Gav Maclean
@gavmaclean.bsky.social
Small time sociologist.
He/him
He/him
Someone hopefully will write a good article by next year about Chomsky and Manufacturing Consent in the context of Chomsky himself being part of the elite-supportive system. It would save me riffing around it in my lectures.
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Someone hopefully will write a good article by next year about Chomsky and Manufacturing Consent in the context of Chomsky himself being part of the elite-supportive system. It would save me riffing around it in my lectures.
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Everyday I think back to this headline
February 5, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Everyday I think back to this headline
could you be.. the most divorced dad in the world?
February 5, 2026 at 7:49 AM
could you be.. the most divorced dad in the world?
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This is right. The calculation was, "He's a piece of shit, but he's our piece of shit." They just didn't know he wasn't ours.*
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
February 4, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This is right. The calculation was, "He's a piece of shit, but he's our piece of shit." They just didn't know he wasn't ours.*
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Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
Tell 2020 me that we'd get the Tories out after 14 years but the next Labour PM would self immolate himself and possibly bring about the end the Labour Party by appointing Peter Mandelson. I'd never have left lockdown.
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Tell 2020 me that we'd get the Tories out after 14 years but the next Labour PM would self immolate himself and possibly bring about the end the Labour Party by appointing Peter Mandelson. I'd never have left lockdown.
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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poorly _aged_things.jpg
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Ah, all this Mandelson stuff so that we could keep that Socialist Campaign Group quiet. So nice to have the adults back in charge.
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Ah, all this Mandelson stuff so that we could keep that Socialist Campaign Group quiet. So nice to have the adults back in charge.
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"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.
trib.al
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
Well, this is a big loss
John Virgo, former snooker player and broadcaster, dies aged 79
Snooker great John Virgo has died at the age of 79, World Snooker Tour has announced
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Well, this is a big loss
Obviously Laura is simply observing the scrutiny rather than being part of it
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Obviously Laura is simply observing the scrutiny rather than being part of it
I'm now at an age where Gordon Brown is as good as it gets for political leadership in my lifetime. Look forward to him burying Mandelson in the trial.
February 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I'm now at an age where Gordon Brown is as good as it gets for political leadership in my lifetime. Look forward to him burying Mandelson in the trial.
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a dish served ice cold
February 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
a dish served ice cold
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“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
February 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
JFCCCCCC
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
damn, polycrisis got tooze
Wild to see a brilliant *economic* historian argue that “in NYC home cooking is a borderline vanity project.“ Brain totally melted by audience capture.
Treatler-Stalinism is a real ideology and an actual, tenured crackpot historian (who used to be a quite good historian) is a true believer in it.
We live in some goddamn interesting times.
We live in some goddamn interesting times.
February 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
damn, polycrisis got tooze
We're between posts 2 and 3 and about to start 10 days of strikes action next week ✊
*Special meetings with top brass guests
*Lecture on 'no alternative'
*Recruitment freeze
*More topslice of income from centre
*'Restructure' and loss of department
*Talk of 'cross cutting synergies'
*'Lower recruiting' courses cut
*Course mergers
*Module choices cut
*Voluntary Severance (a) (2/4)
*Lecture on 'no alternative'
*Recruitment freeze
*More topslice of income from centre
*'Restructure' and loss of department
*Talk of 'cross cutting synergies'
*'Lower recruiting' courses cut
*Course mergers
*Module choices cut
*Voluntary Severance (a) (2/4)
February 2, 2026 at 8:44 PM
We're between posts 2 and 3 and about to start 10 days of strikes action next week ✊
I'm imagining the £32,000 was made from media companies and Led By Donkeys attempts to dunk on it.
It's just really weird how much coverage this film is getting.
It's just really weird how much coverage this film is getting.
February 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I'm imagining the £32,000 was made from media companies and Led By Donkeys attempts to dunk on it.
It's just really weird how much coverage this film is getting.
It's just really weird how much coverage this film is getting.
Dunno why I hear the music from the Wombles whenever I see Ash Regan talk about prostitution
Scottish government confirms it will not back prostitution offences bill
Independent MSP Ash Regan's bill would make it a criminal offence to pay for sex in Scotland.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Dunno why I hear the music from the Wombles whenever I see Ash Regan talk about prostitution
just one of the most corrupt to ever do it
BREAKING on ft website:
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans
www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
Mandelson leaked sensitive UK government tax plans to Epstein
Former ambassador forwarded memo from special adviser to Gordon Brown to late sex offender in 2009
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
just one of the most corrupt to ever do it
there is a certain irony here too about Groundhog Day being 'hot' and Mandelson Scandal being 'new'
February 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
there is a certain irony here too about Groundhog Day being 'hot' and Mandelson Scandal being 'new'
trending checks out
February 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
trending checks out
Manufacturing Consent indeed. 🚮
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Manufacturing Consent indeed. 🚮