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Tom Brookes
@citizenbrookes.bsky.social
Progress is the realisation of utopias 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🇵🇸
🎶 Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious 🎶
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Who watches the watchmen?

“Man who called Hitler ‘brilliant’ to be Reform UK’s vetting chief”
March 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hey @mrjamesob.bsky.social has this crossed your desk? Seems the widely predicted catastrophic deluge of private school students into the deprivations of the state sector has… stubbornly failed to manifest.
March 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nick Ferrari on @lbc.co.uk talking about ‘1/12’ people in London being illegal migrants, according to the Telegraph. Ferrari’s guests all heavily imply this is about boat crossings - as are Reform.

Problem being these are, according to the report itself, mostly students on lapsed visas.

Liars!
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
‘Nobody wants to work anymore’ - over a century of corporatist whining…
January 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The AI companies don’t see it as their problem; I think they see an ocean of largely atomised writers, musicians, artists etc. & have calculated it’s *much* cheaper to steal what they need and pay the few creators with the resources to fight them.

This scene is based on IRL corporate behaviour.
January 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This was always where transphobia and terfs were going. In the name of ‘protecting women’, Texas will now inspect *all* women’s genitals to allow them to play sport.

Next: public bathrooms.
January 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Kemi Badenoch: “there’s a lot of generalisation and misinformation…”

<takes breath>

‘… but they’re all dirt poor peasants’

Good job she doesn’t make gaffes, isn’t it?
January 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is an actual image of Jacob Reese-Mogg from his reality tv show. I didn’t ask Grok to draw him on a throne of money.
January 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very…
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
January 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Listening to your show on catchup, @mrjamesob.bsky.social - have you heard of the ‘radical flank effect’? This would seem to go some way to explaining the circular bile squad of Musk, Reform & the Tories.
January 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Morning @matthew-wright.bsky.social, listening on catchup again. Your segment on migration and refugees reminded me: I haven’t heard a single broadcaster or reporter in the U.K. mention *how* Italy got Libya to reduce crossings. Brutal treatment and slave markets are involved.
January 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Merry Xmas, @matthew-wright.bsky.social ... Your discussion of faith and the meaning of the season reminded me of this passage from Pratchett’s ‘Hogfather’ - Death and his granddaughter talking about meta ethics and belief. I think it’s profound in a way only fiction can be sometimes.
December 25, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Something for Monday morning, @mrjamesob.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM