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Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
@alexkanefsky.bsky.social
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Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast.
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
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@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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@newhamcouncil.bsky.social hi this is what happens when you try and report a missed bin collection on the website, any suggestions? Thanks
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Mood
White seal pub reclines on the sand against a bigger grey seal. Its expression looks as though it went for a pinup pose then realised midway it is in fact a cute, plump seal pup. Photo: Owen Humphries in the Guardian
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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How to tell if something is absolutely 100% true
Screenshotted text reads “Johnson has rejected any such suggestion as "complete and utter bollocks".”
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Anyone got an equivalent of this (same outlets) that relates to consumption? Newspaper-wise my assumption is that it’s about upside down
#bbc #news
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The January 6th rioters that he’s spent the last year pardoning, releasing and celebrating? He supports those guys? Absolute slander #bbc
Screenshotted text from guardian article that reads “The dossier alleges BBC Panorama doctored a speech by Trump, making him appear to support the January 6 rioters”
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Just come across this fascinating passage in America: Empire of Liberty. That’s President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1944. Seems that states have fundamentally failed to grasp this, some 80 years later. The bill failed of course, the South didn’t want African Americans to have rights…
Photographed text from the book reads “said Roosevelt, 'we have come to a clear realization... that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence... People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all - regardless of station, or race or creed. '41 Roosevelt went on to list these universal rights, among them 'a useful and remunerative job', a 'decent home', 'adequate medical care', protection from the economic fears of sickness, old age and unemployment, and 'the right to a good education'.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The meme: a suited Donald Trump on the White House lawn screaming at a small boy in a red top pushing a lawnmower. Text reads “WHERE’S YOUR F***ING POPPY?!”
November 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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In my head Giuliani has just been steadily melting like a slo-mo version of Elphaba since this day so is now just a pair of eyebrows in a slick brown pool
Rudy Giuliani eyes wide in shock, black smears trickling down his face looking like a Madame Tussaud’s figure left near a heater
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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See also:
Still from The Bear tv show: two white men glower at each other in a kitchen, while a 3rd (Black) man peers at them from behind a fridge door.
October 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Oh well that’s ok then
Screenshotted text reads “The Reform UK leader said if he felt Sarah Pochin's words were "deliberately and genuinely racist", he would have "taken action" against her.”
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
Still from the series The Mighty Boosh featuring the entire cast minus Noel Fielding & Julian Barrett (in zookeeper costumes) dressed as mutants: sporting elephant trunks, proboscis monkey noses, squid heads etc
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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With your meal deal’s what?
Deliveroo pop up on my phone says “Delicious deals await Enjoy up to 25% with our Meal Deal's” with atrocious apostrophe usage
October 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I hear it in this tune
Goldie Lookin’ Chain, a collection of white Welsh lads in loud tracksuits and baseball caps posing for the camera at HMV awards
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Unconfirmed rumours have now been reported of unusual peace brokers at Sharm El Sheikh, including Macho Man Randy Savage, U2’s The Edge, and Paul Gascoigne with a fishing rod
Screenshotted text from the Guardian reads “The "summit for peace" was a virtual who's who of Middle Eastern and European politics, while attracting other unlikely power brokers in the Trump era of international diplomacy such as the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino. Leaders from at least 27 countries, many in Europe and the Middle East, joined the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.” Beneath is a picture of world leaders under the banner which reads PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Beneath them a tacky 3D letter display spells out PEACE 2025
October 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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5/ But what it absolutely does do is amplify & legitimise antisemitic conspiracy theories, making Jews everywhere, of any politics, far less safe.
Screen grab of my insta stories which makes a list of Robinson’s recent rant about being invited by Netanyahu on top of a picture of Robinson, a very pink faced white middle aged man sitting in his car. Text reads: “ANTISEMITISM BINGO: • JEWS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 'MASS IMMIGRATION' •JEWS ARE AN ELITE, CONTROLLING THINGS • GREAT REPLACEMENT CONSPIRACY THEORY • THESE JEWS ARE "WEAK & PATHETIC • COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING OF BUT HOSTILITY TO JEWISH COMMUNAL ORGS CALLING THE BOD "WOKE" AND "LIBERAL" IS SO FUCKING STUPID IT DESERVES ITS OWN CATEGORY BUT NOT SURE WHAT TO CALL THAT YET” The subtitle frozen from his rant reads “ELITIST JEWS. YEAH. THE”
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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3/ He’s a close ally of Viktor Orban, who regularly pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Orban & Netanyahu, two middle aged, slightly swarthy men in black suits, one with a blue tie, one with red, cement their bromance with for some reason a rubix cube which they hold together in front of confused looking aides and bodyguards A picture of Orban from the Guardian with a headline that reads “Hungarian government campaign renews antisemitism concerns. PM Viktor Orbán seems to be returning to strategy of claiming shadowy global forces are trying to meddle in country's politics”
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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2/ He hosted Elon Musk.
Famous Cartoon Evil Billionaire Elon Musk stands in front of the stars & stripes, suited and grimacing with effort as he forces his pathetic arm into a Nazi salute, which he later claimed was a non-political gesture A suited smiling Musk shakes hands with a suited smiling Netanyahu in front of an Israeli flag, no doubt with Darth Vader’s theme playing in the background
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Confused about Netanyahu inviting racist convicted fraudster, stalker and Luton Town and low-quality cocaine fan Steven “Oh Tommy Tommy Robinson” Yaxley Lennon to 🇮🇱?

Don’t be.

Short 🧵 1/
Tommy Robinson aka Steven Yaxley Lennon gurning his face off surrounded by various bald white men in stone island and Fred Perry sports clothing, on some form of march, with Union flags flying around him
October 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Was the man Peter Mandelson
Text reads “Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man” above a picture of a blurred out school girl standing in a hallway
September 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Wonder why I’m feeling depressed every morning.

Anyway, time for those cornflakes I guess
Text reads: “Opinion Autocrats and tech bros want to live for ever. Here's how bleak that future could be” with a picture of Hannah Thomas Uose - a dark-haired woman, possibly East-Asian, 30s-40s in a green tank top, smiling non-committally to camera
September 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Dramatic irony you can’t write, really
Quote from Charlie Kirk reads “On gun violence • I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. - Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk's conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023”
September 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Ought to be a word for this kind of timeline synchronicity
Top skeet is a picture of racist gobshite Lucy Connolly, with the words “Lucy Connolly, a woman who admitted inciting racial hatred after using social media to post about setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers is to speak at the Reform UK Conference today. That spells out all you need to know about Reform UK and their dangerous, hateful agenda.” Skeet underneath reads “twat on a hot tin roof”
September 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This guy? But surely not…
a picture of an inflated bag of smug stuffed inside a navy suit with twat-pink tie, standing in front of the gates of Downing Street, under which the Headline from 2023 reads “Visitors to UK who incite antisemitism will be removed, says minister Robert Jenrick says process of revoking visas of foreign nationals who spread 'hate and division' has already begun”
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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To be fair to him, he hasn’t done WW2 in his GCSEs yet
Screenshot from the guardian of a smooth-faced man child, seemingly untroubled by puberty (who I refuse to believe is 24 years old as they claim) standing in front of a river at sunset, with cranes behind him (that he no doubt has toy models of in his toy box beside the bed). Text reads “Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may 'regain' former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine”
August 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM