John B
@johnb78.bsky.social
Yes, that one. Australian. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.
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John B
@johnb78.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Nobody's going to get any special kudos for supporting Mandela in 1988, but we remember the MPs and conservative commentators who were still calling him a terrorist then, and "not being remembered as one of those bastards" is probably worth considering
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Most Labour members make an informal trade-off: we accept that the party leader is well to the right of the members, in exchange for competent leadership and actually winning. If I wanted weak leadership and no plan I could have done that myself.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Most Labour members make an informal trade-off: we accept that the party leader is well to the right of the members, in exchange for competent leadership and actually winning. If I wanted weak leadership and no plan I could have done that myself.
This is the key distinction between the wildly different fates of UK Labour and Australian Labor's ideologically similar leaders
Most Labour members make an informal trade-off: we accept that the party leader is well to the right of the members, in exchange for competent leadership and actually winning. If I wanted weak leadership and no plan I could have done that myself.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is the key distinction between the wildly different fates of UK Labour and Australian Labor's ideologically similar leaders
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For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.
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One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.
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Also saw this (double feature!). It is one of the strangest films I've ever seen. It's not bad or incomprehensible it's just so tonally dissonant and sort of like three films in one film. Has some degree of "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards".
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Also saw this (double feature!). It is one of the strangest films I've ever seen. It's not bad or incomprehensible it's just so tonally dissonant and sort of like three films in one film. Has some degree of "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards".
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Saw this. Sort of like if Merchant Ivory had existed contemporaneously with the era they set their films.
November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Saw this. Sort of like if Merchant Ivory had existed contemporaneously with the era they set their films.
David Tennant and David Lanndlord putting their differences aside to team up against their common enemy, David Estate Agennt
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
David Tennant and David Lanndlord putting their differences aside to team up against their common enemy, David Estate Agennt
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trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Golf clap
postliberal conservative: definition. conservative who posts about liberals
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Golf clap
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postliberal conservative: definition. conservative who posts about liberals
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
postliberal conservative: definition. conservative who posts about liberals
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to elaborate: Trump had an advantage that a lot of his most salacious shit was pre-2016. like the Access Hollywood tape, it could be written off by stupid people and legacy media as irrelevant to his current suitability to be president.
that was a lie.
that was a lie.
Trump would have lost in 2024 if this had been reported I'm putting that marker down
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
to elaborate: Trump had an advantage that a lot of his most salacious shit was pre-2016. like the Access Hollywood tape, it could be written off by stupid people and legacy media as irrelevant to his current suitability to be president.
that was a lie.
that was a lie.
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the one problem with discussing postliberal *theory* or *ideas* is that they have tons of intellectual scaffolding, but in practice, it's just ink spilt to justify the Grand Inquisitor
listening to yall talk about schmittian postliberalism feels about the same as when I had the navier-stokes derivation shown in class, im just so out of my league
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
the one problem with discussing postliberal *theory* or *ideas* is that they have tons of intellectual scaffolding, but in practice, it's just ink spilt to justify the Grand Inquisitor
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Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.
Epstein mocked Trump for “leaving his nose print on the glass” while watching young women, wrote that Trump knew about illicit activity tied to Mar-a-Lago, and visited “many times,” and noted Trump’s planned visit to his neighbor Howard Lutnick’s house.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.
Carnage! At The Family Group Chat
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Carnage! At The Family Group Chat
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At the Sphinx’s performance review and asking how she’s managed to keep her numbers so high this quarter
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
At the Sphinx’s performance review and asking how she’s managed to keep her numbers so high this quarter
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The right's obsession with SNAP recipients buying popsicles is a modern version of a centuries-old tradition of scolding the poor for what they eat. It mimics verbatim Victorian complaints about the poor indulging in tea and sugar, mistaking consumption as a cause of poverty instead of a symptom.
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Answered by my shirt
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Answered by my shirt
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Global institutions where the US is the largest funding source can no longer be relied upon to present reality as they see it -- which is rather the point of the pressure, to destroy the credibility of those institutions.
🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Global institutions where the US is the largest funding source can no longer be relied upon to present reality as they see it -- which is rather the point of the pressure, to destroy the credibility of those institutions.
100% this (and the answer is that everyone old enough to have been around during the Cold War has taken money from Russia one way or another)
I don't understand why the left in the UK, a polity where something like 85% of the population support Ukraine, has still not developed a hard, shoot-on-sight cordon sanitaire against those elements of the left that equivocate on an actual geopolitical threat to all of Europe.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
100% this (and the answer is that everyone old enough to have been around during the Cold War has taken money from Russia one way or another)
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I mean the other reason why it is affirmatively wrong and fucked up to join or make common cause with Your Party is that they are anti-Ukrainian. That in itself should be enough for you and I do judge you if it isn't!
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I mean the other reason why it is affirmatively wrong and fucked up to join or make common cause with Your Party is that they are anti-Ukrainian. That in itself should be enough for you and I do judge you if it isn't!
Literally every voter focus group:
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Literally every voter focus group: