Tom Hunter
@onelifestand87.bsky.social
Ruth’s husband, Andrew, Harriet & Owen’s dad, Unison member & Newcastle fan
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Platner unlocking new levels of millennial suck
okay sorry this is really funny. Graham Platner was on a Facebook "Are We Dating the Same Guy"
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Platner unlocking new levels of millennial suck
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December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wild advertisement on YouTube
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Its fun how each new lie they tell about his health just digs them in a bit deeper rather than doing the opposite
Leavitt claims Trump had a "preventative" MRI because "men in his age group benefit from a thorough evaluation of cardiovascular and abdominal health"
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Its fun how each new lie they tell about his health just digs them in a bit deeper rather than doing the opposite
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don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
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Some of the coverage of Starmer and Reeves this morning would be like if someone covering the battles between Blair and Brown in 1999 went 'one question. What is the Euro?'
December 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Some of the coverage of Starmer and Reeves this morning would be like if someone covering the battles between Blair and Brown in 1999 went 'one question. What is the Euro?'
The US press wrote a load of pieces about sundowning last year but were sadly unable to keep using them after Biden stood down as candidate. Anyway wonder what happened to them.
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US press wrote a load of pieces about sundowning last year but were sadly unable to keep using them after Biden stood down as candidate. Anyway wonder what happened to them.
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The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The increasingly ludicrous Ben Habib Is arguing that Lucy White's attack on Nus Ghani being an MP is not racist
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
Ben Habib is now ludicrously supporting a call to ban Ben Habib from parliament!
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Don’t say this lightly but Birmingham Mail’s gaming of its position on Apple News/Google to farm clicks makes it one of the most effective spreaders of false information in the country.
Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
An online Birmingham Mail headline "Drivers with cruise control urged to press button or face £73 charge in June" breached the Editors' Code as there was no such charge - in fact drivers could "save" £73 on fuel www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0226...
02269-25 A man v birminghammail.co.uk - IPSO
A man complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that birminghammail.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined ‘’Drivers with cruise…
www.ipso.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Don’t say this lightly but Birmingham Mail’s gaming of its position on Apple News/Google to farm clicks makes it one of the most effective spreaders of false information in the country.
Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
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I've run the numbers, and the maximum length of a Christmas playlist is exactly 600 hrs. So if yours is over that, then you need to work out what you wanna cut
December 5, 2024 at 11:37 PM
I've run the numbers, and the maximum length of a Christmas playlist is exactly 600 hrs. So if yours is over that, then you need to work out what you wanna cut
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How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
How it started / where it goes / how it ends up
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For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong
Everything that happened around the handling of the NI protocol in late 2019 was my “Oh wow we are just in a whole new world here, huh?” moment and it has never actually reverted from that
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong
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Amusing thread by BBC Verify fact-checking the BBC political editor.
Did Rachel Reeves and the Government “mislead” people about the state of the public finances and the need for tax rises before the Budget?
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
I think this is a rather complex question & the answer is not black and white.
A thread…🧵1/12
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Amusing thread by BBC Verify fact-checking the BBC political editor.
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Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
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God they're so *online*
At this event Andrew Griffith (shadow business secretary) has gone all Maurice Glassman and slagged off the "lanyard classes", meaning in this case civil servants. MPs, like everyone in parliament, wear lanyards - apart from a handful who arrogantly assume everyone should just recognise them*.
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
God they're so *online*
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Anyway, here are some front pages from the day after the most disastrous fiscal event in the UK since Robert Peston started a run on Northern Rock...
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Anyway, here are some front pages from the day after the most disastrous fiscal event in the UK since Robert Peston started a run on Northern Rock...
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People who would never make a stand for anything beyond money not only find it hard to believe others would, but despise how that realisation makes them feel about themselves.
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
People who would never make a stand for anything beyond money not only find it hard to believe others would, but despise how that realisation makes them feel about themselves.
Far from the first time Reform have seen embarassing personal information about someone as a reason to stand them as a candidate
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Far from the first time Reform have seen embarassing personal information about someone as a reason to stand them as a candidate
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Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:
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I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I feel like we're moving closer to the inevitable day when Liz Truss announces she's defected to Reform, and Reform frantically spins that she absolutely has not
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Gave up on trying to get supply teacher slots, then.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Gave up on trying to get supply teacher slots, then.
I can’t believe we have days of stories about if Rachel Reeves should resign for not making Chris Mason feel special enough when you have the Lords blocking manifesto commiments by a government that won the election in a landslide going by almost without comment
Wrote my take on the retreat on day one rights against unfair dismissal, for Renewal. Basically Labour made a promise it turned out it couldn't deliver, a small group of serious trade unions then decided to try to salvage this, but this isn't without severe trade offs renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...
Pragmatism’s limits?
Following secret negotiations between business confederations and GMB, CWU, Prospect, Unite, USDAW, UNISON, and the TUC, the government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to introduce day-one ri...
renewal.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I can’t believe we have days of stories about if Rachel Reeves should resign for not making Chris Mason feel special enough when you have the Lords blocking manifesto commiments by a government that won the election in a landslide going by almost without comment
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Wrote my take on the retreat on day one rights against unfair dismissal, for Renewal. Basically Labour made a promise it turned out it couldn't deliver, a small group of serious trade unions then decided to try to salvage this, but this isn't without severe trade offs renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...
Pragmatism’s limits?
Following secret negotiations between business confederations and GMB, CWU, Prospect, Unite, USDAW, UNISON, and the TUC, the government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to introduce day-one ri...
renewal.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Wrote my take on the retreat on day one rights against unfair dismissal, for Renewal. Basically Labour made a promise it turned out it couldn't deliver, a small group of serious trade unions then decided to try to salvage this, but this isn't without severe trade offs renewal.org.uk/blog/pragmat...