to copy a law Australia introduced literally last month
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i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 AM
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
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I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
The Trump administration has discussed offering asylum to Britain’s Jewish population, a lawyer for the president has said.
Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews” ⬇️
Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews” ⬇️
Trump lawyer says US discussed offering asylum to British Jews
Trump lawyer says US discussed offering asylum to British Jews
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
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An outbreak of Yeats. Good time to revisit this by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social. Maybe this time it'll reach Bethlehem
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming
Written 100 years ago, Yeats’s poem has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream from Chinua Achebe to The Sopranos, Joan Didion to Gordon Gecko. Why is it such a touchstone in times of chaos?
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:54 AM
An outbreak of Yeats. Good time to revisit this by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social. Maybe this time it'll reach Bethlehem
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
My guess is (1) Trump is a great deal madder than he used to be and (b) the implications of America going rogue were so huge that denial was very appealing
James is exactly right on Trump and European leaders (finally) waking up to him. But it’s the same problem as we have in our commentariat and elites. Trump doing terrible and dangerous this is how he works. We’ve known this for over a decade. Why has it taken so long for our leaders to wake up?
The mix of it and Venuzela I think - it shows he's willing to do mental shit and theyve increasingly realised he's serious.
I suspect initally they thought it waa a wind up - like the Canada stuff - and have realised its not
I suspect initally they thought it waa a wind up - like the Canada stuff - and have realised its not
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
My guess is (1) Trump is a great deal madder than he used to be and (b) the implications of America going rogue were so huge that denial was very appealing
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January 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Everything is gender
January 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Everything is gender
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Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.
January 18, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.
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An animated film that's a haunting meditation on loneliness with an ageing character wearing oversized glasses ..
January 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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