Rob
@robg8.bsky.social
Welshman living across the bridge. Interested in 🇪🇦🇫🇷🇬🇷🇪🇺 and Latin America. And in history, law, & politics - and sci-fi!
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Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.
the very last person who should be prattling on about the dangers of inexperience is the grifting troglodyte who killed millions when he was put in charge of “efficiency”
Best Twitter riposte of the day
December 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Of all the examples of people dying because somebody inexperienced was in charge, the biggest, most horrifying was Elon Musk and DOGE. No idea what AID did, didn’t care, blew it up and at least 600,000 people died unnecessarily as a consequence. Mass murder out of ignorance and bias. Thanks, Elon.
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Tiene gracia que El País deposite en el PSOE la responsabilidad de abrir "una posible vía de diálogo", cuando es la derecha la que ha dinamitado todas.
Columna | "Lo esperable es que, cuando se decida a convocar las elecciones, Sánchez indique a su partido un nuevo candidato, a ser posible una mujer, con una imagen más cercana a una posible vía de diálogo", por Soledad Gallego-Díaz
Sánchez no debería volver a ser candidato | Columna
Cuando el Presidente se decida a convocar elecciones, podría indicar una nueva candidatura, a ser posible, una mujer con vocación de diálogo
elpais.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Tiene gracia que El País deposite en el PSOE la responsabilidad de abrir "una posible vía de diálogo", cuando es la derecha la que ha dinamitado todas.
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Have the JC and BoD demanded an explanation from Reform? This would be the lowest of low-hanging fruit to do, if they want any of their (often justified) condemnation of AS from the left to be taken seriously by the left.
Non-Christians must eat bacon for a month, says Reform candidate Chris Parry.
Reform UK are turning a blind eye to this racist.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Reform UK are turning a blind eye to this racist.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Non-Christians must eat bacon for a month, says Reform candidate
Chris Parry, standing to be mayor of Hampshire and the Solent, seems to be preoccupied with pork
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Have the JC and BoD demanded an explanation from Reform? This would be the lowest of low-hanging fruit to do, if they want any of their (often justified) condemnation of AS from the left to be taken seriously by the left.
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This is the Spanish govt's strategy for the new year 1. Keep on keeping on 2. Educate the electorate abt what a Vox govt wd mean 3. Remind voters that the PP has adopted a lot of Vox's racist, hate filled polices. Compare with Labour withh its massive majority
www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
Elma Saiz: “Este Gobierno es el garante de los derechos que Vox quiere dañar”
La nueva portavoz del Gobierno considera que el Partido Popular “ha traicionado a los autónomos”
www.lavanguardia.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is the Spanish govt's strategy for the new year 1. Keep on keeping on 2. Educate the electorate abt what a Vox govt wd mean 3. Remind voters that the PP has adopted a lot of Vox's racist, hate filled polices. Compare with Labour withh its massive majority
www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...
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No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
No one has ever been able to adequately explain what Putin is meant to have thought NATO expansion would threaten him with, apart from limiting his expansionist ambitions.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
"He was worried they'd invade Russia."
No he wasn't.
He just wasn't.
That's not a thing anyone thought might happen.
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2026 will be the year of combat donkeys and hypersonic missiles; of machine intelligence creating the first Top 40 hit and medieval grifters speaking in tongues in the Oval Office. It will be the year of monsters and dark miracles.
Another combat donkey joins the Russian army, now upgraded with helmet and body armor.
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
2026 will be the year of combat donkeys and hypersonic missiles; of machine intelligence creating the first Top 40 hit and medieval grifters speaking in tongues in the Oval Office. It will be the year of monsters and dark miracles.
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That’d be the animal spirits of entrepreneurship and innovation let loose to disrupt a staid, cosseted, complacent sector, right?
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
That’d be the animal spirits of entrepreneurship and innovation let loose to disrupt a staid, cosseted, complacent sector, right?
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Italian immigrant communities into America in the early 1900s were subjected to the most appalling degrees of racism and bigotry and it led to the USA actively moving to stop migration from Italy in a series of acts including the Emergency Quota Act (1921) and the restrictive Immigration Act (1924)
December 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Italian immigrant communities into America in the early 1900s were subjected to the most appalling degrees of racism and bigotry and it led to the USA actively moving to stop migration from Italy in a series of acts including the Emergency Quota Act (1921) and the restrictive Immigration Act (1924)
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This is not true at all.
Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia.
People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors
Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia.
People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors
December 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is not true at all.
Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia.
People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors
Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia.
People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors
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Farmers on both sides of the Atlantic appear to specialise in voting for something then becoming infuriated when they get it.
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Farmers on both sides of the Atlantic appear to specialise in voting for something then becoming infuriated when they get it.
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Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
A quick google informs me that after this surge, Australia provides about 4% of our beef imports, and our beef imports are about 25% of our consumption. So this headline is basically saying “anger as 0.6% becomes 1% of total” and I’m not sure that’s particularly justifiable
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Honestly also the brass neck of this paper, which cheered this asymmetric trade deal at the time and advocated that Liz Truss, the Cabinet minister who signed it should become *prime minister*.
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👇 This sums up underlying problem with actually existing Brexit. The ways you actually maximise the benefits of Brexit run against the electoral coalition for Brexit, are not popular enough with Remainers, just end up with 'you're divorced, but you refuse to join Tinder or move out of your home'.
The Telegraph pushing liberal brexiteers and then hating every possible implementation of a liberal Brexit has been amusing over the years
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
👇 This sums up underlying problem with actually existing Brexit. The ways you actually maximise the benefits of Brexit run against the electoral coalition for Brexit, are not popular enough with Remainers, just end up with 'you're divorced, but you refuse to join Tinder or move out of your home'.
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Studying history and reading novels both get us out of our own heads, the first by helping us to imagine different worlds, and the second by prompting us to inhabit different subjectivities.
Those who do neither are forever imprisoned in the here, the now, and the self.
Those who do neither are forever imprisoned in the here, the now, and the self.
December 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Studying history and reading novels both get us out of our own heads, the first by helping us to imagine different worlds, and the second by prompting us to inhabit different subjectivities.
Those who do neither are forever imprisoned in the here, the now, and the self.
Those who do neither are forever imprisoned in the here, the now, and the self.
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
Porque si eres de izquierdas, ¿por qué no ponerlo fácil a los de derechas...?
‼️Aragón: 𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘇𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗿𝗮́ 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘀 tras no lograr ponerse de acuerdo
🔴 IU - Movimiento Sumar
🟡 Chunta
🟣 Podemos
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🔴 IU - Movimiento Sumar
🟡 Chunta
🟣 Podemos
👇
electomania.es/aragon-la-iz...
Aragón: la izquierda alternativa concurrirá dividida en tres
La izquierda alternativa ha fracasado en su intento de conseguir una candidatura de unidad en Aragón y acudirá dividida a las elecciones del 8 de febrero con hasta tres candidaturas independientes: la…
electomania.es
December 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Porque si eres de izquierdas, ¿por qué no ponerlo fácil a los de derechas...?
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They were however white and Miller is just straightforwardly racist.
December 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
They were however white and Miller is just straightforwardly racist.
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
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The Right used to contain the staunchest monarchists, but their more recent burn-it-all-down creed pauses for nothing.
These people have a very corrupted view of Britishness and should not be allowed to 'own' patriotism.
These people have a very corrupted view of Britishness and should not be allowed to 'own' patriotism.
"Give it a rest" posted podcaster Connor Tomlinson at 3.15pm on Christmas Day about the King's message
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
Tomlinson advocates bamning all British citizens who are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist from parliament & civil service, along with ethnic minorities who lack white British ancestors.
December 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Right used to contain the staunchest monarchists, but their more recent burn-it-all-down creed pauses for nothing.
These people have a very corrupted view of Britishness and should not be allowed to 'own' patriotism.
These people have a very corrupted view of Britishness and should not be allowed to 'own' patriotism.
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Yes, yes, yes and yes again 👏👏👏👏
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December 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Yes, yes, yes and yes again 👏👏👏👏
alastair-meeks.medium.com/of-heaven-an...
alastair-meeks.medium.com/of-heaven-an...
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President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
President Trump announces details of his new Ukraine peace plan.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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Honestly, why bother releasing the Epstein files?
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Honestly, why bother releasing the Epstein files?
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The monarchy requires unity to function. The populist right requires division to thrive. They are irreconcilable. Great mini thread …
Sad and predictable but also interesting and revealing to see the angry reaction from the populist right to the King's Speech. They're reading it as a call for tolerance of diversity, approval for multi-faith, multi-cultural UK, and supportive of Ukraine. Which I think it was & intentionally so. 1/3
December 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The monarchy requires unity to function. The populist right requires division to thrive. They are irreconcilable. Great mini thread …
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Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.