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Gamer Shanksi

@shanksi.bsky.social

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Professional clickerer and presser of buttons. I count stuff in London. Things that make me ick: Trump, Putin, Brexit, Elon, Farage, the Tories, cults and above all, liars. The truth matters.

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · Sep 14

The best description of #Trump so far this year imo.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House

Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

So, Reform would rocket-boost austerity, slash welfare *but not taxes*, cancel net zero progress, do mass deportations, huff out of the ECHR (torching the Brexit deal and our human rights)…
And to top it all off, there’d be this gem of US-funded christofascist authoritarianism on offer too.
Grim AF.

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 1d

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

He was so, so full of life and He wanted to bring it to others. So sorely missed.

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d

What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Losing one of our best thinkers, Benjamin Zephaniah, hit me hard and Zack Polanski referencing Him brings me hope.

I do hope that trumpism and farage get silenced into oblivion.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Question Time - 2025: 09/10/2025

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Shrewsbury. On the panel: James Murray MP, Nigel Huddleston MP, Zack Polanski, Zia Yusuf and Annabel Denham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, you are correct. The BBC is not now controlled by a free thinker but a far right thinker. And I think this has to be said more loudly.

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 3d

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

The monied rich slipping into cool pools of water. This will solve global warming.

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 3d

Cold-water swimming with Canary Wharf bankers

Can this century’s favourite health fad save the financial district?

🖊️ Lottie Brundle

Cold-water swimming with Canary Wharf bankers

Can this century’s favourite health fad save the financial district?

www.newstatesman.com

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

I do hope that the tide is turning after watching the latest Question Time on the BBC. They do need a more moderate chair though imo.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Question Time - 2025: 09/10/2025

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Shrewsbury. On the panel: James Murray MP, Nigel Huddleston MP, Zack Polanski, Zia Yusuf and Annabel Denham.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

What a conglomeration of antichrist horrors.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

In 2012 the UK was on the Worlds stage and someone hated that.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

I have trump derangement syndrome. Contrails have infected my brain and Jewish space lasers have just spun it into juice.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Watched as a kid. They are still out there somewhere...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Why this enormous lie by the President of the United States has not gone Worldwide viral is indicative of he state that we are all in media wise. The horrendously rich control the media.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning.

a man is holding a woman in his arms while the sun is setting behind them .

ALT: a man is holding a woman in his arms while the sun is setting behind them .

media.tenor.com

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

I know it sounds wacky but Trump is only interested in Trump the Trump clique and power may be passed onto one of his sons Uday and Qusay. Sorry, I mean Eric and Don Jr.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

What a conglomeration load of antichrist horrors.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, whatever North Korea.

Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

All four of them have the same look and that look is evil.