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@tonybarrett.bsky.social

Ex-Bloomberg editor, Pontypridd Observer reporter and NCP carpark ramp sweeper.

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Friend who lived in Turkey said it used to be smoking only on the right side of the aisle there

16.02.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon is just the latest Dogshit Puppet Master, as in the best takedown, by Viz Comic, of Dominic Cummings.

14.02.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well bang goes my plan for an asteroid-based dildo factory

12.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did Tommy Robinson not make it off the long list?

12.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Main impact he’s having is randos like me blocking him. Thank u for your service

12.02.2026 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not quite the same level but still

11.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

These fucking ideologues are always like "I know the people" when most of the time the people don't know the people

10.02.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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snobby about excel AI and the end user effect

Worth a read, though backofmind.substack.com/p/snobby-abo...

07.02.2026 10:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always…

06.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the only thing worse than hurting yourself is not hurting others

06.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People saying: it’s ok to vote for it because β€œthey” will never let it happen

06.02.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Are Ideologies All About? We can all agree that ideologies are about something.

www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/what-are-i...

03.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Are Ideologies All About? We can all agree that ideologies are about something.

www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/what-are-i...

03.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All the X in one basket

03.02.2026 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Invite them round to open your time capsule sock drawer

30.01.2026 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they contain trackable Huawei microchips?

29.01.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I have!

Anyway, maybe I'm at cross-purposes with you in that I'm thinking of averages and I guess you're referring to individuals. As ever, I'm channeling and possibly misunderstanding Marios.

bsky.app/profile/mari...

25.01.2026 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe. Can you specify "loads". "Lol"

25.01.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is all movement from the 'respectable' to the radical right. Whatever lefties got up to is pretty much irrelevant, except that the economically liberal left blame it all on culturally left excess, and the cultural left blame it on the 'neoliberal' centre left.

25.01.2026 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

shareholder-value brain

25.01.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@polphilpod.bsky.social

'what did you do to make him kill you' politics

bsky.app/profile/mark...

25.01.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve no idea what the hero voter is and I don’t want to know because I know the smell of horse… ;)

On the rest, I don’t follow it enough to know about any β€œtest” other than broadly tribes are going to look for what they want to find. Dylan’s post is worth reading if you have the time.

25.01.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing against your reporting but the idea among politicians that they should choose which voters to target at opposite ends of spectrum based on topline results in a constituency is unfortunate. I think that the post suggests why that might be bad

25.01.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excuse my Slovenian but this joker can fuck right off

25.01.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh

bsky.app/profile/catn...

25.01.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh

bsky.app/profile/dyla...

25.01.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Brain fart invasion

21.01.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rail privatisation on steroids

20.01.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone I know yesterday just texted me:

"World War III"

-- Thinking 'I'm sure this is nothing' while checking news sites

20.01.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meltdown for BBC Politics bookers

19.01.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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