Olly B
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Olly B
@ollybain.bsky.social
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Lefty, Antiracist, Antifascist, NOT a fan of brexit. Occasionally sweary. Keen on walking up mountains and such. Known to play the odd video game.
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Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.
Just saw the “I consider my business settled with all trans sisters.” tweet posted on Reddit and the chorus of ‘FUCK YOU!!’s is loud enough to be heard from orbit.
The fucking audacity of her.
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top tier french
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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Been waiting so long for a physical release of this classic in a decent format. Last version I had was on VHS.
That’s my Halloween night viewing sorted.
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"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
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Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.
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Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
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Just that nagging thought that never mind the economy Labour is doing badly in polls because it really doesn't look like a government in charge of anything least of all having a coherent message.
I’m told Labour MPs have been told by whips to *abstain* in the vote on Nigel Farage’s ten-min rule bill on leaving the ECHR, which has left some furious. Whips’ arguments seems to be to just ignore it. Labour MPs worry it leaves Lib Dems/Greens looking like only they care on this.
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Gonna ask ChatGPT how to rephrase "Fuck off into the sun you fucking fuck" in more formal language.
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If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth
Someone saw one of those dystopian sci-fi movies where the elite live in sky palace towers and the poors live in dark slums on the ground and thought, “I could make that!”
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Brianna was murdered in a transphobic hate crime, and disabling the replies doesn’t make that untrue!
Disabled quote posts as well now, always a good sign..
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And definitely don't vote for parties who say you've caused "incalculable damage" to the country.

join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/
Still an utter virus of a man, regardless.
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Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.
That has a really similar font and background design to No Man’s Sky updates and for a second I read it and thought “What the hell is happening?!” and then realised it’s Helldivers and it made much more sense.
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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
A very few fresh ones have gone up near me in the last week, but the majority are just rotting off their posts now. Looks a right mess.