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Cobie Yo
@cobieef.bsky.social
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Just being me, as that's the only way to be. Left because I believe in kindness and decency. Will never, ever support Labour again after the horror they've unleashed. They're an evil, far-right party.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3h
Definitely @haileypiperfights.bsky.social. Her books blew and continue to blow my mind, and often make me feel a little less alone in the world because someone else likes similar weird things to me, but turned them into books I can enjoy. 😊
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3h
The financial crisis stuff was really good, well written, researched, just excellent work. But it wasn't really something that screamed Hunter S. Thompson to me. Lol.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3h
I thought that was Tim Blake Nelson playing some sort of villain at first. Must be going blind!
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 3h
Remember when people thought Matt Taibbi was the new Hunter S. Thompson for some reason? I bought one of his early books. Read it. Wondered wtaf they were talking about. Then everything else happened...
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 7h
Best clapback I've seen in a while, Zack. Great job!
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 8h
That's not Preston Town Hall. It's County Hall.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 8h
Not for trans people or anyone who remotely looks that way, though, right, Vicky? Joke of a government.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 10h
I'm in a weird position where I only joined the Greens a few months ago but now I'm looking at a huge bunch of new members and going, "What took you so long?" Zack for PM!
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16h
The transphobic OfS now regards *some* “lawful” speech to be restricted, but not all. It still wants universities to be more transphobic and will penalise those that are trans friendly, conveniently forgetting of course that many “gender-critical” transphobes have also long been antisemitic.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Office for Students has flipped positions: on IHRA & on "say what you want as long as its lawful" to "we want to restrict some lawful speech"

A valuable retreat but reasons given seem incoherent. Article 17 of EHRC does allow Germany & Austria to ban holocaust denial. *but* it is lawful in Britain.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 18h
Soon we'll end up with a brick. They surely know how that ends up! 😂
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 18h
Keir Starmer just wants to make choices that look 'ard. "Look at me, sunshine, I'm tough as nails!" I bet he posts pictures of himself in a string vest on some hidden corner or the Internet, flexing the "Toolmaker" tattoo on his bicep and gurning into a confused official photographer's camera.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Is this the, "Do it quickly before they realise just how ludicrous and illegal it is" plan?
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Let Katherine Howard decapitate him for a change!
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Is this unusual? I'm not exactly sure whether this is routine or whether it hints that they're having to think twice.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Well, not being able to eat would probably take care of that.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
No safe spaces. Looks like the Tories finally found a replacement for fox hunting.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
'Psycho Goreman' remains the best film ever! 😂
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
People have all kinds of crazy psychosexual stuff that gets released via their kinks. I certainly wouldn't want to put all mine out there because they tend to show some intimate and vulnerable parts of who I am. Wes Streeting, though, is not one of them! 😂
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
A very sensible choice. So, yes, phrasing... 😂
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah. Can you imagine him touching you with his sweaty little sausage fingers and whispering, "I'm going to mainline this AI through the heart of you"? I'm already getting shivers down my spine.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, everyone has a hole. How would you breathe if you didn't?
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
This is fair. I apologise. If someone wants to enjoy the oily filth gushed forth by Wes Streeting, who am I to deny them that pleasure? 😂
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Be careful. That phrasing can be taken two ways.
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
The UK government: "We're the adults in the room."
Michael Hobbes: "Hold my fucking drink, Peter."
UK liberal media journalists who praised You're Wrong About during lockdown: "Michael isn't real, anymore. We never supported him. Let's pretend he's Matt Taibbi."
Peter: "Sports."
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Cobie Yo @cobieef.bsky.social · 1d
Tbh, I think he knows he's on thin ice, given that he broke collective responsibility twice, posted an almost too eager "phew" at being retained after the reshuffle and has repeatedly stepped outside his brief. But being a McSweeney creature, he can get away with allsorts.
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