Tim
@timblue.bsky.social
He/They. Another member of the Xodus, living near London.
Wants to believe as few false things and as many true things as possible.
Life is complicated. Let's start by trying to be kind to each other.
Wants to believe as few false things and as many true things as possible.
Life is complicated. Let's start by trying to be kind to each other.
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
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They said “science fair-style” and we took it seriously.
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
They said “science fair-style” and we took it seriously.
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
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This is good news. The ICE agent is arrested on state charges, so the Convicted FElon & the Regime can't do anything to stop this. They can try but it will be illegal.
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is good news. The ICE agent is arrested on state charges, so the Convicted FElon & the Regime can't do anything to stop this. They can try but it will be illegal.
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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how often do people tie their own hands and feet before hanging themselves? zero, right?
now: how many people who are lynched have their hands and feet tied? quite often, right?
now: how many people who are lynched have their hands and feet tied? quite often, right?
This is beyond horrific.
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
how often do people tie their own hands and feet before hanging themselves? zero, right?
now: how many people who are lynched have their hands and feet tied? quite often, right?
now: how many people who are lynched have their hands and feet tied? quite often, right?
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A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A mansion tax isn't how you hit the wealthy - who have a small proportion of their wealth tied up in housing. A mansion tax is how you hit the middle classes - whose only valuable asset is their house.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
More cowardice from Labour: afraid to go where the real money is, to go after the super rich.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
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being racist to defend a paedophile might be a new low for a man who has been plumbing record depths for the better part of a decade
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
im not on the nazi app. screenshot is from a forum i use.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
being racist to defend a paedophile might be a new low for a man who has been plumbing record depths for the better part of a decade
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
(the scored out word is ‘nonce’, not sure who did that but it’s not on Linehan’s original post)
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The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?
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These men grew up with The Secretary™ whose job was:
• Be sexually desirable
• Be sexually available
• Look after them like children
• DO THE TYPING.
Not being able to email is a status symbol:
• Be sexually desirable
• Be sexually available
• Look after them like children
• DO THE TYPING.
Not being able to email is a status symbol:
Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
These men grew up with The Secretary™ whose job was:
• Be sexually desirable
• Be sexually available
• Look after them like children
• DO THE TYPING.
Not being able to email is a status symbol:
• Be sexually desirable
• Be sexually available
• Look after them like children
• DO THE TYPING.
Not being able to email is a status symbol:
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The thing is, if they fired him in 2019 for sitting on these stories, if sitting on those stories was so appalling a dereliction as to warrant dismissal, why then have they continued to sit on the stories in the exact same manner to this day?
Landon Thomas’s behavior seems to be embarrassing enough to the Times hierarchy that they had their spokesman go on record insinuating to the Post that he was fired for cause. I wonder whether legal signed off on that. nypost.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The thing is, if they fired him in 2019 for sitting on these stories, if sitting on those stories was so appalling a dereliction as to warrant dismissal, why then have they continued to sit on the stories in the exact same manner to this day?
I just saw Dogma at the cinema. Every bit as much of a masterpiece 25 years later as it was on release!
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I just saw Dogma at the cinema. Every bit as much of a masterpiece 25 years later as it was on release!
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From the original BBC reporter on the program
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
From the original BBC reporter on the program
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Excellent by @jamellebouie.net. "There are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand." (Which also describes The Times; Bouie is the welcome exception.)
Gift.
Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Gift.
Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Excellent by @jamellebouie.net. "There are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand." (Which also describes The Times; Bouie is the welcome exception.)
Gift.
Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Gift.
Democrats Are Teaching Trump the Wrong Lesson
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
My partner (who hates politics and has never even considered joining a political party) just joined the Greens!
I didn't even know she was thinking about doing it until it was done.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social keep doing what you're doing!
I didn't even know she was thinking about doing it until it was done.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social keep doing what you're doing!
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My partner (who hates politics and has never even considered joining a political party) just joined the Greens!
I didn't even know she was thinking about doing it until it was done.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social keep doing what you're doing!
I didn't even know she was thinking about doing it until it was done.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social keep doing what you're doing!
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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This is my biggest release ever but it's important to me to represent as many people as possible, especially considering how kind Dropout were to let me make them! I know that a lot of the more niche flags will never break even but I'm so happy to share them anyway.
We've been here the whole time.
We've been here the whole time.
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is my biggest release ever but it's important to me to represent as many people as possible, especially considering how kind Dropout were to let me make them! I know that a lot of the more niche flags will never break even but I'm so happy to share them anyway.
We've been here the whole time.
We've been here the whole time.
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.