Fergus Murray
Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
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- There it is.
- New Beans on Toast album is good, and feels like much the kind of music we need to be hearing more of at a time like this. beansontoast.bandcamp.com/album/kill-t...
- Both Reform and Greens report that results from the doorstep suggest Labour is well behind both, in Gorton & Denton.
- This is a highly appropriate event to be taking place the day after Weird Pride Day
- Join us on 5 March for HUMANS | A Monstrous History: Historian @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social explores how apes, zombies, cyborgs and so-called “monsters” shaped modern ideas of race, gender, nations... and normality itself. In-person, 6pm to 8pm Drinks, book sale/signing afterwards buff.ly/eUi5BPO
- Infuriatingly, this is also true for the UK.
- I don't think it's possible to make sense of Labour at the present moment without realising that Mandelson played a major role in the secretive and pervasively dishonest project to destroy the Labour left and get Starmer elected as Labour leader. It's doubtful we'd have this government without him.
- It's probably not unreasonable to see his role behind the scenes around 2015-2019 as an extension of the job he had been appointed to under the previous Labour government, described by George Monbiot here. bsky.app/profile/geor...
- 1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...
- Again, I'm uncomfortable with how much it sounds like a conspiracy theory when I describe what happened in the Labour Party in those years, but... I guess that's just because there was objectively something that could be described, really pretty accurately, as a conspiracy.😬 bsky.app/profile/ferg...
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View full threadBut then we get to the fact this shadowy figure was then appointed US Ambassador, without proper checks, by the single biggest beneficiary of the skulduggery he helped organise... I guess on the bright side, we can look forward to a lurid motion picture based on all this in a decade or two.
- Anyone who thinks Starmer has good enough judgement to occupy high office must have been determinedly paying as little attention as possible.
- ...and even then, he was allowed to resign rather than being expelled.
- Every now and then I catch up with an old Slow Mo Guys video I hadn't seen before. This one of a wave pool with massive spike waves is great! It would be fascinating to see even without the extreme slomo, but it definitely adds something. And the rubber duckies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKF...
- It's much, much too hard to remove a sitting MP.
