Alex Hope
@dralexanderhope.bsky.social
Lecturer at UAM, Madrid. Linguist (metaphor, CLIL, conversation analysis, CDA), critical theorist (Malabou, Derrida, Deleuze, posthumanism, technicity) mountain biker, cat feeder
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properly nuts that Labour won a huge landslide 18 months ago and they’re already so desperate they’ve running with ‘the Greens want to sell your children heroin’
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
properly nuts that Labour won a huge landslide 18 months ago and they’re already so desperate they’ve running with ‘the Greens want to sell your children heroin’
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Has Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, or any other high ranking minority member in either the house/senate come anywhere close to releasing a similar public statement of solidarity against the unlawful program of racial terror
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Has Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, or any other high ranking minority member in either the house/senate come anywhere close to releasing a similar public statement of solidarity against the unlawful program of racial terror
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“If the Liz Truss Show is the “home of the counter-revolution” then the British establishment can rest easy. Truss’s opening monologue is delivered with all the verve and passion of a minimum wage hotel worker explaining at check-in where breakfast is served and how to find the elevators.”
Why are we funding pathetic, vengeful Liz Truss to lie about Britain?
The failed PM gets £115,000 of taxpayer money per year to spread poison about the UK on her new online show
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“If the Liz Truss Show is the “home of the counter-revolution” then the British establishment can rest easy. Truss’s opening monologue is delivered with all the verve and passion of a minimum wage hotel worker explaining at check-in where breakfast is served and how to find the elevators.”
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i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
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“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
EXCLUSIVE:
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
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Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"
How she still has a job is beyond me. If it isn't pressure from Robbie Gibb, whoever her line manager is should be sacked for not already having pulled the trigger.
What if one were a BBC executive and 'Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg' had:
- a 25% decline in audience to under 1.5milion (inc. online)
- highest reach among viewers over 55
- skew towards white managerial/professional (ABC1) viewers
Feels like the show's own time bomb has already gone off.
- a 25% decline in audience to under 1.5milion (inc. online)
- highest reach among viewers over 55
- skew towards white managerial/professional (ABC1) viewers
Feels like the show's own time bomb has already gone off.
December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
How she still has a job is beyond me. If it isn't pressure from Robbie Gibb, whoever her line manager is should be sacked for not already having pulled the trigger.
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This sort of scintillating analysis is why they get the big bucks, I guess.
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This sort of scintillating analysis is why they get the big bucks, I guess.
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
<Pops a third spoonful of cyanide into his cuppa, stirs, sips, and awaits Thanatos>
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Condenamos con firmeza otro asesinato machista. No es un hecho aislado: es violencia estructural que debemos erradicar. #NiUnaMenos
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Condenamos con firmeza otro asesinato machista. No es un hecho aislado: es violencia estructural que debemos erradicar. #NiUnaMenos
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Blue Labour are despicable.
They are also deeply stupid & have all the political nous of Liz Truss.
This will win over zero Reform voters and push people to either stay at home or vote Green or Lib Dem.
The local elections will be a blood bath for Labour, but they'll continue piling on the hate.
They are also deeply stupid & have all the political nous of Liz Truss.
This will win over zero Reform voters and push people to either stay at home or vote Green or Lib Dem.
The local elections will be a blood bath for Labour, but they'll continue piling on the hate.
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Blue Labour are despicable.
They are also deeply stupid & have all the political nous of Liz Truss.
This will win over zero Reform voters and push people to either stay at home or vote Green or Lib Dem.
The local elections will be a blood bath for Labour, but they'll continue piling on the hate.
They are also deeply stupid & have all the political nous of Liz Truss.
This will win over zero Reform voters and push people to either stay at home or vote Green or Lib Dem.
The local elections will be a blood bath for Labour, but they'll continue piling on the hate.
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I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I once did a deeply puerile thing and rang the Home Office to ask for comment on the growing campaign to abolish the Home Office, which was basically "one think tank paper and some posts". The note of genuine panic in the flack's voice is something I cherish to this day. See how you fucking like it.
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
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When Falkner joined the EHRC she talked a lot about ‘evidence’ and ‘balance’ and it soon became abundantly clear that what she meant was that she didn’t like the existing, well-researched and established positions of the Commission, and needed a pretext for reversing those at the top of her list.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
When Falkner joined the EHRC she talked a lot about ‘evidence’ and ‘balance’ and it soon became abundantly clear that what she meant was that she didn’t like the existing, well-researched and established positions of the Commission, and needed a pretext for reversing those at the top of her list.
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España alcanzará una verdadera democracia cuando el pueblo pueda decidir libremente ser una república y construir un proyecto común sin imposiciones del pasado.
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
España alcanzará una verdadera democracia cuando el pueblo pueda decidir libremente ser una república y construir un proyecto común sin imposiciones del pasado.
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
This sounds extremely plausible.
Cuts to rerun of Battlestar Galactica: so why exactly did you think it was a good idea to make the robots that wiped out most of humanity?
Tech bro: it was like I had to pay the servants, so I thought I'd make robots instead.
Cuts to rerun of Battlestar Galactica: so why exactly did you think it was a good idea to make the robots that wiped out most of humanity?
Tech bro: it was like I had to pay the servants, so I thought I'd make robots instead.
Impossible to understand the tech leader zeal for humanoid robots unless you realize their homes are filled with human staff whose presence makes them, in a basic way, uncomfortable. They want servants without the trace of subjectivity.
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This sounds extremely plausible.
Cuts to rerun of Battlestar Galactica: so why exactly did you think it was a good idea to make the robots that wiped out most of humanity?
Tech bro: it was like I had to pay the servants, so I thought I'd make robots instead.
Cuts to rerun of Battlestar Galactica: so why exactly did you think it was a good idea to make the robots that wiped out most of humanity?
Tech bro: it was like I had to pay the servants, so I thought I'd make robots instead.
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Gotta give her credit, she was one of the first to figure out that if you said incredibly stupid things, our worthless media would label you an independent thinker and always go to you for your ignorant hot takes.
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Gotta give her credit, she was one of the first to figure out that if you said incredibly stupid things, our worthless media would label you an independent thinker and always go to you for your ignorant hot takes.
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i started reading The Player of Games last night and man elon really has never read any of the culture novels. not even paid attention to a wikipedia summary being read aloud to him by a chatbot at 1.25x while he's geeked out on adderall
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i started reading The Player of Games last night and man elon really has never read any of the culture novels. not even paid attention to a wikipedia summary being read aloud to him by a chatbot at 1.25x while he's geeked out on adderall
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Welcome to Britain:
Toilets are for *cis* paying customers only
Toilets are for *cis* paying customers only
December 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Welcome to Britain:
Toilets are for *cis* paying customers only
Toilets are for *cis* paying customers only
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In Orwell’s 1984…
The Ministry of Truth Fabricated lies.
The Ministry of Plenty enforced rationing.
The Ministry of Love tortured people.
In Labour’s 2025, The Equalities & Human Rights Commission enforces discrimination and the removal of basic human rights.
It was a warning, not a manual 😡🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
The Ministry of Truth Fabricated lies.
The Ministry of Plenty enforced rationing.
The Ministry of Love tortured people.
In Labour’s 2025, The Equalities & Human Rights Commission enforces discrimination and the removal of basic human rights.
It was a warning, not a manual 😡🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
In Orwell’s 1984…
The Ministry of Truth Fabricated lies.
The Ministry of Plenty enforced rationing.
The Ministry of Love tortured people.
In Labour’s 2025, The Equalities & Human Rights Commission enforces discrimination and the removal of basic human rights.
It was a warning, not a manual 😡🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
The Ministry of Truth Fabricated lies.
The Ministry of Plenty enforced rationing.
The Ministry of Love tortured people.
In Labour’s 2025, The Equalities & Human Rights Commission enforces discrimination and the removal of basic human rights.
It was a warning, not a manual 😡🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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End of the day we don’t need laws to be clear, it’s more of a vibe based thing. Just like it is with underage drinking and reckless driving
falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
End of the day we don’t need laws to be clear, it’s more of a vibe based thing. Just like it is with underage drinking and reckless driving
Blue Labour: never ignores an opportunity to punch down; if it's a choice between being an arsehole or respecting the rights of people the right wing press hates, they will always choose being an arsehole.
We're going to look back on this period of Labour government in the same way we view Thatcher's Tory period of Section 28 bigotry.
Starmer and his cabinet absolutely own the current trans-hostile nature of the now-ironically named Equality and Human Rights Council.
Starmer and his cabinet absolutely own the current trans-hostile nature of the now-ironically named Equality and Human Rights Council.
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Blue Labour: never ignores an opportunity to punch down; if it's a choice between being an arsehole or respecting the rights of people the right wing press hates, they will always choose being an arsehole.