Andy Aitch
@andyh.bsky.social
Brit adrift in a sea of misinformation. Horizon scanning for next beacon of truth. Moral compass helps
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I'm a Brit so I tread carefully in other countries' politics.
But democracy everywhere is under attack as never before from dark money, tech bros & unelected billionaire vandals
They cynically lie to & cheat those 4 whom they claim 2 speak
Thank you 4 doing what you can to defend your democracy🙏🏻
But democracy everywhere is under attack as never before from dark money, tech bros & unelected billionaire vandals
They cynically lie to & cheat those 4 whom they claim 2 speak
Thank you 4 doing what you can to defend your democracy🙏🏻
Elon, if you need more teenagers for DOGE…
February 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm a Brit so I tread carefully in other countries' politics.
But democracy everywhere is under attack as never before from dark money, tech bros & unelected billionaire vandals
They cynically lie to & cheat those 4 whom they claim 2 speak
Thank you 4 doing what you can to defend your democracy🙏🏻
But democracy everywhere is under attack as never before from dark money, tech bros & unelected billionaire vandals
They cynically lie to & cheat those 4 whom they claim 2 speak
Thank you 4 doing what you can to defend your democracy🙏🏻
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Could the last principled person leaving the Pentagon install a breathalyzer test to unlock our missile silos?
Please and thank you.
Please and thank you.
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Could the last principled person leaving the Pentagon install a breathalyzer test to unlock our missile silos?
Please and thank you.
Please and thank you.
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1/ First Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge David Barron is likely to play an outsized role in litigation against Trump’s Executive Orders. The First Circuit has only five active judges, all Democratic appointees (one current vacancy). Challenges are likely to be filed in the First Circuit.
January 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
1/ First Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge David Barron is likely to play an outsized role in litigation against Trump’s Executive Orders. The First Circuit has only five active judges, all Democratic appointees (one current vacancy). Challenges are likely to be filed in the First Circuit.
Oh America
What have you done?
Do you see it yet?
If not - you will
Soon
And it's not pretty
😱😡😱😡😱
What have you done?
Do you see it yet?
If not - you will
Soon
And it's not pretty
😱😡😱😡😱
Oh snap!!!!
President Biden called out the impending oligarchy in his farewell address from the Oval Office.
Nailed it!
President Biden called out the impending oligarchy in his farewell address from the Oval Office.
Nailed it!
January 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Oh America
What have you done?
Do you see it yet?
If not - you will
Soon
And it's not pretty
😱😡😱😡😱
What have you done?
Do you see it yet?
If not - you will
Soon
And it's not pretty
😱😡😱😡😱
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Mark Zuckerberg says he wants "masculine energy" to replace "feminine energy" in the work place. He could start by shaving off his nan's perm
January 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants "masculine energy" to replace "feminine energy" in the work place. He could start by shaving off his nan's perm
Brilliant ...
Bold!
But Brilliant 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪
Bold!
But Brilliant 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪
January 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Brilliant ...
Bold!
But Brilliant 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪
Bold!
But Brilliant 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪
Not just woeful in terms of %age of UK capacity
UK capacity slashed compared to Europe
including closure of Rough under @liztrussmp.bsky.social
UK TOTAL capacity now 4% or less that of Germany France Italy
Not just she wrecked UK economy:
she left it permanently vulnerable to energy insecurity😡
UK capacity slashed compared to Europe
including closure of Rough under @liztrussmp.bsky.social
UK TOTAL capacity now 4% or less that of Germany France Italy
Not just she wrecked UK economy:
she left it permanently vulnerable to energy insecurity😡
January 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not just woeful in terms of %age of UK capacity
UK capacity slashed compared to Europe
including closure of Rough under @liztrussmp.bsky.social
UK TOTAL capacity now 4% or less that of Germany France Italy
Not just she wrecked UK economy:
she left it permanently vulnerable to energy insecurity😡
UK capacity slashed compared to Europe
including closure of Rough under @liztrussmp.bsky.social
UK TOTAL capacity now 4% or less that of Germany France Italy
Not just she wrecked UK economy:
she left it permanently vulnerable to energy insecurity😡
I asked the internet 4 the etymology/meaning of the word 'musk'
It said
1. Comes from Late Greek word 'moshkos' meaning 'testicle'
2. Vulgar slang 4 the smell of unwashed genitalia
So, if it
looks like a ball-sac and
smells like a ball-sac then
by golly
he IS a ball-sac
HNY😊
It said
1. Comes from Late Greek word 'moshkos' meaning 'testicle'
2. Vulgar slang 4 the smell of unwashed genitalia
So, if it
looks like a ball-sac and
smells like a ball-sac then
by golly
he IS a ball-sac
HNY😊
January 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I asked the internet 4 the etymology/meaning of the word 'musk'
It said
1. Comes from Late Greek word 'moshkos' meaning 'testicle'
2. Vulgar slang 4 the smell of unwashed genitalia
So, if it
looks like a ball-sac and
smells like a ball-sac then
by golly
he IS a ball-sac
HNY😊
It said
1. Comes from Late Greek word 'moshkos' meaning 'testicle'
2. Vulgar slang 4 the smell of unwashed genitalia
So, if it
looks like a ball-sac and
smells like a ball-sac then
by golly
he IS a ball-sac
HNY😊
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Is this how it goes?
Did Elon Musk just purchase the United States of America?
It cost $277, 000.
Was this a sort of coup ?
Is this how it goes?
Did Elon Musk just purchase the United States of America?
It cost $277, 000.
Was this a sort of coup ?
Is this how it goes?
December 21, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Is this how it goes?
Did Elon Musk just purchase the United States of America?
It cost $277, 000.
Was this a sort of coup ?
Is this how it goes?
Did Elon Musk just purchase the United States of America?
It cost $277, 000.
Was this a sort of coup ?
Is this how it goes?
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Totally agree Edwin
I didn't vote Labour to be held hostage by Red Wall & Blue Shire europhobes
Majority of country would vote to rejoin some combo of SM, CU, EU.
So why alienate them along with pensioners, WASPIs, youth (mobility)?
With friends like Starmer/Reeves Labour
who needs enemies?😡
I didn't vote Labour to be held hostage by Red Wall & Blue Shire europhobes
Majority of country would vote to rejoin some combo of SM, CU, EU.
So why alienate them along with pensioners, WASPIs, youth (mobility)?
With friends like Starmer/Reeves Labour
who needs enemies?😡
Labour keep trotting out the excuse that a lack of money forces them to do it when announcing controversial policies.
By far the single biggest factor hurting GDP is Brexit, yet Labour are taking a teaspoons-of-water-on-a-forest-fire approach to it.
No Brexit honesty = absolutely zero credibility.
By far the single biggest factor hurting GDP is Brexit, yet Labour are taking a teaspoons-of-water-on-a-forest-fire approach to it.
No Brexit honesty = absolutely zero credibility.
December 18, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Totally agree Edwin
I didn't vote Labour to be held hostage by Red Wall & Blue Shire europhobes
Majority of country would vote to rejoin some combo of SM, CU, EU.
So why alienate them along with pensioners, WASPIs, youth (mobility)?
With friends like Starmer/Reeves Labour
who needs enemies?😡
I didn't vote Labour to be held hostage by Red Wall & Blue Shire europhobes
Majority of country would vote to rejoin some combo of SM, CU, EU.
So why alienate them along with pensioners, WASPIs, youth (mobility)?
With friends like Starmer/Reeves Labour
who needs enemies?😡
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£1.8 billion a year gain with CPTPP
£100 billion a year loss by being outside the EU Single Market
Anyone celebrating the gain with CPTPP without mentioning the corresponding cost of Brexit, is not putting country ahead of ideology
£100 billion a year loss by being outside the EU Single Market
Anyone celebrating the gain with CPTPP without mentioning the corresponding cost of Brexit, is not putting country ahead of ideology
December 15, 2024 at 11:18 PM
£1.8 billion a year gain with CPTPP
£100 billion a year loss by being outside the EU Single Market
Anyone celebrating the gain with CPTPP without mentioning the corresponding cost of Brexit, is not putting country ahead of ideology
£100 billion a year loss by being outside the EU Single Market
Anyone celebrating the gain with CPTPP without mentioning the corresponding cost of Brexit, is not putting country ahead of ideology
Good to see you over here Danny. We corresponded occasionally in the "other place" ... I used to work for Nouriel
Hope all is well in these dark and dangerous times
@dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Hope all is well in these dark and dangerous times
@dannyblanchy.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Good to see you over here Danny. We corresponded occasionally in the "other place" ... I used to work for Nouriel
Hope all is well in these dark and dangerous times
@dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Hope all is well in these dark and dangerous times
@dannyblanchy.bsky.social
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Labour’s approval rating has fallen to a record low of -41 (YouGov).
A race to the bottom on immigration, keeping the two-child benefit cap, driving pensioners into fuel poverty, extending Tory austerity & actively facilitating genocide in Gaza isn’t the change people voted for.
A race to the bottom on immigration, keeping the two-child benefit cap, driving pensioners into fuel poverty, extending Tory austerity & actively facilitating genocide in Gaza isn’t the change people voted for.
December 11, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Labour’s approval rating has fallen to a record low of -41 (YouGov).
A race to the bottom on immigration, keeping the two-child benefit cap, driving pensioners into fuel poverty, extending Tory austerity & actively facilitating genocide in Gaza isn’t the change people voted for.
A race to the bottom on immigration, keeping the two-child benefit cap, driving pensioners into fuel poverty, extending Tory austerity & actively facilitating genocide in Gaza isn’t the change people voted for.
Cakeism😱😡
Reeves may not have baked the Brexit cake but she's chosen to have it and wants to eat it too
In effect - just like Johnson
Different colour icing
But it's still cakeism 😡
Reeves may not have baked the Brexit cake but she's chosen to have it and wants to eat it too
In effect - just like Johnson
Different colour icing
But it's still cakeism 😡
🚨🚨 I think there is a lot of uninformed commentary going round here at the moment. I appreciate that people can get seriously annoyed at Reeves playing political theater, "EU should drop unnecessary trade barriers" (whilst obviously everyone knows this is a result of #brexit). /1
Reeves: “these unnecessary barriers to trade are one of the things that will contribute to the deterioration of living standards and making it harder for British businesses to be competitive on the global stage.”
All true.
So what is Labour going to do about it?!
on.ft.com/4g5fUUL
All true.
So what is Labour going to do about it?!
on.ft.com/4g5fUUL
December 10, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Cakeism😱😡
Reeves may not have baked the Brexit cake but she's chosen to have it and wants to eat it too
In effect - just like Johnson
Different colour icing
But it's still cakeism 😡
Reeves may not have baked the Brexit cake but she's chosen to have it and wants to eat it too
In effect - just like Johnson
Different colour icing
But it's still cakeism 😡
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Tbilisi tonight: marvellous.
The pulsing heart of Europe.
🇬🇪 🇪🇺
📷 ezzgaber
The pulsing heart of Europe.
🇬🇪 🇪🇺
📷 ezzgaber
December 8, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Tbilisi tonight: marvellous.
The pulsing heart of Europe.
🇬🇪 🇪🇺
📷 ezzgaber
The pulsing heart of Europe.
🇬🇪 🇪🇺
📷 ezzgaber
It's the deliberate absence
of any moderation enforced by Musk
Like a human with no pre-frontal cortex. All that's left to drive response is the amygdyla ... the prehistoric lizard-brain ... visceral ... extreme ... dangerous
X ... it's where the lizards live😱
of any moderation enforced by Musk
Like a human with no pre-frontal cortex. All that's left to drive response is the amygdyla ... the prehistoric lizard-brain ... visceral ... extreme ... dangerous
X ... it's where the lizards live😱
Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.
November 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
It's the deliberate absence
of any moderation enforced by Musk
Like a human with no pre-frontal cortex. All that's left to drive response is the amygdyla ... the prehistoric lizard-brain ... visceral ... extreme ... dangerous
X ... it's where the lizards live😱
of any moderation enforced by Musk
Like a human with no pre-frontal cortex. All that's left to drive response is the amygdyla ... the prehistoric lizard-brain ... visceral ... extreme ... dangerous
X ... it's where the lizards live😱
Magnificent!
A stunning and worthy tribute to the spontaneous outpouring of devotion shown at the time.
Je vous salue Marie.
Beautiful😊
youtu.be/iH8Pbcd4z80?...
A stunning and worthy tribute to the spontaneous outpouring of devotion shown at the time.
Je vous salue Marie.
Beautiful😊
youtu.be/iH8Pbcd4z80?...
November 30, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Magnificent!
A stunning and worthy tribute to the spontaneous outpouring of devotion shown at the time.
Je vous salue Marie.
Beautiful😊
youtu.be/iH8Pbcd4z80?...
A stunning and worthy tribute to the spontaneous outpouring of devotion shown at the time.
Je vous salue Marie.
Beautiful😊
youtu.be/iH8Pbcd4z80?...
Do they have a different 'bird' finger in Mexico? 😂😂
Way to go Mme Pres 👍🏻👏🏻
Way to go Mme Pres 👍🏻👏🏻
I mean, what just happened with Mexico? To use technical language, Sheinbaum's response to Trump's tariff threat appears to have been "Fuck me? No, fuck you" (I spent many years in New Jersey) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...
Mexico’s President Raises Prospect of Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods
President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Do they have a different 'bird' finger in Mexico? 😂😂
Way to go Mme Pres 👍🏻👏🏻
Way to go Mme Pres 👍🏻👏🏻
Well said Mick Lynch👍🏻👏🏻
"Defending the immoral" should never the basis of a sustainable business model in a democracy
"Defending the immoral" should never the basis of a sustainable business model in a democracy
"Defending fire and rehire is defending the immoral."
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch responds to the CBI's defence of fire and rehire practices.
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch responds to the CBI's defence of fire and rehire practices.
November 28, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Well said Mick Lynch👍🏻👏🏻
"Defending the immoral" should never the basis of a sustainable business model in a democracy
"Defending the immoral" should never the basis of a sustainable business model in a democracy
Have any of the activist provocateurs been sent to jail yet?
If you bring central London to a halt to campaign against catastrophic climate change you're treated as a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.
But if you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
But if you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
The 'Two Tier' Journalism Exposed by the Farmers Protests
The glowing coverage handed to the hugely wealthy people leading the campaign against inheritance tax reforms shows who has a voice in the media and who doesn't
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 28, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Have any of the activist provocateurs been sent to jail yet?
As a newbie on this platform (loving it😊) may I ask a question
If BlueSky was a car
would it be a Tesla?
There is an obvious corollary but we'll get to that if this post gets any traction
If BlueSky was a car
would it be a Tesla?
There is an obvious corollary but we'll get to that if this post gets any traction
November 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM
As a newbie on this platform (loving it😊) may I ask a question
If BlueSky was a car
would it be a Tesla?
There is an obvious corollary but we'll get to that if this post gets any traction
If BlueSky was a car
would it be a Tesla?
There is an obvious corollary but we'll get to that if this post gets any traction
If you're afraid of a free press
you're not a democrat
you're not a democrat
Kemi Badenoch and Chris Philp are currently holding a press conference about immigration at a Tufton Street think tank.
Byline Times was barred from attending
Byline Times was barred from attending
November 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
If you're afraid of a free press
you're not a democrat
you're not a democrat
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The Supreme Court
November 26, 2024 at 7:15 AM
The Supreme Court