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Am I about to get deported off this train?

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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 3 days ago • 186 comments

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

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Life expectancy falls sharply in the UK. Why? Austerity. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

That's a risk we'll just have to take

submitted 9 days ago • 260 comments

Terrible decision

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Have I missed an announcement about FA Cup tickets going on sale? #afcb

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Record a day in 2025 with @mikebagford.bsky.social Format: 7" Single Bobby Womack: "Across 110th Street" b/w "Hang On In There" Released in February 1973 #56 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #RockSolidRecordADay2025 #BlackHistoryMonth 47/365

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A bit late for Valentine's, but one of my favourite love songs open.spotify.com/track/4QFKDT...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

"You're not my surreal Dad!"

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

I failed.

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Is it sad if I try and get myself a single ticket for Kendrick Lamar?

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments

Lys Mousset signing for Bohemians and Jordon Ibe at Hungerford Town. What could have been for the party boys of #afcb. Both under 30 too.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Wolves know who he is. Wolves' sponsor knows who he is. Yet they won't say who the mystery man who was allowed to sit next to the future Prime Minister at Molineux is. Zero scrutiny, zero accountability, zero f... given. English football and its betting patrons, 2025.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Later on bbc4, the misheard memoirs of rishi sunak's time as chancellor

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I wonder if Lloyd Kelly will end up with a radical guerrilla collective movement set up in his name. #afcb

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Imagine spending all the money we gave them for Huijsen on Lloyd Kelly #afcb

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

One of the biggest losses from Brexit wasn’t economic. It was the theft of possibility - the devastated young people telling me that they’ll never get to live their dream of studying and living and working in Europe, maybe even falling in love there and staying there. I feel for them all the time.