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Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social |
2386 followers 69 following 382 posts
Author and co-host of the Stadio football podcast.
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Alexander Clarkson
@aphclarkson.bsky.social
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One of the more baffling aspects of centrist UK political discourse is the number of commentators and analysts who still struggle to get their heads around the possibility that racist worldviews may still shape voting behaviour among a swathe of voters on the Right.
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Maybe I just have an overly sensitive ear on this stuff, but feels to me that UK political commentatory is lousy with euphemisms about Sunak’s shortcomings as a “message-carrier” (not wrongly).
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Justin Salhani
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
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I remember flying to Beirut last Sept thinking that the days of Lebanon being an international story might be over. I was looking forward to dive into local human rights-based issues & struggles. I guess I was very wrong
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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For some reason Kardashev never envisioned a civilization that could harness all of the sunlight that falls on their planet but uses most of it to create pictures of extremely busty ladies with three knees and fourteen fingers.
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Reminded this morning of Nate Silver's line about "They’re trying to cover [politics] like sports, but not in an intelligent way" in a lot of the "we need to trade Biden for Governor Guaranteed Winner (D-Somewhere?)" takes, including, it must be said, from Nate Silver.
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Lewis Goodall
@lewisgoodall.bsky.social
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In a week’s time 14 yrs of Tory rule may have ended. There’s a view that Sunak could have done nothing to stop it, post Johnson/Truss. Wrong. Sunak is as responsible as they are. From No11 on, his strategic incompetence damned his party. Me for the i.
inews.co.uk/opinion/rish...
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Justin Salhani
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This is my reading as well. This escalation is happening in parallel with negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza & along Lebanon's border. If those issues are not settled, we may see a devastating war for Lebanon & more damage than Israel is used to.
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Paul Duane
@paulduane.bsky.social
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Rereading Vonnegut and damn he’s good. Random sentence: “His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”
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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚
@tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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"You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” Sheryl Crow protests. “I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn't do it, but I'll say sorry later’. But it’s already done...and “It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Sunak’s most significant political legacy is that he has brought a form of climate denial politics firmly into the mainstream of British politics, to the point that “a bland statement about a ‘cost’ both parties are committed to” is being written up like this in the Times.
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Justin Salhani
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
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If Israel decides to widen the war on Hezbollah in Lebanon, more actors in the so-called Axis of Resistance will escalate their attacks on Israeli & American interests.
My latest for Al Jazeera English
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/...
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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What records they will have will have been pirated by people who wanted to have copies of their own and couldn't get them any other way. But even those will have storage issues. Not just long term storage issues. There are formats from a decade ago that are hard to access now.
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Josh Spero
@joshspero.bsky.social
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Thoroughly, thoroughly depressing and frightening on.ft.com/45HfWO4
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Anna Orridge
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
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These people have an impoverished idea of what dignity means. For a start, if you’re incapable of work because of disability, are you leading an undignified life? We all rely on other human beings. We’re a social species. It’s just the bonds of reliance look different at different times of life.
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Jamie McKelvie
@mckelvie.bsky.social
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22 backers until we hit 900 on our beautiful art book!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Still better than losing one with Liz Truss. 🤧
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Saucy Rick Havoc
@rickhavoc.bsky.social
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Social media in a nutshell..
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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🤝
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Germany really catches you off guard because it can go from idyllic to terrifying in the space of an afternoon. There aren’t many other places like that.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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On a train through the beautiful German countryside, having a great time with passengers who were strangers till ten minutes ago, and thinking: this is the best company you could want, and how weird it is that this country also poses so much danger. This is a nation of such extremes, it’s wild.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Yes. Don’t get me started. They have my vote - just because my first priority is getting the Conservatives out - but I fully understand why they don’t have the votes of others.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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😂
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Oh. Just you wait. There are new depths.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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What a legacy for the Tories if the Conservatives collapse and give way to an even more vicious alternative, which Reform absolutely will be. An AfD in English form.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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This. And because many of us now have most of our interactions online, it means we are often - mostly? - dealing with each other at our worst. I constantly wonder and worry about the cumulative effect of all that scorn and hate on society.
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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As strange as this may seem, this now creates the only meaningful chance to stop the war.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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Grim times, and no mistake.
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Justin Salhani
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
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this also hits deeper as I read Ashis Nandy. I've heard many in Lebanon and the wider region say we need dictators to come in and sort us out. We've been conditioned to think Dubai and KSA are the future, that MBZ & MBS are what is needed and not a plague on our democratic development
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Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO
@voxexsinister.bsky.social
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Found this sick burn on Mastodon:
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Here's a list of abortion funds that can use and always need funds: abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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I helped raise tens of thousands of dollars to help Partners in Abortion Care open their clinic and they need ongoing and more funding: partnersclinic.com
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Live in TWO HOURS on Backerkit.
The very first Iron Circus games. EVER.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Josh Spero
@joshspero.bsky.social
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Always happy to make this offer: if you are or you know someone who’d like to work in journalism and comes from a background underrepresented in the media, feel free to email me for a coffee at FT HQ/online chat: josh.spero@ft.com. Please reskeet (or whatever it is we do here)
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Abu Aardvark (on leave, allegedly)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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Amid ongoing civil war Sudan is facing the largest famine the world has seen for at least forty years / searing by Joshua Kraze, Kholood Khair and Raga Makawi
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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People I see posting about the famine and atrocities in Sudan: people who also post about Palestine People I see posting "why do you talk about Palestine and not about Sudan": people who never post about Sudan
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ᚇᚐᚍ ᚑᚃ ᚈᚆᚓ ᚚᚑᚈᚐᚈᚑ
@ciara2001.bsky.social
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First off, massive CW on this link, it makes for incredibly depressing reading but Jo Maugham has done a fantastic thread For all the talk of the Cass Review leading to an inquiry, this is the real story, heads should roll after this, these people should be hounded out of the public sphere forever
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Terry Baucher
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This is a stonking great read. (H/T @nzkatya.bsky.social)
But Bloody Hell I really had no idea quite how bad the Tory austerity was.
Yet Luxon got practically no scrutiny about his visit to the UK & the various think tanks that authored this austerity.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social
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Among other things, you really have to admire the nerve of people so visibly unprepared for the election doing this.
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸
@jamalzuhir.bsky.social
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My friends, I’m sorry I share the link so much but this link is the only hope the only the thing that will help me continue my university journey and rebuild my family life and it’s everything for me now so if u can help by any small amount or if you can share
www.gofundme.com/f/sspqf-10k-...
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Lol “i am an out and out republican… with the exception of” well of course bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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This is a very common sentiment in Germany and it should be watched carefully - Farage obviously has a track record of successfully selling and laundering dangerous lies.
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Musa Okwonga
@okwonga.bsky.social
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We are seeing this with fascism in Europe.
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Coach Jerry (referee 🟥)
@gopher33j.bsky.social
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Watch Reggie Jackson speak absolute unfiltered truth tonight - I watched it twice. He isn't romanticizing shit - just jaw dropping.
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Tim Clare
@timclare.bsky.social
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In-between projects & in hyper dithering mode, refusing to commit to anything new, pulled away by shiny new things every time I settle on something. I just got to lock in & get started, but it's so hard to decide what to pick! Feel like I need some kind of decision coach
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Nanjala
@nanjala.bsky.social
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Unprecedented scenes across Kenya today with mass protests in almost all major towns led primarily by young people. If you’d have told me in my lifetime that I would see someone call the president *checks notes* “a raggedy ass bitch” I would never have believed it. A new dispensation indeed.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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sutherland was absolutely, with no exaggeration, one of the singular talents of his generation. RIP to a great. variety.com/2024/film/ne...
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
@guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
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Deadly heat in Mexico and US made 35 times more likely by global heating
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Justin Salhani
@justinsalhani.bsky.social
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Wrote about how tensions have - once again - risen between Hezbollah and Israel.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/...
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