adamfelixobrien
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
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![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
July 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Bari Weiss's website assigned a reporter to read every single Zohran Mamdani tweet over the last 18 years and came up with shockingly little dirt.
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
www.thefp.com/p/capitalism...
COME SEE MY SHOW THIS WEEKEND PLZ
May 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
COME SEE MY SHOW THIS WEEKEND PLZ
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However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough
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i do find it weird how many 'elite, respectable' commentators feel the need to announce that they would have been a sexual predator in middle school, they just couldn't figure out how
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
i do find it weird how many 'elite, respectable' commentators feel the need to announce that they would have been a sexual predator in middle school, they just couldn't figure out how
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Whenever I have a little hang with @adamfelixobrien.bsky.social and @rpflynn.bsky.social on the cards it goes in the diary as 'Ugly Girls Charity Ball' or something.
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Whenever I have a little hang with @adamfelixobrien.bsky.social and @rpflynn.bsky.social on the cards it goes in the diary as 'Ugly Girls Charity Ball' or something.
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I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
ABC White House correspondent just released ANOTHER anti-trans EO expected that we did not cover in our piece this morning:
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
A federal ban on funding to programs that acknowledge and affirm transgender people.
January 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.
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If you missed it/are interested I wrote this rant about lazy comedians blaming wokeness for their bad jokes because it drives me insane 😃😃😃😃😃
uh oh! It's the internet's darling
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...
Comedians obsessed with 'wokeness' are the ones ruining comedy
there's nothing less funny than old lazy jokes about cancel culture that we've heard before
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If you missed it/are interested I wrote this rant about lazy comedians blaming wokeness for their bad jokes because it drives me insane 😃😃😃😃😃
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Producers/PRs, when a show does not travel north of Newcastle or west of Bristol, that is not a UK tour. That’s a national tour of England, which is fine.
But calling it a UK tour gets me excited when it lands in my inbox, then I’m disappointed when it isn’t actually visiting Scotland.
But calling it a UK tour gets me excited when it lands in my inbox, then I’m disappointed when it isn’t actually visiting Scotland.
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Producers/PRs, when a show does not travel north of Newcastle or west of Bristol, that is not a UK tour. That’s a national tour of England, which is fine.
But calling it a UK tour gets me excited when it lands in my inbox, then I’m disappointed when it isn’t actually visiting Scotland.
But calling it a UK tour gets me excited when it lands in my inbox, then I’m disappointed when it isn’t actually visiting Scotland.
If Nancy Mace really has broken any glass ceilings, I can only presume she’s done so with that solid brick of a face of hers. Thwomp-lookin prick!
January 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If Nancy Mace really has broken any glass ceilings, I can only presume she’s done so with that solid brick of a face of hers. Thwomp-lookin prick!
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Years Of Inbreeding Causes Dog To Birth British Man
Years Of Inbreeding Causes Dog To Birth British Man
MANASSAS, VA—Producing numerous congenital and physical anomalies that include extreme Anglo-Saxon deformities, years of inbreeding reportedly caused a pug named Mabel to give birth to a British man M...
theonion.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Years Of Inbreeding Causes Dog To Birth British Man
Thon Rachel Johnson article defending Gregg Wallace is one of the most poorly-written things I’ve ever come across. I had to read a few sentences several times and I’m still not 100% sure what she’s saying. Blood is tricking out of my ear. 😔
December 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Thon Rachel Johnson article defending Gregg Wallace is one of the most poorly-written things I’ve ever come across. I had to read a few sentences several times and I’m still not 100% sure what she’s saying. Blood is tricking out of my ear. 😔
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yeah fr. subscribe to this if you aren't a bigot. it's that simple.
You do not have to tolerate or entertain bigots and their bigot followings. you can simply choose not to.
You do not have to tolerate or entertain bigots and their bigot followings. you can simply choose not to.
If bluesky won't get rid of him, we can wall him off from the people he wants to feed off of. If you're trans (or dislike transphobes and transphobes apologists), you should use this block list.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 15, 2024 at 10:50 AM
yeah fr. subscribe to this if you aren't a bigot. it's that simple.
You do not have to tolerate or entertain bigots and their bigot followings. you can simply choose not to.
You do not have to tolerate or entertain bigots and their bigot followings. you can simply choose not to.
Nancy Mace just told her own reflection to use the men’s restroom! 😱
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Nancy Mace just told her own reflection to use the men’s restroom! 😱
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HBO are pushing so hard to make this 10 fucking seasons Harry Potter series happen and I feel such anxiety for the kids who are gonna get cast in it, they can’t possibly be aware what it might mean for their own futures. It’s straight up exploitative to mix them up in Rowling’s mouldy hatred.
Genuinely fuck HBO for not only re-booting the entire Harry Potter series but refusing to distance themselves from JK Rowling when she's going this off the rails daily
December 10, 2024 at 10:48 PM
HBO are pushing so hard to make this 10 fucking seasons Harry Potter series happen and I feel such anxiety for the kids who are gonna get cast in it, they can’t possibly be aware what it might mean for their own futures. It’s straight up exploitative to mix them up in Rowling’s mouldy hatred.
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I DON’T FEEL WELL 😩
December 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
I DON’T FEEL WELL 😩
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Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.
December 4, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.
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This is going to piss a lot of men off, but ignore them, too!
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
This is going to piss a lot of men off, but ignore them, too!
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Anyway read my full story here and buy a subscription to User Mag if you want to support independent progressive media that is against the type of nonsense people like Nate Silver are pushing! www.usermag.co/p/why-democr...
Why Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan
"This is not a cultural war that you can win just by doing fucking podcasts" + Meat Loaf’s wikipedia drama, eating disorder Twitter turns on Trump, DDG on Kai Cenat
www.usermag.co
November 23, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Anyway read my full story here and buy a subscription to User Mag if you want to support independent progressive media that is against the type of nonsense people like Nate Silver are pushing! www.usermag.co/p/why-democr...
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2024 is the year of gay witches dominating pop culture, and it's about time.
November 23, 2024 at 10:52 AM
2024 is the year of gay witches dominating pop culture, and it's about time.
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Trans people don't have a right to speak but GCs have a right to be heard.
Trans people are, as standard, excluded from discussions about us because we are deemed too biased. This applies to healthcare policy, media coverage and everything in between.
GCs are never biased. Always just concerned.
Trans people are, as standard, excluded from discussions about us because we are deemed too biased. This applies to healthcare policy, media coverage and everything in between.
GCs are never biased. Always just concerned.
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Trans people don't have a right to speak but GCs have a right to be heard.
Trans people are, as standard, excluded from discussions about us because we are deemed too biased. This applies to healthcare policy, media coverage and everything in between.
GCs are never biased. Always just concerned.
Trans people are, as standard, excluded from discussions about us because we are deemed too biased. This applies to healthcare policy, media coverage and everything in between.
GCs are never biased. Always just concerned.
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control