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tyron.bsky.social
Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, sobriety, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and those hallucinations I used to have.
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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

Worth remembering when we hear Whitehall politicians banging on about devolution (as they've been doing for years). England's only formally devolved regional government - the one with a mandate via a referendum - *isn't allowed* to raise a few quid with a tourist levy.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Honestly half coming around to the idea Woke actually was load bearing in terms of acting as an outlet for various social grievances in a way that was moderately annoying rather than actually dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"This isn't aid. It's a mouse trap." - important, harrowing piece this:

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

for more on the transcendent political genius of Pedro Sánchez, read the essay on him in the latest @renewaljournal.bsky.social:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

(with a pained expression) We must make economies dearest. Our station is not what it was. The daily £6 baked good and oat flat white, that must go (my small sturdy son, on the verge of tears) And what of Father's Mubi subscription?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

even if I think the case is being overstated, I'd much rather they treated him this way than gave him full soft soap treatment on the way to an actually competitive result

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is, I concede, open to interpretation exactly how economically left-wing a Reform UK government would be in practice.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

my 6th form history teacher had an anecdote about how the greatest swimming teacher he ever knew didn't know how to swim themselves. for yrs I thought it a cute expression of how someone could be good @ explaining theory but terrible at the practice, until I clocked a year ago how dark it really was

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You can see how painless they are in that people who have paid them, dozens of times, are going 'well, how would that work'. Sorry to break it to you but you are talking about a tax that is older than Ted Heath's government.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I criticise Kemi a lot, and rightly so, but what truly helps her stand apart is that she manages to find wrong answers that no one was even imagining she'd give.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

the tech right suddenly discovers due process

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

"Two high agency males going at it" Sir Mardi Gras is over and this is a Wendys not a Berlin Club.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

sometimes I regret warping my brain being so online. but not today. oh no, not today.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

submitted 4 days ago • 150 comments

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

K.E.T

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

crowding around the Discourse like it's the fountain at the mall so I can throw my single Lmao in for good luck

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha

submitted 4 days ago • 675 comments

all the news this evening very

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

itshappening.gif

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Sometimes you own the libs, and sometimes the libs no longer own your stock

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submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

when the couple everyone hates is breaking up and putting all their mess in the street i reach for the 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments