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Alec Holland

@beyondthemachine.bsky.social

Somewhere a landlord's laughing until he wets his pants. London. He/him.

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When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

05.10.2025 09:40 — 👍 414    🔁 172    💬 4    📌 0
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On the 1st of October 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.

04.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 270    🔁 102    💬 7    📌 13
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Victims in Manchester synagogue attack named Two men killed in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester have been named by police as Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66

Awful

Manchester synagogue attack victims named www.bbc.com/news/article...

03.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I am shocked and appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day for the Jewish community.

My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.

02.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 505    🔁 75    💬 11    📌 2
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The language used is so telling. Blasé to the point of pathological.

‘Conflict’
‘Adversaries’
‘Someone you object to’

If you can sit through the architect of a realtime genocide, what kind of person are you? These people care more about ‘manners’ than the orchestrated killing of a population.

27.09.2025 06:53 — 👍 103    🔁 20    💬 12    📌 1
Screenshot from Kier Starmer’s Twitter: I know you're worried about the level of illegal migration into this country.
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Digital ID is another measure to make it tougher to work illegally here, making our borders more secure.
Ours is a fairer Britain, built on change, not division.

Screenshot from Kier Starmer’s Twitter: I know you're worried about the level of illegal migration into this country. •• Digital ID is another measure to make it tougher to work illegally here, making our borders more secure. Ours is a fairer Britain, built on change, not division.

I actually don’t give a fuck about the level of “illegal migration”

26.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 211    🔁 48    💬 11    📌 17

They'll bring in digital ID and welfare claimants will still be demonised for having a smart phone.

26.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 210    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 0

If you live in Britain, the 21st century for you has been relentless cruel political frauds, diving living standards, deteriorating infrastructure, closure of public services, lunatic moral panics, ludicrous corruption scandals and war crimes. What have the political class done to earn public trust?

26.09.2025 12:58 — 👍 128    🔁 38    💬 6    📌 2
Article by Keir Starmer in the telegraph his by Linney photo he has no glasses and his hair is mostly brown in the photo com the article he has glasses. His hair has gone silver. His skin looks much older. The headline for the article says “the left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control.”

Article by Keir Starmer in the telegraph his by Linney photo he has no glasses and his hair is mostly brown in the photo com the article he has glasses. His hair has gone silver. His skin looks much older. The headline for the article says “the left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control.”

The two photos adjacent to each other is proof that being a right wing POS is extremely ageing.

26.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 44    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 1
Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism. 

They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism. They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.

They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.

26.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 324    🔁 144    💬 5    📌 5

The absolute core of liberal ideology is "...but I'm ok?"

26.09.2025 10:50 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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York Minster’s Doomstone. A rare survival from the Norman Minster on the site, it depicts the mouth of Hell, with sinners being pushed into a boiling cauldron by demons. #yorkminster #doomstone #mouthofhell #medieval

17.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 82    🔁 16    💬 10    📌 3
Three people in prison jumpsuits with Blair, Netenyahu and Trump mask on at today's Gaza march

Three people in prison jumpsuits with Blair, Netenyahu and Trump mask on at today's Gaza march

Orthodox jews at today's Gaza March

Orthodox jews at today's Gaza March

A banner that reads 'Wombles Against Apartheid' at today's Gaza march

A banner that reads 'Wombles Against Apartheid' at today's Gaza march

Out in London today #FreePalestine

06.09.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A key thing here is that “blame migrants” was imposed on the public from above by successive governments and the national press working very hard, hand in hand over decades, while “blame the rich” seems to be largely organic, arising despite committed efforts to stamp it out.

02.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 190    🔁 46    💬 11    📌 2

Never trust a guy with two first names...

01.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Home Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and services Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week

Increasingly of the view that Yvette Cooper watched Children Of Men and saw it as utopian.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

31.08.2025 09:41 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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From this week’s Beano.

28.08.2025 10:28 — 👍 1601    🔁 572    💬 22    📌 64
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RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz (AKA DJ Sprinkles) For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza. Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But those narratives can

🚨 new Terre Thaemlitz mix 🚨

"DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza." - @residentadvisor.bsky.social

"I felt this should reflect the moment in which it was made" - Terre soundcloud.com/resident-adv...

13.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is

can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try

29.08.2025 17:05 — 👍 111    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 0

Non-breaking news: dog fuckers out fucking dogs again.

29.08.2025 12:21 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Picture of Farage smiling (?) with the caption "shouting from the sidelines" next to a picture of Starmer looking serious with the caption "removed over 35,000 people from the UK with no right to be here"

Picture of Farage smiling (?) with the caption "shouting from the sidelines" next to a picture of Starmer looking serious with the caption "removed over 35,000 people from the UK with no right to be here"

this is what they put out on Instagram 2 hours ago....

26.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 280    🔁 54    💬 25    📌 134

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

26.08.2025 12:34 — 👍 1282    🔁 472    💬 213    📌 339

Labour won’t do anything of the sort. Labour will brag about how it’s going to do the same things more effectively

26.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Know the feeling. But it is worth keeping on.

16.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Obviously the bow tie is a giveaway he's a bit of a 'character'. But still.

15.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nothing.

12.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 12439    🔁 9885    💬 630    📌 1636

Lucky she didn't vote against child poverty or cutting disability benefits or she'd be bringing the party into disrepute.

07.08.2025 06:21 — 👍 74    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 2

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

06.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 6289    🔁 1741    💬 138    📌 47

This is a really awful idea Mark. Embarrassing.

05.08.2025 18:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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