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Lamentably Awake

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This is basically the entire rationale for a sugar tax:

Christopher Morris: Luckily, the amount of heroin I use is harmless, I inject about once a month on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example. If you're one of those, my advice is leave well alone. Good luck.

November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Number of times the official Politics Theory Other podcast Bluesky account has condemned Your Party's transphobia: 0.

Number of times they've condemned a two month old joke post about them: 3.

Post by Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social

What *have* we condemned on bluesky? Virtually every post we've made is just our episodes or sharing articles from elsewhere. We haven't posted condemning Nazism as far as I'm aware. Does it therefore follow we're secretly Nazis? Try logging off for a few minutes in your life.

November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

How strange, this podcast dug up a 2 month old post of mine jokingly suggesting they'd follow Your Party's pro-transphobia line.

Almost as if now the biggest transphobes have left Your Party they suddenly feel safe to endorse trans rights again.

Post by Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social 10 hours ago.

Could you be more specific about the time frame? Just checked and hitherto this seems to be still in the category of "some imaginary bullshit you've hallucinated" - but may we need to wait a bit longer.

November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Liberals when they're criticised.

Three screenshots from the Office in sequence.

1: Michael Scott, middle aged white man says: "I am a victim of a hate crime."

2: Stanley, middle aged Black man says: "That's not what a hate crime is."

3: "Well, I hated it a lot, okay?"

November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

So today's discourse was just liberals doing this?

Man, I'm so broken up I missed it.

November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Pierce Brosnan getting nerfed in the next patch.

A black and white photo of Pierce Brosnan, a white man in late middle age with a full head of white/grey hair. He's wearing a shiny leather jack with a large collar.

Below is the text "Pierce Brosnan breaks the meta".

November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Me reading your posts:

A puppet from the Gerry Anderson puppet show Joe 90.

The puppet is of a blonde haired man wearing thick black half-rimmed glasses, a shirt and tie and denim jacket.

His hair is wildly blown upwards and he is looking at what appears to be a silver smartphone.

November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Catalonia getting having less PhD students apparently.

‪Post by Arnau de Torroja‬ ‪@arnau-de-torroja.bsky.social‬

Since the early to mid 1980s:
●Spain has taken yearly from Catalonia around a net 10% of our GDP, amounting to half a dozen Marshall Plans;
●Catalonia lost tens of thousands of PhDs gone abroad, for lack of funds at home;
●Natality plummeted but Catalonia had a 33% increase in (foreign) population.

Reply by Arnau de Torroja @arnau-de-torroja.bsky.social‬

This is, simply put, a genocide. It is deliberate, as part of Spain's centuries old policy to obliterate and assimilate Catalonia. So old that it actually predates Spain, going back to the imperial Crown of Castile during the early 17th century, inspired by France (unless it was the reverse).

2 Mar 2025, 17:57

November 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

You have claimed Catalonia being ripped off by the rest of Spain is genocide.

Why is that the case but not the mass murder of Palestinians including tens of thousands of children?

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Post by Arnau de Torroja @arnau-de-torroja.bsky.social‬
This is, simply put, a genocide. It is deliberate, as part of Spain's centuries old policy to obliterate and assimilate Catalonia. So old that it actually predates Spain, going back to the imperial Crown of Castile during the early 17th century, inspired by France (unless it was the reverse).

2 Mar 2025, 17:57

November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

I've had a few people tell me this isn't what Gilbert believes. They should probably let him know.

My own assessment is that the only way this outcome is likely to be prevented is if a Labour Party led from the soft left can cooperate with all those parties and the Liberal Democrats to elect a government on a genuinely social democratic programme. But that might be wrong. It might be

November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Probably my favourite meme.

A three panel meme. Each panel is a photo of Ewan McGreggor as Obi Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy. He is a young-ish white man with brown hair and a beard.

The photo has the middle third of his face cut out and is just the top and bottom third of his face squished together, his eyes are right above his mouth and he doesn't have a nose.

Each subsequent panel zooms closer in on his face, with the third panel being mostly his eyes.

Each panel has text:

Panel 1: "Anakin..."
Panel 2: "Start panakin"
Panel 3 "I don't have a planakin."

November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

With alt text.

Tweet by Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra

The Overton window has been obliterated, well done patriots.

[quoted tweet by Politics UK @PolitilcsUK (sp)

[Siren emoji] New: Shabana Mahmood is set to announce asylum seekers can only stay temporarily in the UK

They will be deported when their home country is deemed safe ...]

November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Just looked up Labour MP Mike Tapp, the guy who was boasting about how many deportations he'd done and he's an even bigger danger than you'd expect:

Early Life

Tapp is the son of a policeman.[5]

Tapp served in the Intelligence Corps[6] and had three tours (Iraq and Afghanistan) before joining the National Crime Agency and then the Ministry of Defence.[3]

November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

So to be clear, if you're opposing universalism, including tax discounts for bikes being universal, you're on the same side as Kirstie Allsop.

What sauce do you have with your EarPod?

Tweet by Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp 14/11/2025

A writer so successful that today is a day dedicated to him in schools all over the country thinks it is reasonable that he travels for free due to his age. People have to stop taking things they do not need, it is wrong and it is bankrupting our country.

[Quoted tweet by Michael Rosen @Michael Rosen Yes 13/11/2025

My Freedom Pass doesn't work. I went to the website to get a replacement Freedom Pass. It won't let me get a replacement Freedom Pass because the website says' You do not currently have an active Freedom Pass.']

November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Not a grain of sand in this image.

A clickbait link. It consists of a picture of Carys Douglas (Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones's daughter) a very pretty brown haired young white lady. The photo is taken from the shoulders up. What little of the image isn't taken up by her seems to be a coniferous hedge.
Underneathe is the text:
Carys Douglas's Guide To The Best Beaches and Hidden Gems in Wales.

November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

In a radio interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Keir Starmer stated: "I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and I think they're a great symbol of our nation." He also said: "I don't think they should be devalued and belittled.

November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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This you?

Post by Blake Herzinger‬ ‪@bdherzinger.bsky.social‬ on 09/11/2023

If you clear Gaza (and possibly the WB) you never see an attack like this again. You just won’t. Saudi will normalize, Egypt will lock down Sinai, the question nobody wants to constructively resolve will be horribly resolved.

November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Quoted post in cast of block:

And for those still going on about drug boat strikes - I wish you'd cared this much about Afghanistan. I don't the use of the military to kill drug runners but it's no worse than you've allowed for three decades. It's a bit late for moral hazard pearl clutching now.

November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Herzinger has made one(1) post about Gaza in which he recommend Israel carry out the genocide it now has done.

November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Streeting being a bit more transparent than he probably intended here.

Wes Streeting said it was time to put racism 'back in it's box' in the UK

November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Lamentably Awake

@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

This is very funny but also please note that Cuomo, who until a few months ago was backed by the entire Democratic Establishment, is espousing the creed of the satirically extreme Imperium, a religious fascist dictatorship.