Jason X
@djjasonx.bsky.social
Chelsea, leftism, a bit of programming and music
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Once more we are told that people are "gaming the system", a phrase repeatedly used about benefit claimants and more recently asylum-seekers. What underpins these evidence-free claims is the idea that you do not have inalienable rights.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Once more we are told that people are "gaming the system", a phrase repeatedly used about benefit claimants and more recently asylum-seekers. What underpins these evidence-free claims is the idea that you do not have inalienable rights.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.
![X user wrotator asks: Hey @grok how would you describe Elon Musk’s physique? How about his mind? And his relationship with his kids?
Grok answers: Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields [buying websites, electric car companies and spacecraft and destroying them]. His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands. Regarding love for his children, he exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement despite scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreibdrfwpkt563lqwl7xsvd5my6vufdjd7ov4sef4qm3sz4lx2t7jsq@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.
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If you saw Shabana Mahmood’s idiotic and insulting display in the Commons this week and wondered: what kind of slack-jawed ignoramus would fall for this abysmal bullshit about how her ethnicity means you can’t tell her not to do migrant crackdowns? Well, the answer is: Guardian columnists.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
If you saw Shabana Mahmood’s idiotic and insulting display in the Commons this week and wondered: what kind of slack-jawed ignoramus would fall for this abysmal bullshit about how her ethnicity means you can’t tell her not to do migrant crackdowns? Well, the answer is: Guardian columnists.
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We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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The fact that the Louvre heist didn’t take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30 a.m. shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The fact that the Louvre heist didn’t take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30 a.m. shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.
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Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.
Don't threaten us with a good time filip
Chelsea goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen, 23, plans to submit a transfer request before January due to limited playing time since joining in 2024. He seeks more first-team opportunities to boost his chances for Denmark's World Cup squad. By Louis Sealey. Metro.co.uk
Chelsea star to hand in transfer request 16 months after signing seven-year deal
metro.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Don't threaten us with a good time filip
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Labour MPs will just have to find another way to make it illegal to tell them what you think
Pro-Palestine activists accused of harassing Labour MP over Israel-Hamas war have convictions thrown out
Pro-Palestine activists accused of harassing Labour MP over Israel-Hamas war have convictions thrown out
Two pro-Palestinian activists found guilty of harassing a government minister have had their convictions overturned.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Labour MPs will just have to find another way to make it illegal to tell them what you think
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Pope Sixtus: ‘I’m leaving all the walls in my new church blank so nothing can distract me from my prayer. I want a pristine chapel.’
Michaelangelo: ‘Oh shit!’
Michaelangelo: ‘Oh shit!’
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Pope Sixtus: ‘I’m leaving all the walls in my new church blank so nothing can distract me from my prayer. I want a pristine chapel.’
Michaelangelo: ‘Oh shit!’
Michaelangelo: ‘Oh shit!’
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Priti Patel. Suella Braverman. Shabana Mahmood. Brown women desperate to be good little foot soldiers to white supremacy. Zora Neale Hurston was absolutely right when she said all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Priti Patel. Suella Braverman. Shabana Mahmood. Brown women desperate to be good little foot soldiers to white supremacy. Zora Neale Hurston was absolutely right when she said all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.
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The "Social Democrat" Prime Minister blamed the defeat of her mayoral candidate for the capital, out loud, on 'crime committed by “people coming from outside”', thus proving that it's asshole all the way down with them now.
"Among the reasons cited by analysts for the Social Democrats’ decline in Copenhagen were voter fatigue over the prime minister’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration, which have partly inspired a newly unveiled asylum and migration policy in Britain."
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The "Social Democrat" Prime Minister blamed the defeat of her mayoral candidate for the capital, out loud, on 'crime committed by “people coming from outside”', thus proving that it's asshole all the way down with them now.
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Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
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Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways
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Labour's balanced budget politics is based on a false understanding of how the governments fits into the economic mosaic. Me and Ganga Shreedhar on the LSE blog:
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Why we are getting poorer and what the government can do about it | British Politics and Policy at LSE
As Rachel Reeves gets closer to delivering her Budget, it's becoming increasingly clear that further austerity will only lead to us getting poorer.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Labour's balanced budget politics is based on a false understanding of how the governments fits into the economic mosaic. Me and Ganga Shreedhar on the LSE blog:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."
From Reform-Lite to Reform-Plus
Do you remember the lies Keir Starmer told to secure Labour's leadership? Under pledge six, 'Defend immigrants' rights', among other things ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
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"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
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imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government
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Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide
Our new messaging guide looks at the methodology and messages that can help us carve out a new approach that will be successful in persuading the public that seeking safety is a fundamental human righ...
www.freedomfromtorture.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
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Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
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Article: In the fight against fascism, the middle ground is not an option (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the rise of fascism in the UK in the wake of yet another extreme right protest.
reacpol.net
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'm so sick of seeing commentators and the like questioning the electoral calculus of labour's many far right policies.
They are doing it because they are right wing fucks and it is what they WANT to do.
These are deeply stupid, deeply nasty people, as they have proved over and over.
They are doing it because they are right wing fucks and it is what they WANT to do.
These are deeply stupid, deeply nasty people, as they have proved over and over.
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I'm so sick of seeing commentators and the like questioning the electoral calculus of labour's many far right policies.
They are doing it because they are right wing fucks and it is what they WANT to do.
These are deeply stupid, deeply nasty people, as they have proved over and over.
They are doing it because they are right wing fucks and it is what they WANT to do.
These are deeply stupid, deeply nasty people, as they have proved over and over.