Phil McDuff
@mcduff.bsky.social
Legitimate businessman
https://ko-fi.com/philmcduff
https://open.substack.com/pub/philmcduff
@philmcduff on the dying bird site
@mcduff.75 on Signal
https://ko-fi.com/philmcduff
https://open.substack.com/pub/philmcduff
@philmcduff on the dying bird site
@mcduff.75 on Signal
Pinned
The Unbearable Weight of Small Absences
This morning my dog Jingles wasn’t in the kitchen while I was making coffee.
open.substack.com
I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️
To put it another way, I think amateurishness and cringe is way more forgivable with a bunch of lxds who are clearly trying their best, as opposed to when it's from a load of middle managers who barged everyone out of the way, saying they were experts, and proceeded to fuck it into the sun.
I think we can over analyse and get bogged down in details re: Polanski's messaging or the hypnotits stuff. What worked for Corbyn was seeming to be not like the rest of them. The basis of Starmer's win and the reform surge is "not that lot." People fucking *hate* the normal stuff now.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
To put it another way, I think amateurishness and cringe is way more forgivable with a bunch of lxds who are clearly trying their best, as opposed to when it's from a load of middle managers who barged everyone out of the way, saying they were experts, and proceeded to fuck it into the sun.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Britain: a lot of history that citizens can get in trouble for describing in critical terms, and not much of a future.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Seems to me like actively hounding the young and immigrants would be intensely counterproductive, if one of our core problems was an aging population.
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Seems to me like actively hounding the young and immigrants would be intensely counterproductive, if one of our core problems was an aging population.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Why would young people hang around to slave for people who very openly hate them and have deliberately created a malicious system that exploits, harasses and demeans them as much as it can
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Why would young people hang around to slave for people who very openly hate them and have deliberately created a malicious system that exploits, harasses and demeans them as much as it can
Reposted by Phil McDuff
I think we have now tested “We can fuck this tiger without getting our arms ripped off, because we are much smarter than everyone else” to destruction, and are now in a new slapstick phase of just pretending nothing has gone wrong with it and it’s working great.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I think we have now tested “We can fuck this tiger without getting our arms ripped off, because we are much smarter than everyone else” to destruction, and are now in a new slapstick phase of just pretending nothing has gone wrong with it and it’s working great.
I think we can over analyse and get bogged down in details re: Polanski's messaging or the hypnotits stuff. What worked for Corbyn was seeming to be not like the rest of them. The basis of Starmer's win and the reform surge is "not that lot." People fucking *hate* the normal stuff now.
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I think we can over analyse and get bogged down in details re: Polanski's messaging or the hypnotits stuff. What worked for Corbyn was seeming to be not like the rest of them. The basis of Starmer's win and the reform surge is "not that lot." People fucking *hate* the normal stuff now.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
This is exactly what happened as far as I can tell: maybe two guys who couldn’t keep their shit together well enough to just post normal on Twitter dot com for like three months, then flounced in the huff. All I can say is: if this is non-negotiable for you, then George Galloway is right over there.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is exactly what happened as far as I can tell: maybe two guys who couldn’t keep their shit together well enough to just post normal on Twitter dot com for like three months, then flounced in the huff. All I can say is: if this is non-negotiable for you, then George Galloway is right over there.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
the thing about this: I don't think there were bitter arguments over trans rights *within* the party. I think what actually happened is that they are quite arrogant men who got hooked on Posting and couldn't stand the Online Abuse that comes with wanting to strip rights from people.
Very strange that the Guardian would publish an article about the “toxic power struggles” within Your Party, and not once mention MPs Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain leaving the party - widely believed to be over bitter arguments about trans rights.
Passwords at 3am. So everyone joined the Greens
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
the thing about this: I don't think there were bitter arguments over trans rights *within* the party. I think what actually happened is that they are quite arrogant men who got hooked on Posting and couldn't stand the Online Abuse that comes with wanting to strip rights from people.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
You'll be extremely unsurprised to see that the vast majority of the tax comes from London/Southeast
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
Shoutout to Poole - the only exception actually visible on this chart (the interactive version on the website reveals all the details when you touch/move the mouse over)
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
to conflate two points i feel are relevant: Grenfell is in the constituency with the most amount of properties subject to the ~mansion tax~ in the country bsky.app/profile/dann...
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Hello friends, I returned to Blue Sky yesterday. Look, the radishes are growing fast! They're almost 3 weeks old and in very good condition. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Hello friends, I returned to Blue Sky yesterday. Look, the radishes are growing fast! They're almost 3 weeks old and in very good condition. Please share and donate if you can.
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
It's funny that the longer they're in government, the clearer it is that Labour pinned everything on a D:Ream effect and the economy just naturally reverting to 1997 somehow
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
It's funny that the longer they're in government, the clearer it is that Labour pinned everything on a D:Ream effect and the economy just naturally reverting to 1997 somehow
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Very strange that the Guardian would publish an article about the “toxic power struggles” within Your Party, and not once mention MPs Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain leaving the party - widely believed to be over bitter arguments about trans rights.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very strange that the Guardian would publish an article about the “toxic power struggles” within Your Party, and not once mention MPs Iqbal Mohamed and Adnan Hussain leaving the party - widely believed to be over bitter arguments about trans rights.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Can’t underline this enough really: these cases are a squillionaire giving crackpots money to seek out individual members of the public quietly going about their working day, so they can turn them into national hate figures, hand in hand with our utterly poisonous media outlets. That’s all it is.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.
Look. This isn't analysis of any stripe. That this absolute fucking hogwash is presented as clever, sensible moderate stuff should be considered just as much propaganda as the tabloid screaming about benefits street.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Great illustration of the austerity ratchet in Britain - restoring the pre-Osborne welfare state treated like wild-eyed radicalism
Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.
Look. This isn't analysis of any stripe. That this absolute fucking hogwash is presented as clever, sensible moderate stuff should be considered just as much propaganda as the tabloid screaming about benefits street.
"This is the Labour Party of old – high taxation, high public spending, growth in welfare bills and all the rest of it.
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Aside from anything else, the benefit cap was introduced in 2013. Claiming that going back to 2012, to a benefit system designed by Tories but missing some of the most egregious and punitive excesses, is a sign of a "return" to even the real 1970s let alone the media boogeyman 1970s, is bollocks.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
The reason why our media class think £2 million isn’t much for a house is that half of them went to private schools and grew up in houses now worth £2million. Bet they’re serving mum and dad funny tasting cups of tea
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The reason why our media class think £2 million isn’t much for a house is that half of them went to private schools and grew up in houses now worth £2million. Bet they’re serving mum and dad funny tasting cups of tea
Reposted by Phil McDuff
Is you elderly mum getting the care she needs? Is the NHS any better? Is your lite better? You racists need to focus
Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Is you elderly mum getting the care she needs? Is the NHS any better? Is your lite better? You racists need to focus
Buying an asset and selling it for more money is the definition of capital gains. The only reason we don't do it is because we bribed the middle class with rising house prices to distract them from the dismantling and selling off of the public realm and the destruction of wages.
my unpopular opinion is if you sell an expensive house in London and move up north or a cheaper area on the coast then that she be capital gains taxed
oops i just subtweeted half of Hastings
oops i just subtweeted half of Hastings
All of this “woe is me my house is now really expensive and so a tax is unfair” stuff completely negates to acknowledge the implicit fact that the house owner has made an insane profit by doing absolutely nothing
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Buying an asset and selling it for more money is the definition of capital gains. The only reason we don't do it is because we bribed the middle class with rising house prices to distract them from the dismantling and selling off of the public realm and the destruction of wages.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
Reposted by Phil McDuff
The life of a French fence must be exhausting, one day it's a load of snails that like 4 restaurants worldwide even want, the next it's the crown jewels of a country that hasn't existed for 400 years, probably tomorrow it's a thousand baguette baskets carefully handmade from Aquitanian reeds
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The life of a French fence must be exhausting, one day it's a load of snails that like 4 restaurants worldwide even want, the next it's the crown jewels of a country that hasn't existed for 400 years, probably tomorrow it's a thousand baguette baskets carefully handmade from Aquitanian reeds
Reposted by Phil McDuff
"because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" is how he finished that sentence
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" is how he finished that sentence
Reposted by Phil McDuff
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Reposted by Phil McDuff
yep!!! incredible
Ironically Theresa May was less of a TERF than like, any Labour frontbencher
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
yep!!! incredible