Sylvaine Tuncer
@sylvainet.bsky.social
Academic in London. Anti-fascist, electronic music and raving and all things culture lover. Entirely personal views, laughs, and rants here.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.
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good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home
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sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad
sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars
sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad
sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars
sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars
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![[Scene is a GUY on the top of an unlit bonfire. A CROW is sitting on his outstreched arm.]
GUY:
This is so messed up.
GUY:
I was really looking forward to this party.
GUY:
I mean, you don't expect it, do you?
CROW:
Expect what
GUY:
Well like, you spend all day with your friends getting dressed up for a nice party,
GUY:
And when you get there you find out they've only invited you as an effigy of a 17th century terrorist!
CROW:
That is rude.
GUY:
It's *weird*.
CROW:
Yeah
CROW:
It's almost like... *Wicker Man-ish*.
GUY:
It's very Wicker Man!
GUY:
It really is a lot like that film.
CROW:
Don't worry.
CROW:
It's probably just like a folk-horror themed soirée or something
[Silent panels as the crow looks down at the guy's feet, off-scene].
CROW:
Oop.
[Silent pause. We se a flicker of light begin to grow at the base of the guy's feet].
CROW:
Nope
CROW:
Yeah they really are going to burn you.
GUY:
YOU WEIRD PAGAN SHITS
[Crow flies off]
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TAXIS WILL BE REPLACED BY CAMELS
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
TAXIS WILL BE REPLACED BY CAMELS
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I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
The "extraordinary bravery" of the LNER worker who intervened during the train mass stabbing attack on Saturday has been hailed by his company.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
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Until a white Anglo-Saxon Christian with a private education runs amok, there’ll be people willing to blame minorities for every crime. And when the posh bloke does it they’ll say he was pushed into it by VAT on school fees.
Grimes said the attackers should never have set foot in this country, suggesting he assumed that they must have been migrants to the UK. The police say that the two men arrested are black British-born men in their 30s.
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Until a white Anglo-Saxon Christian with a private education runs amok, there’ll be people willing to blame minorities for every crime. And when the posh bloke does it they’ll say he was pushed into it by VAT on school fees.
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Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.
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Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
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Sound driving advice from the BBC, for when driving towards headlamps that have a face. I mean, they've got a head, so why not a face as well?
Wear glasses and keep them glasses.
nb Glasses also useful for when writing BBC factboxes. If you've not left them in the car.
Wear glasses and keep them glasses.
nb Glasses also useful for when writing BBC factboxes. If you've not left them in the car.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Sound driving advice from the BBC, for when driving towards headlamps that have a face. I mean, they've got a head, so why not a face as well?
Wear glasses and keep them glasses.
nb Glasses also useful for when writing BBC factboxes. If you've not left them in the car.
Wear glasses and keep them glasses.
nb Glasses also useful for when writing BBC factboxes. If you've not left them in the car.
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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I want to support the BBC, but when this story is the headline for 24 hours while there's complete silence about a Reform MP making blatantly racist comments, they make it really hard.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I want to support the BBC, but when this story is the headline for 24 hours while there's complete silence about a Reform MP making blatantly racist comments, they make it really hard.
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I love that courtroom sketches are still a thing. Leaves open the possibility that a smurf or two was there
July 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I love that courtroom sketches are still a thing. Leaves open the possibility that a smurf or two was there
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Another classic case of getting hacked after two bottles of wine.
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Another classic case of getting hacked after two bottles of wine.
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Started listening to a podcast about narcissism and the sole host spent so long talking about themselves that I gave up....
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Started listening to a podcast about narcissism and the sole host spent so long talking about themselves that I gave up....
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“There is a lack of vision and leadership, for which politicians blame the electorate’s attention span. But you can’t run the country like a corner shop and then complain people only buy gum. That’s all you’re selling. Try to sell something bigger, more substantial, and voters may surprise you.”
🚸 Sunday School: Villa of The Damned ⚽
Should UK bend over backwards to welcome Israeli football fans, while Israel rolls out the red carpet for English hooligans?
+ New research into Brexit damage.
+ Favourite Autumn comfort foods.
🍊 spotify.link/QJLFeAOyAXb
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Should UK bend over backwards to welcome Israeli football fans, while Israel rolls out the red carpet for English hooligans?
+ New research into Brexit damage.
+ Favourite Autumn comfort foods.
🍊 spotify.link/QJLFeAOyAXb
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Villa of The Damned
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 19/10/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“There is a lack of vision and leadership, for which politicians blame the electorate’s attention span. But you can’t run the country like a corner shop and then complain people only buy gum. That’s all you’re selling. Try to sell something bigger, more substantial, and voters may surprise you.”
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Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.
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“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”
October 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”