Leon Alleyne-McLaughlin
@leonalleyne.bsky.social
Geordie in Walthamstow who struggles to write about himself. Labour Party | Star Trek | Sci-Fi generally
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For the record, I can barely speak Portuguese beyond a few tourist phrases 😅
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For the record, I can barely speak Portuguese beyond a few tourist phrases 😅
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The Bakerloo Line stuff is the most pathetic talking point to come out of the British right. The Conservatives hallucinating a national malaise as a result of their own (correct!) decision to get as much our of the old rolling stock, which has a trade off in terms of maintenance.
Doesn't the Bakerloo look like shit because the Tories wouldn't fund new trains?
Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Bakerloo Line stuff is the most pathetic talking point to come out of the British right. The Conservatives hallucinating a national malaise as a result of their own (correct!) decision to get as much our of the old rolling stock, which has a trade off in terms of maintenance.
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Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
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I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.
These are pretty naked -- and therefore instructive -- examples of the sorts of defenses that people offer to try and get off the hook
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.
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A little treat for fans of noughties rom coms & internecine socialist shenanigans
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A little treat for fans of noughties rom coms & internecine socialist shenanigans
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Again: if you think that going “it’s a problem if you can’t see what is objectionable about this mural” is “silly”, you yourself are a racist and an appeaser of racists, just like the government we now have.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Again: if you think that going “it’s a problem if you can’t see what is objectionable about this mural” is “silly”, you yourself are a racist and an appeaser of racists, just like the government we now have.
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Every so often I run into one of the sanctimonious "pet ownership is unethical" types, and 100% of the time it turns out they don't know how pets end up in shelters. They think it's a supply-and-demand situation where if people stop adopting then the cat factory will simply cease production. 🤦♀️
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every so often I run into one of the sanctimonious "pet ownership is unethical" types, and 100% of the time it turns out they don't know how pets end up in shelters. They think it's a supply-and-demand situation where if people stop adopting then the cat factory will simply cease production. 🤦♀️
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Under new plans to be unveiled by Labour, UK citizenship test has a whole section on Northern Ireland. If you get any of them right, you don't get citizenship.
I'm forever reminded that I'm not truly British because I constantly forget to forget about Northern Ireland
What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Under new plans to be unveiled by Labour, UK citizenship test has a whole section on Northern Ireland. If you get any of them right, you don't get citizenship.
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we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
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Listen I understand some people might not know this but the big lesson of the World War Two thing was that "determining the value and traits of people based on genetics is bad, actually"
Exclusive: Adolf Hitler’s DNA has been sequenced by scientists
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals
The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Listen I understand some people might not know this but the big lesson of the World War Two thing was that "determining the value and traits of people based on genetics is bad, actually"
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We are about six to eight weeks away from someone saying that this country was destroyed by the Empire Windrush in a public forum
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We are about six to eight weeks away from someone saying that this country was destroyed by the Empire Windrush in a public forum
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The natural home, just from an 'what is the audience' for Doctor Who outside of the UK is 'what streaming service has Star Trek' and IMO Doctor Who also consciously benefits from the awareness it should be more 'domestic' than Star Trek.
Interesting piece on why Doctor Who has failed to fly for Disney. I'm not sure such an incredibly British institution that's been part of UK telly for 62 years (it's 10 days older than me!) really translates into an international franchise model like idk the Marvel films.
Deadline reports on the end of Doctor Who at Disney+ - features smaller audiences than hoped, Trumpist politics, issues with the lead, and consideration of budgets, future co-production and international distribution prospects.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The natural home, just from an 'what is the audience' for Doctor Who outside of the UK is 'what streaming service has Star Trek' and IMO Doctor Who also consciously benefits from the awareness it should be more 'domestic' than Star Trek.
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This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
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None of these people believe that Richard Ayoade, Cole Palmer, Zadie Smith and David Olusoga are going to form a squadron of “The Fighting Miscegenates” and start a war against their own parents.
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
None of these people believe that Richard Ayoade, Cole Palmer, Zadie Smith and David Olusoga are going to form a squadron of “The Fighting Miscegenates” and start a war against their own parents.
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LMAO. If you think this is true of Star Trek (or any sci fi), it is because you affirmatively pushed non-male Trekkies out of your group with sexism and you should work on that.
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
LMAO. If you think this is true of Star Trek (or any sci fi), it is because you affirmatively pushed non-male Trekkies out of your group with sexism and you should work on that.
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How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?
October 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?
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A putatively nationalist movement is being built upon rejecting everything that made Britain actually distinctive and turning it into a particularly shitty toxic version of online America.
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A putatively nationalist movement is being built upon rejecting everything that made Britain actually distinctive and turning it into a particularly shitty toxic version of online America.
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As Yom Kippur ends, sending my support to all those grieving and/or frightened after today's horrific attack in Manchester
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As Yom Kippur ends, sending my support to all those grieving and/or frightened after today's horrific attack in Manchester
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yet again the only person in the Labour Party who understands comms is Ed Miliband
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
yet again the only person in the Labour Party who understands comms is Ed Miliband
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I think this media habit has become such a problem it needs an embarrassing nickname - 'bookie journalism' or 'Mystic Meg' or something - which should be thrown back at journalists every single time they do this.
That every TV spot and discussion I have seen about the NHS has been about 'winning the next election' not 'so what, exactly, are we spending this money on and is that a good idea?' again shapes which MPs get rewarded and also forces smart MPs to sound stupid when they speak in public.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I think this media habit has become such a problem it needs an embarrassing nickname - 'bookie journalism' or 'Mystic Meg' or something - which should be thrown back at journalists every single time they do this.
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"it's your own time your wasting"
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"it's your own time your wasting"
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I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.
I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.
I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.
I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.
I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.
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The level of drug abuse in this White House must be off the charts compared to previous administrations.
"They said Hegseth is becoming increasingly 'obsessed' with his own security and exhibits frenzied behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings.
"'"There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something"' ...
"'"There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something"' ...
The former Fox News host is reportedly spiraling out of control, being described by staffers as “manic.”
September 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The level of drug abuse in this White House must be off the charts compared to previous administrations.
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Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?