Sean Bell
@seancmbell.bsky.social
Writer. Broke. Bylines: The Intercept, Heckle, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald, Source, Jacobin, openDemocracy. Scotland's leading expert on Elvis Presley-related sandwiches.
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Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.
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"she typed most of the book into her notes app while hiking" yeah i can tell
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"she typed most of the book into her notes app while hiking" yeah i can tell
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Please admire my 88 year old grandfather’s grocery list
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Please admire my 88 year old grandfather’s grocery list
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I think the most charming thing about Warhammer 40k is, at its heart, the lore feels like two five-year-olds constantly trying to one-up one another.
"MY guy is RAMBO and SHOOTS your guy!"
"Nuh-UH cuz my guy is made of DIAMONDS and EATS the bullet!"
"The bullet EXPLODES!"
"No cuz his tummy is ACID"
"MY guy is RAMBO and SHOOTS your guy!"
"Nuh-UH cuz my guy is made of DIAMONDS and EATS the bullet!"
"The bullet EXPLODES!"
"No cuz his tummy is ACID"
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I think the most charming thing about Warhammer 40k is, at its heart, the lore feels like two five-year-olds constantly trying to one-up one another.
"MY guy is RAMBO and SHOOTS your guy!"
"Nuh-UH cuz my guy is made of DIAMONDS and EATS the bullet!"
"The bullet EXPLODES!"
"No cuz his tummy is ACID"
"MY guy is RAMBO and SHOOTS your guy!"
"Nuh-UH cuz my guy is made of DIAMONDS and EATS the bullet!"
"The bullet EXPLODES!"
"No cuz his tummy is ACID"
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Not even going to get in to the weeds of how self-pitying Nuzzi's "I Did A Shit With My Clothes On: A Survivor's Tale" press tour is, OR that she landed another six-figure salary at a legacy publication ten months later.
Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not even going to get in to the weeds of how self-pitying Nuzzi's "I Did A Shit With My Clothes On: A Survivor's Tale" press tour is, OR that she landed another six-figure salary at a legacy publication ten months later.
Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
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yeah. MeToo, the George Floyd protests, and an ~18 month period of very tight labor markets induced a mental breakdown across the power elite bsky.app/profile/laur...
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
yeah. MeToo, the George Floyd protests, and an ~18 month period of very tight labor markets induced a mental breakdown across the power elite bsky.app/profile/laur...
My latest for @scotnational.bsky.social on Robert Louis Stevenson at 175: www.thenational.scot/news/2562796...
‘A master’: A reflection on Robert Louis Stevenson’s legacy at 175
ROBERT Louis Stevenson colours some of my earliest memories
www.thenational.scot
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My latest for @scotnational.bsky.social on Robert Louis Stevenson at 175: www.thenational.scot/news/2562796...
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"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny
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Nothing is romantic or interesting
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Nothing is romantic or interesting
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My old boss at Americans United once described the Catholic League as ‘one guy in a basement with a fax machine’ and he was correct
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My old boss at Americans United once described the Catholic League as ‘one guy in a basement with a fax machine’ and he was correct
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Every so often, I turn off my adblocker, and remember why it's difficult to drum up enthusiasm about the web. Google should be regulated like a chemical company leaching sludge into the groundwater.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Every so often, I turn off my adblocker, and remember why it's difficult to drum up enthusiasm about the web. Google should be regulated like a chemical company leaching sludge into the groundwater.
"My God - Jimmy Hoffa!"
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"My God - Jimmy Hoffa!"
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Popularity contest between NHS staff and this guy? I’d be putting my cash on the doctors to win that one, myself.
'Don't tell me you don't want to be out on strike - because that is exactly where you are. Own it.'
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Popularity contest between NHS staff and this guy? I’d be putting my cash on the doctors to win that one, myself.
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Things are extremely weird rn
@sarahweinman.com sorry to blow up your mentions this morning but !!!
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Things are extremely weird rn
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"Only when it was funny"
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"Only when it was funny"
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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i saw Cale for free in Prospect Park a few years ago and he did such an off putting set (complimentary) that multiple friends left halfway through. Dudes rock, unironically
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
i saw Cale for free in Prospect Park a few years ago and he did such an off putting set (complimentary) that multiple friends left halfway through. Dudes rock, unironically
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it is simply crazy that we live in a world where politicians have to backtrack and deny that they ever called for defunding the police, when the real people who should be made to answer for their extremism are those who support the current realities of our police state
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
it is simply crazy that we live in a world where politicians have to backtrack and deny that they ever called for defunding the police, when the real people who should be made to answer for their extremism are those who support the current realities of our police state
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liberals and conservatives alike talk about defunding the police and decarceration as if these are extreme, radical, unthinkable ideas— but truly what is more extreme, radical, and unthinkable than what's happening *right now* in our police state.
This week on Reveal: A ‘Goon Squad’ of sheriff’s deputies roamed Rankin County, Mississippi, beating and choking people until they confessed to drug crimes.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
Signs of the violence went ignored for years.
How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality
A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.
revealnews.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
liberals and conservatives alike talk about defunding the police and decarceration as if these are extreme, radical, unthinkable ideas— but truly what is more extreme, radical, and unthinkable than what's happening *right now* in our police state.
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"I have trained my whole life in the battlefield of crisis" - me, when the cats are trying to destroy my office chair
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"I have trained my whole life in the battlefield of crisis" - me, when the cats are trying to destroy my office chair
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all