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@stilldelvingh.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Describe your feed:
News translated in 21st century languages (cynicism, memism & sarcasmism)
Unbelievably shitty real-life drama rants
Strategies to fix the mess unlikely to be heard/implemented
Book I’m writing updates
(A lil) Art&music
Self-mockery
WTF science
Interesting things other people say
News translated in 21st century languages (cynicism, memism & sarcasmism)
Unbelievably shitty real-life drama rants
Strategies to fix the mess unlikely to be heard/implemented
Book I’m writing updates
(A lil) Art&music
Self-mockery
WTF science
Interesting things other people say
Aside from the disproportionate influence RW bottomless funding has on the debate, may I point out that while it’s ok to criticise decent people as they’ll stay polite and/or acknowledge mistakes, the “woke cancel us!” mob will unleash threats & insults if not vexatious trials
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Aside from the disproportionate influence RW bottomless funding has on the debate, may I point out that while it’s ok to criticise decent people as they’ll stay polite and/or acknowledge mistakes, the “woke cancel us!” mob will unleash threats & insults if not vexatious trials
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"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
Some common sense to remember in a trying time.
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
Again I still think the public would get it better if Reform was called by its full name
The Brexit Budget Hole party
The Brexit Budget Hole party
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Again I still think the public would get it better if Reform was called by its full name
The Brexit Budget Hole party
The Brexit Budget Hole party
ICYMI, yes, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy got condemned *again*, and yes, it's not for the case that got him 5 years in prison (say that fast, he's already back home), but for his 2012 electoral campaign finances
Can't wait for mouthpieces and idiots to call that "harassment"
Can't wait for mouthpieces and idiots to call that "harassment"
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
ICYMI, yes, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy got condemned *again*, and yes, it's not for the case that got him 5 years in prison (say that fast, he's already back home), but for his 2012 electoral campaign finances
Can't wait for mouthpieces and idiots to call that "harassment"
Can't wait for mouthpieces and idiots to call that "harassment"
Call the black home by its full name
The Brexit black hole
(And while you’re at it maybe call Reform by its full former name
The Brexit black hole party)
The Brexit black hole
(And while you’re at it maybe call Reform by its full former name
The Brexit black hole party)
Budget 2025 live: Rachel Reeves to unveil billions in tax rises as she admits public anger over UK economy
Budget: Rachel Reeves faces day of reckoning as she unveils billions in tax rises
Chancellor to unveil series of tax hikes to fill black hole in public finances in highly anticipated Budget on Wednesday
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Call the black home by its full name
The Brexit black hole
(And while you’re at it maybe call Reform by its full former name
The Brexit black hole party)
The Brexit black hole
(And while you’re at it maybe call Reform by its full former name
The Brexit black hole party)
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.
Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraine’s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelensky’s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraine’s defense, in coordination with Putin’s regime.
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff has been outed as a Russian asset. This is traitorous stuff.
BTW could Farage provide an example of unhurtful, uninsulting racial abuse?
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
BTW could Farage provide an example of unhurtful, uninsulting racial abuse?
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How about we stop foreign-owned corporates & billionaires remitting the money they make out of us here to their offshore, tax dodging, related companies?
"Please stop creating wealth in our country. If the point is to take care of your family, it's unacceptable. Go create wealth elsewhere"
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
How about we stop foreign-owned corporates & billionaires remitting the money they make out of us here to their offshore, tax dodging, related companies?
Please understand what that means:
Best way to hurt America is to support Trump
(Although also surely a few grifters making a living out of hurting America mostly because Musk is paying them to do so)
Best way to hurt America is to support Trump
(Although also surely a few grifters making a living out of hurting America mostly because Musk is paying them to do so)
A new X feature over the weekend revealed that dozens of pro-Trump accounts with large followings are not US-based, despite content and bios suggesting otherwise. https://cnn.it/4ojNqJX
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Please understand what that means:
Best way to hurt America is to support Trump
(Although also surely a few grifters making a living out of hurting America mostly because Musk is paying them to do so)
Best way to hurt America is to support Trump
(Although also surely a few grifters making a living out of hurting America mostly because Musk is paying them to do so)
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Now Trump has offed to gift Russia territory in Ukraine, will he bring a similar ‘peace’ to Taiwan?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s Xi Jinping raises future of Taiwan in call with Donald Trump
China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and Xi told Trump that its return was an ‘integral part of the post-war international order’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Now Trump has offed to gift Russia territory in Ukraine, will he bring a similar ‘peace’ to Taiwan?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Today in the "Who gives a f*ck" Daily
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Today in the "Who gives a f*ck" Daily
Unbelievable how unacceptable behaviour by young men can be dismissed as "acting out", "understandable immaturity" aso
When girls of any age are underaged women who know exactly what they are doing and ain't forgiven the singlest mistake
Maybe we should start raising all boys like girls
When girls of any age are underaged women who know exactly what they are doing and ain't forgiven the singlest mistake
Maybe we should start raising all boys like girls
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Unbelievable how unacceptable behaviour by young men can be dismissed as "acting out", "understandable immaturity" aso
When girls of any age are underaged women who know exactly what they are doing and ain't forgiven the singlest mistake
Maybe we should start raising all boys like girls
When girls of any age are underaged women who know exactly what they are doing and ain't forgiven the singlest mistake
Maybe we should start raising all boys like girls
"Please stop creating wealth in our country. If the point is to take care of your family, it's unacceptable. Go create wealth elsewhere"
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Please stop creating wealth in our country. If the point is to take care of your family, it's unacceptable. Go create wealth elsewhere"
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
(Quick note: If said migrants have money to send away, it means they are working. Ergo providing services. Ergo creating wealth.)
Everything that is wrong about our ‘disinfotainment’ era supercharged on hate & outrage bait explained in 4 sentences by @markhamillofficial.bsky.social and Master Yoda
-Back in 1980-
-Back in 1980-
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Everything that is wrong about our ‘disinfotainment’ era supercharged on hate & outrage bait explained in 4 sentences by @markhamillofficial.bsky.social and Master Yoda
-Back in 1980-
-Back in 1980-
Doge had disbanded
-Doesn’t keep Reform from branding it a great idea for the UK-
Easy to think Milei-style chainsaw was abandoned just because it was a train wreck
Encline to think the havoc wrecking/data gathering op was complete is all
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a....
-Doesn’t keep Reform from branding it a great idea for the UK-
Easy to think Milei-style chainsaw was abandoned just because it was a train wreck
Encline to think the havoc wrecking/data gathering op was complete is all
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a....
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Doge had disbanded
-Doesn’t keep Reform from branding it a great idea for the UK-
Easy to think Milei-style chainsaw was abandoned just because it was a train wreck
Encline to think the havoc wrecking/data gathering op was complete is all
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a....
-Doesn’t keep Reform from branding it a great idea for the UK-
Easy to think Milei-style chainsaw was abandoned just because it was a train wreck
Encline to think the havoc wrecking/data gathering op was complete is all
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a....
Aaaaand it's raining
(Yes, it will freeze tonight, here come slippery times)
Climate change is so "unreal" I can see its effects *with my very eyes* despite the quite limited time I'm to spend on this Earth
(Yes, it will freeze tonight, here come slippery times)
Climate change is so "unreal" I can see its effects *with my very eyes* despite the quite limited time I'm to spend on this Earth
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Aaaaand it's raining
(Yes, it will freeze tonight, here come slippery times)
Climate change is so "unreal" I can see its effects *with my very eyes* despite the quite limited time I'm to spend on this Earth
(Yes, it will freeze tonight, here come slippery times)
Climate change is so "unreal" I can see its effects *with my very eyes* despite the quite limited time I'm to spend on this Earth
May I add it may be a little tricky to fix things if there's no intention to do anything about the origin of challenges
"Do not even mention closing the tape, let's mop some more instead - oh and by the way you're to foot the mop bill" seems to be the new trend in politics
(see climate change)
"Do not even mention closing the tape, let's mop some more instead - oh and by the way you're to foot the mop bill" seems to be the new trend in politics
(see climate change)
Busines and Trade Secretary, Peter Kyle: "When you win an election... you start off where the other lot left off, and the extent of challenges that Brexit left us, that some of the other periods of intense instability left us... you can't fix that in one month, in one budget, or in one year." ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
May I add it may be a little tricky to fix things if there's no intention to do anything about the origin of challenges
"Do not even mention closing the tape, let's mop some more instead - oh and by the way you're to foot the mop bill" seems to be the new trend in politics
(see climate change)
"Do not even mention closing the tape, let's mop some more instead - oh and by the way you're to foot the mop bill" seems to be the new trend in politics
(see climate change)
FTR FIMI=Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
(yeah well I didn't know)
(yeah well I didn't know)
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
FTR FIMI=Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
(yeah well I didn't know)
(yeah well I didn't know)
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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The BBC grilling in the Commons today will be one to watch...
Politico: "Michael Prescott, who wrote the report into [alleged] bias which kicked this whole [row] off, is up at 3.30pm, while BBC board member Robbie Gibb...will face questions alongside BBC chair Samir Shah" afterwards.
Politico: "Michael Prescott, who wrote the report into [alleged] bias which kicked this whole [row] off, is up at 3.30pm, while BBC board member Robbie Gibb...will face questions alongside BBC chair Samir Shah" afterwards.
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The BBC grilling in the Commons today will be one to watch...
Politico: "Michael Prescott, who wrote the report into [alleged] bias which kicked this whole [row] off, is up at 3.30pm, while BBC board member Robbie Gibb...will face questions alongside BBC chair Samir Shah" afterwards.
Politico: "Michael Prescott, who wrote the report into [alleged] bias which kicked this whole [row] off, is up at 3.30pm, while BBC board member Robbie Gibb...will face questions alongside BBC chair Samir Shah" afterwards.
"Really, really, there's no need to investigate Russian bribes in our party, let's forget about it ASAP, quickly, quickier than that, really, it's a nothingburger", Zia Yusuf, Head of Reform 'Nothing to Hide' Policy says
a close up of a man 's face wearing a sweater and a jacket .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face wearing a sweater and a jacket .
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Really, really, there's no need to investigate Russian bribes in our party, let's forget about it ASAP, quickly, quickier than that, really, it's a nothingburger", Zia Yusuf, Head of Reform 'Nothing to Hide' Policy says
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Holding power to account!
Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for what it determined to be ‘unfair competition’, along with an additional €60 million in accrued interest.
Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for what it determined to be ‘unfair competition’, along with an additional €60 million in accrued interest.
Court orders Meta to pay Spanish media companies nearly half a billion euros for 'unfair competition' - Spain in English
A Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national
www.spainenglish.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Holding power to account!
Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for what it determined to be ‘unfair competition’, along with an additional €60 million in accrued interest.
Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for what it determined to be ‘unfair competition’, along with an additional €60 million in accrued interest.
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i am chronically online just for moments like this 😭
this was miss norway in the “national costume” portion of the miss universe pageant and pleased as i am that miss mexico won i may need a recount
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i am chronically online just for moments like this 😭
"But wait I was trying to force her hand politely, so that makes me nice, right?"
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"But wait I was trying to force her hand politely, so that makes me nice, right?"