Olly B
@ollybain.bsky.social
Lefty, Antiracist, Antifascist, NOT a fan of brexit. Occasionally sweary. Keen on walking up mountains and such. Known to play the odd video game.
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A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
Sandie Peggie's agony...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
A review of the front page stories from the daily newspapers in Scotland.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
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This is why I say the British press is so much more poisonous than e.g. Fox News. Fox might be wackier and more insulting, but alternatives are available. In Britain, this is everything: all channels, all day, every day of the year. Unrelenting.
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is why I say the British press is so much more poisonous than e.g. Fox News. Fox might be wackier and more insulting, but alternatives are available. In Britain, this is everything: all channels, all day, every day of the year. Unrelenting.
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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On certain key areas, especially related to rights, you need a rizla paper to measure the difference in outcomes, if not stated policies, between Reform and Labour. That is not to say they are the same though. It's dangerous ground to think things "can't be worse" under Reform. 1/
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
On certain key areas, especially related to rights, you need a rizla paper to measure the difference in outcomes, if not stated policies, between Reform and Labour. That is not to say they are the same though. It's dangerous ground to think things "can't be worse" under Reform. 1/
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This is not a suggestion, even remotely, that Labour's current strategy of "support us doing evil crap because otherwise Reform's evil crap will be worse" is the right one. Reform's evil crap will be, but they'll get away with a lot because Labour have laid the groundwork and "normalised it". 2/
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This is not a suggestion, even remotely, that Labour's current strategy of "support us doing evil crap because otherwise Reform's evil crap will be worse" is the right one. Reform's evil crap will be, but they'll get away with a lot because Labour have laid the groundwork and "normalised it". 2/
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Bluesky (users): "We fucking love trans people!"
Bluesky (team):
Bluesky (team):
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
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Ed Davey says it is wrong to boycott Eurovision because of the "ceasefire.”
Meanwhile, since the ceasefire, Israel has killed 360+ Palestinians, injured 922+, and Gaza still sees 8 deaths/day on average.
The Genocide continues.
Pretending there is peace is a lie.
#BoycottEurovision
Meanwhile, since the ceasefire, Israel has killed 360+ Palestinians, injured 922+, and Gaza still sees 8 deaths/day on average.
The Genocide continues.
Pretending there is peace is a lie.
#BoycottEurovision
"There is a ceasefire in Gaza and therefore this action is the wrong thing"
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey hiding behind the pretend 'ceasefire' (which is the point of it) & saying its wrong for countries to boycott Eurovision. Pathetic. Supporting BDS is the very least anyone can do
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey hiding behind the pretend 'ceasefire' (which is the point of it) & saying its wrong for countries to boycott Eurovision. Pathetic. Supporting BDS is the very least anyone can do
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ed Davey says it is wrong to boycott Eurovision because of the "ceasefire.”
Meanwhile, since the ceasefire, Israel has killed 360+ Palestinians, injured 922+, and Gaza still sees 8 deaths/day on average.
The Genocide continues.
Pretending there is peace is a lie.
#BoycottEurovision
Meanwhile, since the ceasefire, Israel has killed 360+ Palestinians, injured 922+, and Gaza still sees 8 deaths/day on average.
The Genocide continues.
Pretending there is peace is a lie.
#BoycottEurovision
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‘as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender’ you know, the Labour Party is currently in power with a huge majority and could just change the law if they wanted to, but they clearly like this cruel stupid bullshit
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
‘as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender’ you know, the Labour Party is currently in power with a huge majority and could just change the law if they wanted to, but they clearly like this cruel stupid bullshit
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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This paragraph was a hell of a ride
October 6, 2023 at 2:22 AM
This paragraph was a hell of a ride
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"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
“I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"“My hope is that the message that the transgender community gets from this is not one of betrayal, but is one of our desire to continue to maintain those friendships and that support,...when that anger subsides the transgender community will know that we stand with them."
Nope, it's betrayal.
Nope, it's betrayal.
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This is another situation like the two child benefit cap. The govt is expending all its capital defending a status quo that is absolutely morally and politically revolting - right up until the moment it becomes impossible, when it will flip to have always been a 'moral mission' to reform it.
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
Thames Water has reported a leap in half-year profits to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third, even as it warned it faced huge funding uncertainties that could result in a rapid collapse into government control.
Britain’s biggest water company on Wednesday said it had swung into profit for the six months to September, after losing £230m in the same period in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is another situation like the two child benefit cap. The govt is expending all its capital defending a status quo that is absolutely morally and politically revolting - right up until the moment it becomes impossible, when it will flip to have always been a 'moral mission' to reform it.
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Institutions should fight fascism to the end. Institutions assimilating to fascism have betrayed us all.
Institutions claiming they conformed against their will have sacrificed the members that make it up & in doing so become useless & should cease to exist.
The ones who fight give folks a chance.
Institutions claiming they conformed against their will have sacrificed the members that make it up & in doing so become useless & should cease to exist.
The ones who fight give folks a chance.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Institutions should fight fascism to the end. Institutions assimilating to fascism have betrayed us all.
Institutions claiming they conformed against their will have sacrificed the members that make it up & in doing so become useless & should cease to exist.
The ones who fight give folks a chance.
Institutions claiming they conformed against their will have sacrificed the members that make it up & in doing so become useless & should cease to exist.
The ones who fight give folks a chance.
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Please add your names. Guides was a fantastic experience for me, and we can't let trans kids be excluded because of frothing bigots.
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
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December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Please add your names. Guides was a fantastic experience for me, and we can't let trans kids be excluded because of frothing bigots.
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
c.org/7xSDfYw7Cm
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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One of the things that is worrying me is that the virus *did* do the education, and it didn’t work.
In other words, people are so dumb, so jaded, so politicized, that it will take an *incredibly* lethal version to convince the antivaxxers.
And frankly, I’m not even sure that will work.
In other words, people are so dumb, so jaded, so politicized, that it will take an *incredibly* lethal version to convince the antivaxxers.
And frankly, I’m not even sure that will work.
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
One of the things that is worrying me is that the virus *did* do the education, and it didn’t work.
In other words, people are so dumb, so jaded, so politicized, that it will take an *incredibly* lethal version to convince the antivaxxers.
And frankly, I’m not even sure that will work.
In other words, people are so dumb, so jaded, so politicized, that it will take an *incredibly* lethal version to convince the antivaxxers.
And frankly, I’m not even sure that will work.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Love this accepted mantra of "you can't tax your way to growth"... Yes you can, and it's what happened in every developed nation during the high point of the mid 20th century when growth was consistently higher than the last 45 years of low tax low spend neoliberalism.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Love this accepted mantra of "you can't tax your way to growth"... Yes you can, and it's what happened in every developed nation during the high point of the mid 20th century when growth was consistently higher than the last 45 years of low tax low spend neoliberalism.
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imagine lecturing the creator of Florb. imagine sending a bad faith response to the creator of Scrotetto
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
imagine lecturing the creator of Florb. imagine sending a bad faith response to the creator of Scrotetto
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So much of our politics revolves around catering to the emotions of people who become furious when someone else isn't suffering as much as they think they should
The restriction on car makes in Motability is a perfect and horrible example of Government By Vibes. it saves no money, it helps absolutely nobody, all it does is makes a few cruel and angry people feel better while disadvantaging people with mobility needs.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So much of our politics revolves around catering to the emotions of people who become furious when someone else isn't suffering as much as they think they should