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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 8h

It depends on who you’re annoying and obstructing and how you do it!

Srdja Popovic, who knows a thing or two about this, talks about how you need to win over more and more of society, which gives you support and permission to be annoying and obstructive.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 15h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 23h

The WhatsApp group must be amazing

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

It would seem I am not allowed to put any more books on the shelf.

The greatest cat in the world on a book shelf.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

CD racks ooh what fun! Huge respect for how ikea never stopped doing that mini Billy CD/DVD unit, it’s like they knew

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

General cultural warning: I am now making plans to take all my curation and collecting and recording, from music to images to period tracking, back offline and into carbon, and I am generally kind of a last in line early adopter or first in line mainstream weathervane person

Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going (back) that way myself, streaming is getting too complicated and uncertain, owning a CD now feels like a solid choice of curation. The young are naturally ahead of us.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going (back) that way myself, streaming is getting too complicated and uncertain, owning a CD now feels like a solid choice of curation. The young are naturally ahead of us.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 1d

Half the humour on social media comes from its convention being spoken word written down rather than written word pffft

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 2d

Increasingly, politics in West Europe is a mirror of East Europe, with a large radical right party against a rag-tag of centrist/liberal, centre-left, green and radical left parties and a rapidly declining centre right. The challenge is to coordinate the progressive opposition to the radical right.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 2d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 2d

A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”.

And damages.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

That’s better, but doesn’t solve the past tense “I’d have gone crazy” which maybe is the real problem? Because from the pov of past me that’s a future possibility and yet I can’t seem to express it in the future. Evidently we need more future tenses, Turkish or something can probably do this fine

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

A sentence I wrote here earlier today:

““If you’d told me 15 years ago I’d believe that [thing] I’d be worried I had gone crazy.”

I’m pretty sure it’s correct and it’s melting my brain why. Why am I using a present conditional modifying a past historic to express my putative feelings in the past?

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Do the frogs in Portland know "We All Stand Together"? If not, there's a rather beautiful wee anthem just waiting for them to pick up.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll wager they won’t be happy with this 20 minute thing

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

Right, I mean I literally do more or less think a sinister cabal is trying to destroy the world, or hasten its destruction, so they can pick over the wreckage?? If you’d told me 15 years ago I’d believe that I’d be worried *I* had gone crazy. But that’s not bad/weird enough for these people.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2d

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

And of course I was frustrated with him in exactly the same way except substitute evil tech billionaires and fascists. Which weirdly seem to be of only consequential interest to him.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

I had a weird insight moment when he apologised for being cross and said he was just worried for the future, his child etc and from his point of view I’m “refusing” to see the problem about Jews or chemtrails or whatever the thing was in that conversation. So it’s fear, fundamentally.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 2d

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever
reactormag.com/rebellion-ac...

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever - Reactor

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism.

reactormag.com

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t, but tbf I also can’t adequately explain how the aeroplane stays up

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

Ah well there’s some actual news behind that however mangled, I thought we were on the chemtrails thing where people insist clouds are different

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 2d

Do we know what the weather thing is actually about? Like visually. Clouds and aeroplane trails look much the same to me as 40 years ago, but I did grow up in an area where there have always been aeroplanes and maybe that’s it?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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