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Dr. Steven Buckley

@stevenjcbuckley.bsky.social

Lecturer in Digital Media Sociology. PhD in Journalism and US media. Researching digital streaming culture, political communication and authenticity.

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The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

07.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 988    πŸ” 219    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 5

I’m sure this is totally fine and nothing to worry about.

07.10.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe ring and the donkey are the two most valuable things to her”

Woman sat in front of me on train giving what I think is advice to her son about his marriage.

07.10.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If she could say "no", she would have done.

07.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Talk about a single thing for more than 2 minutes without deviating challenge: Level Impossible.

06.10.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Strong competition for dumbest thing he has ever said.

Right up there with injecting bleach.

06.10.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine wanting to wear a brand that is being worn by these assholes.

06.10.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I get more students showing up to my 9am lectures. Yeesh!

But god the heckling opportunities would be great here.

06.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.

06.10.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5698    πŸ” 713    πŸ’¬ 489    πŸ“Œ 53

This WH is working under the premise that what ever Trump believes MUST be reality.

Nothing else matters.

The sole driving force of this administration are the mad, dangerous whims of a mentally unwell authoritarian.

06.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
06.10.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again, these ghoulish morons expect, actually demand, that the Democrats must be the ones to turn down the rhetoric.

06.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another classic example of right-wing grifters failing upwards.

06.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely feels like America is not too far away from the the troops of one state firing upon the troops of another.

And this is what Trump/Miller want.

06.10.2025 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why the fuck is this disturbing?

"There was a disturbing report in The Times last week that found there were 57,000 doctors working in the UK who were not British citizens and quite a few are here because they’ve been struck off or barred"

Actual report: 22 were "subject to restrictions overseas"

06.10.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh look the fears of everyone who understands data privacy are valid

05.10.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me to Matt Murray:

06.10.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whilst I am loathe to employ Godwin's Law, if you replace 'gnat' with 'vermin' there is very little difference in the style of Trump's rhetoric to Hitler.

They both demonise and dehumanise their enemy.

The fact the US media is barely pointing how dangerous this truly is is just as alarming.

05.10.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this concept

05.10.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This would only be cool if Trump forced his entire cabinet to take part in a WWE-style royal rumble.

05.10.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Politically such a dumb idea.

Have they not seen any polling around how the US public feels about all the of ICE raids going on? They hate it.

05.10.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So he likes to have fun causing people to lose their jobs?

03.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely mentally unwell for anyone to post this kind of AI slop, let alone the President posting it.

03.10.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But it's still Democrats who need to tone down their language....

03.10.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This really depends on how one defines "social media".

03.10.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe Trump administration rejects gender ideology”

What does this even mean? They reject the concept of gender? Genders don’t exist to them?

Sounds a bit woke to me….

03.10.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

02.10.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 20842    πŸ” 4792    πŸ’¬ 476    πŸ“Œ 168
The Onion Wants an Oscar for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophileβ€”Coming to a Theater Near You
And Onion CEO Ben Collins knows just how to sell this 20-minute mockumentary to the Academy: β€œDo you like pedophiles? I don’t think you do. You know what you could do to prove it?”

The Onion Wants an Oscar for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophileβ€”Coming to a Theater Near You And Onion CEO Ben Collins knows just how to sell this 20-minute mockumentary to the Academy: β€œDo you like pedophiles? I don’t think you do. You know what you could do to prove it?”

Thank you Vanity Fair for printing this incredible subhed.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

02.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5153    πŸ” 717    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 19

My godfather (civil engineer who lives in Liverpool) shared it with my dad about 2 weeks ago. So it’s been percolating there for some time.

02.10.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

30.09.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 10804    πŸ” 3296    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 596

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