@lckm1.bsky.social
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This is the aesthetic of the future
October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is the aesthetic of the future
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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I hope the new party does well, Zack wins, Starmer is replaced by a soft left leader and the Lib Dems' progressive wing asserts itself. Cos honestly, an effective popular front against a Reform / Tory / Murdoch bloc will require ALL of those conditions to be met.
July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I hope the new party does well, Zack wins, Starmer is replaced by a soft left leader and the Lib Dems' progressive wing asserts itself. Cos honestly, an effective popular front against a Reform / Tory / Murdoch bloc will require ALL of those conditions to be met.
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There's a type of person who argues there's no point stopping selling plane parts to Israel as they would only get them elsewhere, or the government can't condemn Israeli genocide as it would make no difference, and it's amazing to me that they have never before encountered the concept of "morality"
July 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There's a type of person who argues there's no point stopping selling plane parts to Israel as they would only get them elsewhere, or the government can't condemn Israeli genocide as it would make no difference, and it's amazing to me that they have never before encountered the concept of "morality"
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How many perpetrators of domestic violence, or child abuse, or sexual assault will Yvette Cooper release early to imprison people aghast at the genocide in Palestine, and her authoritarian response, and wanting to speak of it?
July 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
How many perpetrators of domestic violence, or child abuse, or sexual assault will Yvette Cooper release early to imprison people aghast at the genocide in Palestine, and her authoritarian response, and wanting to speak of it?
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UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is
July 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is
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Absolutely grim, a real milestone in Britain's political history.
If there's a route back from this, it will surely require turning our backs on the party that brought this about.
If there's a route back from this, it will surely require turning our backs on the party that brought this about.
Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails
Group will become first direct action protest group to be banned under Terrorism Act after unsuccessful action
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Absolutely grim, a real milestone in Britain's political history.
If there's a route back from this, it will surely require turning our backs on the party that brought this about.
If there's a route back from this, it will surely require turning our backs on the party that brought this about.
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There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.
July 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
There are many British commentators who have made several posts showing deep concern for Rachel Reeves over the last 24 hours but apparently lost their phones whilst hundreds of thousands of disabled people were terrified of losing the benefits they need to live.
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2 (77) years into a genocide and I'm still getting emails saying I shouldn't have called it an "apartheid wall" in my last book. War, genocide, LGBTQ rights, ecology - it's increasingly hard to tell the actual fascists from the absolute enablers. You're either for love and justice, or you're not.
July 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
2 (77) years into a genocide and I'm still getting emails saying I shouldn't have called it an "apartheid wall" in my last book. War, genocide, LGBTQ rights, ecology - it's increasingly hard to tell the actual fascists from the absolute enablers. You're either for love and justice, or you're not.
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you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois"
repost to receive his blessing
repost to receive his blessing
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This country seems to have settled on a version of free speech where it's important to be shocked and offended at university but not permitted to shock or offend at a music festival
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This country seems to have settled on a version of free speech where it's important to be shocked and offended at university but not permitted to shock or offend at a music festival
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
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Sally Rooney: ‘In the face of state support for genocide, what are conscientious people supposed to do?’
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sally Rooney: ‘In the face of state support for genocide, what are conscientious people supposed to do?’
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I can't believe it needs to be said, least of all to a Labour Government, but we should be tougher on genocide than peaceful protest against genocide.
This is a very worrying over-reaction to a peaceful protest. I expect @palaction.bsky.social has its own legal team but we are reaching out to them (and have contacted a leading KC) and would love to help. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action expected to be banned after vandalism of planes at RAF base
Home secretary plans to proscribe group that broke into Brize Norton, effectively branding it a terrorist organisation
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I can't believe it needs to be said, least of all to a Labour Government, but we should be tougher on genocide than peaceful protest against genocide.
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I don't think I've ever felt so little political hope as I do at the moment. Long-held taboos - on state violence, exterminationism, racism, crimes of aggression, genocide - are being more openly flouted daily. The mechanisms governing political accountability and response seem completely broken.
May 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I don't think I've ever felt so little political hope as I do at the moment. Long-held taboos - on state violence, exterminationism, racism, crimes of aggression, genocide - are being more openly flouted daily. The mechanisms governing political accountability and response seem completely broken.
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Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
May 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.
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A society so materially broken that it has to seek respite in cruelty to its most vulnerable citizens. There’s a word for an ideology like that.
May 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A society so materially broken that it has to seek respite in cruelty to its most vulnerable citizens. There’s a word for an ideology like that.
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To be clear: the EHRC are also undermining other key areas, including rejecting the notion of systemic racism, having a board member who thinks 'misogynist' and 'homophobe' are 'propaganda terms' and refusing to investigate the link between disabled people's deaths and the DWP.
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April 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
To be clear: the EHRC are also undermining other key areas, including rejecting the notion of systemic racism, having a board member who thinks 'misogynist' and 'homophobe' are 'propaganda terms' and refusing to investigate the link between disabled people's deaths and the DWP.
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For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.
April 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.
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The priest caste of an unpleasant island that once ruled far too much of the world—facing collapsing living standards, a crumbling civil society, and increasingly globally irrelevant economic and political leadership—chants “Adult Human Female” as if it were a spell that could banish their curse.
April 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The priest caste of an unpleasant island that once ruled far too much of the world—facing collapsing living standards, a crumbling civil society, and increasingly globally irrelevant economic and political leadership—chants “Adult Human Female” as if it were a spell that could banish their curse.
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And returning attempted migrants picked up in the Med to secret EU-funded jails in Libya and Tunisia where they're tortured and raped. Or simply throwing them back in the sea to drown.
You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
April 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
And returning attempted migrants picked up in the Med to secret EU-funded jails in Libya and Tunisia where they're tortured and raped. Or simply throwing them back in the sea to drown.
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There's a lot of ink spilled on how Democrats should win back low-info voters (particularly young men) with rightward shifts when "stop being weak and pathetic" is the better tack. The reason AOC gets respect from low-info voters is that she doesn't let people walk all over her the way Schumer does.
April 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
There's a lot of ink spilled on how Democrats should win back low-info voters (particularly young men) with rightward shifts when "stop being weak and pathetic" is the better tack. The reason AOC gets respect from low-info voters is that she doesn't let people walk all over her the way Schumer does.
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This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
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27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky
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the image of our times is an authority figure, heavily armed and equipped, dealing out violence against someone unarmed and vulnerable, while shrieking, "stop silencing my dissent, stop marginalizing me"
November 17, 2024 at 11:33 PM
the image of our times is an authority figure, heavily armed and equipped, dealing out violence against someone unarmed and vulnerable, while shrieking, "stop silencing my dissent, stop marginalizing me"