Andy Irving
@andy.soundforsound.co.uk
A sour G, broken high E
A slight shot from my tongue
An endless rap between the songs
Because I like it dumb
Survivor of Juggler's Despair
Fediverse: @[email protected]
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A slight shot from my tongue
An endless rap between the songs
Because I like it dumb
Survivor of Juggler's Despair
Fediverse: @[email protected]
Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/8_TxT5t38AKJVROIBlvz9UFIWA_3PfKkmcAPlcao4
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Yes this is what policing is in this country. The difference is, and it's minor, is that cops still have to go through the motions of maybe getting in trouble when they kill before getting off later. These guys kill someone and the administration goes on TV and says fuck you they deserved it the end
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Yes this is what policing is in this country. The difference is, and it's minor, is that cops still have to go through the motions of maybe getting in trouble when they kill before getting off later. These guys kill someone and the administration goes on TV and says fuck you they deserved it the end
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What did the White House say?
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
What did the White House say?
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These animals know climate change is real, they pretend it’s not but this is what’s driving their deranged crusade and scapegoating of migrants
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
These animals know climate change is real, they pretend it’s not but this is what’s driving their deranged crusade and scapegoating of migrants
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Also it’s a problem designed for countries to close up shop when the full climate disaster hits
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Also it’s a problem designed for countries to close up shop when the full climate disaster hits
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Especially if you're somehow not claiming it about the party led by the "Hitler was right" guy. You know?
I'm going to be honest, i think most people can now recognise that a party suddenly becoming a "hotbed of antisemitism" within weeks of a left wing leader taking over is a bit of a suspicious thing to be claiming twice.
As we say all the time: Labour hates the left more than it hates actual fascists & cares about antisemitism insofar as it can be weaponised against the left even though this sets back the battle against rising antisemitism & further undermines Jewish safety
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Especially if you're somehow not claiming it about the party led by the "Hitler was right" guy. You know?
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I'm going to be honest, i think most people can now recognise that a party suddenly becoming a "hotbed of antisemitism" within weeks of a left wing leader taking over is a bit of a suspicious thing to be claiming twice.
As we say all the time: Labour hates the left more than it hates actual fascists & cares about antisemitism insofar as it can be weaponised against the left even though this sets back the battle against rising antisemitism & further undermines Jewish safety
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I'm going to be honest, i think most people can now recognise that a party suddenly becoming a "hotbed of antisemitism" within weeks of a left wing leader taking over is a bit of a suspicious thing to be claiming twice.
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We are seeing what they are willing to do to American citizens in front of cameras, we can only imagine the horrors that the undocumented folks in detention centers, places without observers, etc are facing outside of the spotlight.
Abolish and arrest all of these monsters
Abolish and arrest all of these monsters
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
We are seeing what they are willing to do to American citizens in front of cameras, we can only imagine the horrors that the undocumented folks in detention centers, places without observers, etc are facing outside of the spotlight.
Abolish and arrest all of these monsters
Abolish and arrest all of these monsters
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The newest argument: Mamdani is an antisemite for saying "Jewish Americans" instead of "American Jews"
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The newest argument: Mamdani is an antisemite for saying "Jewish Americans" instead of "American Jews"
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I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup
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I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I don’t know why this is so hard for people but people you have to repeatedly call and beg to ask them to oppose murder in the streets will never really be on your side
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my voting criteria in any democratic primary is do they support:
▪️ending ice
▪️supreme court reform, ideally packing
▪️adding states
▪️prosecutions for rights violations & corruption
▪️trans rights
& have they personally put their bodies between ice thugs & their victims
▪️ending ice
▪️supreme court reform, ideally packing
▪️adding states
▪️prosecutions for rights violations & corruption
▪️trans rights
& have they personally put their bodies between ice thugs & their victims
January 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM
my voting criteria in any democratic primary is do they support:
▪️ending ice
▪️supreme court reform, ideally packing
▪️adding states
▪️prosecutions for rights violations & corruption
▪️trans rights
& have they personally put their bodies between ice thugs & their victims
▪️ending ice
▪️supreme court reform, ideally packing
▪️adding states
▪️prosecutions for rights violations & corruption
▪️trans rights
& have they personally put their bodies between ice thugs & their victims
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I dont think every FPS is fascist propaganda but COD is, at this point, an extremely useful propaganda tool for a fascist administration
I grew up with FPS games and I am genuinely at "everyone who called all this stuff fascist propaganda was 100% right and I was making excuses for it when I downplayed that stuff to myself and others"
January 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I dont think every FPS is fascist propaganda but COD is, at this point, an extremely useful propaganda tool for a fascist administration
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The largest socialist organization in the US (which, notably, does have a council-level presence in the Twin Cities) really ought to return to the kinds of discussions it was earnestly having during Trump's 1st term: constitutional overhaul. How can we be the parliamentary agitators for new law?
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The largest socialist organization in the US (which, notably, does have a council-level presence in the Twin Cities) really ought to return to the kinds of discussions it was earnestly having during Trump's 1st term: constitutional overhaul. How can we be the parliamentary agitators for new law?
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I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
January 24, 2026 at 5:43 PM
the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
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As shocking as the terms of US exit from the international community have been, the terms on which the US will re-enter the system (someday) will be even more shocking to a leadership class accustomed to being the leaders of the world
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
As shocking as the terms of US exit from the international community have been, the terms on which the US will re-enter the system (someday) will be even more shocking to a leadership class accustomed to being the leaders of the world
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ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
MS NOW news crew capturing ICE/DHS agents firing pepper balls, flash bangs, and tear gas at non violent protesters.
file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
file:///C:/Users/Nikki/Downloads/Velshi-2026-01-24.mp4
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 PM
ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
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considered it and rejected it 😌
instead of lashing out at "coups" and "plots" by Burnham, Streeting etc, have Team Starmer considered just... being less shit at governing?
January 23, 2026 at 7:29 PM
considered it and rejected it 😌
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The whole point of Tha Discourse is that it’s largely impervious to public opinion. It exists explicitly to steer, herd and harass the public into sullen compliance with whatever their leaders want this week, and to bark ferociously at everyone who doesn’t want to get into the pen.
January 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
The whole point of Tha Discourse is that it’s largely impervious to public opinion. It exists explicitly to steer, herd and harass the public into sullen compliance with whatever their leaders want this week, and to bark ferociously at everyone who doesn’t want to get into the pen.
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It's not like people had not spent the first 10 years after 9-11 warning that the open, virulent islamophobia the Sensible Ones were playing footsie with would just give the far-right a way into Sensible politics. Being this blind will only mean a complete take over.
January 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
It's not like people had not spent the first 10 years after 9-11 warning that the open, virulent islamophobia the Sensible Ones were playing footsie with would just give the far-right a way into Sensible politics. Being this blind will only mean a complete take over.
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Oh good, the government's going to lean in on "it's antisemitic to not be an Islamophobe" and "real Jews rightly hate Muslims" as the cornerstone of defending "decent" politics. A strategy that has definitely not emboldened the far right to the point of legitimating fascist paramilitaries.
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Oh good, the government's going to lean in on "it's antisemitic to not be an Islamophobe" and "real Jews rightly hate Muslims" as the cornerstone of defending "decent" politics. A strategy that has definitely not emboldened the far right to the point of legitimating fascist paramilitaries.
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Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
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Begging a single British journalist to take a look at the great replacement, "London Has Fallen" shit the director of We Believe in Israel is publishing. An org linked to the prime minister, to the point that its founder and the founder of Starmer's leadership campaign is the same person.
January 23, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Begging a single British journalist to take a look at the great replacement, "London Has Fallen" shit the director of We Believe in Israel is publishing. An org linked to the prime minister, to the point that its founder and the founder of Starmer's leadership campaign is the same person.
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Actually no this guy who controls the Treasury isn't in charge of anything. Actually no the de facto governor of the West Bank isn't important. Sorry the president-for-life of Russia is just a small bean. Oh well Trump just says anything, don't mind him. Netanyahu can't be equated with Israel!
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Actually no this guy who controls the Treasury isn't in charge of anything. Actually no the de facto governor of the West Bank isn't important. Sorry the president-for-life of Russia is just a small bean. Oh well Trump just says anything, don't mind him. Netanyahu can't be equated with Israel!
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It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis
In a normal world, "US treasury secretary endorses American annexation of Canadian territory" should be front page news
January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It is sort of interesting how utterly infantilized so many of these countries are now. Israel can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. The US can't be held to account on the basis of the words of its cabinet ministers. Russia can't be held to account on the basis