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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 13h

I just showed this piece to a colleague. He used to run the line for his son's games. Said the abuse was constant. The final straw was when coach of his son's team joined in.

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 14h

Some outstanding tales in this, of which these two might be the pick www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately, as a member of Antifa he's just been declared a terrorist. No movies for him.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 17h

Is it because he's a crook and so are they?

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 17h

Ofcom seems to be little more than a captive of the previous government.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 20h

"The poll… has accurately predicted the result of the last three general elections."
Would love to know about this poll predicting Labour landslide in spring 2021…

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

That's quite a big 'if' (I've never seen him interviewed, so I honestly dk how he'll fare), but if they *really* go for him, hypnotits and all, he could be the first Green leader with real name recognition. Not necessarily a bad thing when your goal is 20–25%.

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

The overwhelming majority of his target voters despise the press (and would recognise when broadcast media are simply echoing its lines of attack). If he faces them down with confidence and without trimming to appease them, I doubt it would do much damage.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

That's a lot less of a worry when you're trying to take your party from 8% to 20–25% than when you're trying to win outright in FPTP.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, I'll cancel the 'pray for Jonn' meeting

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Well bloody hell. 51 is no kind of age.

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Is this STILL going on? I blocked one of these pompous bores at the weekend and assumed that would be the end of the matter, at least for my t/l.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

They've even got a pic of Jen looking "vibrant" and "new" (read "indifferent and kinda bored")

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I said months ago that Badenoch was trashing a key convention regarding opposition in matters of security.

Today was sadly a continuation of it. Imagine declaring that it's UK criticism that has "strained relations with Israel", rather than Netanyahu's war crimes.

Desperate, immoral, and so cheap.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Mar 5

Badenoch is treading an unasavoury line at #PMQs. She supports the PM, but not really. She supports Ukraine, but not really. She supports our troops, but not really.

I know it's difficult for LoTO to get noticed in a crisis, but her unpopularity and lack of grip does not override national security.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

The people behind TPUK are way weirder than the US original. Look up John Mappin.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Personal liberties and free markets in action.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...