Mcanix
@notmcanix.bsky.social
The world’s foremost Rachel Reeves accelerationist
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V good - as Tom points out, much of living in the UK today is built around either believing, or tolerating, being lied to directly to your face. Pointing out the lie will get you yelled at, castigated and publicly shamed, and underneath it all, a fear of what happens once the lie unravels
Hi guys, I've decided as everyone else has to start a substack. Here's my first article, on how the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan furore lays bare the pretence at the heart of British politics. Feel free to subscribe, I'm going to try write at least 2 articles a month.
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
Fated to pretend
What the Maccabi Tel Aviv furore shows us all about pretending
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
V good - as Tom points out, much of living in the UK today is built around either believing, or tolerating, being lied to directly to your face. Pointing out the lie will get you yelled at, castigated and publicly shamed, and underneath it all, a fear of what happens once the lie unravels
Chuck Schumer lifetime bitch
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Chuck Schumer lifetime bitch
Something deeply incongruous about hearing For The Fallen being read out in a very bored customer service voice over a PA at Center Parcs. Feels more like an incantation than anything else
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Something deeply incongruous about hearing For The Fallen being read out in a very bored customer service voice over a PA at Center Parcs. Feels more like an incantation than anything else
In awe of the levels of hating, an inspiration to us all
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In awe of the levels of hating, an inspiration to us all
My girlfriends cat is such a fancy lad
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My girlfriends cat is such a fancy lad
The irony of The Torygraph criticising “copying the tactics of Farage and Trump” when they love Farage and Trump, they just can’t nakedly admit it to the level they want to
"hard left disruptors."
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Or just give a crap about people?
And want things to be affordable.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The irony of The Torygraph criticising “copying the tactics of Farage and Trump” when they love Farage and Trump, they just can’t nakedly admit it to the level they want to
Hasn’t Kieth Stauner spent the last few years telling us we’re flat broke and there’s no money for anything?
👉NEW -- The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam
by Richard Norton-Taylor
The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
by Richard Norton-Taylor
The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
www.declassifieduk.org/the-uks-1-bi...
The UK’s £1 billion Thank You to Uncle Sam
The UK is set to buy a fleet of US fighter jets that can drop nuclear bombs. The purchase is purely political, say watchdogs
www.declassifieduk.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hasn’t Kieth Stauner spent the last few years telling us we’re flat broke and there’s no money for anything?
I’m struggling to wrap my head around the levels of hubris involved here, it’s like MBS played Mass Effect and just decided “yes I need that”
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I’m struggling to wrap my head around the levels of hubris involved here, it’s like MBS played Mass Effect and just decided “yes I need that”
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
It’s going to be interesting to see whether Dem party leadership embrace Mamdani winning or whether they treat it as an aberration
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It’s going to be interesting to see whether Dem party leadership embrace Mamdani winning or whether they treat it as an aberration
I’m just idly opining here, this isn’t meant to be coherent, but I’m sort of less shocked about this sort of punitive punishment happening at a public/private school as opposed to state schools
One of the really important things to understand about the UK is that we hate our own kids. We resent them for still being young when we are old, and we want to punish them for it.
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I’m just idly opining here, this isn’t meant to be coherent, but I’m sort of less shocked about this sort of punitive punishment happening at a public/private school as opposed to state schools
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We strip-mined the future, the rich tearing the whole planet apart, the middle class getting bought off with a house. Now the future is the present and the kids who have to grow up in the ruins are asking: where's my future? And the answer is "fuck you, why are you trying to take my house?"
Yes and the punitive turn in education (silent corridors, isolation booths, 3 strikes systems etc) is a product of the fact society has nothing to offer the young.
There’s literally no carrot so it’s stick all the way down.
There’s literally no carrot so it’s stick all the way down.
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We strip-mined the future, the rich tearing the whole planet apart, the middle class getting bought off with a house. Now the future is the present and the kids who have to grow up in the ruins are asking: where's my future? And the answer is "fuck you, why are you trying to take my house?"
Just found my idiot robot vacuum beeping pitifully having ingested a sock trying to mount my bathroom scale. Feels like a cautionary tale about hedonism
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just found my idiot robot vacuum beeping pitifully having ingested a sock trying to mount my bathroom scale. Feels like a cautionary tale about hedonism
I already spend enough time in airports, I definitely don’t want to have to turn up two hours early for my fucking train
jfc they're actually talking about "metal detectors on trains", as if that would have changed anything
we need to start humiliating people who say stupid shit
we need to start humiliating people who say stupid shit
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I already spend enough time in airports, I definitely don’t want to have to turn up two hours early for my fucking train
So Blair’s had the memo that quantum computing is the next thing to keep the bubble going
You simply do not have to give article space to Tony Blair every time he wants to sell something.
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
So Blair’s had the memo that quantum computing is the next thing to keep the bubble going
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Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible.
November 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles including “Andrew”, curse him to wander the Earth as “the nameless one”
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Ah man I'm loving seeing the tension between the factions who have decided it's time for Reeves to go and the ones who are desperate for her to at least eat the least popular budget in British history before she's made to go.
NEW: No 10 says inquiry into Rachel Reeves house rental is repoened: "Following a review of emails sent and received by the chancellor's husband, new information has come to light. This has now been passed to the prime minister and his independent advisor." BUT Starmer still has confidence in her.
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ah man I'm loving seeing the tension between the factions who have decided it's time for Reeves to go and the ones who are desperate for her to at least eat the least popular budget in British history before she's made to go.
I’ve just found the ultimate gammon profile picture on Threads. I’m in awe of how glorious it is
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’ve just found the ultimate gammon profile picture on Threads. I’m in awe of how glorious it is
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oh this is my specialist subject. please enjoy the single worst thing bonay ever wrote
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
oh this is my specialist subject. please enjoy the single worst thing bonay ever wrote
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bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
This is like your most annoying friend now celebrating their birth week, but even more unhinged
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is like your most annoying friend now celebrating their birth week, but even more unhinged