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Trump has shat in the sandpit. It's all a bit sad and embarrassing but slowly people will take their toys and go home. They will play elsewhere in future.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This. As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician. Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them. My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on: - what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve; - the options on the table; and - why this shit is hard. This will be very long. I'm sorry. Let's get wonky.

submitted 72 days ago • 46 comments

Watching black doves. Enjoying it, but sometimes a little far fetched... Like a DWP Christmas party?? With music and a free bar???

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

submitted 94 days ago • 112 comments

It would have been a dramatic assertion of power by the President-elect if Senators felt they had to approve such an egregiously controversial and unsuitable appointment as Gaetz as Attorney-General But is it not at least a tactical mistake to try and to fail, demonstrating limits of his power?

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out I am one of just three monthly listeners to Mr elimnator and the deadly vipers, an excellent but almost unknown surf rock band. I wonder who the other two people are? open.spotify.com/track/6pSOok...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Ya'll here's my view as someone who gets called an "expert" on disinformation and right-wing politics. You don't need to worry about your bubble or an echo chamber. You already know how MAGA-aligned folks see the world. You don't have to engage with people who want to cause you harm.

submitted 109 days ago • 9 comments

@nationaltrust.bsky.social what's the record for number of people in the hollow tree at croome? #GrandDaysOut

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

SitRep - 15/11/24 - Our first one on BlueSky Hello to all new followers 💙💛 An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attacks in Kursk are continuing while German Chancellor Scholz spoke with Putin, asking him to stop attacks. REPOST=appreciated 1/X

submitted 110 days ago • 33 comments

Seems like a pretty good time to increase support for Ukraine

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

£1.4 billion in a single year. There ought to be an inquiry into how the whole debacle was allowed to happen. Except it would just increase the costs. Absolutely astonishing waste of public funds.

submitted 126 days ago • 7 comments

Absolutely appalling reporting by the BBC. A confirmed neo-nazi travelled miles with the deliberate intention of murdering an innocent person, purely based on them seeking safety. In no world is that a "protest". Just shelve the "legitimate concerns" bs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 131 days ago • 9 comments

Cabinet Office: "we should recruit a deputy director to fix this. What was the question?"

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

In honor of National Poetry Day, one of the all time classics.

submitted 153 days ago • 28 comments

So long, no thanks to all the fash My review (from a legal angle) of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, by @kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/09/so-l...

submitted 159 days ago • 28 comments

@gregjenner.bsky.social hey! welcome over! Glad you're here!

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

@wolfskulljack.bsky.social love the work. I'd pay good cash money for tea demon artwork actually on a mug

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

submitted 183 days ago • 55 comments

Revisionist western: The outlaw josey Wales but like if he was from the valleys.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Getting involved with #RPGaDay2024 Day 25) Desirable dice. My "you own this risk" dice. Great for matrix games and other educational games. Large and weighty to help you feel the risk in your hand.

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

@sebastianbae.bsky.social hi, can you dm me, I'm interested in sandbox wargames as educational tools.

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

After a year's twitter detox, it feels really nice to be here.

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment