Ewan Tilley
ewantilley.bsky.social
Ewan Tilley
@ewantilley.bsky.social
Writer, poet, student, currently unaffiliated. New episodes of my podcast ‘mind the base’ out biweekly, blog posts occasionally. rt ≠ agreement. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸⚙️
The man is most definitely for turning
While I’m glad to see the government finally coming down from its pernicious proposals - the manner in which it has been forced into another last minute u-turn because of a lack of listening is frankly embarassing. This is no way to govern.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...
Government confirms welfare climbdown in deal with rebels - live updates
People who currently receive Personal Independence Payments (Pip), or the health element of Universal Credit, will continue to do so.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I’m surprised publishing academic books isn’t considered a net loss financially
The funniest bit in the Forbes financial profile of Mamdani is that they mention the number of books his father, an academic, has published, as if that could possibly influence the family's net worth.
June 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
this is happening in cuomo supporters minds
June 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I’m glad this weather is finally giving Americans an experience of what 25°C British summer days are like for us
June 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
June 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Isn’t it crazy how one post can be simultaneously so antisemitic and so zionistic
saw a new brianna wu post that pissed me off that reminded me of this discussion we had about how disingenuous and evil people have become since october 7th
June 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It seems more and more obvious that the US strikes on Iran, and their reciprocal strikes on US bases, were almost entirely performative. Iran warned trump what bases they were going to bomb in advance for christs sake. It’s just a way for each strongman to look strong to his base.
June 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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We live in inhumane conditions, we live in tents, we sleep on the sand that has filled our bodies and under the scorching heat of the sun. My mother suffers from cancer and cannot survive these conditions without treatment.
Your support will save my family.
gofund.me/08e865d6
June 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A lot of people are missing that opposition to the war in Iran is coming almost entirely from the conspiratorially inclined and far-right wing of America’s political class, which is concerning because of the fact that the centre and centre-left of the political class really doesn’t care.
June 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Quick Topster for today, some really good stuff in here
June 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Struggling because I want to read more diverse literature but then I go to the bookshop and all the diverse literature is just ya romantasy slop
June 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Proscribing protest groups for non-violent actions sets a bad precedent. Even if I don’t agree with their views or their methods, to be designated as a terror group both weakens the labelling of actual terror groups and sets precedent for proscribing whoever annoys the government.
June 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This mysterious structure in Richborough Roman Fort is thought to have been a baptismal font!

A rare find, it dates to around 400 AD and suggests that baptisms happened here, probably inside a wooden church

#RomanFortThursday

📸 Mine

#archaeology #romanbritain #history #photooftheday 🏺
June 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Do you think they’re going to make a movie about how sad the marines got from having to shoot protestors
MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today
June 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In this scenario israel is Mexico and Iran is the US tho
Eric Trump: "If Mexico -- let's just say that's the scenario -- fired rockets at the United States, I think they'd be decapitated in about four seconds flat."
June 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
AI generated photo, AI generated title, AI generated subtitle, AI generated post. When will it end
A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed.
The suspect had a hit list.
And what did we do?
We blamed each other. We justified. We spun.

Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...
Political Violence in America Is Here — And It’s Killing Our Democracy
A deadly weekend shows how far we’ve fallen—and why we must stop excusing violence from “our side” before it’s too late.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Love this song. Definitely top 3 from Cream
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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For #WildflowerHour from east Kent. And mid-Kent too this week.

And this Late Spider #Orchid with unusual coloured sepals, only seen these on Bee x Fly hybrids. Probably means nothing.
June 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
is tucker having a rohm moment
Tucker Carlson says Fox is a propaganda network that manipulates their mostly elderly audience.
June 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Something not white about this
Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism

Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism
On the lack of federal terrorism charges in Minn. killings, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson says they "brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now."
June 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
in capitalist canada a man who makes supermarket ambience music can demand the leader of a political party grovel at his feet for watching another musician’s concert. Many such cases!
"Drake got mad at the former leader of Canada's NDP party for seeing Kendrick, so Jagmeet went on Instagram and publicly apologized" sounds like the worst Canadian Gossip Girl episode I've ever heard of
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The world may be terrible, but remember there are cute baby animal stamps at the post office right now
June 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Horribly embarrassing for trump to have his parade turn out so badly. Even the British royal family can do better and he’s not half as inbred as any of them
June 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM