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@cesigno.bsky.social
one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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I'm in bits, kids are crying, "but daddy who's going to do the Is The Escaped Prisoner An Immigrant all-day live feeds now?" and I don't know what to tell them.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.
In a shock move, Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Continue reading...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm in bits, kids are crying, "but daddy who's going to do the Is The Escaped Prisoner An Immigrant all-day live feeds now?" and I don't know what to tell them.
fascism is unpopular among people who have hobbies
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
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35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
fascism is unpopular among people who have hobbies
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This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.
The hatred the youth parliament gets is just so out of proportion. Can these people hear themselves. It’s creepy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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I've reposted this by Tobias Barrington Wolff a few times in the decade since it was published. Its arguments are all the more urgent for the UK where this path to the erasure of trans people from public space is being aggressively pursued by legal and political means and where Labour has caved
The Ugly Fantasy at the Heart of Anti–Trans Bathroom Bills
Do supporters of so-called “bathroom bills” want trans people to cease to exist altogether?
www.thenation.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I've reposted this by Tobias Barrington Wolff a few times in the decade since it was published. Its arguments are all the more urgent for the UK where this path to the erasure of trans people from public space is being aggressively pursued by legal and political means and where Labour has caved
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"I was able to have a perfectly pleasant afternoon with trans people by politely holding my tongue long enough to have a mundane business transaction."
You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.
You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"I was able to have a perfectly pleasant afternoon with trans people by politely holding my tongue long enough to have a mundane business transaction."
You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.
You know, there's a lesson to be learned here if he bothers upon reflection.
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listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public
can't believe cancel culture finally came for Prince Andrew 😭
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
can't believe cancel culture finally came for Prince Andrew 😭
imagine you have to have a leg amputated. you have a choice of two surgeons. one of them is the leg nullo guy, who will be aroused by it. one of them is a normal surgeon. the quality of the surgery is equal. who would you pick?
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
imagine you have to have a leg amputated. you have a choice of two surgeons. one of them is the leg nullo guy, who will be aroused by it. one of them is a normal surgeon. the quality of the surgery is equal. who would you pick?
holiday fit ☀️
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
holiday fit ☀️
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there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
there has never been a presidency that has spent more time on LGBTQ issues as this Trump administration. they are wholly obsessed with queer people. the time/effort on LGBTQ issues is coming 97% from the right.
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
i'm so fucking tired of the gaslighting on this. why does everyone have this backwards?
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Two flavors of critical thought in psychiatry:
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (derogatory)
vs
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (complimentary)
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (derogatory)
vs
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (complimentary)
October 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Two flavors of critical thought in psychiatry:
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (derogatory)
vs
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (complimentary)
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (derogatory)
vs
- Mental health and illness are fundamentally subjective (complimentary)
some of you may be decade long globe emoji zizek followers across multiple sites. and you may ask what song I would do at karaoke. the answer is - Robyn dancing on my own, and then karma police with @leftoutside.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
some of you may be decade long globe emoji zizek followers across multiple sites. and you may ask what song I would do at karaoke. the answer is - Robyn dancing on my own, and then karma police with @leftoutside.bsky.social
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It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It is actually fairly unhinged that this is happening in the UK. We are such freaks, like it’s actually embarrassing
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And if the contorted logic of this statement is that smartphones and social media radicalise their users with the kind of transphobic bigotry which led to Brianna's death, then the entire Labour front bench should have their phones confiscated immediately.
can you explain to me in detail what specific controls on social media or smartphones sould have helped to prevent this situation?
Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And if the contorted logic of this statement is that smartphones and social media radicalise their users with the kind of transphobic bigotry which led to Brianna's death, then the entire Labour front bench should have their phones confiscated immediately.
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Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
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extremist minority living parallel lives discovered in SW1
Britons tend to think it was the right decision to ban fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a match against Aston Villa next month, a fixture classified by West Midlands Police of being 'high risk'
Right decision: 42%
Wrong decision: 28%
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Right decision: 42%
Wrong decision: 28%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
extremist minority living parallel lives discovered in SW1
the nice thing about politics is I don't need to pay any attention at all. greens are weirdos and losers, but they don't want to ban me from public places and labour do, so they're better
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
the nice thing about politics is I don't need to pay any attention at all. greens are weirdos and losers, but they don't want to ban me from public places and labour do, so they're better
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The problem with this argument is that if the affordable mandates lead to even a modest reduction in building they quickly become self defeating. If a 25% mandate leads to a 20% reduction in supply then you are constantly exchanging two market rate homes for one affordable home.
Over half of those homeless children in temporary accommodation were in London (97k) which makes now an interesting time to be considering a cut to affordable housing in London
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The problem with this argument is that if the affordable mandates lead to even a modest reduction in building they quickly become self defeating. If a 25% mandate leads to a 20% reduction in supply then you are constantly exchanging two market rate homes for one affordable home.
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I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
October 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.
I have no idea who these people are, but I love how just from the photos you can tell they haven't been popular in a decade
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Dan and Phil: YouTubers confirm 'Phan' relationship after 16 years
Dan says intense fan intrusion
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October 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I have no idea who these people are, but I love how just from the photos you can tell they haven't been popular in a decade
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