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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 6d

I think the main 'north star' to hold onto is how to best direct that anger at the right time, backed up by relevant calls to action. I didn't feel like this rant was out of place with that consideration.

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Wednesbury Addams @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8d

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15d

"Neutral" is the ne plus ultra of anagrams.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 18d

I do, I have it, and it is beautiful! The myth is true. See you online soon :)

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 19d

Hi, I made sure to sign up before the weekend but wanted to check I haven't missed the Argonaut boat on this?

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 23d

What is your basis for this assertion about it being rehearsed and scripted?

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 25d

Of course, but the big occasion should be part of (or kick off) a narrative... an overarching story to which individual policies, events, news stories can be linked and framed around. They should choose that story and tell it at every opportunity, given or not. Otherwise Farage fills that void.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25d

That Farage reaction in full: "mY fEeLz aRe HuRt sO i DeMaNdZ aN eLeCtiOn" 😂😂😂

Who cares, you Putin-loving public-school grifting ponce? Just because the air is coming out of your tyres, doesn't mean you get to demand that the race start four years early. F-off back to Florida.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · 25d

I agree it was his best... would you be able to address how frustrating it is to see that this govt CAN communicate effectively on occasion, but their failure to keep up that standard has made things so much harder for them over the last year.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25d

The secret location of the canal is under lock and quay.

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Adam Rodger, a historian. @adamrodger.bsky.social · 26d

Pretty wild that Pete Davidson is going to perform comedy for the regime that murdered his father.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 26d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27d

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26d

Charlie Kirk's killer? Terminally online and gun culture.
The far right Evergreen shooter? Terminally online and gun culture.
The Annunciation killer? Terminally online and gun culture.
Yesterday's killers? Online and gun culture.
The always forgotten CDC killer? Online and gun culture.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Sep 23

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · Sep 22

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?

Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · Sep 19

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · Sep 19

Bravo

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 17

Wait a minute, where is Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage to defend our free speech?

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Sep 17

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 16

This needs to be followed by action, particularly on protecting trans people, but the rhetoric is extremely welcome www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting

Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour cannot afford to ignore far-right protests as Starmer under pressure

www.theguardian.com

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Sep 17

In London, hate will never win.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · Sep 17

I welled up reading this, despairing at the state we've found ourselves in as a country. We tried to fight this, particularly in 2016 and 2019, knowing this is where we'd end up if we didn't try.
I hope you know that you bring so much more to this country than those hooligans do.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · Sep 17

I must be living in the wrong (or right) place, as hot honey has completely passed me by.
Sounds good, actually, but I agree with the food trend thing. Everything is pistachio now, as far as I can see.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 14

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

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danielblock.bsky.social @danielblock.bsky.social · Sep 14

Great piece, thank you. I get why you felt patronising smiling at strangers, but I would have done exactly the same. In that moment, it's a rational response to powerlessness to do anything else; a small gesture fighting the tide could make a big difference to someone feeling threatened.

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