Simon
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Simon
@socialistsimon.bsky.social
· Sep 4
If the lobby hacks were very willing to participate in a fraud this obnoxious and insulting, then we should ask: what else did they treat as extremely important and/or concerning, while fully understanding it was fraudulent drivel? It seems unlikely you reach that level of complicity as a one-off.
What indeed. Because, from here, it looks like the answer is ‘absolutely everything of political importance that you hear, read or see, from The Sun front pages to the sofas of very serious BBC politics programmes that amplify them’.
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A Heart That Works is now available in MANDARIN! ❤️📚
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A Heart That Works is now available in MANDARIN! ❤️📚
Arcade Shire
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Mordorhead
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll
December 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Arcade Shire
By the way, when the UK/EU issue statements anticipating/warning of a Russian attack, it means: “If we were in Russia’s position, we’d attack us for the provocations we’re either planning to conduct or are already conducting but aren’t telling you about.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
By the way, when the UK/EU issue statements anticipating/warning of a Russian attack, it means: “If we were in Russia’s position, we’d attack us for the provocations we’re either planning to conduct or are already conducting but aren’t telling you about.”
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anyone with a working brain is skeptical of the idea
Space-based AI data centers are Big Tech’s latest fad and Silicon Valley’s newest investable venture.
Yet, scientists who study space remain skeptical of the idea.
Read more from @elissawelle.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Yet, scientists who study space remain skeptical of the idea.
Read more from @elissawelle.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
December 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
anyone with a working brain is skeptical of the idea
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I don't actually think you need to be in any way supportive of the Tories to think, you know, if you can get the hacks to report "a cabinet minister said this" when it's the opposition team stirring shit, this is monumentally fucked about eight different ways.
So many nuggets here could be their own article with simple follow up questions such as “what do you mean?” and “and how did that work exactly?”
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I don't actually think you need to be in any way supportive of the Tories to think, you know, if you can get the hacks to report "a cabinet minister said this" when it's the opposition team stirring shit, this is monumentally fucked about eight different ways.
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The post-WW2 Labour government was perhaps the greatest peacetime government in the history of this country. It rebuilt the nation, built vast numbers of homes and created the NHS.
To suggest that was the point at which Labour 'lost its way' is insanely ignorant.
To suggest that was the point at which Labour 'lost its way' is insanely ignorant.
Not getting less suspicious that a huge part of the problem here is a big increase in the purity of cocaine sold in London over the 2010s
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The post-WW2 Labour government was perhaps the greatest peacetime government in the history of this country. It rebuilt the nation, built vast numbers of homes and created the NHS.
To suggest that was the point at which Labour 'lost its way' is insanely ignorant.
To suggest that was the point at which Labour 'lost its way' is insanely ignorant.
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BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike.
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike.
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org
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🚨NEW LOCATION ALERT🚨
Despite police pressure to ban the rally tonight in support of the 8 activists currently on hunger strike, we are going ahead with our protest.
⏲️ 6pm
📍 Ministry of Justice
Despite police pressure to ban the rally tonight in support of the 8 activists currently on hunger strike, we are going ahead with our protest.
⏲️ 6pm
📍 Ministry of Justice
December 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨NEW LOCATION ALERT🚨
Despite police pressure to ban the rally tonight in support of the 8 activists currently on hunger strike, we are going ahead with our protest.
⏲️ 6pm
📍 Ministry of Justice
Despite police pressure to ban the rally tonight in support of the 8 activists currently on hunger strike, we are going ahead with our protest.
⏲️ 6pm
📍 Ministry of Justice
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I am also interested in how, after at least a half-decade of our media and politicians deriding tone policing, trigger warnings, inclusive language and other concepts, they have pivoted on a dime to debating whether certain utterances should be made criminal offences without a moment's hestitation.
I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am also interested in how, after at least a half-decade of our media and politicians deriding tone policing, trigger warnings, inclusive language and other concepts, they have pivoted on a dime to debating whether certain utterances should be made criminal offences without a moment's hestitation.
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Just sitting at home and thinking of the hunger strikers. Sending love and best wishes
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just sitting at home and thinking of the hunger strikers. Sending love and best wishes
I’ll post this again, because this is where we’re at. And they’ve been packing away the tables and chairs for a while now.
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I’ll post this again, because this is where we’re at. And they’ve been packing away the tables and chairs for a while now.
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NATO believes in peace through dominance - hugely expensive & hugely dangerous when trying to dominate a nuclear armed power
We could have an indivisible pan European security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok
Cheaper and fewer people die
Military Industrial Complex won’t like this
We could have an indivisible pan European security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok
Cheaper and fewer people die
Military Industrial Complex won’t like this
'Encouraging war fever across Europe raises the risk that misunderstandings or confrontations that go wrong could ignite a conflict costing millions of lives. All those who value peace need to stand up against this recklessness.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mi6-...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mi6-...
MI6 should stay out of politics – and talking up war with Russia is extremely dangerous
THE first thing to be said about MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli’s alarmist speech alleging an overarching Russian threat to Britain is that she should not have been allowed to give it.An insistence that “...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
NATO believes in peace through dominance - hugely expensive & hugely dangerous when trying to dominate a nuclear armed power
We could have an indivisible pan European security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok
Cheaper and fewer people die
Military Industrial Complex won’t like this
We could have an indivisible pan European security architecture from Vancouver to Vladivostok
Cheaper and fewer people die
Military Industrial Complex won’t like this
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I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
Make no mistake, this means even more unprecedented attacks against free speech. It will be considered an act of sedition/treason for speaking up against or questioning all this madness. All speech will be monitored for thought transgressions. I am in no way exaggerating.
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Make no mistake, this means even more unprecedented attacks against free speech. It will be considered an act of sedition/treason for speaking up against or questioning all this madness. All speech will be monitored for thought transgressions. I am in no way exaggerating.
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The vibes are not improving, are they
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The vibes are not improving, are they
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Russia poses acute threat, new MI6 chief to warn
Blaise Metreweli will say the threat is posed by
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Read the runes
The west is preparing for more war & the masses are being conditioned in readiness
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The west is preparing for more war & the masses are being conditioned in readiness
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We must prepare for war with Russia, says Nato chief in stark new warning - BBC News
Mark Rutte warns allies to start ramping up preparations "for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured".
www.bbc.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Read the runes
The west is preparing for more war & the masses are being conditioned in readiness
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The west is preparing for more war & the masses are being conditioned in readiness
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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More discussion of war with Russia from BBC’s arch neocon Frank Gardener
The war messaging is relentless
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The war messaging is relentless
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow
In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
More discussion of war with Russia from BBC’s arch neocon Frank Gardener
The war messaging is relentless
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The war messaging is relentless
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More preparation of the masses for war
A war that the elites and their children are unlikely to take part in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A war that the elites and their children are unlikely to take part in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Germany accuses Russia of 2024 cyber attack and election disinformation campaign
The Russian ambassador is summoned over a cyber-attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
More preparation of the masses for war
A war that the elites and their children are unlikely to take part in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A war that the elites and their children are unlikely to take part in
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am not here to watch Labour eat shit in by-elections, council elections and commons defeats so that they will change course, genuflect to the left and invite their erstwhile mortal enemies back into the shell game. I am here to watch them lose, lose, lose again, and die. Expect nothing less.
March 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I am not here to watch Labour eat shit in by-elections, council elections and commons defeats so that they will change course, genuflect to the left and invite their erstwhile mortal enemies back into the shell game. I am here to watch them lose, lose, lose again, and die. Expect nothing less.
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Bondi hero who disarmed gunman identified as local father Ahmed al Ahmed...
Would anyone (by which I mean fear-filled racist white immigrants with an irony bypass) care to argue that Ahmed al Ahmed's community is not enriched by his presence?
www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...
Would anyone (by which I mean fear-filled racist white immigrants with an irony bypass) care to argue that Ahmed al Ahmed's community is not enriched by his presence?
www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...
Bondi hero who tackled shooter suffered two gunshot wounds
The hero who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as a father-of-two.
www.perthnow.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Bondi hero who disarmed gunman identified as local father Ahmed al Ahmed...
Would anyone (by which I mean fear-filled racist white immigrants with an irony bypass) care to argue that Ahmed al Ahmed's community is not enriched by his presence?
www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...
Would anyone (by which I mean fear-filled racist white immigrants with an irony bypass) care to argue that Ahmed al Ahmed's community is not enriched by his presence?
www.perthnow.com.au/news/nsw/bon...
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I see Wendy Carlos. I post Wendy Carlos.
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I see Wendy Carlos. I post Wendy Carlos.
Inoffensive?!? This cunt fraudulently shithoused his way into power breaking every promise he every made on the way, purged Jews in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’, is facilitating a genocide, persecuting trans and disabled people, locked up protestors and is going full Enoch Powell on refugees!
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
The Prime Minister can only re-establish authority if he learns to command the message
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Inoffensive?!? This cunt fraudulently shithoused his way into power breaking every promise he every made on the way, purged Jews in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’, is facilitating a genocide, persecuting trans and disabled people, locked up protestors and is going full Enoch Powell on refugees!
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