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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 1h

tired of blather from public intellectuals that haven't understood the political moment at any point in the last ten years

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 54m

Yes but you’re meant to hide it from the readers

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1h

The Atlantic has a lot of thin-skinned, unhappy writers

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3h

Yes decades before the Holocaust. Back in the 1890s and 1900s. Establishment Jews favoured assimilation at that point and Zionism was a minority cause

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5h

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 5h

As soon as someone says inevitable I stop listening

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8h

No, the surprise was there among politicians and commentators at the time. There’s plenty of evidence

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

It's a moot point because there won't be an election until 2029 unless Labour is way ahead in the polls and wants to go early

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

These people are nuts. Like socialists who think if Labour loses the replacement will be more left-wing and not some kind of Tory/Reform government. They're just not in touch with reality

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 9h

I've not encountered that particular argument thankfully

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

It's possible that in 2029 we see a Democrat in the White House after the catastrophic failure of Trumpian populism and anti-state vandalism. If that were the case, UK politics would look very different

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

But it's more like the dotcom bubble than the banking crisis. There could be a big crash without threatening the global financial system the way 2008 did

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

2008-style might be overstating it

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

Even more counterintuitively, most people, including the Labour leadership, expected Churchill to lead the Tories to victory in 1945. Admittedly polling was very patchy back then but what we see in hindsight as inevitable was almost never seen as inevitable at the time (1997 being a big exception)

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

Even if you look at previous elections, Labour would probably have won had it gone to the polls in 1978 and 2007, the SDP would have trounced the Tories in a 1981 election, Labour lost in 1970 (expecting to win) and won in 1974 (expecting to lose), Tories feared losing in 1987, etc etc

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

I find it weird how people can acknowledge that UK politics is volatile to an unprecedented degree and yet talk very confidently about the shape of an election in 2029. Reform is depicted as a permanent and unstoppable force and Labour as utterly doomed. Doesn't add up to me

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 11h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10h

No problem. I think we agree

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

That said I think you're right that the CM conspiracy theory is what has kept "Marxist" alive as a bugaboo since the fall of the USSR

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

I would just pay the money not to have millions of people judging me but hey

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

I know the story, I did a podcast about Cultural Marxism, but “Marxist” in itself is still an insult. These guys abuse words so routinely that it’s impossible to know what they mean except “bad people”

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

Can’t believe turning their marital problems into entertainment backfired. Who could have known?

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

‘We went on a reality TV show and it was bad, so now we’re trying to fix that by going in a national newspaper’ is an amazing mental process.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

My wife and I had couples therapy on TV. It nearly wrecked our marriage

After Jessica and I received expert counselling from the hit show Couples Therapy, I became public enemy number one. Here’s what didn’t make it to the screen

www.theguardian.com

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe but that’s not what he said. He could mean either

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23h

The Brutalist has a very good one

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 1d

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

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