The Greasy Pole
@thegreasypole.bsky.social
Tories/LePen lost, Trump/Meloni won.
Score against fascism is 2-2 and it’s all to play for in the second half…
Score against fascism is 2-2 and it’s all to play for in the second half…
God sitting at a signing table in some tiny bookshop, fans queuing for a signed copy asking him about “When is volume 3 coming?”, and saying how its now "2000 years overdue", and God doing his best tetchy GRRM impersonation... "It's difficult OK, so many plot lines have to be tied up and resolved!"
January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
God sitting at a signing table in some tiny bookshop, fans queuing for a signed copy asking him about “When is volume 3 coming?”, and saying how its now "2000 years overdue", and God doing his best tetchy GRRM impersonation... "It's difficult OK, so many plot lines have to be tied up and resolved!"
Hey @support.bsky.team ,
I understand the United24 account (@u24_gov_ua) has been suspended.
This is the primary fundraising account of the Ukrainian Govt, and was an accounts I therefore felt safe to recommend for Ukraine War Fundraising.
Whats going on? Why have you suspended this account?
I understand the United24 account (@u24_gov_ua) has been suspended.
This is the primary fundraising account of the Ukrainian Govt, and was an accounts I therefore felt safe to recommend for Ukraine War Fundraising.
Whats going on? Why have you suspended this account?
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Hey @support.bsky.team ,
I understand the United24 account (@u24_gov_ua) has been suspended.
This is the primary fundraising account of the Ukrainian Govt, and was an accounts I therefore felt safe to recommend for Ukraine War Fundraising.
Whats going on? Why have you suspended this account?
I understand the United24 account (@u24_gov_ua) has been suspended.
This is the primary fundraising account of the Ukrainian Govt, and was an accounts I therefore felt safe to recommend for Ukraine War Fundraising.
Whats going on? Why have you suspended this account?
JFC. Trump has got me unreservedly agreeing with Bill Kristol.
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
JFC. Trump has got me unreservedly agreeing with Bill Kristol.
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we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
we're going to need to see Dem leaders in the streets
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
"please stop" is not working and they see it as weakness
you want to help, governor? go on an ICE patrol in Stancil's Honda Fit
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Here's more, with details. Share widely, streams got taken down, make sure they cant put the genie back in the bottle or go after a handful of people.
bsky.app/profile/adap...
bsky.app/profile/adap...
Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.
January 15, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Here's more, with details. Share widely, streams got taken down, make sure they cant put the genie back in the bottle or go after a handful of people.
bsky.app/profile/adap...
bsky.app/profile/adap...
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ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 AM
ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
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We seem to have a bit of a Mad King problem.
January 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
We seem to have a bit of a Mad King problem.
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New. All links/subscriptions are free:
"It’s a safe guess our very stable genius, as poor a student as he is a statesman, knows little about the French general – except, perhaps, that Bonaparte had bigger hands and a wife who actually enjoyed his company."
Please read the column before commenting.
"It’s a safe guess our very stable genius, as poor a student as he is a statesman, knows little about the French general – except, perhaps, that Bonaparte had bigger hands and a wife who actually enjoyed his company."
Please read the column before commenting.
Hey, JD, is Waterloo a bathroom or something?
Trump, our Napoleon wannabe, apparently wants Greenland because it'd look good on a map
fightthefire.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:15 AM
New. All links/subscriptions are free:
"It’s a safe guess our very stable genius, as poor a student as he is a statesman, knows little about the French general – except, perhaps, that Bonaparte had bigger hands and a wife who actually enjoyed his company."
Please read the column before commenting.
"It’s a safe guess our very stable genius, as poor a student as he is a statesman, knows little about the French general – except, perhaps, that Bonaparte had bigger hands and a wife who actually enjoyed his company."
Please read the column before commenting.
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Rich cultural text that Will Stancil is in the streets of Minneapolis fighting ICE while the ten thousand losers who want him to dead are petrified of No Kings events because they might see a mom with a cell phone.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Rich cultural text that Will Stancil is in the streets of Minneapolis fighting ICE while the ten thousand losers who want him to dead are petrified of No Kings events because they might see a mom with a cell phone.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
Just a perfect distillation of every discourse.
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Biden actually did a lot of shit that internet lefty types said for years would cause a massive swell of support for Democratic policies and by the end of Biden's term everyone hated it and no one was particularly interested in defending him personally or the policy regime he put in place
If you want Democrats to start acting like Republicans, then Democratic voters/supporters are going to have to start acting like Republican voters/supporters, and that means not nit-picking every single word that comes out of Dems' mouths when there are much bigger issues to message about.
January 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Biden actually did a lot of shit that internet lefty types said for years would cause a massive swell of support for Democratic policies and by the end of Biden's term everyone hated it and no one was particularly interested in defending him personally or the policy regime he put in place
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One thing I love is obsolete technology being encoded in our language. Words like “footage” and “rewind” and “dial (as a phone)” that literally describe a physicality that doesn’t exist anymore, yet lingers linguistically. Anybody have any other examples?
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One thing I love is obsolete technology being encoded in our language. Words like “footage” and “rewind” and “dial (as a phone)” that literally describe a physicality that doesn’t exist anymore, yet lingers linguistically. Anybody have any other examples?
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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Wow this onion headline is hilari- . . .
Trump hints he will likely change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
“I don't want to be defense only,” the president said. “We want offense too.”
“I don't want to be defense only,” the president said. “We want offense too.”
Trump hints he will change Pentagon’s name to Department of War
“I don't want to be defense only,” the president said. “We want offense too.”
www.politico.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Wow this onion headline is hilari- . . .
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I thought this is excellent, and very perceptive. (Having lived in both the US & UK.)
And I particularly like this line: 'the international Low Trust Cohort marches on, never satisfied, wrecking everything they touch.'
And I particularly like this line: 'the international Low Trust Cohort marches on, never satisfied, wrecking everything they touch.'
I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...
Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA
For most of my life I have lived in the UK, but for six years I lived in the United States of America. Somewhat erratic and unpleasant polit...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I thought this is excellent, and very perceptive. (Having lived in both the US & UK.)
And I particularly like this line: 'the international Low Trust Cohort marches on, never satisfied, wrecking everything they touch.'
And I particularly like this line: 'the international Low Trust Cohort marches on, never satisfied, wrecking everything they touch.'
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For British citizens or UK residents. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Seek to rejoin the European Union Single Market and start discussions now
I would like the UK Government to start discussions with the European Union to seek to rejoin the EU Single Market and to make rejoining the EU Single Market a priority for the UK Government, and to s...
petition.parliament.uk
March 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For British citizens or UK residents. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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"Many times when Putin and Trump are interacting, Putin’s actually making fun of him. It’s just completely lost in the translation. I can give lots of episodes of this or he’s goading him and urging him onto something because he’s trying to kind of see how he will react."
Transcript: What Does Trump See in Putin? - Fiona Hill
Read the full transcript of a conversation between Foreign Affairs Interview’s Dan Kurtz-Phelan and foreign affairs advisor and author Fiona Hill on “What Does Trump See in Putin?”, Tuesday, March 11,...
singjupost.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Many times when Putin and Trump are interacting, Putin’s actually making fun of him. It’s just completely lost in the translation. I can give lots of episodes of this or he’s goading him and urging him onto something because he’s trying to kind of see how he will react."
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Here we go. This is the worst of the betrayal possible. The USA as we know is gone. This are two dictators trying to decide the fate of a sovereign country that is fighting for its survival against a criminal war. The EU must raise up now, I won't accept nothing less from my elected officials.
February 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Here we go. This is the worst of the betrayal possible. The USA as we know is gone. This are two dictators trying to decide the fate of a sovereign country that is fighting for its survival against a criminal war. The EU must raise up now, I won't accept nothing less from my elected officials.
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Jesse Welles’ UHC song whips, I gotta post it in 2 parts because of Bsky’s video limit, and here’s part 1 (part 2 goes way harder fyi)
volume up
volume up
December 11, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Jesse Welles’ UHC song whips, I gotta post it in 2 parts because of Bsky’s video limit, and here’s part 1 (part 2 goes way harder fyi)
volume up
volume up
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It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 AM
It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with:
- Images
- Description
- How to buy
And I will push you.
Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas!
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Like no one really wants to deal with the massive outrage-and-hallucination engine that we’ve hooked our society up to, so it would be really nice to assume Dems can defang it with smart policy positioning or rhetorical positioning or whatever, and win elections anyway. But they just can’t!
November 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Like no one really wants to deal with the massive outrage-and-hallucination engine that we’ve hooked our society up to, so it would be really nice to assume Dems can defang it with smart policy positioning or rhetorical positioning or whatever, and win elections anyway. But they just can’t!
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Russian bloggers note the alleged absence of damage to the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro, which was attacked by the mega-missile "Oreshnik," something the so-called president of Russia has been boasting about for days:
November 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Russian bloggers note the alleged absence of damage to the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro, which was attacked by the mega-missile "Oreshnik," something the so-called president of Russia has been boasting about for days:
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Got tagged in on a thread about this account: it is now on my Impersonation blocklist, and here's why:
November 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Got tagged in on a thread about this account: it is now on my Impersonation blocklist, and here's why:
Someone to follow....
We love Bluesky so far!
Twitter has turned into a trash-bin.
But.. there is always a but.
We have almost no followers!
Please help us find all the pro-ukrainian accounts on this platform!
Quoting this post would go a long way!
Twitter has turned into a trash-bin.
But.. there is always a but.
We have almost no followers!
Please help us find all the pro-ukrainian accounts on this platform!
Quoting this post would go a long way!
November 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Someone to follow....