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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder what would happen if someone started wheat pasting graphic porn around chancellor's offices. Would he complain or took it on the chin lake the safe-space-less man that he is?

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 11h

It's the regime accountability @ericlipton.nytimes.com promised us!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11h

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 1d

The actual problem with Polanski is that his an unrepentant woo peddling crank, so my money is on him ending up as UK's own RFK, no matter how he sounds now. RFK was once an environmental activist too.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 1d

Labour’s immigration plan in full:

- raise the salience of small boats as much as possible
- make it harder and more expensive for people to come here legally and contribute
- ???
- solve the small boats issue to rapturous applause
- markets reward their ingenuity with return to growth

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Conservative criticism of Labour I absolutely did not give enough intellectual houseroom to pre-election was 'none of these guys have ever created a job'.

Bo Jacobs Strom @bojs.bsky.social · 1d

Headlines going to the English requirements but I'd completely missed this part of the plans, yet another act of idiotic self harm. Completely incompatible with the government's stated aims on housebuilding, growth, etc.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

the master race

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/UGuGzH3Ne5w

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 1d

It's clearly stabilised, so the turnaround is coming any minute!

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 1d

That's entire Tyneside getting deported.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 2d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

If only there was a journalist at NPR to check these claims and verify the truth. Such a shame there's none.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has been fighting antivaxxers and other woo peddlers online since at least 2008, I can say: "at least since 2008".

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

Since when did "But I saw it on a meme! A MEME!" outrank "here's some peer-reviewed scientific literature that says otherwise". ???

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

Because all UK media root for Reform (in whichever iteration), either because of racism (from Daily Mail through BBC) or transphobia (Guardian). Similar dynamic runs in most of the West at the moment.

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

Even more derogatory

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 2d

The last part would be true if Jake Sullivan didn't exist.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 3d

He obviously has security in this video (no helmet though).

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 3d

Adhesive didn't heat evenly

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4d

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 3d

Well yeah. That's precisely the regime accountability @ericlipton.nytimes.com promised us.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d

Careful and powerful analysis by @gregsargent.bsky.social of the New York Times treating Trump's propagandists as "provocateurs" and decision to treat MAGA's ideologically-driven lies as part of a legitimate clash of perspectives in describing Portland.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 4d

Considering what happened to Russel Brand after breakup, I sure do hope she doesn't dump him.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 4d

Also, we kinda know who they'd vote for.

Wiki screenshot with the results and a map of the 1944 presidential election.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking hell, this is so good.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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