Northern Monkey

Northern Monkey

@northernmonkey.bsky.social

Consultant. "Mouthy Northern Git". #NUFC Anti-fascist, Ally/Accomplice, Anti-Tory (Blue and Red) FREE PALESTINE. Obviously. 🇵🇸

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Who gets these wrong??

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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Good morning. Fuck all #BlueMAGA losers wiling to throw trans people under the bus to (again) cater to bigots who will likely never vote for their shitty Centrist party of political consultants and careerists. 🏳️‍⚧️

Narrator: Labour IS one of the Forces on the Right. And Phillipson is one of their soldiers.

Bridget Phillipson MP@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

There are forces on the Right trying to divide our society with fear and hatred. The Labour Government is determined to defeat them: to build a Britain of inclusion, tolerance, and compassion.

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Indian waiters are consistently among the very best I've come across anywhere in the world for politeness, efficiency and kindness. Given a choice, I doubt even British teenagers would want to be served by British teenagers. Rupert Lowe is the pied piper of thick racists.

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This entire discourse can be basically summed up as a domestic abuse relationship. "Yeah, your life sucks and we can't promise to do better, but the alternative is worse because the other side hates you. We're your only option, you got nowhere else to go."

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This girls casually says that Israel owns all the land (not just Gaza but also Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) and any "arab" already living there should be killed or forced to move. So Andy Burnham, explain again how come it's so offensive to call Israel racist? Especially for the people of Sheffield.

Quite a common example of arrogant Zionist racism/expansionism/exceptionalism

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Children's authors pledge royalties to Sally Rooney after books pulled over Palestine Action support Ireland's and Wales's children's laureates pledge to donate royalties to Rooney, whose books have been pulled over her support for Palestine Action. www.newarab.com/news/writers...

newarab.comWriters pledge royalties to Sally Rooney after books pulledIreland’s and Wales’s children’s laureates pledge to donate their royalties to Sally Rooney, whose books have been pulled over her support for Palestine Action.

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The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

erininthemorning.comDon’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans DemocratsThe Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

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as always, trans rights are non negotiable. and being ostensibly left wing while throwing trans folks under the bus is a losing political stance. if someone says they don’t support trans rights, they are unelectable and they are unfit for office.

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seriously, as a trans person living in Iowa I'm not voting for this guy and I'm asking you not to either

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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Doesn’t matter how you voted if you were front and centre in a Brexit government, actively overseeing the shrinking of our economy, our influence and our opportunities, while you rolled around in the trough. We’ll be disregarding everything you now say, thanks.

The Guardian claiming a"mixed mood" on the streets of Brazil....cars beeped horns, and a huge roar at the result. THEN THEY QUOTE *ONE DUDE* WHO ISN'T HAPPY. They've given up pretending at the Guardian, haven't they.

Jim Caris@jimcaris.eurosky.social

The Guardian's live blog on the Brazilian election is going all out to centre the complaints of the fash losers

Recent lived experience on the part of the latter. Wilful ignorance for the former

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

A strange political twist. While far-right parties gain ground in France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪 and the UK 🇬🇧 Voters in Serbia 🇷🇸, Hungary 🇭🇺, Romania 🇷🇴 and Poland 🇵🇱 have pushed back against nationalist forces, some with close ties to Putin. Thoughts?

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@vicis39098.bsky.social #SpotTheScammer Romance scammer DM: "I’d love to get to know you a little better and learn more about you. How are you doing today?" Few posts, Replies with "I'd love to hear more about your experience."in private chat, if you don't mind." overwhelmingly follows women yuk 🤮

I'm fairly sure this didnt happen. What scares me is that i think Mayer made this up because she thought it was a GREAT way to show off what AI can do for "normal" people. This may go down as one of the first AI Parables.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

MIDDLE AGED INDIAN MEN WORKING IN PETROL STATIONS - THE *REAL* REASON THE NHS IS ON IT'S KNEES.

Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social

Apparently Restore Britain wants a form of conscripted labour run on racial lines ... "Uncle Rupert has been pondering the great mysteries of modern Britain. This time, it's middle-aged Indian men working in petrol stations ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate

I think @espnfc-m.bsky.social is the most disappointing coverage of the EPL. Bad enough that they allow Moreno to make racist stereotypes, but they allow their producers to deliberately omit discussions on teams they don't like. Oh, and they pretend that "jokey" threats of violence are OK.

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Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

First Vučić losing *i bet Other James @james.barisic.fr is still grinning), then Lula winning. I don't trust Isreal to do the right thing, obviously, but the US has a chance with the midterms. While the uk sits under a right wing govt.

Lula@lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert