Shaun Murrant (☕🧉🍻🏳️🌈)
@pilotmoondog.bsky.social
Aging geek, not-a-goth, gamer & fan. Also previously a union activist.
Currently unemployed so it is pointless to send me begging messages.
Currently unemployed so it is pointless to send me begging messages.
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Jenny Watson spilling it on X
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Jenny Watson spilling it on X
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
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I've never understood the argument that being LGBTQ+ is a choice, because:
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've never understood the argument that being LGBTQ+ is a choice, because:
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
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Exactly. Whereas most bigots are proud to boast they were radicalised into their beliefs.
I've never understood the argument that being LGBTQ+ is a choice, because:
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
1. It very obviously isn't
2. Even if it was, so what?
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Exactly. Whereas most bigots are proud to boast they were radicalised into their beliefs.
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I mean, who do you think runs the Tony Blair Institute? Would you like to take a guess?
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I mean, who do you think runs the Tony Blair Institute? Would you like to take a guess?
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Lmaooo they really really aren't man. Do you not remember what it was like with Corbyn? Does this even remotely compare?
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Lmaooo they really really aren't man. Do you not remember what it was like with Corbyn? Does this even remotely compare?
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Actually I think the main reason Starmer's Labour hasn't fathomed out that the Greens are the alternative is because Starmer actually believes in Reforms policies and framing of politics.
As leader, Starmer has defended the wealthy, demonised the poor & of course promoted a hierarchy of racism.
As leader, Starmer has defended the wealthy, demonised the poor & of course promoted a hierarchy of racism.
October 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Actually I think the main reason Starmer's Labour hasn't fathomed out that the Greens are the alternative is because Starmer actually believes in Reforms policies and framing of politics.
As leader, Starmer has defended the wealthy, demonised the poor & of course promoted a hierarchy of racism.
As leader, Starmer has defended the wealthy, demonised the poor & of course promoted a hierarchy of racism.
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This is a kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is a kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
I'm speaking as an *expert*
This is 100% a sexual kink.
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The Glinner article in The Observer (I ain't posting it but if you want to find it I've given you the relevant info) is WILD! The journalist is genuinely transphobic and STILL thinks Glinner is a mentally unwell danger who should stop.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Glinner article in The Observer (I ain't posting it but if you want to find it I've given you the relevant info) is WILD! The journalist is genuinely transphobic and STILL thinks Glinner is a mentally unwell danger who should stop.
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If the country was being run even just for the benefit of the majority of aging right wing reactionaries - for the stereotypical Male Online, say - I’d expect the average punter to be better off an better provided for than whatever this is meant to be.
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If the country was being run even just for the benefit of the majority of aging right wing reactionaries - for the stereotypical Male Online, say - I’d expect the average punter to be better off an better provided for than whatever this is meant to be.
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Or did they spend most of those years rolling around gargling in fake terror in breakfast TV studios, sending pissy WhatsApp messages to Times journalists and thrapping their genitals with a union flag oven glove. Was this type of behaviour indicative of innovative thinking and smart leadership.
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Or did they spend most of those years rolling around gargling in fake terror in breakfast TV studios, sending pissy WhatsApp messages to Times journalists and thrapping their genitals with a union flag oven glove. Was this type of behaviour indicative of innovative thinking and smart leadership.
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Consider: what did key figures in creating the Sir Keir project spend their time in opposition doing? Did they spend it thinking up new ideas for how to tackle the increasingly urgent problems that were already blaring sirens and flashing klaxons by the mid 2010s?
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Consider: what did key figures in creating the Sir Keir project spend their time in opposition doing? Did they spend it thinking up new ideas for how to tackle the increasingly urgent problems that were already blaring sirens and flashing klaxons by the mid 2010s?
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(Year eighteen of the actual crisis, I think, but year ten of the crisis being immediate and undeniable).
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
(Year eighteen of the actual crisis, I think, but year ten of the crisis being immediate and undeniable).
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What would it look like, if we punished ideas that the Sun would hate, and instead rewarded politicians for e.g. bullshitting, scaremongering, boasting, lying, sneaking, wrecking and a host of other destructive behaviours? Might it not look very much like this, going into year ten of The Big Crisis.
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
What would it look like, if we punished ideas that the Sun would hate, and instead rewarded politicians for e.g. bullshitting, scaremongering, boasting, lying, sneaking, wrecking and a host of other destructive behaviours? Might it not look very much like this, going into year ten of The Big Crisis.
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I see exasperated Sensible Moderates complaining that this government has no project, no theory of what it’s doing and no good ideas. I suggest this is because we have for a very long time been hugely rewarding politicians whose key skill is telling *lobby journalists* what they wanted to hear.
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I see exasperated Sensible Moderates complaining that this government has no project, no theory of what it’s doing and no good ideas. I suggest this is because we have for a very long time been hugely rewarding politicians whose key skill is telling *lobby journalists* what they wanted to hear.
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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I've said it before but, having worked with elderly people who are starting to show signs of dementia, this rapid switch to simple insults when presented with something disliked feels very familiar.
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've said it before but, having worked with elderly people who are starting to show signs of dementia, this rapid switch to simple insults when presented with something disliked feels very familiar.
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I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.
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If a story like that actually exists, please let me know.
I feel like it would have been rejected as over the top satire up until the exact moment it became nonfiction .
I feel like it would have been rejected as over the top satire up until the exact moment it became nonfiction .
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If a story like that actually exists, please let me know.
I feel like it would have been rejected as over the top satire up until the exact moment it became nonfiction .
I feel like it would have been rejected as over the top satire up until the exact moment it became nonfiction .
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Of all the sci fi stories about artificial intelligence I can't think of a single one that proposed an actually very stupid computer flattering and sycophanting human users into completely losing their sense of reality.
The AI apocalypse, in fiction, involves AIs that are actually intelligent.
The AI apocalypse, in fiction, involves AIs that are actually intelligent.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Of all the sci fi stories about artificial intelligence I can't think of a single one that proposed an actually very stupid computer flattering and sycophanting human users into completely losing their sense of reality.
The AI apocalypse, in fiction, involves AIs that are actually intelligent.
The AI apocalypse, in fiction, involves AIs that are actually intelligent.
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That can be awfully hard to measure but even if you ignore the fact that the only real way to stop this constant cycle is socialism, none of this hurts them like a strike would
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
That can be awfully hard to measure but even if you ignore the fact that the only real way to stop this constant cycle is socialism, none of this hurts them like a strike would
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I get it, it's not easy to hold anyone in ownership responsible, but you better be sure that this is costing the company real money or legitimately pushing them to action or all you're doing is making a bunch of minimum wage workers do extra work for nothing, and the bosses don't care about that
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I get it, it's not easy to hold anyone in ownership responsible, but you better be sure that this is costing the company real money or legitimately pushing them to action or all you're doing is making a bunch of minimum wage workers do extra work for nothing, and the bosses don't care about that
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I am mildly suspicious of any political activism that is based primarily on hassling service employees
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I am mildly suspicious of any political activism that is based primarily on hassling service employees