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"The people search everywhere for a saviour, but only charlatans are to be found."
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Now they made me sign up over here too
"The people search everywhere for a saviour, but only charlatans are to be found."
Block early, block often
He/him
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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
The politics geniuses are now informing me that prominent Nazis are only pretending to like Mahmood's new policies
Secretly they don't want her to go ahead with it because that will stop them winning the next election, somehow
We're all being useful idiots by opposing her, and should shut up 🧐
Secretly they don't want her to go ahead with it because that will stop them winning the next election, somehow
We're all being useful idiots by opposing her, and should shut up 🧐
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The politics geniuses are now informing me that prominent Nazis are only pretending to like Mahmood's new policies
Secretly they don't want her to go ahead with it because that will stop them winning the next election, somehow
We're all being useful idiots by opposing her, and should shut up 🧐
Secretly they don't want her to go ahead with it because that will stop them winning the next election, somehow
We're all being useful idiots by opposing her, and should shut up 🧐
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Sunset Ireland (November 17th), [Timelapse] West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Sunset Ireland (November 17th), [Timelapse] West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse
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These policies, where they aren't just reiterating ones which already exist in a differently worded form, are just plain idiotic.
They show not only a complete disregard for people's lives, or basic humanity, but also reality. 1/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
They show not only a complete disregard for people's lives, or basic humanity, but also reality. 1/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
These policies, where they aren't just reiterating ones which already exist in a differently worded form, are just plain idiotic.
They show not only a complete disregard for people's lives, or basic humanity, but also reality. 1/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
They show not only a complete disregard for people's lives, or basic humanity, but also reality. 1/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Even the scab labour the council brought in to undermine the strike are going on strike because of the council and its behaviour
Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike
Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike
Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Even the scab labour the council brought in to undermine the strike are going on strike because of the council and its behaviour
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To be clear: Labour are not protecting Britain from our future posh fash rulers. They are actively rehabilitating the politics that will bring them to power and they’re creating the tools that the fancy National Front will sharpen and use, and Reform and other fascists cannot believe their luck.
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
To be clear: Labour are not protecting Britain from our future posh fash rulers. They are actively rehabilitating the politics that will bring them to power and they’re creating the tools that the fancy National Front will sharpen and use, and Reform and other fascists cannot believe their luck.
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golly jee, if you lead the kind of low-ish income life the newspapers say you're supposed to as a socialist, they actually just hold it against you even more!
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
golly jee, if you lead the kind of low-ish income life the newspapers say you're supposed to as a socialist, they actually just hold it against you even more!
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Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Big very scary announcement that I never thought I'd have to make so I put nice music and a relaxing nostalgic background on it for you.
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I think his accent got even accentier!
Final trailer! Wake Up Dead Man is in theaters 11/26 and on Netflix 12/12. Can’t WAIT for you all to see it. #wakeupdeadman
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I think his accent got even accentier!
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BEAR GRYLLS: [present at the Crucifixion] With temperatures pushing 30 degrees in the shade, dehydration is a real danger. But with no clean water supply, I'm left with only one option.
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
BEAR GRYLLS: [present at the Crucifixion] With temperatures pushing 30 degrees in the shade, dehydration is a real danger. But with no clean water supply, I'm left with only one option.
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okay. all right. I do think they look good. They also look like a cosplay promposal photo shoot. both of those things can be true
Well, holy shit. These official #LegendOfZelda movie pics sure look good!
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
okay. all right. I do think they look good. They also look like a cosplay promposal photo shoot. both of those things can be true
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It's like they're actively looking for increasingly insane detention possibilities, just to see how much their base will accept.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's like they're actively looking for increasingly insane detention possibilities, just to see how much their base will accept.
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You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You got wormfished by a guy who eats roadkill and looks like fucking Krang. A guy you were tasked with covering neutrally, for half a milly a year, while he ran for fucking president on an "every disabled person should die" ticket.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
Well, now your career is back, and so is measles. Well done.
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If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The state of privatised Post Office in UK...
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The Epstein files - which are a hoax - are actually hugely damaging to my political opponents, so I don't even care if we release them or not, which we definitely should not do
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Epstein files - which are a hoax - are actually hugely damaging to my political opponents, so I don't even care if we release them or not, which we definitely should not do
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this is obviously a fair point, but I also feel that the average Bluesky poster is way off to one side of the curve on "amount of attention paid to politics"
And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.
Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
this is obviously a fair point, but I also feel that the average Bluesky poster is way off to one side of the curve on "amount of attention paid to politics"
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
"It's cruel, discriminatory, costly, impractical, hugely detrimental to the image, economy and society of the nation and probably illegal.
But on the upside, at least it's also electoral suicide."
But on the upside, at least it's also electoral suicide."
Just staring at this graph & going "Clearly our problem is not that our policies are unpopular, but that we need to do them even harder" over and over again, multiple times a day, every day, for well over a year
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"It's cruel, discriminatory, costly, impractical, hugely detrimental to the image, economy and society of the nation and probably illegal.
But on the upside, at least it's also electoral suicide."
But on the upside, at least it's also electoral suicide."
There's simply no chance that a number of people can quite separately have looked at Labour being racist and fascist and said, unprompted "Fuck me, this looks a lot like racism and/or fascism"
Must be bots. Probably Russian bots, working with the reverse vampires, in order to...
Must be bots. Probably Russian bots, working with the reverse vampires, in order to...
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
There's simply no chance that a number of people can quite separately have looked at Labour being racist and fascist and said, unprompted "Fuck me, this looks a lot like racism and/or fascism"
Must be bots. Probably Russian bots, working with the reverse vampires, in order to...
Must be bots. Probably Russian bots, working with the reverse vampires, in order to...
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The guy behind this entire project was the party’s billionaire bungs officer, whose job was obsolete if they were no longer seeking bungs from the rich. They swiftly destroyed the member-funded model and went right back to cash and Taylor tickets in exchange for favours and government contracts.
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The guy behind this entire project was the party’s billionaire bungs officer, whose job was obsolete if they were no longer seeking bungs from the rich. They swiftly destroyed the member-funded model and went right back to cash and Taylor tickets in exchange for favours and government contracts.
Yesterday: we'll keep you dangling for decades before we arbitrarily declare a country "safe" and deport you to it
Today: we're gonna steal your last few personal possessions
Tomorrow: we're gonna shave your heads and make you wear striped prison uniforms
Today: we're gonna steal your last few personal possessions
Tomorrow: we're gonna shave your heads and make you wear striped prison uniforms
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Yesterday: we'll keep you dangling for decades before we arbitrarily declare a country "safe" and deport you to it
Today: we're gonna steal your last few personal possessions
Tomorrow: we're gonna shave your heads and make you wear striped prison uniforms
Today: we're gonna steal your last few personal possessions
Tomorrow: we're gonna shave your heads and make you wear striped prison uniforms
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☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.
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June: ‘We’re an island of strangers’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
June: ‘We’re an island of strangers’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’
September: ‘We’re in a fight for the soul of the nation’
November: ‘No residency for 20 years and we’ll take the family heirlooms that are all you have from the homes you fled’