Quite Wrightly
@wrightly.bsky.social
Armchair politics and economics. Memes where appropriate.
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there is no spoon
December 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
there is no spoon
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Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
Comedy Writer Bought ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ Domain Names, Anticipating President Would Rename Institution After Himself: ‘Satire Became Unavoidable’
In August, former 'South Park' writer Toby Morton registered 'TrumpKennedyCenter' domain names, anticipating that Trump would add his name to the D.C. landmark.
variety.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”
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Can you guess whom I chose as having had a bad 2025?
“What he must hate most, I think, is being ignored. And this year he was. All he said was ignored. All he wrote was ignored. It's remarkable. People don't even comment on his column online. I had to search to find out if he was still writing it.”
“What he must hate most, I think, is being ignored. And this year he was. All he said was ignored. All he wrote was ignored. It's remarkable. People don't even comment on his column online. I had to search to find out if he was still writing it.”
🔔 Nothing to see Year... with James O'Brien ☃️
Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?
🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷
Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.
🎁
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Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?
🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷
Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.
🎁
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🎄 open.spotify.com/episode/2dbS...
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Can you guess whom I chose as having had a bad 2025?
“What he must hate most, I think, is being ignored. And this year he was. All he said was ignored. All he wrote was ignored. It's remarkable. People don't even comment on his column online. I had to search to find out if he was still writing it.”
“What he must hate most, I think, is being ignored. And this year he was. All he said was ignored. All he wrote was ignored. It's remarkable. People don't even comment on his column online. I had to search to find out if he was still writing it.”
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ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN ICELAND
It s warmer than summer !
19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night !
‼️nearly 10C above JULY average
MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Records brutalized allover the country
It s warmer than summer !
19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night !
‼️nearly 10C above JULY average
MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Records brutalized allover the country
December 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN ICELAND
It s warmer than summer !
19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night !
‼️nearly 10C above JULY average
MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Records brutalized allover the country
It s warmer than summer !
19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night !
‼️nearly 10C above JULY average
MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Records brutalized allover the country
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Watch ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’ on the Eye’s YouTube ⤵️
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Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025
YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine
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December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Watch ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’ on the Eye’s YouTube ⤵️
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For more jokes and journalism, subscribe to Private Eye today (gift subs also available) ⤵️
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Commentatorballs: collecting the very best of the wisdom of pundits. These are all real quotes from real commentators.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Commentatorballs: collecting the very best of the wisdom of pundits. These are all real quotes from real commentators.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
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Conservatives are now applauding the use of state power to control views--and they will undoubtedly suffer the consequences when they lose power in the future. They will have no one to blame then but themselves.
The short-sightedness of all this is breathtaking.
The short-sightedness of all this is breathtaking.
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Conservatives are now applauding the use of state power to control views--and they will undoubtedly suffer the consequences when they lose power in the future. They will have no one to blame then but themselves.
The short-sightedness of all this is breathtaking.
The short-sightedness of all this is breathtaking.
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Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv.
Merry Christmas, friends!
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Merry Christmas, friends!
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December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv.
Merry Christmas, friends!
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Merry Christmas, friends!
📹: miarodriges / Threads
Sublime
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Sublime
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American businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett, together with Ukraine’s special police unit "White Angel," visited frontline areas of Kupiansk in Kharkiv region, where constant shelling continues and civilians are being evacuated.
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
American businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett, together with Ukraine’s special police unit "White Angel," visited frontline areas of Kupiansk in Kharkiv region, where constant shelling continues and civilians are being evacuated.
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“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Or you might call them "camps" where people are to be "concentrated" until they are deported.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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🎵 The party's on
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
Simply having a
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
Simply having a
December 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🎵 The party's on
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
Simply having a
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough
Simply having a
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I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…
In a profile of Stephen Miller with @swin24.bsky.social, we reported he’s privately laughed off immigrant families’ “sob stories.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I want to stress, also, how when we approached the Trump White House with a lengthy comment request on our findings, the only things they disputed - among the batch of lawless, titanically rancid shit - were a) Stephen miller was NOT regularly made fun of by his former GOP Hill colleagues…
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A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A million pages is conservatively 400 bankers boxes.
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on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
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Cal Roscow, Director at Best for Britain: “As a customs union will likely take much longer to negotiate, we must remain clear-eyed about what we must deliver quickly – particularly on access to SAFE in the face of external threats.”
https://bit.ly/44ISUqZ
https://bit.ly/44ISUqZ
Streeting opens up divisions in Labour over support for rejoining EU customs union
The move comes amid speculation that Wes Streeting wants to replace Keir Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister
www.the-independent.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Cal Roscow, Director at Best for Britain: “As a customs union will likely take much longer to negotiate, we must remain clear-eyed about what we must deliver quickly – particularly on access to SAFE in the face of external threats.”
https://bit.ly/44ISUqZ
https://bit.ly/44ISUqZ
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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*sips coffee*
“Wonder what’s happening in national news this morning, let me just open BlueSky … “
“Wonder what’s happening in national news this morning, let me just open BlueSky … “
Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
*sips coffee*
“Wonder what’s happening in national news this morning, let me just open BlueSky … “
“Wonder what’s happening in national news this morning, let me just open BlueSky … “
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Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
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New post just out:
My 2025 audit - looking at what I got right and wrong this year. And picking out lessons to improve my commentary in 2026.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
My 2025 audit - looking at what I got right and wrong this year. And picking out lessons to improve my commentary in 2026.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Audit - 2025
What did I get right and wrong?
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New post just out:
My 2025 audit - looking at what I got right and wrong this year. And picking out lessons to improve my commentary in 2026.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
My 2025 audit - looking at what I got right and wrong this year. And picking out lessons to improve my commentary in 2026.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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RIP
Slava Ukraini
Slava Ukraini
Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Shemet, the Mi-24 pilot who led the final Azovstal supply mission in April 2022, has been killed. On December 17, while intercepting Shahed drones over Cherkasy, his helicopter went down. The entire crew died.
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
RIP
Slava Ukraini
Slava Ukraini
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This is a really important point from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social — could be a real document from 2019 but falsified that it was by Epstein bsky.app/profile/jaso...
The AP reported on the existence of this letter but if you read the article their source is someone who saw that it was returned to sender. AP reported on it as though Epstein wrote it but the details are super thin and just say it was returned to sender www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
December 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This is a really important point from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social — could be a real document from 2019 but falsified that it was by Epstein bsky.app/profile/jaso...