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...
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#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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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
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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 1:37 AM
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."
Connections
Puzzle #961
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January 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Puzzle #961
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The VCs bros have convinced themselves they are on some moral crusade. They will be behind the scenes trying to cling to power in the midterms and beyond.
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The VCs bros have convinced themselves they are on some moral crusade. They will be behind the scenes trying to cling to power in the midterms and beyond.
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
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No argument from me, but before we move on to screwing the next dickhead into the leader’s chair, can we pause and ask: how come Britain’s best paid politics-understanders spent over five years telling everyone who would listen this obviously weird dork was a shit hot political operator?
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM
No argument from me, but before we move on to screwing the next dickhead into the leader’s chair, can we pause and ask: how come Britain’s best paid politics-understanders spent over five years telling everyone who would listen this obviously weird dork was a shit hot political operator?
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Literally going mad and then subsequently doing irrational and unacceptable things is the side of mental illness that society has not yet started to understand.
January 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Literally going mad and then subsequently doing irrational and unacceptable things is the side of mental illness that society has not yet started to understand.
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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When The Media Sees Fascism
February 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
When The Media Sees Fascism
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Sorry to import this to bluesky but it was brought to my attention. Rosie Duffield, my MP, is truly morally bankrupt
January 26, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Sorry to import this to bluesky but it was brought to my attention. Rosie Duffield, my MP, is truly morally bankrupt
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January 26, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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It’s not only that he’s a deeply evil man with zero political instincts or charisma.
He’s also really weird.
He’s also really weird.
I had to check if this was real...
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
January 26, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It’s not only that he’s a deeply evil man with zero political instincts or charisma.
He’s also really weird.
He’s also really weird.
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Nope, it’s been all wagons circled, all guns pointing outwards together since at least the student austerity protests. Elite solidarity needs no sales pitch. What has failed here is the same thing that failed in Johnson’s tenure: it is *embarrassing as fuck*, and that makes everyone look very bad.
January 26, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Nope, it’s been all wagons circled, all guns pointing outwards together since at least the student austerity protests. Elite solidarity needs no sales pitch. What has failed here is the same thing that failed in Johnson’s tenure: it is *embarrassing as fuck*, and that makes everyone look very bad.
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NEW| Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
In an attempt to maintain balance, the BBC is letting obvious lies go unchallenged.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 AM
NEW| Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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I had to check if this was real...
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
January 26, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I had to check if this was real...
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
What in the name of Scotch fuck?
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What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election?
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
January 26, 2026 at 9:46 AM
What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election?
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
Reform winning?
Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about.
They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.
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This is the problem, I think: the political class did not understand they were insanely lucky to have a straight up genius of the bullshitter’s art coinciding with peak neoliberal expansion, and they assume that can be recreated. Nope! You had your shot with this, and you chose to spend it on wars.
This is what happens when your idea of baseline politics is Tony Blair - a generationally remarkable bullshit artist who for a few years managed to sell exactly this stuff as bold, radical and visionary, a feat nobody can now repeat.
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This is the problem, I think: the political class did not understand they were insanely lucky to have a straight up genius of the bullshitter’s art coinciding with peak neoliberal expansion, and they assume that can be recreated. Nope! You had your shot with this, and you chose to spend it on wars.
And I threw that * at Reliquia, after correctly figuring nothing else non-American I voted for (not even 'Illegal') had a sniff.
And the top 20 singles (including one token male artist, congratulations DJ Danz):
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 AM
And I threw that * at Reliquia, after correctly figuring nothing else non-American I voted for (not even 'Illegal') had a sniff.
There is only one "highest points given 21" here, and it was me.
My only other scorers being 18 for Lily and 16 for Rosalia, which weirdly is exactly what two others must have given Lux.
Certainly got my calculations right on the single figure albums, i.e. they didn't have a sniff!
My only other scorers being 18 for Lily and 16 for Rosalia, which weirdly is exactly what two others must have given Lux.
Certainly got my calculations right on the single figure albums, i.e. they didn't have a sniff!
For the "I will never click on outlinks on principle" crowd, our top 20 albums of 2025:
January 26, 2026 at 9:14 AM
There is only one "highest points given 21" here, and it was me.
My only other scorers being 18 for Lily and 16 for Rosalia, which weirdly is exactly what two others must have given Lux.
Certainly got my calculations right on the single figure albums, i.e. they didn't have a sniff!
My only other scorers being 18 for Lily and 16 for Rosalia, which weirdly is exactly what two others must have given Lux.
Certainly got my calculations right on the single figure albums, i.e. they didn't have a sniff!
Connections
Puzzle #960
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Puzzle #960
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January 26, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Puzzle #960
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Puzzle #960
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The BBC, which should be the best of the best for international reporting for UK audiences, has at least made it the lead item, but look at the false balance!
‘Federal authorities claim Alex Pretti was a "domestic terrorist" although
Minnesota's governor has criticised their account as "nonsense".’
‘Federal authorities claim Alex Pretti was a "domestic terrorist" although
Minnesota's governor has criticised their account as "nonsense".’
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The BBC, which should be the best of the best for international reporting for UK audiences, has at least made it the lead item, but look at the false balance!
‘Federal authorities claim Alex Pretti was a "domestic terrorist" although
Minnesota's governor has criticised their account as "nonsense".’
‘Federal authorities claim Alex Pretti was a "domestic terrorist" although
Minnesota's governor has criticised their account as "nonsense".’