Cloudy
@smellmycloud.bsky.social
Scottish man who does computer stuff for money and enjoys pubs, rugby, football and politics.
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Cloudy
@smellmycloud.bsky.social
· Jun 6
Any Scottish person voting for these 🤡 really needs to take a good look at themselves in the mirror.
Why are you so determined to be ruled by English public school wankers who hate you rather than "take back control"?
Why are you so determined to be ruled by English public school wankers who hate you rather than "take back control"?
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lol. lmao.
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
lol. lmao.
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This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
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This is the wildest shit a White House chief of staff has said about *their own colleagues* and *their boss* ON THE RECORD, WHILE STILL IN THE JOB. Holy hell.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is the wildest shit a White House chief of staff has said about *their own colleagues* and *their boss* ON THE RECORD, WHILE STILL IN THE JOB. Holy hell.
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Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country.
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country.
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
Well ours anyway…
So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?
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Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in… | Canary Media
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
www.canarymedia.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in… | Canary Media
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
This is mental
bar for a headline/subhead to make you go "huh, pardon me, what" has become mightily high in 2025 but: huh, pardon me, what www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is mental
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
Inject it into my veins. Call all of these horrible bastards out every single time you get a chance to do so..
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Inject it into my veins. Call all of these horrible bastards out every single time you get a chance to do so..
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A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January.
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/
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free speech news
NEW: Trump says it is "seditious, perhaps even treasonous" to question his health
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
free speech news
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People of the UK: you might want to rethink you travel plans.
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
People of the UK: you might want to rethink you travel plans.
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I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've written about the Farage antisemitism allegations - and my dismay at the behaviour of some who, now that the accused is more to their political liking, seem keen to sweep this all under the carpet.
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/farages-scho...
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Exactly. In fact, having been a schoolboy at a not dissimilar school in that time, it's the Spectator article that spectacularly "misses the point": it's true that 'war talk' was the norm, but it was quite the opposite of the norm to identify *with* the Nazis - and certainly not "entirely typical".
The argument here is that because the war was still a big subject in 1970s playgrounds, this excuses Farage's gross behaviour at the time. No, Farage went way beyond anything I remember - which was more about air-shooting phantom Nazis invading the school grounds
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Exactly. In fact, having been a schoolboy at a not dissimilar school in that time, it's the Spectator article that spectacularly "misses the point": it's true that 'war talk' was the norm, but it was quite the opposite of the norm to identify *with* the Nazis - and certainly not "entirely typical".
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Really interesting thread on the reality of being an MP with no research team of whips office...
Like imagine you're a normal person, i.e. yourself. (None of you here are normal, but imagine.) You probably have 3-4 political issues you have strong opinions on, 3-4 you have general inclinations on, and a ton you know nothing about. The whip's office /tells/ you what you should think on that ton.
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Really interesting thread on the reality of being an MP with no research team of whips office...
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Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists
The radio silence about Farage from people who are usually supremely vocal about antisemitism is so so telling.
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Imagine the reaction to allegations that Corbyn had made hissing gas noises to Jewish kids as a schoolboy - and then if he had responded to those allegations by shouting 'Bernard Manning!' at the journalists
To paraphrase Mrs Merton: "What was it about the anti-semitic, Hitler-loving, racist man whose previous political parties have attracted people from the National Front that first attracted you to join his Reform Party?"
Reform UK strips council leader of membership over undisclosed X account on.ft.com/4oyJky1
Reform UK strips council leader of membership over undisclosed X account
Party expels Ian Cooper in Staffordshire after historic racist social media posts emerge
on.ft.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
To paraphrase Mrs Merton: "What was it about the anti-semitic, Hitler-loving, racist man whose previous political parties have attracted people from the National Front that first attracted you to join his Reform Party?"
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Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reform UK's Staffordshire council leader made series of racist posts including telling British academic to "f*** off back to Nigeria" and liking white supremacist posts saying "White Men Have The Best Lives Because We Are White & Better Than The Rest Of the World" hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
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These posts cover a wide array of today's racism in Britain: telling British-born people to 'get back to their country', saying immigrants shouldn't be able to run for office, mocking people's names, denying minorities can be English, and hating Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
These posts cover a wide array of today's racism in Britain: telling British-born people to 'get back to their country', saying immigrants shouldn't be able to run for office, mocking people's names, denying minorities can be English, and hating Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wake up babe, a new Spurs meme template just dropped
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Wake up babe, a new Spurs meme template just dropped
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This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post.
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
"Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀
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December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM