Alex Kanefsky (he/him)
@alexkanefsky.bsky.social
Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast.
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
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The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie.
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The "immigrants using taxis and hotels" bullshit is driving me insane - everything about the press and political framing is an absolute lie.
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
Asylum seekers are only staying in hotels and using taxis because we're apparently incapable of processing applications and providing nearby healthcare!
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Our letter to the Gaurdian on UK Jews voting for Greens and Reform has now been published. By @dmf101.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me, @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Our letter to the Gaurdian on UK Jews voting for Greens and Reform has now been published. By @dmf101.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social and me, @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A pretty fluffy piece this; about the fact that 75% of our print media could soon be owned by two obscenely wealthy men
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Move over, Murdoch: will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?
The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A pretty fluffy piece this; about the fact that 75% of our print media could soon be owned by two obscenely wealthy men
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Here's an idea: what if we "concentrated" the refugee population into certain locations? "Camps" if you will. We could force them to work for free too. I wonder if there's a name for this sort of thing?
Well the optics of this are certainly something
From, inevitably, the BBC
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here's an idea: what if we "concentrated" the refugee population into certain locations? "Camps" if you will. We could force them to work for free too. I wonder if there's a name for this sort of thing?
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
“Accrington Stanley? Who’re they??”
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Accrington Stanley? Who’re they??”
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Here on Bluesky, the image from our appeal campaign page got flagged as "adult content" so every time we link it we have to use this thumbnail instead.
Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Here on Bluesky, the image from our appeal campaign page got flagged as "adult content" so every time we link it we have to use this thumbnail instead.
Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages.
An online petition was started.
And now... This.
When legacy media behaves like this, is it any wonder people dismiss the ‘MSM’ and rely instead on social media and its brain rot algorithms?
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
When legacy media behaves like this, is it any wonder people dismiss the ‘MSM’ and rely instead on social media and its brain rot algorithms?
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
When you see this, skeet a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When you see this, skeet a pic from your gallery to describe your mental health
Anyone else find the Royal Mail just gives up for several days in a row, or is it just my ends?
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Anyone else find the Royal Mail just gives up for several days in a row, or is it just my ends?
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The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
There is some good stuff in this budget. I don’t think it would have been there without serious opposition from normal people, and Labour backbenchers to the most egregious shite of the past year from govt, meaning 2 things:
1. We can and do have influence still
2. We have to keep fighting
1. We can and do have influence still
2. We have to keep fighting
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There is some good stuff in this budget. I don’t think it would have been there without serious opposition from normal people, and Labour backbenchers to the most egregious shite of the past year from govt, meaning 2 things:
1. We can and do have influence still
2. We have to keep fighting
1. We can and do have influence still
2. We have to keep fighting
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When someone who said "Hitler was right" starts telling you "we need to leave the ECHR", you'd have to be wilfully obtuse not to join the dots.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
When someone who said "Hitler was right" starts telling you "we need to leave the ECHR", you'd have to be wilfully obtuse not to join the dots.
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The Big Freelancer Survey 2025 shows that over the 2023-24 financial year, 44% of responding freelancers earned less than the UK National Living Wage for 2024 - an increase of 29% on the previous year’s figure.
Read the full report here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
Read the full report here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The Big Freelancer Survey 2025 shows that over the 2023-24 financial year, 44% of responding freelancers earned less than the UK National Living Wage for 2024 - an increase of 29% on the previous year’s figure.
Read the full report here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
Read the full report here: freelancersmaketheatrework.com/bigfreelance...
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Recently asked chatgpt what it thought about the experiments where AI kept opting to blackmail and/or kill users
And this thing got so weirdly defensive about "those are rumors, none of that is true". I had to send 3 article links for it to pivot to "ahh haha my bad yeah ok that happened"
And this thing got so weirdly defensive about "those are rumors, none of that is true". I had to send 3 article links for it to pivot to "ahh haha my bad yeah ok that happened"
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Recently asked chatgpt what it thought about the experiments where AI kept opting to blackmail and/or kill users
And this thing got so weirdly defensive about "those are rumors, none of that is true". I had to send 3 article links for it to pivot to "ahh haha my bad yeah ok that happened"
And this thing got so weirdly defensive about "those are rumors, none of that is true". I had to send 3 article links for it to pivot to "ahh haha my bad yeah ok that happened"
I’d not really heard the “benefits street” thing until yesterday but it’s a very useful image isn’t it, as it allows bigots to imagine welfare recipients as “them over THERE” rather than their neighbours who might need income top ups just to pay bills, disability support or money between jobs
every right-wing newspaper this morning:
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born...
...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I’d not really heard the “benefits street” thing until yesterday but it’s a very useful image isn’t it, as it allows bigots to imagine welfare recipients as “them over THERE” rather than their neighbours who might need income top ups just to pay bills, disability support or money between jobs
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
What can you do in the face of relentless bad journalism that convinces the majority of people that the opposite of reality is true? It’s exhausting
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What can you do in the face of relentless bad journalism that convinces the majority of people that the opposite of reality is true? It’s exhausting
Still 2 million quid innit tho m8
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Still 2 million quid innit tho m8
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷