Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Fat Wolverine says what? 🤨 #TedCruz www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
European. Virtue Signaller. History nerd. Trying to save the world: mixed results so far. Being honest, I think the UK has probably run its course as a union of four nations. Views are all my own.
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Fat Wolverine says what? 🤨 #TedCruz www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Local Government Evangelist (@drnancypearson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Florida to parents: "Why chose between your child dying of a gunshot wound at school, or a preventable disease, when you can have both?"
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
“Come to Florida so that you and your family can experience all the wonder of previously eradicated diseases and all the magic of a soaring child mortality rate” bsky.app/profile/riec...
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Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This photo of Farridge from 1 February 2017 never gets old 👇 A timeless classic. Thank you, Seb Dance 🫡 @sebdance.bsky.social #JamieRaskin #JaredMoskowitz #Farage bsky.app/profile/adam...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Farridge's dog & pony show before the US Congress is the latest reminder that the man's a self-serving liar & a traitor who betrays the UK and sells out the British people at any opportunity. See also: Farridge's years of agitating for the UK to leave the European Union. bsky.app/profile/juan...
Jason Karsh (@jkarsh.bsky.social) reposted
This a really solid pummeling, and Farage has earned every ounce of it.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
The Mad King has abolished due process in America. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Roland Smith (@rolandmcs.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If you seriously think free speech in the USA is far superior than the UK, you need your brain rinsed in bleach.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
A proportion of the English population has gone mad. Deranged individuals who put up daft flags everywhere and who paint red crosses on roundabouts should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. This is not how people who have control over their mental faculties behave. bsky.app/profile/otto...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"But if we tell the truth about immigration and asylum seekers our viewers won't watch us anymore they'll watch GBeebies instead WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU KEVIN DON'T YOU KNOW HOW NEWS AND JOURNALISM WORKS IN THE UK" #GMB #SusannahReid #KevinMaguire bsky.app/profile/ianf...
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) (@sundersays.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Dozens/hundreds of examples of such messages each week with no effort by X to remove. I have just reported ten. It immediately said two were fine Any half-competent regulator would have a mystery shopping exercise and an in person on camera hearing for senior execs to account for the failure
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
"But if we tell the truth about immigration and asylum seekers our viewers won't watch us anymore they'll watch GBeebies instead WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU KEVIN DON'T YOU KNOW HOW NEWS AND JOURNALISM WORKS IN THE UK" #GMB #SusannahReid #KevinMaguire bsky.app/profile/ianf...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
National Guard soldiers have seen their comrades picking litter & laying mulch in DC. They've watched & read about the nationwide outcry about NG units on the ground in LA & DC. Perhaps they might think twice about following the Mad King's orders to deploy in other cities. bsky.app/profile/alex...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
The primary lesson from Nick Clegg's book tour is that he appears to be completely out of touch when it comes to the ruinous state of social media right now and its corrosive effect on people and wider society. bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait until somebody explains to Maria Bartiromo that oil and gas reserves are finite and non-replaceable, and will one day run out. It's going to break her brain. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Bruce Wilson (@brucewilson.bsky.social) reposted
Susan Collins needs to gracefully retire from the Senate, and bask in the glory of having helped destroy American democracy.
James Ball (@jamesrball.com) reposted
“We’ll get the political leaders we deserve if we make politics a sport for only people who enjoy conflicts and creating clickbait, and don’t actually want to talk to real people or have a real conversation, online or offline. That’s how you end up with Nigel Farage.” – @stellacreasy.bsky.social
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
👇 bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social)
"WE'RE PATRIOTS STOP CALLING US MINDLESS IDIOTS" [proceeds to do something mindless and idiotic]
Josiah Mortimer (@josiah.writes.news) reposted
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
Marshall Shepherd (@drshepherd2013.bsky.social) reposted
This is a great cartoon of the illogical narratives I hear refuting climate warming. As I have said many times, it's not "either/or" when it comes to natural variability and human contributions, it's "both/and." Grass grows naturally and it grows differently when you fertilize the lawn....
Will Jennings 🗳️ (@drjennings.bsky.social) reposted
Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Entirely correct. Outfits like Policy Exchange aren't interested in facts: objective truth: and even basic human decency. They simply can't be reasoned with. Some paint up the walls is the very least that these lying, deceitful bastards deserve. bsky.app/profile/benm...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
From yesterday (Sunday) 👇 bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Post from ten days ago, on Thursday 21 August 👇 #DouglasCarswell #Brexit bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
“What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is” See also: agitating and campaigning for Brexit. Farridge is a liar and a self-serving traitor who betrays the UK and sells out the British people on a daily - no, hourly - basis. bsky.app/profile/13sa...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is on the 17.4M people who voted to leave the EU back in June 2016. The result of that accursed referendum emboldened & empowered every bigot & racist - including this foul harpy - to crawl out from under their rocks and abuse anyone who didn't look or sound like them. bsky.app/profile/otto...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Post from ten days ago, on Thursday 21 August 👇 #DouglasCarswell #Brexit bsky.app/profile/ajs1...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This is on the 17.4M people who voted to leave the EU back in June 2016. The result of that accursed referendum emboldened & empowered every bigot & racist - including this foul harpy - to crawl out from under their rocks and abuse anyone who didn't look or sound like them. bsky.app/profile/otto...
SaxAddict 🎷 🎗🇺🇸 (@saxaddict.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
BREAKING: Obama wants to see Trump's death certificate.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social)
@pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social Please add Brexiter Alexandra Phillips’s tedious, drivelsome whinge on Twitter about how bread is now woke to the “wokey dokey” pile 👇
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s almost as if the non-stop, wall-to-wall, 24/7 coverage in the fawning English press about Farridge and his absurd flying monkey minions in Deform UK has consequences.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
“What a traitorous piece of shit Farage is” See also: agitating and campaigning for Brexit. Farridge is a liar and a self-serving traitor who betrays the UK and sells out the British people on a daily - no, hourly - basis. bsky.app/profile/13sa...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
The English press is lazy, thoughtless, and grossly irresponsible. It is a stain on the country. bsky.app/profile/anne...
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's your reminder as well that wannabe Ohio state governor Vivek Ramaswamy apparently likes to pretend he's a rodeo clown. bsky.app/profile/amya...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Brexiters hate anything and everything that Farridge and the English press tell them to hate. bsky.app/profile/writ...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This should be what the crowd chants at every Stand Up to Racism counter-protest across the country. bsky.app/profile/andy...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Justin Webb has form for Trump apologist arseholery. This is his piece for The Times from the start of this year, on 25 January 👇 bsky.app/profile/lewi...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
The MAGA cult wants to turn America into an ultra-violent white nationalist kleptocracy.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
American Gestapo at work. Fuck ICE and fuck Führer Trump. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
Katie Martin (@katie0martin.ft.com) reposted
Crucially, the weather has now turned. Rain has an amazing ability to quench those legitimate concerns. Also the footie is back on
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Parasitic outrage merchants like Chris Bayliss (whoever he is) are so tediously predictable. bsky.app/profile/darr...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This should be what the crowd chants at every Stand Up to Racism counter-protest across the country. bsky.app/profile/andy...
Russ (@pappyparki.bsky.social) reposted
Congratulations, Red State America. Your family that stepped up to be there for your community back home has been promoted from trash detail to landscape trainee. All that patriotism & your tax dollars to make a dementia addled wannabe despot can prove his racism & hate for America. Stand up proud
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is from Saturday 25 January of this year 👇 After seven months of Trump taking a flamethrower and a wrecking bar to America and American democracy, you'd think that Justin Webb would have learned by now. But apparently not.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
One of the more revolting aspects of America is that if and when Trump leaves office, his mindless lying meat puppet Karoline Leavitt will be a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars" or "The Masked Singer" instead of being in prison having been convicted of treason. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Justin Webb has form for Trump apologist arseholery. This is his piece for The Times from the start of this year, on 25 January 👇 bsky.app/profile/lewi...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This is from Saturday 25 January of this year 👇 After seven months of Trump taking a flamethrower and a wrecking bar to America and American democracy, you'd think that Justin Webb would have learned by now. But apparently not.
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
Apparently it's a whole lot safer to go to school in Afghanistan than it is in the United States.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
"Welcome to the Democratic People's Republic of the United States of America. We hope you enjoy your stay (internment)" bsky.app/profile/atru...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Mad King Donald can't even spell "Federal Reserve". Republican Representatives and Senators should hang their heads in shame. However, they don't have any shame. That's because they're fully paid-up, card-carrying members of the GOP-MAGA death cult. bsky.app/profile/just...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
It's almost as if Farridge and his broken-headed followers have no understanding of the rule of law. bsky.app/profile/nico...
Nicola Kelly (@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social) reposted
Don't listen to Farage; listen to the country's brightest legal minds, who actually know what they're talking about.
David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) reposted
Just an absolutely insane pair of sentences.
Sathnam Sanghera (@sathnam.bsky.social) reposted
"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"
Alan Lester (@alanlester.bsky.social) reposted
This was inevitable. But oh no, the flag raising campaign is nothing to do with the international far right. It’s just English people expressing English pride!
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm less than 15 minutes in to the first episode and I'm already weighing up whether to continue watching #KingAndConqueror bsky.app/profile/marc...
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Kamala Harris was right. But she’s a woman. She’s Black. We can’t have that!! Now look where we’re at.
The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) reposted
Here's my opinion on Trump's health: My guy just fired the labor stats head because he didn't like the numbers. Doesn't matter what medical he releases or doesn't, none of it will be trustworthy.
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Imagine if Hillary/Biden/Obama had 4-inch ankles, discolored hands, eyeballs shrinking into the scalp, and 5 pounds of caked on orange makeup. Fox would dedicate 99% of its coverage to this.
Robert Hutton (@roberthutton.co.uk) reposted reply parent
To me the most interesting bit of this story is that everyone involved seems to have forgotten that this is all pretty much exactly what the Conservatives tried while in government. But this time it'll work, because Lee Anderson will be in charge.
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
His psychopathologies make him incapable of accepting that so many people hate him. He retreats to his fictional reality to cope. He also lies constantly about literally everything and is entirely untethered to the truth, but he can't accept living in a world without believing he is a beloved hero.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
VegasSteve 🎲 🎲 (@vegassteve702.bsky.social) reposted
@radiofreetom.bsky.social with a wake up call
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance is both an obstacle and an insult to the progress of human civilisation. #MeetThePress #MSNBC bsky.app/profile/atru...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social)
The excited “Tally ho!” on the front of the #134 bus to North Finchley always brings a smile to my face.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Western governments will do nothing about the IDF onslaught in Gaza because they depend on intelligence from Israel about the Middle East. Israel is Europe and North America’s listening post and watch tower overlooking the Middle East. Without Israel, the West would be deaf and blind in the region.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Hand it to the Vote Leave campaign in 2016. Bringing together people like Dreda Say Mitchell & Douglas Carswell for the same shared cause was quite the achievement. On an unrelated subject: let's see what DSM thinks of the views that her fellow Brexiter Carswell recently shared on social media 👇
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
The Mad King’s demise cannot come soon enough. Trump deserves a slow, agonising, drawn-out end, alone and fearful, for the hatred and division he has wilfully spread: and for the harm and pain he has deliberately inflicted upon others. bsky.app/profile/verm...
Duncan Weldon (@duncanweldon.bsky.social) reposted
I’m sorry but no. Protests and demos with dozens or low hundreds of attendees are not especially newsworthy. I’ve seen larger turnouts at a Warhammer event.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Hand it to the Vote Leave campaign in 2016. Bringing together people like Dreda Say Mitchell & Douglas Carswell for the same shared cause was quite the achievement. On an unrelated subject: let's see what DSM thinks of the views that her fellow Brexiter Carswell recently shared on social media 👇
Miss Aja (@brat2381.bsky.social) reposted
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is why Mad King Donald increasingly has to wear one of his shitty baseball caps in public. From 27 July of this year 👇 bsky.app/profile/meid...
Roland Smith (@rolandmcs.bsky.social) reposted
This felt inevitable: an interview with Allison Pearson given top billing in the Telegraph. Connolly suggests Starmer should relearn what freedom of speech means and "what the laws are in this country". I think he knows but Connolly/Pearson clearly don't. No lessons have been learned in prison.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Western governments will do nothing about the IDF onslaught in Gaza because they depend on intelligence from Israel about the Middle East. Israel is Europe and North America’s listening post and watch tower overlooking the Middle East. Without Israel, the West would be deaf and blind in the region.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Nick Clegg obviously hasn't seen the state of Facebook recently. This is on the Guardian front page today 👇 bsky.app/profile/hele...
Russ Jones (@russincheshire.bsky.social) reposted
Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
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Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
As an aside: the Mad King is so fragile and upset at losing his hair that he now frequently wears a trashy MAGA baseball cap in public. From 27 July of this year 👇 bsky.app/profile/meid...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is embarrassing to witness. Mad King Donald’s America continues to behave like a banana republic and continues to publicly soil itself on a daily - no, hourly - basis in front of the rest of the world. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" vibes from Honest Bob Jenrick. I'm old enough to remember when an unspoken tenet of Britishness was *NOT* feeling the need to constantly display the Union flag. Doing so was weird. As if putting the flag everywhere was an attempt to compensate for something else.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why Mad King Donald increasingly has to wear one of his shitty baseball caps in public. From 27 July of this year 👇 bsky.app/profile/meid...
Yusuf Karmali (@yusufkarmali.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The Telegraph is the absolute gutter. Any self respecting journalist should resign given.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
This is embarrassing to witness. Mad King Donald’s America continues to behave like a banana republic and continues to publicly soil itself on a daily - no, hourly - basis in front of the rest of the world. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" vibes from Honest Bob Jenrick. I'm old enough to remember when an unspoken tenet of Britishness was *NOT* feeling the need to constantly display the Union flag. Doing so was weird. As if putting the flag everywhere was an attempt to compensate for something else.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
Pairing up with Tice is extraordinarily poor judgement by Stella Creasy. Tice's campaigning for Brexit shows that he's a proven liar. He's also the deputy leader of Deform UK, a party that is stirring up racial hatred and violence against migrants. Stella Creasy needs to give her head a wobble.
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
American Sturmabteilung. bsky.app/profile/rpsa...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reposted
Nobody hangs flags on lamp-posts unless they're weird. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Sir Basil (@sirbasil.bsky.social) reposted
Sarah, if the silent majority want to say things like "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all that I care" then they are violent arseholes and they should stay silent
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social)
Nobody hangs flags on lamp-posts unless they're weird. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance pledges to solve America's twin crises of mental health and homelessness. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
Putin demands for Ukraine: 1. Give up all of Donbas 2. No NATO membership, ever 3. No Western troops in Ukraine 1. No 2. Fuck no 3. Eat a dick www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Alex Sowden (@ajs1977.bsky.social) reply parent
What I took from this “Origin Story” episode is that Farridge is nothing more than an Enoch Powell retread for the internet and social media era. cc @originstorypodcast.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/orig...