Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7h

Those beads are people. Families. Friends. Neighbours. Children. Doctors and nurses. Teachers and carers. Millions of them.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations

30 120 410

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 22h

The thing that became crystal clear to me over the last few years is that the tactics used by domestic abusers, bullies and autocrats is exactly the same, only the scale differs. That said the people doing the big scale things are probably doing the smaller scale ones too.

1

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 23h

It feels like Cameron never really believed in anything though, he was just happy to let everyone else get on with their horrible projects while he racked up cv points in the way to a well paid consultancy job and retirement in the lords.

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 1d

In 2017 Labour didn’t understand the coalition of voters they’d built and started losing a lot of them. It’s sad to see history repeat with Starmer in 2025. I can’t believe I voted for continuity Cameronism, I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way.

1 6

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

I was zipping all over the place. Didn’t get a chance to say hello unfortunately.

1

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

1 1

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

1 1

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

1

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

Fantasticamania UK 2025 did exactly what it said on the tin. Great shows.

@revprouk.bsky.social

1 3

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why I’ve always assumed a lot of AI will die because it’ll poison itself due to the greed of the people involved.

2

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

82 1.3K 3.4K

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing that gave me pause this time was the idea that he might view Putin as a loser. Roy Cohn taught us that there’s no one he won’t abandon no matter how useful they’ve been to him in the past.

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 5d

Hard not to put in that blues brothers clip here

Reposted by Chris Gannon

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 5d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

590 2.4K

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 5d

Our city’s Muslim population is about 30% and we have widespread support for Palestinians here which means a lot of Palestinian flags on display. The Safety Advisory group made an entirely fair and justified decision based on what happened in Amsterdam last year.

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social · 5d

This is absurd. If supporters of an English football club went to another country, committed violent hate crimes and public order offences, and the police in a subsequent country decided they couldn't be doing with it, the Prime Minister and the Leader Of The Opposition would not be caping for them.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Ministers to explore reversing ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending UK match after PM’s criticism – politics live

Fans of the Israeli football team will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns Good morning. Yesterday it emerged that fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns. The decision was taken by Birmingham’s safety advisory group, based on advice from the West Midlands police, who said the match would be “high risk” based on “current intelligence and previous incidents, including violent clashes and hate crime offences that occurred during the 2024 Uefa Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam”. There is more on the announcement here. The decision prompted widespread condemnation from political leaders. Keir Starmer said: This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. This is a national disgrace. How have things come to this? A serious mistake by WM Police. You don’t tackle antisemitism by banning its victims. This decision must be reversed. From the moment that the match was announced, it was clear that there were latent safety risks that even our capable security and police authorities would not be able to fully manage. With so much hostility and uncertainty around the match, it was only right to take drastic measures. As Israel continues its assault on Gaza, killing thousands and devastating civilian infrastructure, sporting fixtures involving Israeli teams cannot be separated from the wider political context. Hosting such teams sends a message of normalisation and indifference to mass atrocities. [The decision is] just completely and utterly unacceptable, and the prime minister has said we will do everything we possibly can to resolve this issue. It’s an operational issue for the police, and government doesn’t get involved in operational issues for the police. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

4 42 110

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 5d

But we can be in a position as a country where we look at fans history of behaviour and judge whether it is safe to have them there and under what conditions. Being Israeli doesn’t change that calculus

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5d

Ian Murray: "We can't be in a position as a country where we're determining people are not able to go to public events on the basis of their race, religion or background."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Labour Minister Savages Decision To Ban Israeli Football Fans From Attending Match

"We can't be in a position as a country where we're determining people are not able to go to public events on the basis of their race, religion or background."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

7 22 130

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 6d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
*****************
Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
*
*
*
*
*
*
Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
10
BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
13
A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
14
set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
15
was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
16
program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
17|
Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
18
of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
20
submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
21
Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

270 3.6K 14K

Reposted by Chris Gannon

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6d

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

😡😡😡😡

77 460 1.4K

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 6d

Two years after they closed all Jewish schools in Berlin. Was talking just today about how we don't talk about genocide enough in terms not only of all the lives stolen, but all the future lives stolen too, of the civilisations that never got to be. Europe would be unimaginably different today.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 6d

16 October 1944 | 600 prisoners who were selected by SS doctors at the men's hospital of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (sector BIIf) were murdered in the gas chamber and crematorium III.

A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Black and white historical photograph of gas chamber and crematorium III at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp,, showing a long building with a prominent chimney and surrounded by barbed wire fence.

1 20 74

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

JB Pritzker appearing at a press conference now with several former military officials - generals and admirals - to denounce Donald Trump's use of the military against Americans. He says CBP and ICE are acting like Donald Trump's "own personal secret police"

1 19 92

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 7d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

28 440 760

Reposted by Chris Gannon

Kris Kinsey @kinseyfilmclub.neocities.org · 8d

SESSION MOTH F'N MARTINA

🤼‍♂️

1 2

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 7d

BMI is bullshit. It always puts me at least one category over where I am. Judging by my RENPHO scales (which have their own bullshit, to be fair) I’d have to get rid of everything but my muscle, including my skeleton, to be at a healthy bmi.

3

Chris Gannon @kennyevil.bsky.social · 10d

That dickhead resigned under questionable circumstances and paved the way for Kavanaugh

1