Freewheel
@freewheel.bsky.social
Where does the West end and the East begin?
(formerly @ire_engine)
(formerly @ire_engine)
It’s going to be quite interesting to see how ordinary people choose to express themselves in the growing absence of democratic representation and the rule of law.
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
It’s going to be quite interesting to see how ordinary people choose to express themselves in the growing absence of democratic representation and the rule of law.
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It's not actually a mystery is it? It's a project that despises curiosity, difference, intellectual inquiry, humanity, complexity, difficulty, compassion, soul - and exalts crude and charmless displays of wealth and power. It is tacky, hateful, boorish and stupid - of course it makes shit art lol
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:37 PM
It's not actually a mystery is it? It's a project that despises curiosity, difference, intellectual inquiry, humanity, complexity, difficulty, compassion, soul - and exalts crude and charmless displays of wealth and power. It is tacky, hateful, boorish and stupid - of course it makes shit art lol
In “alarming cultural developments” news it appears that Noseybonk and Mr Blobby have formed a prog rock band.
youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY
youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY
Angine de Poitrine - Sherpa (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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February 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
In “alarming cultural developments” news it appears that Noseybonk and Mr Blobby have formed a prog rock band.
youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY
youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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There‘s lots of political incidents that still need clear accountability but if the Epstein stuff just gets turned into a stupid meme for zany tik toks and reels and there’s no justice then I feel like it will make people more insane than usual. How can anyone carry on pretending like it’s normal
February 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
There‘s lots of political incidents that still need clear accountability but if the Epstein stuff just gets turned into a stupid meme for zany tik toks and reels and there’s no justice then I feel like it will make people more insane than usual. How can anyone carry on pretending like it’s normal
Not only can Centrism not fix this, it *guarantees* it.
Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank
Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank
Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease
It would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the current rate of growth, according to a thinktank.
A two-decade stagnation in disposable incomes has created a “mood of unease” across the country, the Resolution Foundation says, warning of the risk of “further political disruption” unless pay growth accelerates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Not only can Centrism not fix this, it *guarantees* it.
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
Paying Discovery+ to watch the Olympics, but somehow still having to sit through adverts. Closing app for a few minutes each time on principle. This should be an either/or situation. People will put up with anything, it seems.
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Paying Discovery+ to watch the Olympics, but somehow still having to sit through adverts. Closing app for a few minutes each time on principle. This should be an either/or situation. People will put up with anything, it seems.
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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One of the many good things about the underrated GR Wildlands (2017) is that you can drive an analogue of these, and every one is slightly different.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
One of the many good things about the underrated GR Wildlands (2017) is that you can drive an analogue of these, and every one is slightly different.
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I only wish Dawn Foster was still around to enjoy seeing Streeting flapping around so desperately as he trips over his own feet at the finish line
It’s practically a work of art that he thinks we’re all that stupid.
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I only wish Dawn Foster was still around to enjoy seeing Streeting flapping around so desperately as he trips over his own feet at the finish line
The Blue Labour Damage Limitation Team are out in force today and characteristically overdoing it a bit in the replies here, “Keir Starmer’s considerable achievements” is not something anyone can read with a straight face.
The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones
The left warned that Starmerism would end like this. Now all of Britain faces the fallout | Owen Jones
Peter Mandelson helped Morgan McSweeney privilege Labour’s reactionary forces to sustain the PM, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
The Blue Labour Damage Limitation Team are out in force today and characteristically overdoing it a bit in the replies here, “Keir Starmer’s considerable achievements” is not something anyone can read with a straight face.
The people who made this spent more time thinking about it than those falling over themselves to have an edgy opinion about it.
We got a peek at the interior of Ferrari’s new Luce electric car, which was dreamed up by famed ex-Apple designer and his firm, LoveFrom. It looks and feels a whole lot like an Apple product.
Ferrari’s New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum
We got a peek at the interior of Ferrari’s new Luce electric car, which was dreamed up by famed ex-Apple designer and his firm, LoveFrom. It looks and feels a whole lot like an Apple product.
wrd.cm
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The people who made this spent more time thinking about it than those falling over themselves to have an edgy opinion about it.
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Once again: Keir Starmer has ruined something not just for Britain, but for the entire world.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Once again: Keir Starmer has ruined something not just for Britain, but for the entire world.
I’ve thought up an Olympics joke about age, injuries and Vonn diagrams but I don’t want to get shouted at (I hope she’s OK).
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I’ve thought up an Olympics joke about age, injuries and Vonn diagrams but I don’t want to get shouted at (I hope she’s OK).
Gone by dinner time then.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has told No 10 staff that he’s not resigning:
“We go forward from here. We go with confidence as we continue changing the country”
“We go forward from here. We go with confidence as we continue changing the country”
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Gone by dinner time then.
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Instead of hectoring the thousands of people Starmer gleefully purged into shedding tears for the pit of vipers now in government, maybe focus your energy down into the pit to ask that cartel of hissing geniuses why they didn't stop to think, for a single moment, about what they were fucking doing.
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Instead of hectoring the thousands of people Starmer gleefully purged into shedding tears for the pit of vipers now in government, maybe focus your energy down into the pit to ask that cartel of hissing geniuses why they didn't stop to think, for a single moment, about what they were fucking doing.
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But at root, they’ve faced the same problem as Johnson’s Tories: there was never anything *there*, there was only ever them feeding newspapers and broadcasters drivel, and the press stampeding that shit onto TVs and into print. After that, they were dogs that had caught cars. Clueless and useless.
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
But at root, they’ve faced the same problem as Johnson’s Tories: there was never anything *there*, there was only ever them feeding newspapers and broadcasters drivel, and the press stampeding that shit onto TVs and into print. After that, they were dogs that had caught cars. Clueless and useless.
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'why was the labour party so seduced by peter mandelson?'
what?
the modern labour party was invented by peter mandelson.
what?
the modern labour party was invented by peter mandelson.
February 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
'why was the labour party so seduced by peter mandelson?'
what?
the modern labour party was invented by peter mandelson.
what?
the modern labour party was invented by peter mandelson.
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Yes, this is what happens when people who behave horrifically - insulting and abusing colleagues, conspiring with the press to stoke screaming hate campaigns against them, proposing absurdly harsh crackdowns and so on - are rewarded and rewarded beyond their wildest dreams.
February 9, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Yes, this is what happens when people who behave horrifically - insulting and abusing colleagues, conspiring with the press to stoke screaming hate campaigns against them, proposing absurdly harsh crackdowns and so on - are rewarded and rewarded beyond their wildest dreams.
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saw someone post that the only conspiracy theory they believe in is that professor brian cox is bald and wears a hairpiece. now i can't unsee it. i am a brian cox hairpiece truther. his spiritual baldness is why he's like that, it explains everything.
February 9, 2026 at 9:47 AM
saw someone post that the only conspiracy theory they believe in is that professor brian cox is bald and wears a hairpiece. now i can't unsee it. i am a brian cox hairpiece truther. his spiritual baldness is why he's like that, it explains everything.