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Jane

@localnotail.bsky.social

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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary taking notes, library & research assistant English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth. Meet me in my pinned if you want. 🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30

I've been Charley on social media for over a decade & I've also had IRL harassment so no personal photo or surname on my profile.

But if you ever want to know what I'm like & who I am, in 2018 I did a video for Final Say for All about me & why Brexit was personal:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JO...

FSFA Birmingham - Jane

YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives

www.youtube.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

The girlfriend of the founder of Antifa

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

the founder of Antifa

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4h

They were 28 Jewish intellectuals writing about what they saw as rising fascism in Israel. Good people trying to raise alarm about inhumanity.

Mentioning their Jewishness to me seemed intrinsic to the strength of their position rather than "tokenistic".

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

Aldous Huxley 1958 on how we might fail our democratic duty to resist fascism due to infinite beguiling distractions of "the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant" (TV)

3x s/s from Brave New World Revisited
Huxley 1958)

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

https://archive.org/details/BraveNewWorld-and-BraveNewWorldRevisited/Brave-New-World-Revisited_-_Aldous-Huxley/page/n44/mode/1up

https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

In the past most people never got a chance of fully satisfying this appetite. They might long for distractions, but the distractions were not provided. Christmas came but once a year, feasts were "solemn and rare," there were few readers and very little to read, and the nearest approach to a neighborhood movie theater was the parish church, where the performances, though frequent, were somewhat monotonous. For conditions even remotely comparable to those now prevailing we must return to imperial Rome, where the populace was kept in good humor by frequent, gratuitous doses of many kinds of entertainment-from poetical dramas to gladiatorial fights, from recitations of Virgil to all-out boxing, from concerts to military reviews and public executions. But even in Rome there was nothing like the non-stop distraction now provided by newspapers and magazines, by radio, television and the cinema. In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature (the feelies, orgy-porgy, centrifugal bumble-puppy) are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation. The other world of religion is different from the other world of entertainment; but they resemble one another in being most decidedly "not of this world."
Both are distractions and, if lived in too continuously, both can become, in Marx's phrase, "the opium of the people" and so a threat to freedom.

only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization — the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual liberty and the survival of democratic institutions.

https://archive.org/details/BraveNewWorld-and-BraveNewWorldRevisited/Brave-New-World-Revisited_-_Aldous-

https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

If they are a good person who is Jewish they are also a good Jewish person.

I haven't used the specific term a "good Jew"

Do not understand why describing people who are Jewish who stood up to denounce Fascism in Israeli politics as "good Jewish people" is problematic, but open to learning.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

The Supreme Court upholds decision requiring Alex Jones to pay $1.4 billion for saying Sandy Hook was a hoax.

Good. His slanderous statements caused unnecessary trauma.

Pay up.

Then start advocating for better gun control.

It’s long past time.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5h

The web just got a little harder to trust fullfact.org/technology/t... via @fullfact.org

The web just got a little harder to trust – Full Fact

Google’s decision to de-prioritise fact checks will make it harder for users to make informed choices

fullfact.org

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 5d

Videos claiming that a new rule will ban pensioners from driving at night have been shared thousands of times online.

But this is completely false - and the videos also feature fake audio of the PM.

Fake nighttime pensioner driving ban rumour spreads online – Full Fact

A spokesperson from the Department for Transport confirmed this is not true.

fullfact.org

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3d

A video being shared online is claiming that a new monthly £27 WiFi charge is being introduced for all households across the UK to fund ‘digital infrastructure’.

But this isn’t happening. The government confirmed this is “completely false”.

A £27 monthly ‘WiFi charge’ is not being introduced in the UK – Full Fact

Contrary to a video being shared on social media, the government is not bringing in the fee for UK residents.

fullfact.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

Gun violence is brutal and horrific.

I wish Charlie Kirk could've understood how wrong he was without such a clear illustration.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 23d

Charlie Kirk did his campus Masterdebater schtick, but he wasn't seeking to gain knowledge or understanding, just his preaching his christofascist worldview

Due to his paranoia that a government could take his gun away he preferred the slaughter of innocent children + cops alike to gun registration

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not sure Trump knows what he is saying, it's just stream of consciousness ranting a lot of the time

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

Hey @sundersays.bsky.social did you know Nick Tenconi (Chief Operations Officer of the UK's branch of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point since 2021),
has also been leader of UKIP since Feb 2025 (interim from end June 2024, pre-riots)

He's given them a new logo + an even more far-right direction.

Nick Marcel Tenconi @NickTenconi
Honoured to be joining TPUK as its new COO-looking forward to working with both student Conservatives, young and older generations and undoubtedly, left leaning and "centrist" fence sitters tired of tyrannical socialism weaselling its way into our lives.
@JackHFRoss @TPointUK
Turning Point UK @TPointUK - Nov 9, 2021 @TencoTalks
Welcome to the team Nick!
Graphic of Nick Tenconi smiling in a disturbing manner with the text I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING TPUK FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS. I SEE HUGE POTENTIAL IN THIS YOUNG, AMBITIOUS, POWERHOUSE CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK, OFFERING STUDENTS & OLDER AGES ALIKE THE SANCTUARY THEY HAVE BEEN CRAVING SINCE THE BIRTH OF THIS WOKE NONSENSE; THE TYRANNICAL SOCIALISTIC RECRUITMENT DRIVE & GENERAL COMPLIANCE & SUBMISSION TO THE CCP'S AGENDA TO TAKE OVER THE WEST. OVER MY DEAD BODY. IT'S TIME TO GET TO WORK
TURNING POINT UK
NICK TENCONI NEW TPUK COO

https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1458011050012553220

UK Independence Party @UKIP Feb 5 2025

We are proud to announce that Nick Tenconi is now the permanent leader of UKIP!

[Image of text on a background of a UK flag where the white is purple which looks weird, and Nick Tenconi staring off into the distance over to his far right with a slightly anxious face, like a pigeon who has just eaten a cigarette butt. He's a 40-something white English dude who is bald on top but compensates with a full close-trimmed beard. He is wearing a suit that could work for both weddings and court appearances.
Text: UKIP PROUDLY WELCOMES
OUR NEW RATIFIED AND PERMANENT LEADER, NICK TENCONI.
UKIP
tagged: Nick Marcel Tenconi @NickTenconi
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Published and promoted by Ben Walker on behalf of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) both at Henleaze Business Centre, 13 Harbury Road, Henleaze, Bristol, BS9 4PN

https://x.com/UKIP/status/1887111454026801287

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe it's the codeine but it is quite funny to me that the president and one of the COOs of the UK branch of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point UK are both potential remigration plan victims: Tenconi and Longhi are not Old English names AFAIK.

Marco has an Italian dad, no idea about Nick Marcel Tenconi.

tpointuk.co.uk/team/
Meet The TPUK Team
[image of 60-something bald white European man in a blue shirt with his arms crossed]
Marco Longhi MP
Turning Point UK President

[NB he's not an MP any more - was a Conservative, lost his seat to Labour's Sonia Kumar in 2024. Defected to Reform in Jan 2025.
His dad was Italian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Longhi]

tpointuk.co.uk/team/
[image of a 40-something bald white European man wearing a grey suit and a red tie with a solemn expression]
Nick Tenconi
Chief Operations Officer of Turning Point UK (and leader of UKIP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Tenconi

tpointuk.co.uk/team/

[image of a 30-something white European man in a tuxedo and a wide stance at a red carpet event]

text just says: Jack

Just Jack 👐🏻

His name is Jack Ross, he's another COO for Turning Point UK. He used to do alt-right media Reason / Reasoned UK with Darren Grimes, not sure if that is still a thing.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 6h

ugh

Sophie Corcoran [Claire Fox disruptor muppet. Like Darren Grimes' cousin.]

Oct 3

How do we fix our country? I mean can it be fixed?

[Quoted by]

Tommy Robinson @TRobinson NewEra Oct 3

I could fix it

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Reply from Elon Musk @elonmusk 9:28 AM Oct 3, 2025

🇬🇧🇬🇧

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe that Trump is right - Charlie Kirk really did not love his enemies at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Aug 10

maybe the beard is a parasite idk

composite image of 4 photos of Neil Oliver starting off fresh-faced and happy in his Coast years, then becoming more troubled and grizzled since 2020.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

I am Jane's boundless loathing of Nigel Farage

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nigel Farage is not a patriot.
He doesn't want what's best for us.

He serves only himself + the men who can keep him in the luxury manner to which he believes himself worthy + amplify his opinions

he's a parasitic form of cancer

and one day this truth will be universally acknowledged

#BinFarage

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Feb 20

Nigel Farage speaks about Putin

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 7h

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 3

13 November 2016, Remembrance Sunday

Full of himself on Fox News, empty of honour for the Fallen

Where's your poppy, Nigel Farage?

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

I do hate Nigel Farage but I have good reasons.

He is the willing tool of much wealthier men, not a servant of the British public.

Nasty Manipulative Spiv

#BinFarage

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 3

12 November 2016, between Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday

WHERE'S YOUR POPPY, FARAGE?

s/s of Nigel Farage tweet of him and Donald Trump gurning in the golden lift at Trump Tower on Saturday 12 November 2015.

A calendar at the bottom shows Armistice Day was the day before and Remembrance Sunday the day after.
He is wearing NOT wearing a poppy. He has a lapel badge which has US and UK flags

Overlaid text = WHERE'S YOUR POPPY? in red.
Giant Poppy symbol from Poppywatch also present (account documenting Poppy madness)

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking of Farage and poppies and lest we forget...

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 3

perma-suited Nigel Farage is fond of lapel messaging in this manner

however, in the weekend of Remembrance Day 2016,
as he helped Donald Trump become president,
for some reason, he did not wear a poppy for his appearances,
or mention the Fallen

all Trump (and Brexit), all week (Sunday: 13th Nov)

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

Ok I do hate Nigel Farage but also he deserves it

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 3

But of course Nigel Farage was wearing a GB News pin not a UK flag today at the US Congress hearing

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