Arron Wright
@nonoxcol.bsky.social
Hello. Mastermind specialist subjects:
1. The Ashes since 1981
2. The Civil Rights Movement
3. Girls Aloud
I also create stuff: see @mu21cvs.bsky.social for details.
Next: #TheTenx5.
He/him. Sheffield. Green. Pop-crazed.
Pic: Kilimanjaro, 17/9/24.
1. The Ashes since 1981
2. The Civil Rights Movement
3. Girls Aloud
I also create stuff: see @mu21cvs.bsky.social for details.
Next: #TheTenx5.
He/him. Sheffield. Green. Pop-crazed.
Pic: Kilimanjaro, 17/9/24.
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Arron Wright
@nonoxcol.bsky.social
· Jun 24
PROJECT GA60 - THE WHOLE LOT(ta History)
PROJECT GA60 “INTRO” Hi How U? What is ‘Project GA60?’ It is a celebration of a pop band who have been a perpetual source of joy, delight and comfort in the last nine years. It is timed to coincide w...
docs.google.com
#ProjectGA60
My month of self-indulgence is over.
I started it carried away and became more so. Which fits, as they started brilliantly and became more so.
Anyway, here's 'The Whole Lot(ta History)' Edition.
Signing off... now 🤞for a Deep Cuts Show :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My month of self-indulgence is over.
I started it carried away and became more so. Which fits, as they started brilliantly and became more so.
Anyway, here's 'The Whole Lot(ta History)' Edition.
Signing off... now 🤞for a Deep Cuts Show :)
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The best episode of his podcast is the one where him and co-host Dorian lynsky admit they did not know what neoliberalism was and they thought it was just a word used as an insult by online leftists. Dorian linsky blocked me for bringing this up once. 💀
Dunt grew up in 1980s Chile 💀💀💀
Dunt grew up in 1980s Chile 💀💀💀
January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The best episode of his podcast is the one where him and co-host Dorian lynsky admit they did not know what neoliberalism was and they thought it was just a word used as an insult by online leftists. Dorian linsky blocked me for bringing this up once. 💀
Dunt grew up in 1980s Chile 💀💀💀
Dunt grew up in 1980s Chile 💀💀💀
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2006 was ofc peak salad days for the Sensibles: between the Invasion of Iraq that they could justify away & the 2007/8 Great Financial Crisis that exploded all the contradictions of their worldview that they had refused to recognise, despite many people expending lots of energy to get them to notice
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
2006 was ofc peak salad days for the Sensibles: between the Invasion of Iraq that they could justify away & the 2007/8 Great Financial Crisis that exploded all the contradictions of their worldview that they had refused to recognise, despite many people expending lots of energy to get them to notice
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AI is being promoted, marketed and force fed to us by the rich and powerful in order to make us more productive, compliant slaves. It represents the death of human creativity, of the struggle to improve ourselves.
It is a form of mass-lobotomisation on an unprecedented scale.
It is a form of mass-lobotomisation on an unprecedented scale.
The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
January 28, 2026 at 10:36 AM
AI is being promoted, marketed and force fed to us by the rich and powerful in order to make us more productive, compliant slaves. It represents the death of human creativity, of the struggle to improve ourselves.
It is a form of mass-lobotomisation on an unprecedented scale.
It is a form of mass-lobotomisation on an unprecedented scale.
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The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
January 28, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
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And there was a big Newsround special with the great John Craven a few days later. Somewhat depressingly, this is far better reporting than you get on a lot of mainstream, adult news telly programming now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keL3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keL3...
Newsround Extra The Challenger Disaster 31 January 1986
YouTube video by Neil Ogden
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
And there was a big Newsround special with the great John Craven a few days later. Somewhat depressingly, this is far better reporting than you get on a lot of mainstream, adult news telly programming now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keL3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=keL3...
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my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
name a fucking high school after him.
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
name a fucking high school after him.
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"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
I wept reading this. I'm glad it was written.
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I wept reading this. I'm glad it was written.
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."
I wept reading this. I'm glad it was written.
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I wept reading this. I'm glad it was written.
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
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Once again, @ayoub.bsky.social is one of the most important thinkers that we have. Essential analysis here.
shado-mag.com/articles/opi... “Despite the ongoing horrors by ICE, we have yet to see nationwide outrage over Reform’s plans to bring those horrors to the UK.”
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
In today's article shado editor Elia Ayoub discusses Reform’s “Operation Restore Justice”, the risks of a British ICE and how we can resist.
shado-mag.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Once again, @ayoub.bsky.social is one of the most important thinkers that we have. Essential analysis here.
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Better Call Saul
(but the episode title is funnier)
(but the episode title is funnier)
January 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Better Call Saul
(but the episode title is funnier)
(but the episode title is funnier)
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Maybe offer everyone free media literacy training instead.
It would be far more useful.
It would be far more useful.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Maybe offer everyone free media literacy training instead.
It would be far more useful.
It would be far more useful.
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Mel isn’t saying much today that’s notably crazier than the stuff she was saying five years ago, or fifteen. All of her colleagues have always fully understood she is a crackpot fascist, and you’ll notice this has never harmed her career. Unlike the baleful menace that is, say, Gary Lineker.
January 28, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Mel isn’t saying much today that’s notably crazier than the stuff she was saying five years ago, or fifteen. All of her colleagues have always fully understood she is a crackpot fascist, and you’ll notice this has never harmed her career. Unlike the baleful menace that is, say, Gary Lineker.
Connections
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January 28, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Connections
Puzzle #962
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however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely
January 28, 2026 at 6:49 AM
however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely
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Well this certainly augurs well for anyone going to a World Cup game in the US. Absolutely no danger of being killed for no apparent reason
January 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Well this certainly augurs well for anyone going to a World Cup game in the US. Absolutely no danger of being killed for no apparent reason
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It’s heartwarming to see the MAJORITY of Cambridge Uni students & societies are speaking up for trans-inclusion when a nasty little TERF soc pops up with an anti-trans (disguised as ‘free speech’) agenda!
Watch how this hate group gets boosted by the UK media (her mum is an Observer columnist!) 😖
Watch how this hate group gets boosted by the UK media (her mum is an Observer columnist!) 😖
Students launch women’s society excluding trans women
The move has drawn significant criticism from a number of student groups, with CULC describing it as 'an assault on the trans community'
www.varsity.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It’s heartwarming to see the MAJORITY of Cambridge Uni students & societies are speaking up for trans-inclusion when a nasty little TERF soc pops up with an anti-trans (disguised as ‘free speech’) agenda!
Watch how this hate group gets boosted by the UK media (her mum is an Observer columnist!) 😖
Watch how this hate group gets boosted by the UK media (her mum is an Observer columnist!) 😖
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I have all kinds of wacky ideas but I never get grief about it IRL, because I don’t go out of my way to be an arsehole about it.
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have all kinds of wacky ideas but I never get grief about it IRL, because I don’t go out of my way to be an arsehole about it.
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A story is doing the rounds about TERFs confronting two trans women in the Hippodrome Casino women’s bathroom.
What isn’t mentioned is that anti-trans hate group “Not All Gays” had hired a room there, so the venue was swarming with ‘gender critical’ transphobes vying for a confrontation!😣
What isn’t mentioned is that anti-trans hate group “Not All Gays” had hired a room there, so the venue was swarming with ‘gender critical’ transphobes vying for a confrontation!😣
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
A story is doing the rounds about TERFs confronting two trans women in the Hippodrome Casino women’s bathroom.
What isn’t mentioned is that anti-trans hate group “Not All Gays” had hired a room there, so the venue was swarming with ‘gender critical’ transphobes vying for a confrontation!😣
What isn’t mentioned is that anti-trans hate group “Not All Gays” had hired a room there, so the venue was swarming with ‘gender critical’ transphobes vying for a confrontation!😣
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Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.
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Just glance at Minnesota to see where this leads.
Suella Braverman, "There is a very strong case to increase the powers of any immigration enforcement officers that we deploy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
"At the moment they're hamstrung by human rights laws, by health and safety laws, by all sorts of needless and obstructive bureaucracy"
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Just glance at Minnesota to see where this leads.
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so like a week after everyone else, who made jokes in ignorance, learned that it was due to a medical issue.
good stuff. top bants-merchant is our keir.
good stuff. top bants-merchant is our keir.
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
Keir Starmer makes fun of Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses at comedy show
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:11 AM
so like a week after everyone else, who made jokes in ignorance, learned that it was due to a medical issue.
good stuff. top bants-merchant is our keir.
good stuff. top bants-merchant is our keir.
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These cars should be banned in the UK, there is no reason for them to exist.
A fair way of ensuring we tax road use would be to tax by car weight as well as emissions - with cars this heavy taxed into oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
A fair way of ensuring we tax road use would be to tax by car weight as well as emissions - with cars this heavy taxed into oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
These cars should be banned in the UK, there is no reason for them to exist.
A fair way of ensuring we tax road use would be to tax by car weight as well as emissions - with cars this heavy taxed into oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
A fair way of ensuring we tax road use would be to tax by car weight as well as emissions - with cars this heavy taxed into oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Two days late, who gives a fuck.
Genuinely, imho, the best UK no.1 single by a British artist in the last 20 years.
Genuinely, imho, the best UK no.1 single by a British artist in the last 20 years.
January 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Two days late, who gives a fuck.
Genuinely, imho, the best UK no.1 single by a British artist in the last 20 years.
Genuinely, imho, the best UK no.1 single by a British artist in the last 20 years.
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this is bleakly funny, but also - people at the NYT, BBC News etc DO think it's an exciting time for politics, that's really one of the fundamental causes for this, they think it's a fucking parlour game
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 PM
this is bleakly funny, but also - people at the NYT, BBC News etc DO think it's an exciting time for politics, that's really one of the fundamental causes for this, they think it's a fucking parlour game