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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 4h

Picture of Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, with the caption: Dear Fascists, if God meant for Nazis to win, why did he make them so flammable? Curious.

In the bottom right corner: Turning Point RAF.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 51m

But have you considered Biden old?

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 57m

Watch as Jake Tapper is lied to for 42 seconds and sits there doing nothing except presumably hoping he doesn't lose access to his little buddy.
Incredible what passes for journalism anymore ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 1h

the mass production literally *is* superior technology!

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3h

And I have an entire section on the free press because a statement like this making it all the way through the editorial process is a massive indictment of the entire publication and CBS just paid $150 million for this lol

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Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com · 14h

And are you married?
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 9h

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

JSDF attack helicopter with an anime girl painted on the side

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder what would happen if someone started wheat pasting graphic porn around chancellor's offices. Would he complain or took it on the chin lake the safe-space-less man that he is?

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 23h

It's the regime accountability @ericlipton.nytimes.com promised us!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 1d

The actual problem with Polanski is that his an unrepentant woo peddling crank, so my money is on him ending up as UK's own RFK, no matter how he sounds now. RFK was once an environmental activist too.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 2d

Labour’s immigration plan in full:

- raise the salience of small boats as much as possible
- make it harder and more expensive for people to come here legally and contribute
- ???
- solve the small boats issue to rapturous applause
- markets reward their ingenuity with return to growth

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Conservative criticism of Labour I absolutely did not give enough intellectual houseroom to pre-election was 'none of these guys have ever created a job'.

Bo Jacobs Strom @bojs.bsky.social · 2d

Headlines going to the English requirements but I'd completely missed this part of the plans, yet another act of idiotic self harm. Completely incompatible with the government's stated aims on housebuilding, growth, etc.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

the master race

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/UGuGzH3Ne5w

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

It's clearly stabilised, so the turnaround is coming any minute!

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

That's entire Tyneside getting deported.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

If only there was a journalist at NPR to check these claims and verify the truth. Such a shame there's none.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has been fighting antivaxxers and other woo peddlers online since at least 2008, I can say: "at least since 2008".

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

Since when did "But I saw it on a meme! A MEME!" outrank "here's some peer-reviewed scientific literature that says otherwise". ???

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

Because all UK media root for Reform (in whichever iteration), either because of racism (from Daily Mail through BBC) or transphobia (Guardian). Similar dynamic runs in most of the West at the moment.

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 3d

Even more derogatory

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 3d

The last part would be true if Jake Sullivan didn't exist.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 4d

He obviously has security in this video (no helmet though).

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 4d

Adhesive didn't heat evenly

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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